2025 TRACK AND FIELD MEET RECAPS:

HURDLERS AND POLE VAULTERS DOMINATE JAMBOREE

Matt Secrist opened his senior track season where he left off last year…winning.  As a junior he led the Wolves to a surprise 4A State Championship by claiming victory in the 300m hurdles and taking 2^nd in the 110m event.  In his first race of the year, Secrist easily won the 110m hurdles at Eastlake’s opening track meet, “The Battle for 228^th” jamboree. The meet, which was held at Skyline High School on March 19^th, also featured Eastside Catholic and Seattle Prep.  Teammates, Felipe Figueira and Keegan Allen also looked sharped taking 2^nd and 3^rd place to complete the sweep.

The pole vaulters were also dominant, taking the first 3 spots.  Senior Luke Simon, who missed his entire junior season due to injury, came roaring back, vaulting to a personal best mark of 13-00.  He is now 4^th all time for EHS pole vault.  Fellow wolves, Charlie Porter and Cooper Jay also came out strong, both vaulting 11-06 to take 2^nd and 3^rd

On the girl’s side Sally Roos opened well by winning the 1600m in a very good early season time of 5:04.  She, along with her twin sister Jane, who have both signed letters of intent to compete for Utah State next year, were also part of the winning 4x800m team.  Aubrey Wilems and Fiona Wolf joined them in running a time of 9:49.11, which is 4^th all time for the Wolves.

Additional Meet Highlights:

*Senior Addison Kapur, who was the runner-up at the State Meet last year, won the javelin with a great early season mark of 134-03.  Kapur, who is also the school record holder at Eastlake, will continue her throwing career next year competing for UC Santa Barbara.

*Azadeh Teague won the shot put with a 34-03 mark.  The senior who specializes in the discus, recently committed to throw collegiately for Western Washington University.

*The Wolves won by the boys and girls 100 meters with sophomores George Malina (11.22) and Erin Harris (13.38) claiming gold.

*The boys won 4 out of the 5 field events offered.  In addition to the pole vault, Finn Waldron won the shot put (45-00) while Ilya Lamansky (140-00) and Bryson Hodges (5-08) took top honors in the javelin and high jump.

Second Place Finishers Included:

Maddy Wan-100m

Eli Yoon-1600m

Anna Schneidler-100m hurdles

Third Place Finishers Included:

Colby Johnson-100m

Matt Secrist-400m

Nicholas Cook-shot put

Jack Devine-javelin

Keegan Nussbaum-high jump

Rahoul Manickam-long jump

Erin Harris-400m

Azadeh Teague-javelin

Next Up: The Wolves will host Skyline for their first home meet of the season on Thursday March 27^th starting at 3:45PM.

WOLVES DOMINATE SHAMROCK RUN
 
    The Eastlake Distance squad opened the 2025 track season by participating in the Shamrock Run on March 15th in downtown Kirkland.  The Wolves made Eastlake proud by sweeping the first 6 places in the men’s 10k and the top 5 in the women's race.  
   Aiden Vanhaltren took top honors in the men’s race with a time of 39.51.  Teammates Yoni Turgeman, Sean Dolan, Evan Johnson, Liam Gershony and Karthik Sivakumar followed to complete the sweep. 
    In the women’s race Fiona Wolf finished 1st with a time of 44.37.  Sally Roos, Rio Tabion, Aubrey Wilems, and Jane Roos finished in the 2nd-5th spots. 
   The Wolves were also dominant in the 5k race with Sydney Lamb placing 2nd and Eliana Schenck placing 7th in the women’s race, while Austin Poppino, Andrew Talius, Colin Thompson, Lukas Talius, Kelvin Sibley and Silas Smith claimed 3rd-8th places in the men’s event. 
Next Up: 
 The entire Eastlake Track and Field Team will compete in “The Battle for 228th Street.”, a jamboree style track meet at Skyline High School on March 19th.  In addition to the Spartans, the Wolves will compete against Eastside Catholic and Seattle Prep.  Top boy's returner Matt Secrist, who won the 300m hurdlers and placed second in the 110m hurdles at the 2024 State Meet, will lead the Wolves in their quest to repeat as 4A Champions.  Anna Schneidler who was crowned 400m champion as a freshman, will lead the girls in a quest to better their 2024 5th place finish. 
 

