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Hillsdale Area Best Girls Track Rankings: Colts earn eight No. 1 spots in first edition

Joseph Flaherty, Hillsdale Daily News
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HILLSDALE COUNTY — It's been an eventful start to the 2024 spring track and field season.

Several teams finally found their way over to their tracks this week and put in their first times of the season. As is tradition, it's time for the Hillsdale Area Best rankings for girls track and field. This is the first edition of the list, and there will be plenty more before the climactic Area Best Meet held at Hayden Park's new track facility later in May.

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For relay events, one result per school was included. The top five athletes for each event are included.

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Hillsdale Academy athletes dominated the first rankings, earning eight No. 1 spots. Senior athlete and Siena Heights track commit Iris Millies of Hillsdale Academy earned No. 1 spots in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes. However, she is only separated by hundredths of a second from Trine Commit and Hillsdale Hornet Annemarie Moore.

Freshman teammate Lucy Cote is ahead as the No. 1 ranked hurdler. Chloe Stalhood and Pittsford senior Brooke Smith split the long-distance rankings, with Smith ranked first in the 1600 and Stalhood ranked first in the 3200. Both athletes placed second in the other respective race rankings.

Hillsdale short distance relays dominated the 4x100 and 4x200 times early this season. Field evens featured a different school at No. 1 in nearly every ranking. Check out the full results and rankings below.

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100 Meters

  1. Iris Millies - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 13.44

  2. Annemarie Moore - Hillsdale - Senior - 13.45

  3. Megan Kast - Hillsdale - Junior - 13.48

  4. Abigail Spencer - Reading - Sophomore - 13.57

  5. Caylee Whinnie - Reading - Freshman - 13.72

200 Meters

  1. Iris Millies - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 27.62

  2. Annemarie Moore - Hillsdale - Senior - 27.65

  3. Brooke Sharp - Jonesville - Senior - 28.44

  4. Abigail Spencer - Reading - Sophomore - 28.46

  5. Ava Mallar - Pittsford - Junior - 28.51

Hillsdale Academy senior Iris Millies (from 2023) is the current leader of the 100- and 200-meter Area Best rankings for 2024.
Hillsdale Academy senior Iris Millies (from 2023) is the current leader of the 100- and 200-meter Area Best rankings for 2024.

400 Meters

  1. Brooke Sharp - Jonesville - Senior - 1:03.40

  2. Halle Clark - Pittsford - Senior - 1:05.42

  3. Abigail Spencer - Reading - Sophomore - 1:06.17

  4. Haven Socha - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 1:07.15

  5. Angela Alvarez - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 1:07.48

800 Meters

  1. Caroline Roberts - Hillsdale Academy - Junior - 2:21.31

  2. Brooke Smith - Pittsford - Senior - 2:34.69

  3. Haven Socha - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 2:37.90

  4. Allie Miller - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 2:39.77

  5. Ella Walton - Hillsdale Academy - 2:43.42

1600 Meters

  1. Brooke Smith - Pittsford - Senior - 5:38.90

  2. Chloe Stalhood - Hillsdale - Junior - 5:48.77

  3. Allie Miller - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 5:55.98

  4. Ruth Brownlee - Hillsdale Academy - Sophomore - 5:57.30

  5. Ella Walton - Hillsdale Academy - Junior - 5:59.34

Distance runner Brooke Smith, senior at Pittsford, is the No. 1 ranked 1600-meter runner for the first Area Best list of the season.
Distance runner Brooke Smith, senior at Pittsford, is the No. 1 ranked 1600-meter runner for the first Area Best list of the season.

