The Battle Creek Braves 4x100 relay team of Barrett Koehler, Hunter Kruse, Trevor Hintz, and Andy Ricchio brought home Class C bronze medals with a time of 43.06 at the NSAA State Track & Field Championships.
Their time ranks as the second fastest 4x100 relay in school history!
Twice as Nice 🏃♂️💨
After setting the Class C state meet record in the 100 earlier in the day, Andy Ricchio did it again Thursday night in the 200m prelims, blazing to a new Class C state meet record time of 21.63.
The performance puts Andy in lane 4 for tomorrow’s state final
The biggest stage is set.
20 Battle Creek athletes are set to represent the Braves and Bravettes at the Class C State Championships in Omaha today and tomorrow. Compete with purpose, trust the work, and leave it all on the track.
Good luck to all of our track state qualifiers.
BC Track & Field.
This picture defines the squad today.
Heart. Toughness.
Leaving it all out there for each other.
No excuses. No backing down. Just competitors giving everything they have for the team.
Proud of this group. #BattleCreekTF#LeaveItAllThere#HeartOfAChampion
🚨 New School Record 🚨
Your final district champions of the day are the Braves 4x400 Relay Team with a new school record time of 3:24.99!
Relay members were Kamden Showalter, Miles Clausen, Barrett Koehler, and Andy Ricchio
Battle Creek girls wrestling capped off three days of competition with a Runner-Up finish and the Pierce Invite. The team had five individual medalists.
🥇Wells, Last
🥈Ahlman
🥉 Hoff, Koehler
#BuiltDifferent
It all comes down to this! The Bravettes will take the mats this afternoon in Omaha at 4:00 at the NSAA Girls Wrestling State Championship 🤼♀️🏆
Good luck to our qualifiers!
We reached out to several seniors who qualified for the NSAA Girls State Tournament and asked them to reflect on their wrestling careers and what this sport has meant to them.
The responses we received are absolutely incredible and we can’t wait to share them all with you. Until then, here are two of our favorites.
The Bravette Wrestling team had a great day on the mats at the NSWCA State Dual Championships. This team continues to make history! The team finished 4th and brought home some hardware. #BuiltDifferent#WrestleLikeAGirl
The Bravette wrestling team competed at the Wahoo Invite today. The team finished 4th as team with 8 medalists.
Ella Reeves 1st
Taylor Ahlman 1st
Carrington Uhlir 2nd
Briley Koehler 3rd
Emma Petersen 4th
Lilly Mefford 4th
Alexis Hoffmann 5th
Destiny McIntosh 6th