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2024 TRACK & FIELD MEET RECAPS:

EASTLAKE BOYS WIN STATE TITLE

SECRIST AND SCHNEIDLER CROWNED STATE CHAMPIONS

     In 1997 the newly opened Eastlake High School shocked the Washington state track world when the boys team defeated 5-time team champion Mead in the state track and field meet. In fact, the Wolves coach at the time, Bo McNair, was preemptively offered a pen commemorating the imminent win by the Mead coach, but politely turned it down knowing that EHS had already won. Fast forward 27 years to the 2024 boys track and field squad that just competed in the state meet that was held May 23-25 at Mt Tahoma High School in Tacoma. Similarly, today’s Wolves were not on anyone’s radar to win, including the current coaching staff who felt that after having the school record 4x100m team disqualified in the district meet and losing both the KingCo and district title to Issaquah that a third-place finish might be the best that the team could do.  But defying everyone’s expectations the boys came through and for only the second time in school history won the State Track and Field Championship, defeating the nearest competitor Central Valley 46-38. The girls’ team also competed well and just missed a trophy as they placed 5^th overall.

     During the course of the three-day meet, Matt Secrist and Anna Schneidler joined the exclusive club of individual state track and field champions at Eastlake. Secrist courageously fought back after falling behind to win the 300m hurdles (38.88), while Schneidler, only a freshman, led from start to finish, battling significant wind to win the 400m in 56.22.  The duo are only the 4^thand 5^th student athletes to win individual state titles. Two of coach Mike Pool’s pole vaulters have won, with Ellie Talius claiming the gold in 2017 and Bowman Starr winning in 2019. Jessica Pixler, who was coached by Troy and Jody Anderson, won the 800m in 2006. Additionally, one relay team, the 2014 4x400m squad, which included Troy Lewis, Drew Lewis, Matt Morrison, and Nathan Pixler, was victorious.

     In addition to winning the 300m hurdles, Secrist placed 2^nd in the 110’s, missing the win by only a tenth of a second. His time of 14.40 lowers his non-wind aided school record.

     Senior Mason Heisser who scored 14 individual points for the Wolves, was a huge reason that the team won. He placed 2^nd in the long jump, breaking his own school record with a 22-06.5 mark and then went on to place 3^rd in the triple jump with a 44-07.75 effort. Heisser will leave Eastlake as the best horizontal jumper in Wolves history, holding both the long and triple jump records. He is also 4^th all time for the high jump.

     Senior Connor Hom added more points for Eastlake by placing 3^rd in the 1600m (4:16.75) and 7^th in the 800m (1:56.97). Hom was unfortunately tripped in the 800m going into the last straight away where he was leading the pack. Thankfully, his career is not over as he will run cross country and track next year for Yale. He leaves Eastlake as the number 2 all time in both the 800m and the 1600m.

     Senior Harry McHugh ended his high school career on a positive note by placing 6^th in the 200m in a time of 22.69.  McHugh will continue sprinting next year for Everett Community College while attending Fire Fighter’s Academy. He leaves EHS as a member of the school record holding 4x100m team and is number two all time in the 200m and 6^th in the 100m.

     The last Wolf to chip in points for the boy’s win was junior Eli Yoon who placed 6^th in the 800m (1:58.54) Yoon had a break-out year and ends his season number 6 all time in the 800m and 8th all-time in the 1600m.

     On the girl’s side junior Addison Kapur saved the best for last. On her final throw in the javelin competition, Kapur moved up two positions to claim silver. Kapur broke her own school record with her 136-00 mark.

     Sally and Jane Roos both made the podium in the 800m with Sally placing 3^rd (2:14) and Jane placing 6^th (2:15.4). In the prelims Jane set a new personal record with a 2:12.74 clocking. She is now number four all time in that event for Eastlake.

     Peyton Glennon-Robbins, who set the school record in the 100m earlier in the season, made it to the finals and placed 5^th in that event for a podium spot.

     In addition to her 400m win, Schneidler was a part of two relays that podiumed at state by placing 5^th in both. In the 4x100m she combined with Glennon-Robbins, Katie Bradford, and Erin Harris (49.62) and in the 4x400m with the Roos sisters and Milena Dancsha’zy. (4:01.27)

  Discus thrower Azadeh Teague, who set the school record earlier in the season was also a point scorer for the Wolves by placing 8th with a 116-07 toss.

Congratulations to the Eastlake Track and Field Coaching Staff on this historic achievement!

Sprints:  Dirk Huebner, Dray Bailey, Matt Pirie, Nathan Stromseth, Evan Harper, and Thomas Kidd

Hurdles:  Jeff Hunter

Pole Vault:  Mike Poole

Throws:  Matt Pirie, Lisa Craig, Jason Uttecht, and Leslie Barber

Jumps:  Kiara Williams and Kasen Williams

Distance:  Troy Anderson, Jody Anderson, Nate Pendleton, Scott Paul, and Nancy Pixler