3200 Meters

  1. Chloe Stalhood - Hillsdale - Junior - 12:23.88

  2. Brooke Smith - Pittsford - Senior - 12:40.0

  3. Ella Walton - Hillsdale Academy - Junior - 12:54.0

  4. Allie Miller - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 13:26.0

  5. Ruth Brownlee - Hillsdale Academy - Sophomore - 13:29.84

100 Meter Hurdles

  1. Lucy Cote - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 17.34

  2. Zoe Plemmons - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 17.74

  3. Madison Sallows - Hillsdale Academy - Junior - 17.84

  4. Ava Mallar - Pittsford - Junior - 18:05

  5. Hope Reamer - Camden-Frontier - Senior - 19.64

300 Meter Hurdles

  1. Lucy Cote - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 50.97

  2. Madison Sallows - Hillsdale Academy - Junior - 51.57

  3. Ava Mallar - Pittsford - Junior - 52.10

  4. Kelah Hodge - Hillsdale - Senior - 53.14

  5. Zoe Plemmons - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 53.24

4x100 Relay

  1. Hillsdale (Graham, Moore, Dietz, Kast) - 51.91

  2. Hillsdale Academy (Socha, Alvarez, Millies, Sallows) - 54.04

  3. Reading (Whinnie, Davis, France, Spencer) - 58.11

  4. Jonesville (Udzik, Dunlap, Means, Fowler) - 58.13

  5. Pittsford (Salazar, Bryant, Hamilton, Probst) - 58.49

Hillsdale's 4x100 relay team (pictured here is Annemarie Moore and Amelia Dietz) are No. 1 in the first Area Best rankings of the season.
Hillsdale's 4x100 relay team (pictured here is Annemarie Moore and Amelia Dietz) are No. 1 in the first Area Best rankings of the season.

4x200 Relay

  1. Hillsdale (Hodge, Kast, Dietz, Moore) - 1:54.59

  2. Jonesville (Udzik, Bragg, Nichelson, Sharp) - 1:56.50

  3. Hillsdale Academy (Casper, Millies, Whalen, Cote) - 1:57.49

  4. Pittsford (Salazar, Probst, Clark, Mallar) - 1:57.79

  5. Reading (Whinnie, France, Haley, Wiler) - 2:06.96

4x400 Relay

  1. Hillsdale Academy (Socha, Alvarez, Roberts, Sallows) - 4:22.63

  2. Pittsford (Clark, McCumber, Smith, Mallar) - 4:33.89

  3. Jonesville (Udzik, Gulledge, Nichelson, Sharp) - 4:42.94

  4. Reading (Trott, Santi, Haley, Spencer) - 4:56.32

4x800 Relay

  1. Pittsford (Clark, Mallar, McCumber, Smith) - 10:59.04

  2. Hillsdale Academy (Socha, Whalen, Roberts, Alvarez) - 11:02.54

  3. Hillsdale (Amburgey, Kroa, Evans, Stalhood) - 11:38.86

  4. Jonesville (Knight, Drake, Mandrelle, Blackham) - 12:13.50

  5. Camden-Frontier (Hopkins, Miller, Cabrera, Buck) - 13:14.10

Shot Put

  1. Abigail Affholter - Reading - Junior - 32-1

  2. Megan Lee - Jonesville - Freshman - 30-8

  3. Evie Gray - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 29-2 1/2

  4. Sarah Alspaugh - Jonesville - Senior - 28-8

  5. Sydnee Mauk - Reading - Senior - 26-1 3/4

Discus

  1. Evie Gray - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 102-9 1/2

  2. Sydnee Mauk - Reading - Senior - 97-8

  3. Abigail Affholter - Reading - Junior - 96-11 1/2

  4. Megan Lee - Jonesville - Freshman - 88-2

  5. Shelby Bryner - Pittsford - Senior - 79-5 1/2

High Jump

  1. Julia Casper - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 4-9

  2. Payton Nichelson - Jonesville - Sophomore - 4-8

  3. Kiely Kroa - Hillsdale - Freshman - 5-6

    • (Tie) Natalie Spielman - Hillsdale Academy - Senior

    • (Tie) Megan Kast - Hillsdale - Junior

Pole Vault

  1. Chloe Fowler - Pittsford - Junior - 9-6

  2. Iris Millies - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 8-0

    • (Tie) Kelah Hodge - Hillsdale - Senior

    • (Tie) Anne Gray - Hillsdale Academy - Sophomore

  3. Natalie Spielman - Hillsdale Academy - Senior - 7-0

Long Jump

  1. Natalia Galindo Gabande - Hillsdale - Junior - 15-1

  2. Haven Socha - Hillsdale Academy -Senior - 14-9 1/2

  3. Zoe Plemmons - Hillsdale Academy - Freshman - 14-4

  4. Shelby Bryner - Pittsford - Senior - 14-3

  5. Amelia Dietz - Hillsdale - Senior - 13-7 1/4

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This article originally appeared on Hillsdale Daily News: The first Hillsdale Area Best girls track and field rankings show Hillsdale Academy at the top in eight events