Foster, Parent bring home state medals

Chloe Foster ran in the girls 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles, breaking the school record in the latter (Photo by Rachel Brisbois)

GALLERY: Forest Lake state meet participants. Right-click for larger image.
Forest Lake juniors Chloe Foster and Jenna Parent both finished fourth in their respective events at the Class AA state track and field championships at Hamline University June 9-10.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Foster established a new Forest Lake record in the preliminary round of the 300 hurdles, lowering her own school mark to 44.87. That result placed her second in her heat and earned automatic advancement to the final.
In the championship race, Foster finished fourth (44.98) to earn an all-state medal and a place on the podium.
Parent earned the same set of honors in the pole vault after clearing 11 feet. Parent established a new Ranger record earlier this year when she cleared 11 feet, 4 inches.
Those performances earned a total of 12 points

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Walton is first-team All-American

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Forest Lake graduate and University of Nebraska junior Cody Walton placed seventh at the NCAA Division I track and field championships over the weekend to win first-team All-American honors. Walton earned a total of 7,813 points across 10 events: 100 (11.14), long jump (23 feet, 8.75 inches), shot put (45 feet, 9.75 inches), high jump (6 feet, 6 inches), 400 (50.27), 110 hurdles (14.66), discus throw (139 feet), pole vault (15 feet, 5.5 inches), javelin throw (207 feet, 6 inches) and 1500 (4:55.09). The result is Walton’s second-best score, after a 7,937-point performance earlier this year, which set an all-time Husker record.

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