12-year track & field honor roll

We'll unveil it in the paper and online sometime before next week's state meet.

I'll give you all an appetizer. Three males and three females have cracked the top three efforts since 1996 THIS season.

The boys are:

* Sheboygan North's Mike Granke, who ran a blistering 1:56.9 earlier this season. That tied Lutheran's Adam Lang's WIAA Division 3 state gold-medal winning effort at La Crosse last June.

* North teammate Cesar Raygoza pole vaulted 13-10, second-best to Plymouth's Jake Kruger's 14-7 in 2003.

* Random Lake's Kyle Roy threw the shot put 54-9.5, second to Plymouth's Chris Diedrich's 54-10 (1997).

The girls:

* Stacey Thiel clocked a fast 11:16.44 in the 3,200, second-best to Laurel Kleiber of Plymouth (11:09, at State, in 2005).

* Random Lake's Jessica Ramel's 39-8.5 in the shot is second-best since 1996 to Oostburg's Caryn Daane (44-5, in 2005).

* Cedar Grove-Belgium's Ali Paul, who was at No. 3 already in the 800, stayed at that position but improved her time to 2:21.97. That trails 12-year No. 2 Jess Scott of Kiel (2:18.3, in 2005).


--Pete Barth