Laracuente-Huebner is first Bearcat to win Big 12 track and field title
Laracuente-Huebner won the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships in the pentathlon while competing earlier this season in Lubbock, Texas. She scored a 4,182, which was one point from advancing to the NCAA Division I national championships, according to her high school coach Chip Wendt.
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At the Big 12 Championships, she was second in the long jump at 19 feet, 4 inches, third in the high jump at 5-7 3/4 and third in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.56 seconds. She took fifth in the 800 in 2:16.47 and eighth in the shot put at 36-10 1/2.
She is the first Bearcat to win an individual Big 12 title, and it was the second-best score ever posted in the pentathlon by a UC athlete.
Here are results from other Marion-area college athletes as they competed in indoor track and field this winter:
Highland grad Juliette Laracuente-Huebner is an athlete on the University of Cincinnati's women's track team, where she competes in the pentathlon among other events.
Mount Gilead's Allison Johnson is a junior on the women's track team at Penn State. She ran the 1000 meters in 2:43.05 to take second at the Nittany Lion Challenge, and she was fifth in the 800 in 2:05.36 at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Ohio Wesleyan's Hazel Jolliff is another pentathlete. The junior from Cardington finished 10th at the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Championships with a score of 2,221 where she was third in the shot put at 32-1 1/2, eighth in the high jump at 4-5 1/2, 10th in the 60 hurdles at 10.74, 14th in the long jump at 13-6 and 15th in the 800 at 3:04.84.
In the same competition, River Valley's Lainee Valentine , who is a senior at Wittenberg, posted an eighth-place finish in the pentathlon with a 2,590. She was third in the long jump at 16-0 1/2, sixth in the shot put at 28-8 1/2, seventh in the 60 hurdles at 9.82, eighth in the high jump at 4-5 1/2 and 13th in the 800 at 2:56.7.
OWU sophomore Alexis Eusey of Highland was seventh in the NCAC's women's shot put at 36-7, which is a personal record.
Another Highland grad, Mason Duncan , a junior at Wittenberg, was fifth in the men's distance medley relay at the NCAC meet, helping his team to a 10:32.83.
River Valley's Emma Hawk is a junior at Wittenberg, and she produced a PR in the 3000 meters at the NCACs with a 10:34.75 for seventh. She was also eighth in the 5000 at 18:19.29.
Aaron Gannon , a freshman from Mount Gilead, competes for Mount Vernon Nazarene, and he was 16th in the 800 in 2:04.43 at the Crossroads League Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Northmor's Julia Kanagy ran the 5K in 19:34.62 for 15th at the Crossroads. She is a senior on the MVNU women's team.
Another MVNU runner, sophomore Lauren Garber of Highland posted a PR of 3:25.31 for 16th in the 1000 at the Crossroads.
Competing for Walsh as a freshman on the men's track team, Mount Gilead's Quade Harris ran second in the 500 at 1:10.9 and fourth in the 200 at 23.68 during an indoor meet at Muskingum. At the Great-Midwest Athletic Conference's indoor meet, he was part of the sixth-place 4x400 relay that ran 3:20.15. He also posted a 51.04 in the prelims at the G-MAC.
Kelsey Kennon , a grad student at Findlay, finished third at the Ashland Jud Logan Light Giver with a 43-7 in the shot put. The Mount Gilead grad had a PR of 57-2 1/4 in the weight throw during a home meet and claimed second. At the G-MAC, she was seventh in the shot put at 43-4 1/4 and 10th in the weight throw at 53-6 1/2.
River Valley grad Grant Butler , a sophomore at Ohio Northern, was eighth in the long jump with a 21-4 3/4 at the Ohio Athletic Conference Indoor Championships. He was also 17th in the high jump at 5-9 3/4.
Connor Robins , another RV product who competes at Ohio Northern, was seventh at the OACs in the shot put at 48-0 and ninth in the weight throw at 53-10 1/4. The junior set a PR in the shot put with a 48-9 1/2 for eighth place at Grand Valley State. He also set a PR by finishing third in the weight throw at 53-10 1/4 during a home meet.
Highland's Landon Remmert is another ONU competitor. The senior was eighth at the OACs in the 60 hurdles with a 9.44. His indoor PR was set during the OAC prelims when he ran 8.89.
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This is the second of four winter sports college notebooks for Marion-area athletes. Anyone with information on a local college athlete and send material to the Marion Star's Rob McCurdy at rmccurdy@gannett.com, 419-610-0998, X @McMotorsport and Instagram @rob_mccurdy_star.
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