Lowell qualified three athletes to the MHSAA D1 State Meet at East Kentwood HS and when the day was done two landed all-state honors. Senior Kaylee Diamond kicked off the day in the high jump where she we went 5-06.00 after clearing 5-02 and 5-04 without any misses which put her in tie for 3rd place. The 5.5 points were good enough to allow Lowell to finish in 26th place. In other field event action Diamond went 16-01.75 in the long jump and Theresa Judd went 9-09 in the PV.   On the track, Joshua Rau won his 110mHH heat in 15.02 which gave him the 2nd overall seed going into the finals. In the finals he went 14.80 into a strong headwind to grab 3rd place. Later in the 300m hurdles he drew lane 1 and ran a 40.85 which was good for 9th place overall. Rau’s 6 points put Lowell in 33rd place in the meet.

Lady Arrows finish 7th sending two to States Mixed emotions at the MHSAA regional meet as the wind and heat took its toll on athletes looking for a top two mark and or the automatic qualifying mark that they either hit or close throughout the year.  In the end the Arrows saw one event winner, and ten events where athletes finished in the top 8.  Kaylee Diamond went 5-04.00 which gave her the win and followed it up with a 17-08/75 mark in a tail wind aided LJ event.  Theresa Judd started the day with a 10-03 mark in the pole vault good for 3rd place, grabbed a 3rd place in the 100 hurdles 16.02, and closed out her individual events with a 5th place in the 300 hurdles going 48.61.  Jaden Sanders ran a PR 61.16 to take 4th place in the 400,  Annika Sandman ran to s 5th place finish in the 1600 going 5:16.05, and Julia Tuuri grabbed 8th in the 100m running 13.90.  Two relay teams scored medals as the 800m relay team of Jes Spaulding, Madison Brown, Tuuri, and Diamond grabbed 5th going 1:51.33 while the 1600m relay team of Sanders, Diamond, Kaylee Byrne and Judd took 6th in 4:20.85. Kaylee Diamond (HJ / LJ) and Theresa Judd (PV) will represent Lowell at the state meet in two weeks at East Kentwood HS. The next meet for the Arrows will be the Metro Health meet at Comstock Park HS.  Top 16 people in each event are eligible to run on Wednesday. Team Scores 1.East Kentwood              113.5 2.East Grand Rapids        77.5 3.GR_Ottawa Hills            67 4.Caledonia                        64.5 5.Portage Central             60.5 6.FHC GR_Forest Hills ...52.5 7.Lowell                               51 8.BC Central                       32 9.Portage Northern         29 10.FHN GR_Forest Hills ...27.5 11.Mattawan                     22 12.Byron Center               17 13.Battle Creek Lakeview16 14.Kalamazoo Central    12 15.Greenville                     11 16.Richland Gull Lake     10    

LADY ARROWS Finish 2nd at the OK White Conference Meet Perfect weather, super venue, and great competition is what Lowell HS offered their OK White guests at the 2021 OK White T & F Conference Meet and the student athletes did not disappoint as multiple records went down in the two day event.  EGR’s score of 154.5 bested the host Arrows as they used their state leading distance crew and three new OK White Conference Meet records to create the winning margin late in the second day.  The Arrows saw two school records go down as Annika Sandman broke her 1600m and 3200m record  with times of 5:15.21 (5th place) and 11:17.56 (4th place) and also saw 9 PR’s over the two day event.  Kaylee Diamond was the lone Arrow event winner, and earned all-conference honors  as she went 16-03 to win the long jump which followed up a 2nd place finish in the HJ where she went 5-02.  Theresa Judd took advantage of two runner-up finishes in the 100H (15.51),  300H (48.81) and added a third place finish in the PV (10-06) to score 22 points and earn all-conference honors.  Closing out the all-conference honors was Julia Tuuri as she earned enough points by taking  a 2nd in the 100m (13.27), 6th in the 200m (28.15) and  a couple of relays. Lowell’s second place finish is one place higher than their 3rd place regular season finish and offered some redemption to the single point loss to FHC as they swapped spots at the conference meet.  Total team scoring was the name of the game as the meet started strong on the opening day when Liberty Cook took silver medalist honors in the discus with a toss 88-11, and then followed it up with a 6th place throw in the shot put going 30-01.50.  Kaylee Byrne was  a double medalist taking 4th in the shot and 7th in the discus going 31-06.00 and 80.03 respectively.  The Arrows used solid performances by their relay teams to round out the scoring as they were able to put fourteen additional points on the board. Other Lowell scorers were Madison Brown   200 (7th)             28.35 Jaden Sanders   400m (6th)           64.15                                 LJ (8th)                   13-10.50                                 PV (7th)                 8-00 Jeselyn Spaulding SP (8th)              27-02 Emily German   100H (4th)            18.05                                 300H (7th)            53.46 PR Keira Sandman 800 (6th)               2:32.25 PR 400m RELAY       (Spaulding, Anna Seddon, Brown, TuuriI)  53.64 (3rd) 800m RELAY       (Spaulding, Brown, Tuuri, Diamond)   1:52.95 (4th) 3200mRELAY      (Keira Sandman, Abby German, A Sandman, Katrina Sandman) 10:38.99 (6th)   Lowell travels to Portage Central HS on Friday as they participate in the MHSAA 1-03 regional.  

