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Coach Rainbolt, being a guy who loves his multi-event athletes, it was interesting to read his comments:
Rainbolt is excited about the addition of Mattelyn Swartz and his group of new female multi-event athletes. Swartz is a high jumper from Anthony, Kan. who has a personal best of 1.73m/5'8".
"I'm particularly excited about Mattelyn Swartz in the high jump," Rainbolt said. "I think that she's really good, and I think she's even better than what it appears."
Rainbolt compares his new group of female multis to the 2013 incoming class of Nikki Larch-Miller, Gavyn Yetter and Breanne Borman, who racked up three All-America and 28 all-conference honors between them.
I guess the group of multi-event athletes he is referring to are the 5 freshman women he signed in this class:
Abby Klipstein – FR/FR – Keller, TX – Fort Worth Christian HS – University of Nebraska
NEB: 60h 9.07, 100h 15.20, 800m 2:36, LJ 5.27m/17-3.5, Pent 3129
HS: 100h 15.03, 5.32m/LJ 17-5.5, SP 10.38m/34-1, JT 29.60m/97-1
Sadie Millard – FR/FR – Omaha, NE – Millard West HS
HS: 200m 25.69, 400m 56.8, LJ 5.56m/18-3
Lily Morrison – FR/FR – Ft. Collins, CO – Liberty Commons HS
HS: 200m 26.34, 400m 57.36
Tess Roman – FR/FR – Prairie Village, KS – Shawnee Mission East HS
HS: 100h 15.51, 1.62m/HJ 5-4, 5.43m/LJ 17-10, 11.22m/TJ 36-10
Emily Whorton – FR/FR – McPherson, KS – McPherson HS
HS: 200m 27.7, 400m 1:00.9, 800m 2:34, HJ 1.52m/5-0
Sadie Millard must be pretty good since they named her high school after her.
Comparing any group to Nikki, Gavyn and Breanne who have the 2nd, 4th and 3rd best heptathlon scores and the 2nd, 8th and 1st best pentathlon scores in Shocker history is setting the expectation way up there.
Furthermore, Sophomores Destiny Masters and Brianna Utecht plus Senior Maria Romero are pretty solid multi-event performers as well. Destiny in particular is intriguing but so far she has not really been able to show what she can really due to to Covid and to injuries. She finished 2nd in the AAC pentathlon despite last year despite battling injuries and was unable to compete in the heptathlon outdoors due to injury. Brianna 12th in the pentathlon at the AAC Indoor but their were 4 seniors ahead of her and she finished 6th in the heptathlon at the AAC Outdoor good for 3 points. Maria picked up a couple of points in the pentathlon at the AAC Indoor at in the heptathlon at the AAC Outdoor with a 7th place finishes in each event.
I am hoping Ryan Horn's training and conditioning approach which includes a focus on avoiding injury can be helpful to the Shocker multi-event track and field athletes. I would love to see what a healthy Destiny Master can do.
Rainbolt is excited about the addition of Mattelyn Swartz and his group of new female multi-event athletes. Swartz is a high jumper from Anthony, Kan. who has a personal best of 1.73m/5'8".
"I'm particularly excited about Mattelyn Swartz in the high jump," Rainbolt said. "I think that she's really good, and I think she's even better than what it appears."
Rainbolt compares his new group of female multis to the 2013 incoming class of Nikki Larch-Miller, Gavyn Yetter and Breanne Borman, who racked up three All-America and 28 all-conference honors between them.
I guess the group of multi-event athletes he is referring to are the 5 freshman women he signed in this class:
Abby Klipstein – FR/FR – Keller, TX – Fort Worth Christian HS – University of Nebraska
NEB: 60h 9.07, 100h 15.20, 800m 2:36, LJ 5.27m/17-3.5, Pent 3129
HS: 100h 15.03, 5.32m/LJ 17-5.5, SP 10.38m/34-1, JT 29.60m/97-1
Sadie Millard – FR/FR – Omaha, NE – Millard West HS
HS: 200m 25.69, 400m 56.8, LJ 5.56m/18-3
Lily Morrison – FR/FR – Ft. Collins, CO – Liberty Commons HS
HS: 200m 26.34, 400m 57.36
Tess Roman – FR/FR – Prairie Village, KS – Shawnee Mission East HS
HS: 100h 15.51, 1.62m/HJ 5-4, 5.43m/LJ 17-10, 11.22m/TJ 36-10
Emily Whorton – FR/FR – McPherson, KS – McPherson HS
HS: 200m 27.7, 400m 1:00.9, 800m 2:34, HJ 1.52m/5-0
Sadie Millard must be pretty good since they named her high school after her.
Comparing any group to Nikki, Gavyn and Breanne who have the 2nd, 4th and 3rd best heptathlon scores and the 2nd, 8th and 1st best pentathlon scores in Shocker history is setting the expectation way up there.
Furthermore, Sophomores Destiny Masters and Brianna Utecht plus Senior Maria Romero are pretty solid multi-event performers as well. Destiny in particular is intriguing but so far she has not really been able to show what she can really due to to Covid and to injuries. She finished 2nd in the AAC pentathlon despite last year despite battling injuries and was unable to compete in the heptathlon outdoors due to injury. Brianna 12th in the pentathlon at the AAC Indoor but their were 4 seniors ahead of her and she finished 6th in the heptathlon at the AAC Outdoor good for 3 points. Maria picked up a couple of points in the pentathlon at the AAC Indoor at in the heptathlon at the AAC Outdoor with a 7th place finishes in each event.
I am hoping Ryan Horn's training and conditioning approach which includes a focus on avoiding injury can be helpful to the Shocker multi-event track and field athletes. I would love to see what a healthy Destiny Master can do.
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