LA CROSSE - Monroe junior Tre Voegeli couldn't hold back the tears after she was in a position to medal at state.
Voegeli made 10 feet in the pole vault and took seventh place Saturday, June 1 at the WIAA Division 2 state meet at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Veterans Memorial Stadium. She missed winning a medal due to a miss on her first attempt at 9-0. She appeared to clear 10-6 on her second vault, but her pole clipped the crossbar and it came down.
"It's not good," Voegeli said. "It sucks. I had it."
Voegeli is excited she got her chance at state, but she isn't satisfied. She understands the dedication it takes to become a state-caliber pole vaulter.
"I'm happy I made it (to state)," she said. "I always have next year."
She has the right mindset to make another state run next year.
"It will come down to the little things," she said. "All of the technique drills in practice matter."
Monroe girls track coach Doug Miller said it's tough for Voegeli since she was so close.
"She is such a competitor," Miller said. "She progressed so much this year. She has done a great job of learning the event. One place really matters in how you feel about it. It doesn't make a difference in how she performed, the effort she made and the season she had."
Voegeli cleared a school record 11-1 at the Belleville sectional this year and she plans to set a new record next year.
"It's definitely one of my goals to raise the record higher," she said.
Sugar River's 800 relay team of senior Emily Diaz, junior Emily DeNure, senior Madline Brunner and senior Alexis Hanson took ninth (1:48.75) and were about two seconds away from a medal.
"We were hoping they could medal," Sugar River coach Dan Schettler said of the 800 relay team. "That was our goal. We just had some bad handoffs. When you have that in the finals you can't have that. Unfortunately, they didn't hit the hanoffs and that is what happens."
Replacing three senior runners on the 800 relay like Brunner, Diaz and Hanson will be a challenge for the Raiders. Each was instrumental in getting the Raiders to state in the 800 relay for the third straight year.
"It will be tough," Schettler said of replacing three-fourths of the 800 relay. "We certainly will miss them next year. We have a pretty good 800 relay at the middle school. Hopefully, some of those kids can step up and make it four in a row."
Voegeli made 10 feet in the pole vault and took seventh place Saturday, June 1 at the WIAA Division 2 state meet at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Veterans Memorial Stadium. She missed winning a medal due to a miss on her first attempt at 9-0. She appeared to clear 10-6 on her second vault, but her pole clipped the crossbar and it came down.
"It's not good," Voegeli said. "It sucks. I had it."
Voegeli is excited she got her chance at state, but she isn't satisfied. She understands the dedication it takes to become a state-caliber pole vaulter.
"I'm happy I made it (to state)," she said. "I always have next year."
She has the right mindset to make another state run next year.
"It will come down to the little things," she said. "All of the technique drills in practice matter."
Monroe girls track coach Doug Miller said it's tough for Voegeli since she was so close.
"She is such a competitor," Miller said. "She progressed so much this year. She has done a great job of learning the event. One place really matters in how you feel about it. It doesn't make a difference in how she performed, the effort she made and the season she had."
Voegeli cleared a school record 11-1 at the Belleville sectional this year and she plans to set a new record next year.
"It's definitely one of my goals to raise the record higher," she said.
Sugar River's 800 relay team of senior Emily Diaz, junior Emily DeNure, senior Madline Brunner and senior Alexis Hanson took ninth (1:48.75) and were about two seconds away from a medal.
"We were hoping they could medal," Sugar River coach Dan Schettler said of the 800 relay team. "That was our goal. We just had some bad handoffs. When you have that in the finals you can't have that. Unfortunately, they didn't hit the hanoffs and that is what happens."
Replacing three senior runners on the 800 relay like Brunner, Diaz and Hanson will be a challenge for the Raiders. Each was instrumental in getting the Raiders to state in the 800 relay for the third straight year.
"It will be tough," Schettler said of replacing three-fourths of the 800 relay. "We certainly will miss them next year. We have a pretty good 800 relay at the middle school. Hopefully, some of those kids can step up and make it four in a row."