LADY ARROWS Win at Greenville   Lowell used talent and depth in many areas to score 113 points and grabbing the “W” against Greenville to close out the OK White regular season at 6-2. Lowell won sixteen of the seventeen events and grabbed 8 runner-up honors to grab hold of the meet early and then just kept going to close out the meet. All Arrows seemed to be on their game as many of the JV runners ran, threw, or jumped a personal record as they prepare to compete in the OK White JV Conference meet on Monday at Christian HS. Kaylee Diamond and Theresa Judd had “perfect” days as they won the four events they were entered in with Diamond winning HJ, LJ, 200m and was anchor on the 800m relay team with Julia Tuuri, Madison Brown, and Jeselyn Spaulding; while Judd won the PV, 100H, 300H and anchored the 1600m relay team of Emily German, Jamara Harper, and Kaylee Byrne. Annika Sandman was another multi-event winner taking the 1600m, the 3200m run and anchoring the 3200m relay team with Katrina Sandman, Abby German, and Aurora Fredricks. Other meet winners were Julia Tuuri in the 100m 13.73, Jadan Sanders in the 400m 66.29, Katrina Sandman in the 800m 2:39.62, Liberty Cook in the discus 78-02, and the 400m relay team of Tuuri, Brown, Anna Seddon, and Grace Simkins. The varsity Arrows will compete next Thursday and Friday at home in the OK White Conference meet. Team Scores   Lowell 113 Greenville 24   Second place finishers were Julia Tuuri 200m 28.70 Keira Sandman 800m 2:39.75 PR 3200m 12:59.02 Katrina Sandman 1600m 6:03.38 Emily German 100H 18.57 300H 56.73 Kaylee Byrne Shot 28-08.25 Discus 75-11   Third place finishers were Madison Brown 200m 29.34 Jamara Harper 400m 68.88 PR Keira Sandman 1600m 6:03.46 Katrina Sandman 3200m 13:03.04 Liberty Cook shot 26-06.00 Jes Spaulding discus 66-00 Delaney Huizinga HJ 4-02 Jadan Sanders PV 8-00  

Lowell Girls Earn 6th at GR Elite Invitational   The Arrows got to get a look at two of the top teams in the state of Michigan as Detroit Renaissance and Ann Arbor Pioneer headed to our side of the state to participate in the GR Elite Invitational. Lowell stay determined and used some top three finishes to earn 6th place out of the 14 team field. Lowell used a similar recipe to the guys team as they got high finishes in the HJ, hurdles, and distance to get the finish. Kaylee Diamond won the HJ with a jump of 5’4” and just brushed the bar on her last attempt at the school record height of 5-06.50 and took 6th in the 200m. Theresa Judd earned runner up honors in the 300H (48.81), took 3rd in the PV 10-06.00 PR (#4 LHS), and grabbed 4th in the 100H. On the distance side Annika Sandman took runner up honors in the 1600m going 5:16.75 which lowers her school record and came back to grab third in the 3200m going 11:32.59.   Also scoring for the Arrows were Jadan Sanders 400m 62.48 4h place PV 8-06.00 6th place 800m Relay (Spaulding, Brown, Tuuri, Diamond ) 1:52.50 5th place 400m Relay (Simkins, Spaulding, Brown, Tuuri) 53.93 6th place 1600m relay (Sanders, Harper, Judd, Byrne) 4:28.31 7th place       Team scores   1) Detroit Renaissance 118 2) Zeeland East 99 3) Ann Arbor Pioneer 86.5 4) St. Joseph 72.5 5) GR_Ottawa Hills 65 6) Lowell 62.5 7) Benzie Central 42 8) Spring Lake 31 9) Zeeland West 23.5 10) FHC GR_Forest Hills Central 23 11) Jenison 22 12) FHN GR_Forest Hills Northern 12 13) GR_Catholic Central 6     The Arrows will be Greenville on Thursday.

