Republic’s boys and girls track teams earned 19 medals over the past two days: eight by the girls Thursday and 11 by the boys Friday. It’s the highest combined total of top-eight finishes for the two teams at Girls Night Out and Boys Night Out since at least 2008, before which results are not available online. (The previous highest combined total was 14 in 2021, when the girls won ten medals and the boys won four.)
Girls Night Out
Thursday, the girls 4x800m relay team was the top finisher for Republic, taking third place in the first race of the day. Miha Nambara, Gracie Troester, Misora Nambara, and Kristin Probst finished in 10:12.77, about two-and-half seconds behind the winner, West Plains, but ten seconds ahead of the fourth place team.
The 4x400m relay team of Aaliyah Vasquez, Gracie Woods, Alaina Norman, and Kristin Probst also medaled, placing fifth.
Among individuals, Probst was Republic’s top finisher, taking fifth place in the 400m run with a time of 1:03.63. Alaina Norman finished right behind her, taking sixth in the same race with a time of 1:04.31.
Troester, a freshman, earned two individual medals. She finished seventh in the 1600m run and eighth in the 3200m run. Miha Nambara earned a medal with an eighth-place finish in the 3200m and just missed a second medal in the 1600m, finishing ninth.
Gracie Woods was Republic’s only individual medalist in a field event, taking eighth place in the long jump.
Boys Night Out
(All results here.)
Republic’s 11 medals Friday were more at this event than the last five years combined (not counting 2020, when it was not held). In the time during which records are listed online, the next-highest number of top-eight finishes was in 2015, when Republic had eight.
Only two schools – Blue Springs South with 16 and Blue Springs with 13 – earned more medals than Republic. Capital City also earned 11 medals.
Landen Finley was Republic’s top individual finisher this year. He took second place in the 400m run with a time of 52.00.
The 4×400 team of Miller Rountree, Finley, Will Fronabarger, and Devon McMillin also finished second with a time of 3:34.79. The 4x800m relay team of McMillin, Will Fronabarger, Ethan Haynes, and Derrick Buchanan finished fourth (8:34.77). And the 4x100m relay team of Cole Gimlin, Braden Ghys, Daniel Phillips, and Chase Buford finished sixth (45.15).
Other individual-event medalists were Buford (fourth in long jump and eighth in the 100m dash), Rountree (fourth in the 300m hurdles), Haynes (fifth in the 3200m run and sixth in the 1600m run), McMillin (fifth in the 800m run), and Joshua Silver (eighth in the triple jump).