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Lobos Track is filled with expertise

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Back row: Coaches Joe Ingman and Shane Patrick. Middle row, l-r: Sten Mejlaender, Benji Stephenson, Andis Meissner, Beau Spreine, Seamus O’ Bryant, Jake Jones, Sam Kvistad, Katherine Bryant Igman, Evie Somers, Iris Ervin-McLean, Betty Burt, Kylie Willemsen, Bill LeDrew, Marina Mejlaender, Aliyah Shaw, Tilly Donohoe, Lola Woodington, Lulu Velazquez, Ava Bennett, Fatima Velazquez, Jack Bullock, Ian Cankusic, Nikolai Kazakov, Daniel Valencia and Robert Spreine. Front row, l-r: Seniors Lily Nichols, Anna Fuller, Ruby Ervin-McLean, Glory Westervelt, Ethan Patrick, Rafa Velazquez, Jacob Sanford, Silas Gronely, Alberto Grossi and Tristan Dyer. (Not pictured: Saskia Fischer, Huck Henderson, Oliver Rick, Eli Somers, Ruby Sausman, Rowdy Spreine and Jacob Velasquez-Velazco.)

Back row: Coaches Joe Ingman and Shane Patrick. Middle row, l-r: Sten Mejlaender, Benji Stephenson, Andis Meissner, Beau Spreine, Seamus O’ Bryant, Jake Jones, Sam Kvistad, Katherine Bryant Igman, Evie Somers, Iris Ervin-McLean, Betty Burt, Kylie Willemsen, Bill LeDrew, Marina Mejlaender, Aliyah Shaw, Tilly Donohoe, Lola Woodington, Lulu Velazquez, Ava Bennett, Fatima Velazquez, Jack Bullock, Ian Cankusic, Nikolai Kazakov, Daniel Valencia and Robert Spreine. Front row, l-r: Seniors Lily Nichols, Anna Fuller, Ruby Ervin-McLean, Glory Westervelt, Ethan Patrick, Rafa Velazquez, Jacob Sanford, Silas Gronely, Alberto Grossi and Tristan Dyer. (Not pictured: Saskia Fischer, Huck Henderson, Oliver Rick, Eli Somers, Ruby Sausman, Rowdy Spreine and Jacob Velasquez-Velazco.)

By Shane Patrick, coach

For our 2025 track season, we started with 36 athletes signing up! As a first-year Lopez Island School District Track coach, I knew I was going to need lots of help, given the unique skills the many track events require. I have a great group of coaches to complement the talent we have in our student-athletes. We have Joe Ingman working with our throwers. Robert Spreine has been crucial with strength and conditioning. Cathrine Ingman and Bill Fuller will work with our mid- and long-distance runners, and Sten Mejlaender with our hurdlers. Marina Mejlaender, whom the kids love from her past years as coach, will keep spirits high! I’m additionally very lucky to have such a talented group of athletes, starting with seniors Glory Westervelt, Anna Fuller, Ethan Patrick, Rowdy Spreine, Ruby Ervin-Mclean, Tristan Buckallew, Silas Gronley, Lilly Nichols, Jacob Sanford and Rafa Valazquez. Along with this large group of seniors, we have another 23 student-athletes on the team, some new faces, some returning. All are eager to push themselves and their teammates, with the goal of returning to state or making it for their first time! We’re all hoping to have a large group going to Yakima this year.

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