{"id":11256,"date":"2017-04-05T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/jdhs-track-team-experiments-in-new-events\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:01:00","slug":"jdhs-track-team-experiments-in-new-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/jdhs-track-team-experiments-in-new-events\/","title":{"rendered":"JDHS track team experiments in new events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight runners on the Juneau-Douglas High School Track and Field made history Saturday at the Don Holder Relays in Yakima, Washington.<\/p>\n

For the first time in school history, JDHS runners competed in the 2-kilometer steeplechase and distance medley relay (1200-400-800-1600 meters) events.<\/p>\n

The boys distance medley relay team of Arne Ellefson-Carnes, Tim McKenna, Shadrach Stitz and John White finished in 13 minutes, 1 seconds for eighth place (of 10).<\/p>\n

The JDHS girls placed fifth of six teams. Elizabeth Ramseth, Ashleigh Neal, Gretchen Neal and Anna Iverson clocked in at 14 minutes, 44 seconds.<\/p>\n

In the 2-kilometer steeplechase, Ellefson-Carnes (11th) bested Stitz (15th) and White (24th) with a 7 minutes, 20 seconds finish. Ellefson-Carnes tied with Cody Weldon (shot put) for the highest individual placing in a varsity event at the meet. Weldon chucked the 12 pound weight just over 40 feet. Eisenhower and Richland High Schools won their respective boys and girls divisions at the meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight runners on the Juneau-Douglas High School Track and Field made history Saturday at the Don Holder Relays in Yakima, Washington. For the first time in school history, JDHS runners competed in the 2-kilometer steeplechase and distance medley relay (1200-400-800-1600 meters) events. The boys distance medley relay team of Arne Ellefson-Carnes, Tim McKenna, Shadrach Stitz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":11257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}