Another big week of performances is in the books in Kansas as teams across the state looked to pad their Kansas Relays entries, take on the illustrious Shocker Pre-State Challenge, or take advantage of much better weather than last week.
Check out the nominees for the Kansas Boys Athlete of the Week for 4/7-4/12 below. Voting closes on April 18th at 12:00pm.
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Shout out to last week's poll winner: Junction City's Anthony Testa! Testa was the top 2-miler in the state two weeks ago, running a personal best of 9:38.13 for the win at the Junction City Invitational. It's six seconds faster than last year's mark as the super-sophomore appears ready to add the 3200 to his list of state qualifying events this year. He will be on the list for our end-of-season Athlete of the Year poll.
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Previous Winners:
Week 1 - Jack Guthridge - Kapaun Mt. Carmel
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Daniel Enriquez - Kapaun Mt. Carmel - Enriquez picked up victories in the 800 and 1600 meter runs at the Shocker Pre-State Challenge over the weekend. His times of 1:54.56 and 4:13.83 are second and first in the entire state, respectively.
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Caleb DeGroot - Bishop Carroll Catholic - DeGroot started off his week with wins in the 200, 110 meter hurdles, and 300 meter hurdles at the Eisenhower Participation Meet on Monday. Then, he won both hurdle races again at the Pratt Invitational in his new personal bests of 14.56 and 38.27, respectively. Both hurdle marks were tops in the state this past week.
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Garrett LeBlanc - Emporia - LeBlanc had the state-leading mark this past week in the triple jump with his 46-2 clearance for the win at the Lansing Invitational. It was a massive personal best for the Emporia sophomore who had only cleared 42 feet for the first time in his career in late March.
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Mason Hill - Gardner-Edgerton - After opening the outdoor season with back-to-back pole vault marks in the 14s, Hill climbed all the way up to an outdoor personal best of 15-9 on Friday at the Mike Wallace Olathe Invitational. His all-conditions personal best came this winter at the National Pole Vault Summit in mid-January: 16-2.
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Cade Zimmerman - Olathe West - Zimmerman had the state-leading javelin throw of the week with his 196-6 mark at the Mike Wallace Olathe Invitational. This is tops in the entire state for the season and 13th overall in the country.
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