LADY ARROWS Split with EGR and FHN   Great team effort by the Arrows as they battled their two biggest rivals in the OK White. At the end of the home meet Lowell ended up losing to EGR but getting the win against FHN to improve their record to 4-2 in the OK White. On paper both meets were close and the difference on the FHN win was getting the expected points and snagging some unexpected ones. The opposite was the story in the EGR meet as we probably left about eight points on the table although we got twenty PR’s on the day! Lowell had a strong advantage in the field events and hurdles which helped get the meet off to a great start and we scrapped to get the remaining points in all the other areas of the track.   Team Scores   Lowell 50 EGR 87 Lowell 87 FHN 45   Taking firsts overall in the double dual for the Arrows were   1st place Kaylee Diamond HJ 5-02.00 Annika Sandman 3200m 11:25.43 1600mRelay (Sanders, Harper, Judd, Byrne) 4:26.13 PR   2nd place Julia Tuuri 200m 28.63 PR Theresa Judd 100mH 16.05 PV 10-00.00 Liberty Cook SP 29-02.00 PR Kaylee Byrne Discus 78-11.00   3rd Place Julia Tuuri 100m 13.72 Madison Brown 200m 28.79 Jadan Sanders 400m 1:03.55 Theresa Judd 300mH 49.08 Jeselyn Spaulding SP 28-10.50 PR   The Arrows are at Houseman Field on Saturday for the Elite Challenge Invite.  

Lowell Girls Grab the win at Kathy Talus Relays   The Lady Arrows did their part to honor Kathy Talus by outdistancing Caledonia for the win at the track invitational that Lowell hosts in her name. The Arrows used the field events to get off to a strong start and were in good shape before the finals in the track events started. Kaylee Diamond 15-09 and Jadan Sanders 13-02 combined to take first place in the LJ relay while the Arrows captured second place in the pole vault, discus, and shotput relays. Lowell kept at it on the track with Thresa Judd winning the 100H in a time of 16.13, the team of Madison Brown, Kaylee Diamond, Julia Tuuri, and Grace Simkins winning the 800m relay in 1:53.92 , and the team of Brown, Tuuri, Diamond, and Jadan Sanders winning the Red Arrow Relay in 1:59.60. The day also saw the LHS record board change as Annika Sandman set the school record in the 1600m taking 2nd place with a time of 5:19.34 breaking the 2009 record of 5:23.64 set by Kallie Holzhueter.   Second place finishers were Theresa Judd 300h 52.16 PV Relay (Theresa Judd 9-00 and Jadan Sanders 7-00) Shot Put Relay ( Kaylee Byrne 30-05 and Liberty Cook 28-04.50) Discus Relay (Kylee Byrne 81-07 and Cierra Sayer 71-05) 1600m relay (Sanders, Harper, Byrne, Judd) 4:35.20 Distance Medley (K Sandman, Abby German, K Sandman, A Sandman) 24:39.04   Third place finishers were 400m Relay (Sayer, Brown, Seddon, Tuuri) in 55.20   Also Scoring for the Arrows were High Jump Diamond 5’4” for 4th Julia Tuuri 6th in 100m Keira Sandman 5th in 1600m Katrina Sandman 6th in the 1600m Emily German 5th in the 100h     Team scores   Lowell 116 Caledonia 110 Jenison 85 Byron Center 59 Holland 49 Fremont 20 Wyoming 7 Calvary Christian 7   The Arrows will be home this Thursday against EGR and FHN.  

LADY ARROWS Split with Northview and FHC The Lady Arrows used strong field events, hurdles, mid-sprints, and distance to get a solid win against Northview but came 1pt shy of a win with the Rangers.  The  1 point deficit makes one look where there was anything left on the tree but with the number of PR’s it looks like everything was left on the track.  In addition to the PR’s there  was some movement in the Lowell record board as Annika Sandman’s  time in the 1600m #2 (5:24.14)  moves her up from #4 (5:28.99) and her 3200m time is still #1 (11:22.77) but is a 7 second improvement from 11:29.79.   Team Scores                   Lowell   86.50      Northview            50.50                 Lowell   68            FHC                        69   Taking firsts overall in the double dual  for the Arrows were   1st place Theresa Judd                     100mH                   16.05                                              300mH                   49.93                                              PV                           10-00.00 Kaylee Diamond                HJ                              5-02.00                                                         LJ                             15-01.00 Jadan Sanders                   400m                       1:03.85 Kaylee Byrne                    SP                              28-03.25                                                 Discus                       85-05.00   2nd place Annika Sandman             800m                          2:35.85                                               3200m                      11:22.77  New School Record Liberty Cook                       SP                                 27-11.25 PR 800m Relay (Simkins, Brown, Diamond, Tuuri) 1:57.89 1600m Relay (Sanders, Harper, Byrne, Judd) 4:33.77   3rd Place Kaylee Diamond              200m                         28.92 Katrina Sandman              800m                            2:37.68 PR Annika Sandman              1600m                          5:24.14 PR Emily German                   100mH                         19.32 Liberty Cook                       Discus                          76-08.00 Jadan Sanders                   PV                                8-06.00 PR                                                 LJ                                    13-01.00   The Arrows are at home for the next two meets with Kathy Talus on Saturday and a OK White Quad next Thursday.

