Senior Hayden Aube is giving track a try for the first time.

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“I used to do baseball,” Aube said. “Honestly, with all the football and wrestling I have done, I am kind of doing this to build up more speed and helping get my weight down for nationals this week. Thursday in Kansas, I’m wrestling 163. After that I’ll focus on track sprinting. Honestly I want to try hurdles, that looks fun.”

Also notable to watch in the jumping events is senior Damian Efergan coming off a strong basketball season.

Assistant coaches include – for sprints – Dwayne Duskin, Colton Johns and Louis Tagaban; for jumps – Hannah Brennell and Sean Goertzen; for throws – Mary Aparezuk and Tina Martin; for distance – Zack Bursell, Arne Ellefson-Carnes, John Nagel, Elizabeth Ramseth, Jenny Strumfeld, and Ricky Worl.

After the Kodiak trip the JDHS first home meet, the country wise email marketing list Capital Invite, is April 25-26 on the TM Middle School track.

The Crimson Bears travel to Sitka (May 2-3), Haines (May 11-12) and Ketchikan (May 16-17) before hosting the Region V Championships (May 23-24) at TMMS.

The state championship meet is May 30-31 at Anchorage’s Dimond High School. The winner of each of the events across the four region championships qualifies for state along with the next fastest times across the state to fill out two heats, 16 total for individual events.

The JDHS Track and Field Roster:

Seniors – Nevaeh Alexander, Hayden Aube, Carson Carrlee, Serena Crupi, Dashel Culbreth, Quentin Curtis, Justus Darbonne, Damian Efergan, Lino Fenumiai, Asher Fink, Gavin Gerrin, Matthew Godkin, Carter Harralston, Carvin Hass, Ingrid Higdon, Finely Hightower, Nicholas Iverson, Corder Janes, Sage Janes, Jayden Johnson, Ayla Keller, Johnathyn Kestel, Finnegan Lamb, Oliver Lamkin, Maxie Lehauli, Elijah Levy, Amelia Lockwood, Bruno Malecha, Laina Mesdag, Matthew Parise, Joshua Reed, Pacific Ricke, Bailey Roguska, Denali James Schijvens, Benjamin Sikes, Gunnar Tarver, AnnaCaroline Wall, Dominic Wery Tagaban, Ferguson Wheeler, Owen Woodruff, Eero Woolford, Elshaday Yerkes, and Benjamin Zukas.