APPLETON, Wis. – Menomonie High School graduate Gaby Skorczewski competed in four events for Lawrence University at the Midwest Conference (MWC) Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championship at Monmouth College, Feb. 28-March 1 and came away with three fifth place finishes.
Skorczewski, a sophomore double majoring in Spanish and linguistics, competed individually in the 400-meter run and in three relay events – the 4×200-meter, the 4×400-meter and the 1600m sprint medley relay (SMR).
Skorczewski clocked a time of 1-minute, 2.40-seconds in the 400, coming out of the second heat. In the three relay events, Skorczewski was the lead-off runner. The SMR team finished in a time of 4:23.56 and the 4×400 team finished at 4:13.71. The 4×200 team finished at 1:54.07, placing eighth.
Lawrence will get the outdoor portion of the season underway Saturday, April 5 when they compete in the Wisconsin Private College Championship in Milwaukee.
In the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships, two Menomonie graduates competed – sophomore Josh Boyette for UW-Stout and freshman Brooklyn Hoff for host school UW-Stevens Point – and both set personal bests in their respective events. The meet was held Feb. 28-March 1.
Boyette, competing in the heptathlon, moved up three places from last year’s WIAC indoor finish, placing 10th with a career-high point total of 4474 points, 300 points better than his point total at the 2024 event and nearly 100 points more than his previous best in January. Boyette also set personal bests in the 60m (7.31 seconds) and in the high jump (5-feet, 11.25-inches) during the heptathlon competition.
Hoff, who was the Pointers’ top freshman cross country runner last fall, competed in the 3000-meter run, finishing 19th in a team season-best time of 10-minutes, 44.84-seconds.
Stout will get the outdoor season underway when they compete at the UW-La Crosse Ashton May Invitational, April 5. The Pointers kick off the outdoor season Saturday, March 29 by traveling to the St. Norbert College Opener in DePere.
Layne Pitt is the retired UW-Stout sports information director and also worked more than a decade at The Dunn County News.
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