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DW COMBINE- On Saturday, March 11, DW high school track team members attended the season's first meet at the Walla Walla Jamboree at WaHi's Klicker Track. The jamboree gave tracksters the first chance of the season to navigate a track meet, prepare for a good performance, and to work out competition jitters. Each athlete was allowed to enter two events. The Wolfpack competed against College Place, Kennewick, Mead, Walla Walla, and DeSales.

Team veteran Hudson Reser posted 12:50 in the 100-meter dash, earning him seventeenth place out of forty-six competitors.  Reser also ran the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.85. Teegan Kenney, another veteran from the 2022 district championship season, ran 27.12 in the 200-meter and jumped 16 feet six inches in the long jump.

Alyssa Hollingsworth's time of 15.29 in the 100-meters was good for twenty-ninth place out of forty-five runners. Hollingsworth's other event was the long jump, where she posted a jump of 11'8.5". Makenna Barren's time in the 100-meters was 15.65, and she jumped 11'8" in the long jump. Marion Duncan ran the 200-meters with a time of 34.75 and threw the discus 38'5". Alyssa Byers' time in the 800-meters was 4:19.26, and she threw the javelin 24'8". Addison Crenshaw scratched in the long jump and tossed 30'10" in the javelin. Cedar Stegall had a shot-put mark of 16'10.5" and threw the discus 38'5". 

Coach Dan Nechodom is encouraged by the leadership of the experienced athletes and the team's work ethic. The Wolfpack team will look to improve on their times and throws at the next meet on Thursday, March 16, at the Kennewick Kickoff Meet.