The Hill Country Comets are still blazing the track and smashing the field as they head down the homestretch of their season.
The team qualified multiple athletes at both the state and national levels.
For some, training began in the fall as they participated in an indoor season, then an additional 250 athletes, ages 8 to 18, joined forces for the spring/summer season which began early April.
To ramp up the competition, the Comets hosted the 3rd Annual Comers Hill Country Championships at Champion High School on June 4 with more than 1,000 athletes participating and then there was competition at various local meets in the surrounding area.
On July 8, the Comets hosted Region 3 and Region 15 in the TAAF Regional Qualifier Meet at Champion, with the help of the Boerne Parks and Recreation team, and ended the 2022 summer season at the TAAF State Games in Corpus Christi, held last weekend, July 21-24, and there is also the AAU Junior Olympic Games in Greensboro, North Carolina, July 30 - Aug. 6.
At the TAAF Regional Meet in Boerne, the Comets brought home 51 gold, 43 silver and 22 bronze medals, qualifying 73 athletes in a total of 122 events.
TAAF state qualifiers and results from regional qualifiers meet:
Abby Alger (12u)- 4x400m Relay (1st); Hannah Arnall (18u)- Discus (1st); Lorena Barreiro (14u)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (2nd); Sofia Bennett (16u)- 100m hurdles (1st); Balie Bowen (18u)- 800m (2nd), 1600m (3rd); Averley Bruce (12u)- 80m Hurdles (1st); Anna Carlson (14u)- 100m Hurdles (3rd); Cate Cerna (12u) 4x400m Relay (1st), 800m (2nd), 400m (2nd); Julia Cornelius (12u)- High Jump (3rd); Maryann Cornelius (16u)- High Jump (3rd); Carolyn Falk (12)- Shot Put (1st); Skyler Fonseca (12u)- 4x400m Relay (1st); Emily Goodwin (12u)- Shot Put (3rd); Hailee Goodwin (18u)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (3rd); Mikayla Green (14u)- 1600m (2nd); Sophia Grinstead (16u)- Shot Put (1st), Discus (1st); Breanna Hempton (13u)- 3200m (2nd); Ellory Hulce (16u)- Long Jump (3rd); Charleigh Jacobs (14u)- Pole Vault (1st), Shot Put (3rd), Discus (3rd), Long Jump (3rd); Kinley Klatt (9u)- 200m (3rd), 400m (3rd); Delaney Kowald (18u)- 800m (1st), 1500m (2nd); Kendall Leininger (18u)- 3200m (1st), 1600m (1st);
Mary Marino (16u)- 1600m (1st); Molly McCormick (12u)- 200m (2nd); Sydney Moore (13u)- 100m Hurdles (2nd), 300m Hurdles (2nd); Annaleise Perez (16u)- Long Jump (1st), High Jump (2nd), 800m (2nd), 300m Hurdles (1st); Carissa Plocheck (12u) - 4x400m Relay (1st); Bethany Preusse (13u)- Shot Put (1st), Discus (1st); Emily Reyes (10u)- Shot Put (3rd); Bay Satterwhite (10u) - Shot Put (2nd); Hailey Satterwhite (12u) - Shot Put (2nd); Addi Sisk (10u)- 800m (1st), Long Jump (1st), High Jump (1st); Sophiánna Smith (16u)- 800m (3rd), 100m Hurdles (3rd), Shot Put (3rd)
Brooklynn Thomason (14u)- 200m (1st); Annie Thompson (5/6)- 50m (1st), 100m (2nd); Ocean Valenciano (14u)- 100m (1st), 200m (3rd); Cameron Wampler (16u)- Discus (2nd); Savannah Wayment (16u)- Triple Jump (1st), Long Jump (2nd), 400m (3rd), 200m (2nd); Reyd Alexander (12u)- 1600m (2nd); Ben Blomqvist (18u)- Pole Vault (1st); Noah Blomqvist (14u)- Discus (1st), Shot Put (1st); Hudson Bruce (16u)- 110m Hurdles (1st), 300m Hurdles (2nd); Isaac Carlson (10u)- 4x400m Relay (1st); Ben Cerna (8u)- 800m (3rd);
Cass Clowney (14u)- 110m Hurdles (2nd), 300m Hurdles (2nd); Joshua Cornelius (18u)- Pole Vault (2nd), High Jump (1st); Kaiden Fischer (18u)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (2nd); Keegan Fischer (16u)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (3rd); Diego Flores (14u)- 3200m (1st); William Freeman (14u)- 100m (1st), 200m (1st); Zachary Garcia (16u)-100m (2nd), 200m (2nd); Aiden Harris (16u)- Discus (1st)
Jaxon Harbuck (14u) 400m (2nd); Dana Hempton (10u)- 400m (3rd), 4x400m Relay (1st); Connor Hinojosa (14u)- 110m Hurdles (3rd); Ethan Kang (10u)- Shot Put (1st); Logan Larranaga (16u)- Pole Vault (2nd); Esteban Leyva (16u)- 110m Hurdles (3rd), 300m Hurdles (1st); Otto Lindahl (12u)- Long Jump (3rd); Nico Lopez (18u)- Discus (3rd), Shot Put (3rd); Kyle Moore (16u)- 1600m (1st), 800m (2nd); Tyler Moore (18u)- 110m Hurdles (1st), 300m Hurdles (1st), 100m (3rd); Landon Pollock (10u)- 1600m (1st), High Jump (3rd); Hunter Prince (14u)- 1600m (2nd); Victor Rodriguez (18u)- 110m Hurdles (2nd), 300m Hurdles (2nd); Brice Roesler (14u)- Discus (2nd); AJ Serrano (10u)- Shot Put (2nd); Lionel Scott (16u)- Shot Put (1st), Discus (2nd); Jag Smith (10u)- High Jump (2nd), 400m (2nd), 4x400m Relay (1st); Braylen Thomason (14u)- 400m (1st), 800m (1st), 1600m (3rd); Evan Thompson (10u)- 4x400m Relay (1st);
Riley Wampler (18u)- Discus (1st), Shot Put (1st) and Robert Wegleitner (16u)- 110m Hurdles (2nd), Long Jump (1st), High Jump (2nd).
