| Date |
Opponent |
Score |
| Mar. 7 |
NCC Indoor @ Huntington North |
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| Mar. 11 |
HSR Indoors @ Purdue |
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| Mar. 14 |
HSR Indoors @ IWU |
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| Apr. 2 |
Maconaquah (T) |
(W) 92-39
The Kokomo girls turned in some outstanding performances in windy conditions at Maconaquah for a 92-39 season-opening win. The Lady Wildkats won 13 of the 16 events and swept three events. As expected, the throwers set the tone with a 1-2-3 sweep in the discus and a 1-3 finish in the shot put. Senior Ashley DeWitt won the discus with a fine throw of 107-2, while junior Clarissa Woodard was second at 95-11 and senior Alexis Stamper placed third at 88-2. Ashley won the shot put with a toss of 42-6 and Clarissa was third at 31-5.
Junior Maddie Cassidy was a triple winner as she took honors in the 400 dash at 1:03.5 and the 200 dash in :28.4. Maddie joined double winners - junior Whitney Weir, sophomore Emily Keller, and freshman Annika Taber to win the 4 x 400 relay in 4:27.1. Whitney turned in a strong winning time in the 300 low hurdles at :51.8, while Annika ran 2:33.4 to win the 800. Kokomo swept the low hurdles as freshman Courtney Gilman was second in :54.7 and sophomore Lexi Laird was third in :55.9.
Emily teamed with double winners Mary Lang and Hailey Rice, as well as Portia Lang, to win the 400 relay in :53.9. Mary Lang and Portia Lang finished 1-2 in the 100 dash at :13.4 and :13.5, respectively. Hailey cleared 8-3 to win the pole vault. Sophomore Brielle Bonnafon was also a double winner as she took honors in the long jump at 14-6 and the 100 high hurdles in :18.1 while she placed third in the 200 at :29.0. Mary Lang was second in the long jump and Hailey Rice placed second in the high hurdles.
Sarah Frey paced an all freshmen 1-2-3 sweep in the high jump with Stacia Fletcher and Portia Lang as Sarah cleared 4-6. Junior Kelsey Griffin also turned in a strong performance with a second in the 3200 run and a third in the 1600 run.
The Lady Kats are at Westfield April 15. – Coach Barnes
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| Apr. 15 |
Westfield (T) |
(L) 97-33
The Kokomo throwers turned in outstanding performances in very cold and
damp conditions at Westfield Wednesday as the short-handed Lady Wildkats
fell 97-33. In the discus, Kokomo placed 1-2-3 as Ashley DeWitt won with a
throw of 115-3, while Clarissa Woodard took second at 102-2 and Alexis
Stamper was third at 95-2. DeWitt also won the shot put at 38-11, while
Kelly Hopkins finished second at 33-10.
The Lady Wildkats left 10 girls home for National Honor Society induction
ceremonies, and the coaches are very proud of those young ladies.
Sophomore Brielle Bonnafon earned two second-place ribbons in the 300 low
hurdles at :52.4 and the 100 high hurdles at :18.1. Bonnafon also finished
third in the long jump. Other second-place finishers were freshmen Annika
Taber in the pole vault at 8-0 and Sarah Frey in the high jump at 4-6. Taber
also placed third in the 400 dash at 1:05.0. Freshman Portia Lang sprinted to
third place in the 100 dash at :13.4 and senior Ashlee Sandoval captured third
in the 200 dash at :29.3.―
Coach Barnes |
| Apr. 18 |
Marion Relays |
Kokomo girls finished third in a field of 9 teams … Huntington North won with 121 … Fort
Wayne Snider, 2nd, 101.5 … Kokomo, 3rd, 76.5 … South Bend Adams, 4th, 69 … South Bend
Washington, 55; Richmond, 51.5; Marion, 26; Delta, 23.5; Fort Wayne Canterbury, 20
Field event people turned in outstanding performances … Ashley DeWitt broke meet records in
both the shot put and discus as she finished first in the shot at 41-10 and second in the discus with
a personal best 121-0. Alexis Stamper placed fifth in the discus at 91-3. Kokomo went 1-2 in the
pole vault as Rachel Pace had a season best 8-3 for the win and Annika Taber cleared 8-0 for
second. In the long jump, Mary Lang jumped a personal best 15-11 for 5th and Brielle Bonnafon
went 15-3.5 for 7th. In the high jump, Portia Lang cleared a personal best 4-8 for 6th and Sarah
Frey made 4-6 for 8th.
