Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah senior Ariana Parnitzke. ….

Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah senior Ariana Parnitzke.

Tallier is off to UW-River Falls in the fall where she plans to compete with the Falcons’ volleyball team. She leaves Gilman’s track and field program with a plethora of accolades, including school records in the long jump at 16-11 as well as the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter dashes in times of 12.56 and 26.09 seconds and 1:02.1. She was fourth in last year’s state meet in the 100-meter dash and seventh in the 200, competed at state in the 100- and 200-meter dashes as well as the 1,600-meter relay as a freshman, won Eastern Cloverbelt Conference titles in four individual events this year, was part of four conference titles as a freshman and has two career sectional titles to her credit.

Angell, the defending Division 3 state runner-up in the shot put, got better as the competition progressed Saturday, but she couldn’t match the leaders this year with her best throw being 36 feet, 7.25 inches. That came on her final throw.

Angell opened the preliminaries with a throw of 33-11.75 and then scratched on her second attempt. She needed a big throw on her last preliminary attempt to advance to the finals and she got it at 358.5, giving her the ninth spot out of 10 finalists. Her first two throws in the finals went 36-6.75 and 34-9.75.

This year’s champion is Laconia senior Mattie Isaac, who came in as the fifth seed but won it with a throw of 397.75 on her last attempt. She beat Ozaukee junior Paige Kurlinski by a half-inch. Rosholt junior Payton Skortz was third at 38-10.5, which she hit on her first throw of the competition.

Gilman head coach Mike Gingras said he sensed the disappointment each of its athletes had in falling short of their goals for the weekend, but they shouldn’t lose sight of what it took to get there. In Angell’s case, she had a sectional shot put championship and a first-place finish in the shot put and a second-place finish in the discus at the Flambeau regional as well as the Eastern Cloverbelt Conference meet.

“It’s tough but I look at it as we ended at the last meet of the year,” Gingras said. “Look at what you accomplished. You can’t base everything on one meet.”