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Libby 7th grade female runners set several new records

SCOTT SHINDLEDECKER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 2 years, 11 months AGO
by SCOTT SHINDLEDECKER
Hagadone News Network | May 19, 2023 7:00 AM

As the saying goes, “Records are made to be broken” and a quartet of Libby seventh-grade girls made it happen during the spring track and field season.

Coach Brittany Katzer shared with The Western News that distance runner Capri Farmer and teammates Hadleigh Wood, Alli Clemons and Vivian Cole worked to put four new marks on the record board.

Farmer set three new individual records this season. Her time of 1:07.79 in the 400-meter run at the Whitefish meet is a new Libby standard. In the 800 run, she ran a 2:39.13 at the Lincoln County meet and at the Libby Invitational, her time of 5:38.71 in the 1,600 run also set new records.

The quartet of Farmer, Wood, Clemons and Cole teamed up to run the 4x400 relay in 4:51.83 at the Libby Invitational for another new record.

“The kids worked very hard and it paid off,” Katzer said.

They, along with coaches Ben Deremiah, Bill Moe and Katzer, gathered in the gym on Thursday, May 11, for a ceremony to change the record boards.

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Libby track and field performer Capri Farmer broke three individual records and was part of the 4x400 relay team that also set a new school mark for seventh-grade students. (Photo courtesy Libby Public School)

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