Chesterton junior Kenedi Bradley, right, gunning to make to the medal stand three times in today’s state track meet.

Tom Keegan
Onwardtrojans.com

Kenedi Bradley set the bar so high as a sophomore that getting better wasn’t going to be easy this season. She has cleared that bar though and is seeking to go higher.
She enter’s todays state meet at North Central High in Indianapolis ranked No. 1 on the 100-meter performance list, which is based on performances at regional meets across the state. She also is running in the 200 meters and the 4x100 relay.
“For the 100, I think I have a really good chance of making top five again,” Bradley said. “I’m striving for first or second. That’s my goal. The 200, I’m just going to try to make it out of prelims. And in the 4x1, we’re definitely going to try to medal because I think it’s a possibility.”
Bradley is sixth on the performance list in the 200, based on the 24.77 she ran at the regional. The 4x100 relay that she anchors with Ava Kontos running leadoff, followed by Kaylee Dade and Addison Pack is seeded 10th after breaking their own school record with a 48.31 at the regional with Morris stepping in for the injured Pack.
The top nine advance to the finals.
Bradley faces some fast competition in the 100.
Brownsburg freshman Nife Ogunleye ran the next best time (11.86) in the state during regional week.
Fort Wayne Carroll sophomore Nadia Ford an 11.71 at the Legend Relays on April 18. She has broken 12 seconds four times this season, including in the regional, when she ran an 11.90, and shapes up as Bradley’s strongest competitor, based on consistency.
Bradley is sixth on the performance list in the 200, based on the 24.77 she ran at the regional and the 4x100 she anchors with Ava Kontos running leadoff, followed by Kaylee Dade, and Addison Pack. The Trojans are 10th on the performance list after running a school record 48.31 at the regional with Morris stepping in for the injured Pack.
Chesterton senior Autumn Spencer hit a 127 mark on her final throw at regionals to qualify for the state meet, where she is ranked 18th on the performance list.
“I didn’t think I made finals. I threw really bad. I just barely made it.”
Then she fouled twice and then she hit the throw of her life.
Making her second consecutive trip to state as a long jumper, two-time DAC high jump champion Hailey Geiser, a senior, ranks 25th on the performance list with a 16-10.5.
More of a long jumper than high jumper now?
“I guess so, yeah,” Geiser said. “I started getting more into long jump just a couple of weeks ago because high jump kept hurting my knee more. 16-10. My PR is 17-8. I’m hoping for at least 17s but if I can PR, I’ll be happy with that.”
For the sixth consecutive season, the Trojans have a 4x800 relay team competing at the state meet, the third with senior Veronika Wilgocki running a leg of it. What makes this one different is how young it is. Three freshmen, Hannah Haring, Taylor Kisic, Paige Clancy and Wilgocki are seeded 22nd and coming off a season-best 9:34.83 in the regional.