The Monroe Cheesemaker boys and girls track teams are Rock Valley Conference champions after winning their divisional meets at Jefferson on May 6. The Cheesemaker girls took the title by scoring 102 points and the Cheesemaker boys topped the conference with 166 points. For the girls, it is back-to-back conference championships, and for the boys it is the sixth straight year they’ve won the RVC title.  

In boys action, the Cheesemakers took second place in the 4x800 meter relay with the team of senior Benjamin Erdley, sophomore Lucas Gerber, sophomore Kamrin Gerber-Reamer, and senior Padriac Houston completing the relay in 8:37.68. In the boys 110 meter hurdles, senior Seth Schmidt was second with a time of 17.14 seconds and junior Will Keehn was third with a time of 17.95 seconds. The boys 100 meter dash saw junior JyShon Broitzman finish second in 11.51 seconds. First place in the boys 1,600 meter run went to junior Tre Dammen, who raced to a time of 4:36.94. The Cheese also took first place in the boys 4x200 meter relay as the relay team of freshman Riley Blum, junior Mekhi Brown, sophomore Caleb Mazahreh, and sophomore Eli Phillips was victorious in 1:34.64. The boys 400 meter dash was captured by Jyshon Broitzman of Monroe in 51.69 seconds. Delavan-Darien won the boys 4x100 meter relay, but Monroe took second place with freshman Riley Blum, junior Mekhi Brown, sophomore Eli Phillips, and junior Noah Spotts going the distance in 45.51 seconds. In the boys 300 meter hurdles, Monroe got a second place finish from junior Frank Wolf in 44.46 seconds, and a third place finish from junior Will Keehn in 44.70 seconds. Kamrin Gerber-Reamer was a first-place finisher in the boys 800 meter run in 2:02.67 while Monroe’s Lukas Gerber was second in 2:02.79. Monroe junior Noah Spotts took fourth place in the boys 200 meter dash in 24.14 seconds. Tre Dammen and Padriac Houston teamed up to take first and second place in the boys 3,200 meter run with Dammen winning in 10:00.24 and Houston following in 10:25.54. 

Lukas Gerber was a first place finisher in the boys high jump as he cleared the bar at 5 feet, 8 inches. The Cheesemakers’ Frank Wolf was second in the high jump with his jump also at 5 feet, 8 inches. Junior Kingston McNett of Monroe picked up a point in the pole vault by finishing fifth with a pole vault at six feet. The boys long jump belonged to Seth Schmidt of Monroe as he jumped 20 feet, 3 inches. Schmidt was also the first place finisher in the triple jump with a jump of 41 feet, 2 inches. Wolf was second as he recorded a jump of 40 feet, 6.5 inches. Eli Phillips was fourth with a jump of 38 feet, 2.5 inches. Monroe dominated in the shot put, taking first, second, and third with junior Waylon Yoder (48 feet, 10.5 inches), junior Peyton Herbst (45 feet, 10 inches), and freshman Joah Wellman (42 feet, 10.5 inches) achieving the top three throws. Monroe had three of the top four finishers in the discus throw as Herbst was first with a throw of 137 feet, 5 inches. Yoder was second with his throw at 125 feet, 2 inches, and junior Matthew Hanusa was fourth by tossing the discus 121 feet, 2 inches. 

In the girls competition, the first event was the 4x800 meter relay and Monroe took first place as the relay team of junior Anna Zentner, sophomore Lyla Ritschard, sophomore Nevaeh Huenefeld, and freshman Kaylen Cassidy took the honors with a time of 10:37.51. The Cheesemakers were dominant in the 100 meter hurdles as senior Ella Kranig (17.60 seconds), junior Brooke Bunker (17.99), and freshman Brianna Ziolkowski (18.23) placed second, third, and fourth. In the 1,600 meter run, Huenefeld placed second with a time of 5:55.19 and Cassidy was third with her time at 5:57.70. The girls 4x200 meter team of sophomore Maryella Green, freshman Eden Greely, freshman Althea Sweeney, and junior Aniyah Jackson-Bey gave Monroe a fifth place finish in 1:58.46. Monroe got a 1-2 punch in the 400 meter dash with freshman Alivia Mosher taking second in 1:03.91 and junior Mya Wild taking third in 1:04.58. Fourth place in the 4x100 meter relay went to Monroe’s team of Brianna Ziolkowski, senior Ada Henderson-Lehto, sophomore Aridni Acosta, and Althea Sweeney, good for two points in a time 56.41 seconds. 

Aniyah Jackson-Bey of Monroe won the 300 meter hurdles in 52.72 while Wild and Bunker were fourth and fifth. Maryella Green of the Cheesemakers took second place in the girls 800 meter run as she cruised the track in 2:30.88. Vickie Wolf was third and Alivia Mosher was fourth. Miley Hanson of Monroe placed fourth in the 200 meter dash with a time of 28.32 seconds. In long distance running, the Cheesemakers placed in the top two spots in the 3,200 meter run as Vickie Wolf was first in 12:40.93 and Kaylen Cassidy was second in 13:29.10. The Monroe girls 4x400 meter relay team captured 3rd place with Mosher, Jackson-Bey, Green, and Wild completing the relay in 4:21.79. Monroe placed three of the top five finishers in the high jump as sophomore Braylee Frederich took second place with a high jump of four feet, 10 inches. Miley Hanson was third with a high jump of 4 feet, 8 inches. Mya Wild placed fifth as her high jump was also 4 feet, 8 inches. Anna Zentner got Monroe a third place finish in the pole vault as she reached a height of 7 feet, 6 inches. Hanson was third in the long jump as she registered a jump of 15 feet, 10.5 inches. Monroe scored big points in the triple jump as Jackson-Bey took second place with a triple jump of 33 feet, 4 inches. Frederich was third with a jump of 31 feet, 10.75 inches and Sweeney finished fifth with a jump measured at 29 feet, 9 inches. Monroe did not place in the shot put, but junior Kira Schmidt achieved a second place finish in the discus with a throw of 76 feet, 7.50 inches.