Indoor track succeeds at state meet in Gillette

This past weekend the Wolves traveled north to compete in the State Indoor Track Championships in Gillette.

The boys were led by senior sprinter and long jumper Kalen Kester and senior distance runner Braden Reichl. Both broke personal records in their specialties.

Kester came into the meet with a state-qualifying time of 6.74 seconds in the 55-meter sprint and immediately improved that time in the preliminaries, finishing second at 6.70. Improving his time with a personal best of 6.66, Kester finished third in the finals.

Kester also had an outstanding leap in the long jump, setting a new...