Portia Lang also turned in a personal best :13.25 in the 100 to qualify for the finals, while Brielle Bonnafon placed 4th in the 100 high hurdles with a personal best of :18.59. Lexi Laird also had a
personal best of :20.43 to qualify for the finals. Kellie Miles placed 8th in the 3200 in 13:46.65.
The top relay performance was a third in the distance medley with Annika Taber, Maddie
Cassidy, Whitney Weir and Kellie Miles. The Lady Wildkats had three 5th-place relays with
Miles, Taber, Ashli Minor and Kelsey Griffin in the 3200 relay; Mary Lang, Pace, Weir, Cassidy
in the Sprint Medley; and Cassidy, Weir, Taber, and Emily Keller in the 1600 relay. In the 400
relay, Mary Lang, Portia Lang, Bonnafon, and Keller placed 6th in :53.71. -
Coach Barnes |
| Apr. 22 |
Marion/Logansport @ Marion |
Field events were the key to victory as the Lady Wildkats edged Marion 67-61, while
Logansport finished with 38 in a North Central Conference triangular meet at Marion
Wednesday. In the final event scored – shot put - Kokomo claimed 1-2-3 as Ashley
DeWitt won with a throw of 38-11, while Kelly Hopkins took second at 34-2 and
Clarissa Woodard was third at 32-5. DeWitt also won the discus at 105-5 and Alexis
Stamper was fourth at 86-4. Annika Taber and Rachel Pace finished 1-2 in the pole
vault by clearing 7-6. Mary Lang won the long jump at 15-4, while Pace claimed
fourth at 13-8. Freshmen Sarah Frey (4-6) and Stacia Fletcher (4-4) placed 3-4 in the
high jump.
Lang also won the 100 in 13.4, while Taber was a double-winner, too, with a victory
in the 800 at 2:33.9. Other individual winners for Kokomo were Maddie Cassidy in
the 400 at 1:02 and Kellie Miles in the 3200 at 13:36.2.
I thought the Kokomo squad had a very competitive spirit, and one of the most
impressive performances was turned in by first-year trackster, senior Ashlee Sandoval,
who finished second in the 200 at :28.6 and third in the 100 at :13.6.
The Lady Kats are at the North Central Invitational Saturday. – Coach Barnes |
| Apr. 25 |
North Central Invitational |
The Kokomo girls track team hopes the state-ranked
competition it faced Saturday at the North Central Invitational will pay
dividends at the North Central Conference and Sectional meets. Four ranked
squads – No. 2 North Central (137), No. 3 Carmel (129.5), No. 7 Ben Davis
(108.5), and No. 15 Center Grove (83) – grabbed the top four spots as the
Lady Wildkats claimed 6th with 37 points and Brebeuf was 5th at 51. Kokomo
met its goal of defeating the other three NCC teams in the 10-team field as
Muncie Central placed 7th with 31.5, Marion was 9th with 16.5, and Richmond
took 10th with 10.
Field events again were the key to the Lady Wildkats
6th-place finish as Ashley DeWitt collected a pair of medals with two
runner-up performances. Ashley recorded her second best outdoor throw in
the shot put at 42-8 to claim second, and then smashed the school record in
the discus by more than 5 feet with a toss of 127-10 to finish second.
Clarissa Woodard earned a pair of ribbons with 5th in the shot put at 33-4
1/2 and 8th in the discus at 96-2 1/2. Kokomo pole vaulters claimed 3rd and
7th as Race Pace cleared 8-6 and Annika Taber cleared 7-6. Sarah Frey
recorded a personal best of 4-8 in the high jump for 7th.
