Javelin paces Blue Devil women's track team on first day of conference meet

2022 WIAC Track and Field Championship | First Day Results

LA CROSSE (May 6, 2022) -  UW-Stout's Demi Ploor found herself on the victory podium twice on the first day of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Women's Track and Field Championship Friday and she brought three of her teammates along when the awards for the javelin were handed out at UW-La Crosse's Veteran Memorial Stadium. 

Ploor placed second in the hammer throw with a career-best throw of 176-feet, 9-inches and finished third in the javelin with a personal-best mark of 118-1. Joining Ploor on the podium for the javelin were second place finisher Raegan Sorensen (124-11), seventh place Lexi Cole (114-0) and eighth place Hannah Miller (110-11).  Sorensen's toss is now the fourth-best in school history, Ploor's is fifth, and Cole's ninth. Ploor's hammer throw is the second-best throw in school history.

Sorensen also finished fourth in the pole vault with a collegiate-best leap of 11-9. Mackenzie Huber placed seventh in the hammer (155-9). Payton Schneider was 23rd in the hammer (129-6). 

Grace Maurer and Hannah Zastrow clocked the best times in the preliminaries of the 400-meter and 110-hurdles, respectively. Maurer finished in a time of 57.16 seconds in the 400 and Zastrow finished with a time of 14.10 in the hurdles. Maurer placed sixth in the preliminaries in the 200 (25.61). Kaylie Raths placed eighth in the preliminaries of the 400 hurdles (1:07.19). Finals for the events will be Saturday. 

Jenna Driscoll finished seventh in the long jump (17-5.50). LaRissa Block was 14th (16-3.25) and Miller was 16th (15-11). 

Mckayla Felton just missed the podium in the 3000-steeplechase, finishing ninth (11:34.97). Katelyn Knapp was 13th in the 400 (1:00.08), Libby Meyer was 14th in the 10K (39:36.04).  In the 100-hurdles, Caitlin Harrison was 10th (15.75); Kaylie Raths  was 12th (15.33); Lexi Cole was 16th (16.80); and Adrianne Krueger was 17th (16.87). Cole was 11th in the 400-hurdles. 

After the first day, the Blue Devils were in second place. The meet will conclude Saturday, May 7. 

First place, all Stout finishers
100:  1. Gwen Orr (PV) 11.89; 26. Autumn Donatell 13.68; 200 preliminaries: 1. Gwen Orr (PV) 24.83; 6. Grace Maurer 25.61;  400 preliminaries: 1. Grace Maurer (Stout) 57.16; 13. Katelyn Knapp 1:00.08; 10,000: 1. Ashton Keene (Osh) 37:03.96; 14. Libby Meyer 39:36.04; 100-hurdles preliminaries: 1. Hannah Zastrow (Stout) 14.10; 10. Caitlin Harrison 15.75; 12. Kaylie Raths 15.33; 16. Lexi Cole: 16.80; 17. Adrianne Krueger 16.87; 400-hurdles preliminaries: 1. Emma Lawrence (LX) 1:00.59; 8. Kayli Raths 1:07.19; 11. Lexi Cole 1:11.31;  3000-steeplechase: 1. Emma Malooly (LX) 10:44.18; 9. Mckayla Felton 11:34.97; 

Pole vault: 1. Gracie Holland (WW) 12-6.75; 4. Raegan Sorensen 11-9; Long jump: 1. Lexie LeFever (RF) 18-9.25; 7. Jenna Driscoll 17-5.50; 14. LaRissa Block 16-3.25; 16. Hannah Miller 15-11;  Hammer: 1. Skye Digman (LX) 183-9; 2. Demi Ploor 176-9; 7. Mackenzie Huber 155-7; 23. Payton Schneider 129-6; Javelin: 1. Cara Volz (Osh) 125-3; 2. Raegan Sorensen 124-11; 3. Demi Ploor 118-1;  7. Lexi Cole 114-0; 8. Hannah Miller 110-11;