Live on DtB: Tonight's Hamline Elite Meet

As we've done for the past six years, DtB will once again offer live coverage of the Hamlie Elite Meet.  Action gets underway at the Klas Field track starting at 5:30 p.m.  We'll try to type updates and results fast enough to keep up with the best athletes in the state!

Find ordered entry lists for the meet HERE.  Heat sheets are HERE.  Lots of additional info on the meet, including results of all six Hamline Elite Meets and a listing meet records can be found HERE.

As one would expect from an event that seeks to gather the top Minnesota high school track and field athletes, the 7th annual Hamline Elite Meet is loaded with talent.

Among the top contenders are:

-- Haylie Zenner of Fergus Falls, who returns with hopes of becoming the Elite Meet’s first four-time champion in a single event.  Zenner is seeded #3 in a stellar 800m field.

-- Maggie Ewen of St Francis, who will try to be the first thrower of either gender to repeat as Elite Meet shot and discus champ.

-- Thomas Anderson of Andover, the #1-seed in both throwing events and the son of two Olympians, will try to become only the third boy to win the Elite Meet shot/disc double.

-- Austin Salargo of Hopkins, the 2011 Elite Meet and MSHSL Class AA champion at 400m, seeks a title at 800m where he’s the #1-seed.

In the boys' 3200m, 2010 winner Josh Thorson of Wayzata, the MSHSL Class AA cross country champ, seeks to reclaim his Elite Meet crown. 

There should also be some close competition on the track and in the field:

In the girls' 3200m, Alexandria’s Jamie Piepenburg and Shakopee’s Maria Hauger will renew one of the sport’s great rivalries – the duo account for the last three Elite Meet and MSHSL Class AA titles at the distance.

The boys’ pole could be the tautest competition of the night, with three vaulters – Blue Earth Area’s Jake Zebedee, Mounds’ View’s Jagger Gran, and Blake’s Grant Krieger – all posting marks of 15-feet or better.