Stanislowski, Lyga get first taste of state track meet
Arcadia sophomore Trey Lyga competed in his first WIAA Division Two track and field state championship meet last Saturday, taking eighth place in discus. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior Jordan Stanislowski competed in the triple jump at the WIAA Division Two state track and field championships at UW-La Crosse on Friday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
A pair of county athletes finished the 2023 track and field season among the state’s best last weekend.
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior Jordan Stanislowski and Arcadia sophomore Trey Lyga both competed at the WIAA Division Two state track and field championships at UW-La Crosse on Saturday.
Lyga’s first experience at the state meet ended with an eighth place finish in discus, which took place on Saturday.
Lyga qualified for the finals by placing inside the top 10 in the preliminaries—he had the second farthest throw (147 feet, four inches) in the first of two heats of the event.
James Flanigan won the discus state championship handily with his toss of 177 feet, 10 inches. The Notre Dame Academy sophomore was the lone athlete to reach the 170-foot mark, and he did so in all five of his counted throws.
Stanislowski finished 16th in the triple jump as G-E-T’s lone representative this weekend with her jump of 33 feet, 11.25 inches.
The G-E-T senior competed on Friday in a field of 16 jumpers, including winner Victoria Okoro of Dominican (37 feet, 6.75 inches).
