McKenzie Sports Report – April 2
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week
The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field teams will host the McKenzie River Relays on Thursday, April 2, at the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track. Track events start at 3:00 pm and there will be no field events in this meet.
Eagle Boys Finish Second
At Inaugural Purple Track Icebreaker
McKenzie’s Track and Field teams opened their 2026 Spring season at Elmira’s Inaugural Purple Track Icebreaker. The event was held at Don Schmidt Field on Wednesday, March 18. The Junction City Boys team won the meet with 154 points and McKenzie finished second with 84 points. Host Elmira took third place with 76 points and Scio finished fourth with 75 points. Ten High School Boys teams competed in the competition.
The McKenzie Girls team finished seventh in the nine-team competition. The Eagles scored 21 points on the day. Junction City also took top honors in the girls team scoring, earning 249.5 points, followed by second place Glide with 149.5 points. Elmira finished third with 95 points.
Will Meister Wins 800m/3000m Races At Elmira
Fen Willis First In 300m Hurdles
Will Meister opened his senior Track and Field season by winning both his races at the Inaugural Purple Track Icebreaker held at Don Schmidt Field in Elmira. The McKenzie senior finished the 800 meters race in a time of 2:14.00 minutes, just ahead of Elmira freshman Wyatt Sullivan, who finished second in 2:14.39 min. Meister’s win in the 3000 meters was also close as he finished the distance in 10:30.57 minutes, fending off Glide freshman Aiden Schneider, who finished in 10:37.91 minutes.
McKenzie freshman, Fen Willis, got off to a great 2026 start with the top finish in the 300m Hurdles. Willis finished first in 46.88 seconds and Parker Pfeiffer if Junction City took second in 47.77 seconds. Willis also took fourth place in the 400 meters with a time of 54.59 seconds. Tristen Adams from Triangle Lake won the event in 51.94 seconds.
Other top Eagle 400 meters finishers were Elijah Santiago, sixth in 56.87 seconds and William Valtinson, seventh in 57.07 seconds.
Rhys Hamlow finished his 110m Hurdles race with a third place time of 19.98 seconds. Julien Mull of Crow won the event in 18.15 seconds. Hamlow also took third in the long jump, posting a 17 ft. 6.5 inch mark. Lowell’s Jax Norcutt took first in the long jump with a leap of 18 ft. 11.5 inches. McKenzie sophomore Jacob Norlund threw the javelin 131 ft. 0 inches and placed third for the top Eagle finish. Junction City’s Kaleb Moore won the javelin with a toss of 157 ft. 2 inches.
Eagle freshman Cylas Sughroue took home a fourth place finish in the 1500 meters, finishing in 4:43.98 minutes. Triangle Lake’s Ezra Pennel won the event in 4:32.28 minutes.
In the 200 meters race, Eagle Valtinson finished with McKenzie’s top time, sixth in 25.18 seconds. Tristan Adams of Triangle Lake won the 200 meters in 23.77 seconds. Glide’s Collin Groth won the 100 meters in 11:45 seconds and McKenzie’s Santiago had the top Eagle time, 12.35 seconds, and good for tenth place.
Junction City’s Kaleb Moore won three throw events, the shot put, discus and javelin. Moore’s shot put throw was 58 ft. 0.75 inches and Jacob Peek and Noah Borden tied for the top Eagle finish, thirteenth and fourteenth respectively, with a throw of 34 ft. 2.75 inches. Moore threw the discus 159 ft. 8 inches and Peek finished sixteenth at 83 ft. 1 in.
McKenzie’s 4×100 Relay team, consisting of Amir Enfield, Fen Willis, Elijah Santiago, and Andrew Munoz Brown, finished second with a time of 47.44 seconds. Junction City won the event in 46.45 seconds.
McKenzie also posted a second place finish in the 4×100 Throwers Relay, finishing with a time of 54.00 seconds. The Eagle team was comprised of Silas Jones, Anthony Hunter, Jacob Norlund, and Jacob Peek. The team from Junction City won this event in 53.34 seconds. Junction City also won the 4×400 Relay in a time of 3:43.43 minutes.
Noah O’Doal had the highest Eagle finish in the high jump, clearing the bar at 5 ft. 0 inches. Lee Brainard of Oakridge won the high jump at 5 ft. 10 in. Junction City’s Braeden Thelander won the pole vault with a height cleared at 11 ft. 6 inches.
Myra Dion And Zyla Drake
Post-Top Eagle Times At Elmira
McKenzie senior Myra Dion finished fourth in her 1500 meters distance race at the Inaugural Purple Track Icebreaker. Dion’s time was 6:10.9 minutes. Halle Goodman of Glide won the event in 5:13.7 min. Goodman also took first in the 3000 meters, finishing that distance in 11:26.39 min. McKenzie sophomore Zyla Drake finished fourth in 13:01.92 min. Drake took home a fifth place finish in the 800 meters, finishing in a time of 2:59.47 minutes and Dion followed in eighth place at 3:07.27 min. Lola Esplin of Junction City won the 800 meters in 2:20.85 minutes.
McKenzie’s Claire Weiss had the top Eagle finish in the high jump, clearing the bar at 4 ft. 6 in. Junction City’s Aspen Gambee won the event at a height of 5 ft. 0 in. Gambee also won the long jump with a leap of 15 ft. 7.75 in. Eagle freshman Nellie Sullivan had the best McKenzie finish, a seventh place jump of 13 ft. 4.5 in. Gambee won her third event of the day, the triple jump, where she finished with a 32 ft. 4.25 in mark. Eagle senior Grace Weiss finished ninth at 25 ft. 5.25 in.
Grace Weiss placed twenty-third in the 100 meters, timed in 15.23 seconds, for the top Eagle mark. Elmira’s Ava Greene won the event in 12.72 seconds. Greene also won the 200 meters in 28.28 seconds.
Eagle freshman Ally Peek had the top Eagle mark in the shot put, a twenty-first place throw of 19 ft. 1.5 inches. Kara Anderson of Glide won the shot put with a throw of 34 ft. 8.5 inches. Other meet event winners were: 110m Hurdles: Petra Archer, Elmira, 16.57 seconds. 300m Hurdles: Petra Archer, Elmira, 53.47 seconds.
4×100 Relay: Junction City, 52.82 seconds. 4×100 Throwers Relay: Elmira, 1:04.66 minutes. 4×400 Relay: Junction City, 4:21.92 minutes. Javelin: Clara Kercher, Glide, 101 ft. 5 inches. Pole Vault: Paige Brougher, Junction City, 7 ft. 6 inches. Discus: Kara Anderson, Glide, 111 ft. 2 inches.