MCC REBELS COMPETE IN TRUE TEAM

The true team series was originated in 1987 by the State Track and Field Coaches Association, to address the need in Track and Field for a True TEAM competition. In previous years, a team with a few elite athletes could win the “Team Championship” in a large meet. The Coaches felt the Team Championship should be won by the best TEAM.

In True Team competition, each team is allowed 2 entries in individual events and 1 entry in each relay event. Every entry is placed and scored according to their order of finish, with the idea that a team’s second entry becomes just as important as their first entry.

There are 3 classes in True Team Competition, with the classes based on enrollment.

Enrollments are reviewed on an annual basis.

Throughout the State, there are 8 Sections in each Class, with the Champion in each Section Advancing to the State Meet. As of 2018, all section 2nd-5th place teams will compete in a “paper meet” with the top four teams also advancing to the state meet as “Wild Card” teams. The state meet will consist of 12 teams per class per gender.

Minnesota is the only State which holds True Team competition in Track & Field. It is organized, governed, coordinated, and sponsored by the State Track & Field Coaches Association. Slayton/MCC History at State True Team GIRLS

Slayton: 1987 - 4th, 1989 - participate, 1990 - 6th MCC: 1993 - 5th

BOYS

Slayton: 1987 - 3rd, 1988 Champions, 1989 - Champions, 1991 - 3rd, 1992 - 5th MCC: 1993 - 3rd, 1994 - 3rd, 1996 - 3rd, 1997 - Champions, 1998 - 3rd, 1999 - 5th, 2007 6th The MCC boys team placed 7th out of the 13 teams in the True Team section. Leading the way for the Rebels was Anikan Larson. Larson placed 2nd in the 200, 5th in the 400 and 8th in the 100. The pole vault duo of Caleb Rosenbrook and Luke Iverson scored the most points within one event for MCC with 3rd and 5th place finishes, each vaulting to personal best heights. In other field events, Broox Platt, Carter Knakmuhs and Andrew Holm each recorded personal best performances. Platt threw 111’ in the discus while Knakmuhs went 5’6” in the high jump. Holm leaped to a distance of 37’2” in the triple jump.

The girls placed 5th as a team. Brylei Schreier had a great day in the sprints, placing first in the 400 and 2nd in the 200. Sophia Nelson also had great individual performances placing 5th in the 800 and 7th in the 1600. Hurdlers Lindsey Hause and Brealyn Damm came in 3rd and 5th in their respected events, 300 hurdles for Hause and 100 hurdles for Damm. Those same two went 6th and 7th in the high jump. Seniors Jayda Hellewell and Abby Overman placed 6th and 10th in the triple jump.

The 4x400 relay team of Hause, Overman, Hellewell and eighth grader Reese Gilbertson placed 4th. The grouping of Erynn Rohrer, Lily Daniels, Charu Paulzine and Hause came in 6th while the 4x200 team; Damm, Overman, Hellewell and Schreier placed 7th.