Republic wins 19 medals in two days of track at Glendale events

Outstanding Tiger tracksters compile most top-8 finishes since at least 2008
 
The Republic girls track team brought home eight medals from the Glendale “Girls Night Out” track meet at JFK Stadium in Springfield, Thursday. The boys team followed it up with an 11-medal performance in the correlating boys meet Friday. It was the most top-eight finishes by Republic’s track athletes over the two days of those competitions since at least 2008, when results were first kept online regularly.
Thursday, two Republic relay teams finished in the top eight to earn medals. Miha Nambara, Gracie Troester, Misora Nambara, and Kristin Probst finished in third in the 4x800m, about two-and-half seconds behind the winning team but 10 seconds ahead of the fourth place team. The 4x400m relay team of Aaliyah Vasquez, Gracie Woods, Alaina Norman, and Kristin Probst also medaled, placing fifth.
Probst took fifth place in the 400m run with a time of 1:03.63. Alaina Norman finished right behind her, taking sixth in the same race with a time of 1:04.31.
Troester, a freshman, earned two individual medals. She finished seventh in the 1600m run and eighth in the 3200m run. Miha Nambara earned a medal with an eighth-place finish in the 3200m and just missed a second medal in the 1600m, finishing ninth. Gracie Woods finished eighth in the long jump.
Chase Buford, Ethan Haynes, and Devon McMillin each earned three medals for Republic on Friday. Buford finished fourth in the long jump and eighth in the 100m dash, and he was part of the 4x100m relay team that finished sixth. Haynes was fifth in the 3200m run and sixth in the 1600m run, and earned a medal as part of the 4x800m relay team that finished fourth. McMillin was also on the 4x800m relay team, and he was also part of the 4x400m relay team that finished second. He was also fifth in the 800m run.
Other members of the medal-winning 4x400m team were Miller Rountree, Landen Finley, and Will Fronabarger. Fronabarger and Derrick Buchanan joined Haynes and McMillin on the 4x800m team. And besides Buford, the other 4x100m relayers were Cole Gimlin, Braden Ghys, and Daniel Phillips.
Finley was Republic’s top individual finisher, placing second in the 400m run. Rountree finished fourth in the 300m hurdles, and Joshua Silver was eighth in the triple jump.