Kee girls track team’s top-half finishes in pair of meets include taking third place at Waukon Early Bird and fifth-place effort at MFL/MarMac Invitational


Letting it fly ... Kee girls track freshman Payton Becker launches a shot put effort at the Waukon Early Bird Invitational Tuesday, April 11. Becker finished 12th in the event with a heave of 23’9.5”. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.

The Kee girls track team got both of its scheduled meets in this past week for the first time this season, finishing in the top half of the team scoring in each of those meets. The Lady Hawks finished third in the nine-team Early Bird Invitational hosted by Waukon Tuesday, April 11 before coming in fifth out of 10 teams at the MFL/MarMac Invitational in Monona Thursday, April 13.

The Hawk tracksters were next scheduled to compete at the Crestwood Invitational Tuesday, April 18 before hosting their own Kee Invitational Thursday, April 20, details of which appear in a shaded box elsewhere on this week’s Sports pages. The Lady Hawks will then travel to Clayton Ridge Tuesday, April 25 before returning to MFL/MarMac Thursday, April 27.

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