Additionally, close to 200 Comets competed in one of two AAU District Meets held in June, and more than 100 of the athletes qualified for the Region 19 meet which was held late June in Seguin.
The meet was another Comet invasion, as the Comets were the largest team in the region, and qualified 60 athletes to advance to nationals.
A total of 23 gold, 19 silver and 15 bronze medals were earned, and several additional top 6 qualifying performances were achieved. The athletes listed below punched their tickets to compete at the AAU Junior Olympics National Championship Meet in Greensboro, North Carolina, July 30 – Aug. 6.
Results:
Tori Adams (17/18)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (2nd); Abby Alger (12)- 4x800m Relay (3rd), Shot Put (5th); Sutton Amerman (11)- 800m (2nd), 1500m (4th), 4x800 Relay (1st); Payton Baldwin (13)- 3000m (1st), 1500m (4th); Lorena Barreiro (14)- Shot Put (1st), Discus (1st); Sofia Bennett (15/16)- Heptathlon (4th), Javelin (6th); Averley Bruce (12)- Turbo Javelin (1st), 4x800m relay (1st); Trinity Butler (15/16)- 2000m Steeplechase (3rd); Anna Carlson (13)- Pentathlon (4th), Long Jump (6th); Cate Cerna (12)- 4x800m Relay (3rd);
Caroline Cornelius (8)- Turbo Javelin (2nd); Julie Cornelius (12)- Discus (6th), Turbo Javelin (4th), High Jump (4th); Libby Dayoc (10)- High Jump (1st); Emily Easton (14)- Shot Put (1st), Discus (3rd); Esther Evans (13)- 400m (4th); Carolyn Falk (12)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (2nd); Skyler Fonseca (12)- 4x800m Relay (3rd); Mikayla Green (13)- 800m (6th); Sophia Grinstead (15/16)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (1st); Breanna Hempton (13)- 3000m (6th); Scarlett Hooper (8)- Shot Put (5th); Mary Marino (15/16)- 1500m (4th); Mallory Miles (12)- Pentathlon (1st), 80m Hurdles (6th), High Jump (4th); Carissa Plocheck (12)- 4x800m Relay (3rd); Bethany Preusse (13)- Discus (1st), Shot Put (1st), Javelin (1st); Mikayla Ramos (15/16)- Discus (6th); Ainsley Rosenow (17/18)- Heptathlon (4th); Lily Rumbo (13)- 3000m (3rd), 1500M (6th); Bay Satterwhite (9)- Shot Put (6th), Turbo Javelin (3rd); Hailey Satterwhite (12)- Shot Put (4th), Discus (4th), Javelin (2nd); Megan Satterwhite (11)- Shot Put (4th), Discus (2nd), Javelin (2nd);
Abbey Serrano (8)- Turbo Javelin (1st), Shot Put (2nd); Emma Southard (10)- High Jump (2nd), 800m (4th), 1500m ( 2nd); Ruby Sue Svendsen (11)- Pentathlon (1st), 4x800m Relay (1st),1500m (5th); Caroline Walker (14)- 3000m (5th); Cameron Wampler (15/16)- Discus (5th); Evelyn Weisel (11)- 4x800 Relay (1st); Riley Youens (15/16)- Javelin (1st), Shot Put (3rd), Discus (2nd); Jaxon Adams (13)- 100m Hurdles (6th); Reyd Alexander (12)- Turbo Javelin (6th), 1500m (3rd), 3000m (2nd); Ben Blomqvist (17/18)- Decathlon (2nd); Noah Blomqvist (14)- Shot Put (1st), Discus (1st), Javelin (2nd); Isaac Carlson (10)- Turbo Javelin (4th), 4x400m Relay (3rd); Cass Clowney (14)- 100m Hurdles (4th); Diego Flores (13)- 3000m (1st); William Freeman (14)- 100m (4th), 200m (6th); Aiden Harris (15/16)- Discus (1st); Dana Hempton (10)- 4x400m Relay (3rd); Wyatt Hooper (11)- High Jump (5th); Brock Lewis (17/18)- Decathlon (1st); Nico Lopez (17/18)- Javelin (4th);
Ryan Naylor (12)- Shot Put (2nd), Discus (4th); Tristan Onweller (14)- Discus (4th), Shot Put (3rd), Javelin (3rd); Sadiq Pelt (10)- High Jump (5th); Landon Pollock (10)- High Jump (6th); Jayden Postell (14)- 1500m (3rd), 3000m (5th); Brice Roesler (13)- Discus (2nd); Hans Scheff (13)- Discus (6th), Shot Put (4th); Lionel Scott (15/16)- Shot Put (5th); Jag Smith (10)- Turbo Javelin (5th),4x400m Relay (3rd); Evan Thompson (9)- 400m (6th), 4x400m Relay (3rd).
“’Start strong and finish stronger,’ has been a motivating phrase for the Hill Country Comets, and they look forward to practicing what they preach,” according to one of the coaches Courtney Darter-Bruce.
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