Spartans compete at Stanford Invite

Published 12:33 pm Friday, April 24, 2015

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Four Bainbridge High School track athletes traveled to Palo Alto, California with their proud parents and coach Garry Osmond to compete in the renowned Stanford Track and Field Invitational at Stanford’s historic Cobb Field.

Mikelle and Natalie Ackerley qualified to compete in the 800-meter run, and the Ackerley sisters, Lindsay Wienkers and Aerin Amore competed in the 4×400 meter relay.

In each event, the BHS runners recorded season best performances.  Mikelle Ackerley placed seventh in the 800 meter run out of 28 runners with a time of 2:16:00 and Natalie Ackerley placed 16th overall with a time of 2:20:17.

In the 4×400 relay, BHS placed seventh out of 30 teams with a time of 4:07:24.

The Stanford meet is a unique combined college/high school invitational event with very difficult qualifying standards, which provided the BHS athletes with the opportunity to compete against excellent high school runners, mainly from California.

It also gave the BHS athletes the chance to witness some of the best college runners, throwers and jumpers in the country in action at Cobb Field.