In the running events, Maddie Cassidy qualified for the 200
dash finals, and finished 7th in 1:02.4 in the 400 dash. Maddie also
anchored the 7th place 1600 relay that also included Whitney Weir, Courtney
Gilman, and Emily Keller in 4:28.4. Kellie Miles claimed 8th in the 3200 run
in 14:14.9, while she also led off the 8th-place 3200 relay that included
Weir, Ashli Minor, and Kelsey Griffin. – Coach Barnes |
| Apr. 28 |
Huntington North (H) |
Weather cancellation |
| May 2 |
Kokomo Relays
(Warsaw, Richmond, Western, Marion, Maconaquah, Peru, Kokomo, Northwestern) |
The Kokomo Lady Wildkats chased Warsaw all day at the Kokomo Relays, but
turned in a strong performance by edging defending Sectional champion Western
for second place. Senior Ashley DeWitt again recorded a solid performance by
winning the shot put with a Kokomo Relays record and the discus as she was
awarded the 2009 Walter Cross Award for the Outstanding Female Athlete.
Ashley is the first Lady Wildkat to claim this prestigious award since current long
jump coach Lashonda Davis won the award by setting meet records in the 100 and
long jump. Kokomo went 1-2 in the shot put as Kelly Hopkins recorded a seasonbest
36-2 for runner-up honors.
First-year senior sprinters Mary Lang and Ashlee Sandoval were outstanding as
they claimed third and fifth, respectively, in the 100 dash. Mary and Ashlee joined
Emily Keller and Maddie Cassidy in the 400 relay and earned the runner-up
medals. Maddie, Emily, and Ashlee teamed with Whitney Weir to win the silver
medals in the sprint medley relay.
Maddie and Whitney joined forces with Annika Taber and Kellie Miles to earn
Kokomo’s only relay victory in the Middle Distance Medley as Annika recorded a
sub-2:30 800. Annika also claimed third in the 1,000 and sixth in the pole vault,
while Kellie finished sixth in the 3200. Rachel Pace cleared 8-0 for fifth in the
pole vault and Sarah Frey was sixth in the high jump. Brielle Bonnafon earned
two individual ribbons with a fourth in the long jump and seventh in the 100 high
hurdles.
Freshman Courtney Gilman turned in solid performances in her three races, but
sophomore Lexi Laird may have preserved Kokomo’s 1.5 point victory margin
over Western when she fell but rolled out to finish her last two hurdles so her
shuttle hurdle team (Whitney Weir, Courtney Gilman, Brielle Bonnafon) could
finish fourth. - Coach Barnes |
| May 4 |
Noblesville (H) |
(L) 73-59
Double winners, sophomore Brielle Bonnafon and junior Maddie Cassidy, recorded strong
performances for the Lady Wildkats as Kokomo lost to Noblesville, 73-59, Monday at Walter
Cross Field. Brielle was outstanding as she won the long jump at 16-0 and then edged teammate
Whitney Weir in the 300 low hurdles as both ran great times of :49.86 and :50.04, respectively.
Maddie and Mary Lang finished 1-2 in the 200. Maddie also was second in the 400 and ran a leg
on the winning 1600 relay. Mary won the 100 in :13.72 and claimed third in the long jump.
Senior Ashley DeWitt led a 1-2-3 Kokomo sweep in the shot put with a winning throw of 39-7.
Kelly Hopkins claimed second at 34-4 and Clarissa Woodard was third at 33-7. Clarissa also
took second in the discus at 108-1. Freshmen Sarah Frey and Stacia Fletcher both cleared 4-8 in
the high jump for second and third, respectively.
Sophomore Emily Keller and freshman Courtney Gilman exemplified the heart of the team.
Emily ran strong legs on all three relays – 4 x 800, 4 x 100, and 4 x 400, while Courtney placed
third in the 400 dash and then came back with a personal best 1:03.3 to anchor a come-frombehind
win in the 1600 relay at 4:22.9. - Coach Barnes |
| May 8 |
NCC @ IWU |
The Kokomo Lady Wildkats featured three North Central Conference champions, and
some outstanding individual performances as Kokomo claimed its second consecutive
runner-up finish in the North Central Conference meet. State-ranked Huntington North
won the event with 150 points, while Kokomo outdistanced rival Marion, 111.5 to 95 for
second.
NCC champions for the Kokomo ladies were senior Ashley DeWitt in the shot put at 41-
9, junior Rachel Pace in the pole vault at 8-6, and freshman Annika Taber in the 800 at
2:26.97. DeWitt and Taber added runner-up finishes in the discus (113-7) and the 1600
(5:42.38), respectively.
