Libby 7th grade female runners set several new records
The Libby track and field team held a recent ceremony to honor four seventh-grade students who broke several records this spring. From left, are Bill Moe, Brittany Katzer, Hadleigh Wood, Capri Farmer, Alli Clemons, Vivian Cole and Ben Deremiah. (Photo courtesy Libby Public School)
Libby track and field performer Capri Farmer broke three individual records and was part of the 4x400 relay team that also set a new school mark for seventh-grade students. (Photo courtesy Libby Public School)
As the saying goes, “Records are made to be broken” and a quartet of Libby seventh-grade girls made it happen during the spring track and field season.
Coach Brittany Katzer shared with The Western News that distance runner Capri Farmer and teammates Hadleigh Wood, Alli Clemons and Vivian Cole worked to put four new marks on the record board.
Farmer set three new individual records this season. Her time of 1:07.79 in the 400-meter run at the Whitefish meet is a new Libby standard. In the 800 run, she ran a 2:39.13 at the Lincoln County meet and at the Libby Invitational, her time of 5:38.71 in the 1,600 run also set new records.
The quartet of Farmer, Wood, Clemons and Cole teamed up to run the 4x400 relay in 4:51.83 at the Libby Invitational for another new record.
“The kids worked very hard and it paid off,” Katzer said.
They, along with coaches Ben Deremiah, Bill Moe and Katzer, gathered in the gym on Thursday, May 11, for a ceremony to change the record boards.
