Saint Peter Public Schools

Several Saint Peter High School students made the trip to Le Sueur on Friday morning for the first-ever Le Sueur-Henderson Unified Track & Field Invitational at the LS-H track/athletic field. The Unified program, an initiative by the Special Olympics in its first year at LS-H, is designed to promote inclusion by granting students with disabilities a chance to engage in sports with their able-bodied peers.

In addition to Saint Peter and Le Sueur-Henderson, other schools represented at the meet included students from New Prague, Waterville-Elysian-Morristown, Sibley East, and Belle Plaine.

SPHS student-athletes making the trip included Judd Wartman, Abby Voeltz, Abby Schily, Peyton Attenberger, Alex Pelayo, Kallie Brovold, Connor Mugaas, Caleb Westphal, Logan Gessner, Edson Ruiz, and Denise Somnis. 

SPHS also had several students work as volunteers at the meet including Sammy Rubischko, Devyn Welp, Dylan Jentz, Jacob Horstmann, Drake Smuder, Vivian Christenson, and Abby Westphal.

Athletes could compete in a maximum of three individual events and one relay race (max of four total). Those events included the following:

Traditional Events: 25-meter dash, 50-meter dash, 100-meter run, 200-meter run, 400-meter run, 25-meter walk, and 50-meter walk.

Physical/ Device Assistance Events: 25-meter walk- device assistance & physical assistance, 50 meter walk-device assistance & physical assistance, 25-meter dash-physical assistance, 50-meter dash-physical assistance. 

Wheelchair Events: 10-meter wheelchair, 25-meter wheelchair, 25-meter motorized wheelchair, 50-meter motorized wheelchair, 30-meter motorized wheelchair slalom, 25-meter motorized wheelchair obstacle. 

Field Events: high jump, running long jump (1 meter minimum), shotpPut (3 kilograms- 6.6 pounds for ALL), tennis ball throw (15 meter maximum), softball throw (15 meter maximum), standing long jump. 

Unified Events: 4x100 unified walking relay - (2 athletes, 2 partners), 4x100 unified running relay - (2 athletes, 2 partners), 100-meter unified walk (can be PA, or DA included) (scores of partners combined), 200-meter unified run (scores of partners combined), wheelchair Push - manual or motorized (1 partner/ staff, 1 student in wheelchair).

Above and below are some photo highlights of our SPHS tracksters from last Friday's first-ever Unified Track Invitational in Le Sueur!