Junior Kellie Miles recorded a career best time of 12:50.26 in the 3200 for a fourth-place
ribbon, while freshman Sarah Frey claimed 3rd in the high jump at 4-8 and Kelly Hopkins
earned third in the shot put at 35-4. Junior Whitney Weir ran a season-best of :49.69 in
the 300 low hurdles as she edged teammate Brielle Bonnafon (:49.96) for third place.
Bonnafon, a sophomore, also took 7th in the 100 high hurdles with a season-best time of
:17.54, and tied with senior teammate Mary Lang for 5th in the long jump at 15-5.5.
Sophomore Emily Keller was truly the Relay Queen as she helped all three relays record
season-best times and third-place finishes. Keller ran an outstanding 2:30.8 leg on the 4 x
800 relay as Miles, Weir, and junior Kelsey Griffin lowered the season best 3200 relay
time by 20 seconds to 10:30.8. Keller, Weir, junior Maddie Cassidy and freshman
Courtney Gilman dropped 7 seconds in the 1600 relay with a season-best 4:14.75. Keller
joined Bonnafon, Lang, and senior Ashlee Sandoval in the 400 relay to run :52.77.
Gilman also placed 7th in the 400 at 1:04.12, while Cassidy finished 5th at 1:02.89 and
claimed 6th in the 200 at :28.13.
I was very proud of how the Lady Wildkats competed Friday at Indiana Wesleyan and the
girls even had me cheering with their strong finishing sprints. The Lady Wildkats also
were proud to applaud for their assistant coach Bobby Pettigrew as he was presented with
an NCC plaque for his continued contributions to the North Central Conference.
The Lady Wildkats are at Madison-Grant High School for the IHSAA Sectional Tuesday,
May 19. The Sectional pole vault will be contested at Kokomo Monday, May 18, since
Madison-Grant does not have a pole vault pit. – Coach Barnes |
| May 19 |
Sectional @ Madison Grant |
Even the Kokomo coaches were impressed by the Lady Kats performance Tuesday as they
fashioned a 38-point victory margin, 135-96, over defending Sectional champion Western. We
asked our girls to hold their seeds or improve, and almost everyone did so. This was a great team
victory.
The Kokomo girls continued a strong Sectional tradition as the Lady Kats captured their 14th title
in the past 16 years. Double winners, senior Ashley DeWitt and freshman Annika Taber paced
the winning Lady Kats effort. DeWitt smashed the Sectional record by more than 2 feet with a
toss of 45-5 to break her own school record and establish an all-time area best in the shot put.
Sophomore Kelly Hopkins improved her season-best toss by almost 2-feet with a 38- ¾ for 3rd.
DeWitt and junior Clarissa Woodard finished 1-2 in the discus at 113-4 and 110-0, respectively.
Taber sprinted away from the field in both the 1600 (5:41.9) and 800 (2:28.52).
Also impressive for the Lady Kats was sophomore Brielle Bonnafon, who showed her versatility
by winning the long jump with a season-best 17-1, taking 2nd in the 300 low hurdles as she edged
teammate, junior Whitney Weir, and both recorded season-best times of :48.23 and :48.58,
respectively. Brielle also placed 5th in the 100 high hurdles and anchored the 2nd-place 400 relay
that included Mary Lang, Ashlee Sandoval, and Emily Keller.
Senior Mary Lang and freshman Portia Lang improved their seeds by placing 6th and 7th in the
100 dash with season-best times, while senior Ashlee Sandoval claimed 7th in the 200. Junior Maddie Cassidy earned 2nd in the 400 and then led off the winning 1600 relay that also included
Weir, Keller and freshman Courtney Gilman, who turned in an outstanding anchor leg. Gilman
also placed 6th in the open 400.
Junior Kellie Miles recorded a strong 5th-place performance in the 3200, while freshman Sarah
Frey tied for 7th in the high jump. On Monday, junior Rachel Pace equaled her school record of
9-0 in the pole vault to place 3rd. – Coach Barnes |
| May 26 |
Regional @ Bremen |
Kokomo placed 8th in the 32-team Bremen Regional |
| June 5 |
State Finals @ IU |
Ashley DeWitt won eighth place in the shot put with a throw of 40 feet,
10 inches. She had also placed tenth in the discus. |