Lowell Girls take 3rd at Soderman Relays The Lady Arrows used balanced scoring as they scored in twelve of the thirteen events leading to athird place finish at the Soderman Relays.  Lowell used the meet to get some times / distances on athletes in different events and those surprises were just as nice as the teams finish as we have greater depth as a result.   Rockford won the meet w/ host Caledonia coming in second.  Finishing first for Lowell were the relay team of LJ Relay (Kaylee Diamond 15-11.5 and Jadan Sanders 13-10.75)   Second place relay teams were PV Relay (Theresa Judd  10-00 and Jadan Sanders 7-06) Shot Put Relay ( Kaylee Byrne 29-09 and Liberty Cook 27-03.50) Sprint Medley (Sanders, Tuuri, Brown, Diamond) 3:10.31 Distance Medley (K Sandman, Harper, K Sandman, A Sandman)  13:39.31   Third place relay teams were 1600m Relay (Sanders, Sandman, Byrne,  Judd) in  4:30.49    3200m Relay ( Sandman, Sandman, German, Sandman) 10:55.71 Discus Relay (Spaulding 80-00 and Byrne 76-06 )   Also Scoring for the Arrows were 400m Relay (Sayer, Brown, Seddon, Tuuri) in 1:48.97 (3rd fastest LHS All-Time) High Jump Diamond 5’4” Shuttle Hurdle (German, Witherell, Seddon, Judd) 1:15.55 6400m Relay (Sandman, Sandman, Sandman, Fredricks) 24:47.30.   Team scores   Rockford              91 Caledonia            63 Lowell                  59 Zeeland West    48 Allendale             33 Byron Center    21 Holland               20  The Arrows will be at Byron Center  on Thursday  in a double dual against the Northview and Forest Hills Central.  

LADY ARROWS DEFEATS Grand Rapids Christian and Byron Center   The Lady Arrows started their spring OK White campaign in great fashion defeating both Grand Rapids Christian and Byron Center in temps closer to winter as the windchill dipped into the low 30’s for the entire meet. Lowell used scoring in all areas of the track to hit the magic number in the meet as they got wins in field events, sprints, hurdles, and distance. The Arrows will have a day off before they travel to Caledonia for the Soderman relays on Saturday.   Team Sc   Lowell 77 GR Christian 60 Lowell 90 Byron Center 47   Taking firsts overall in the double dual for the Arrows were   1st place Theresa Judd 100mH 17.11 300mH 52.11 PV 9-06 Kaylee Diamond 200m 28.61 PR LJ 14-10 Jadan Sanders 400m 1:06.61 Kaylee Byrne SP 30-00.25 PR Annika Sandman 3200m 11:33.58 800m Relay (Simkins, Spaulding, Tuuri, Diamond) 1:52.81   2nd place Annika Sandman 1600m 5:34.55 Katrina Sandman 3200m 13:04.72 PR Emily German 100H 18.96 Kaylee Diamond HJ 4-10.00   3rd Place Julia Tuuri 200m 29.89 Jeselyn Spaulding SP 27-03.75 Discus 75-06 PR      

Jenison 68           Lowell 66 The Lady Arrows battled hard but came up 2 pts shy against the Wildcats.  The Arrows scored well in the field events and left their mark in the hurdles and the distance events.  The highlight of the meet came at the end as Annika Sandman broke a 30 year school record in the 3200m run with a time of 11:29.  New faces and new PR’s were the story of the day. First place finishers for the Arrows were; Jadan Sanders 400m 108.86 Annika Sandman 1600m 5:28 #4 all time, 3200m 11:29 #1 all time Theresa Judd 100h 17.62, 300h 51.25, pv 9’6” Kaylee Byrne discus 76-01 Kaylee Diamond HJ 5-05” (PR, #3 all time), LJ 14-08” Second place finishers were; Kaylee Diamond 200m 29.05 Katrina Sandman 2:40. Emily German 100h 19.98, 300H 57.61 Kaylee Byrne shot put 28-11 Jadan Sanders PV 8-00 3rd place finishers Jess Spaulding shot put, discus, 200m