Girls Track is going to State!!!!

The Prior Lake girls track outlasted the competition at the Section 3AAA True Team May 10 in Apple Valley.

The Lakers earned their seventh trip to the Class 3A state meet in the last eight years, winning the section with 976.5 points. Rosemount was Prior Lake's biggest challenger, finishing second (916.5).

Eastview was third (772), followed by Bloomington Jefferson (752.5), Shakopee (730), Apple Valley (578.50), Burnsville (598), Chaska (449) and Bloomington Kennedy (278).

The state meet is set for May 20 in Stillwater at 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, the Lakers won five individual events and the section true team and was runner-up in nine, including three relays.

Sophomore Hannah Caldwell was a double winner for Prior Lake, taking the 100 meters with a time of 13.31 and the 200 (26.37). Sophomore Kristyn Arends was in the top spot in the 400 (58.83), while eighth-grader Mallory Stach claimed the 1,600 (5:06.55) and was runner-up in the 800 (2:20.73).

Senior Ella Francis won the long jump (16-3 1/4) and was second in the 100 hurdles (16.60) and the pole vault (10-6).

The Lakers' 4x200 relay team of Arends, seniors Alyssa Altendorf and Nicole Hoepner and sophomore Claire Houle was second (1:48.41), as was the 4x400 team of Stach, junior Madi Scholl, senior Olivia Thielen and sophomore Serena Pfeiffer (4:10.36) and the 4x800 team of Thielen, Pfeiffer, junior Grace Jondal and sophomore Jadin Heilman (9:58.72).

The 4x100 team of senior Olivia Schroeder, ninth-grader Lexi Wiskow, Altendorf and Hoepner was fifth (52.31).

In the high jump, the Lakers went two-three-four. Scholl was runner-up (5-2), followed by Maddy Bremer (5-0) and senior Sarah Ring (5-0).

Junior Gabi Brinkley was second in the 3,200 (11:37.07) and sixth in the 1,600 (5:21.84). Houle was second in the 300 hurdles (49.69), while Scholl was third (50.0). Junior Christina Hanson was fourth in the 100 hurdles (17.28), while Scholl was sixth (17:41).

Arends was fifth in the 800 (2:23.43), while Jondal tied for fifth in the pole vault (8-6).

Senior Jazmen Henderson was third in the discus (112-6) for Prior Lake and sixth in the shot put (34- 2 3/4). Senior Hannah Duckson was fourth in the shot put (35-10 1/2) and sixth in the discus (105-0).

Other finishes: Hoepner in the 200 (7th, 27.54), Thielen in the 400 (9th, 1:02.56), Hanson in the long jump (8th, 15-2 3/4), junior Sophie Zak in the long jump (15-0 1/4), Bremer in the triple jump (8th, 32-10) and junior Ashlynn Pepper in the shot put (33-11 1/2).

Following the state true team, the Lakers will compete in the South Suburban Conference Championships May 24-25 at Lakeville North.