Columbus North High School

June 2, 2023 - The Columbus North boys track and field team qualified three events for the IHSAA State Championships, and all three events earned top-eight finishes. The Bull Dogs’ ten team points earned them a 26th-place team finish. Brownsburg won the team title with 55 points. Carmel finished second with 50, followed by Plainfield with 48. The 4x800m relay team of Mateo Mendez, Will Russell, Adler Larson, and Akot Tong finished seventh among a field where the top two teams each broke the State Meet record time. The Bull Dogs ran 7:54.14, approximately 17 seconds behind the top finishing team from Bloomington North (7:37.24). The Bull Dogs earned three team points for the seventh-place finish. Mendez then ran a personal-best time of 1:53.05 in the 800m to finish fifth and earn five team points. Nate Killeen from North Central won the event in 1:51.84. Russell earned two team points with an eighth-place finish in the 3200m. He finished in 9:07.73, a full 14 seconds ahead of his Regional-winning time. Kole Mathison of Carmel won the event in 8:53.18. Photo: Mateo Mendez, shown here in a meet earlier this season against Seymour and Brown County wearing number one, finished fifth in the 800m and helped the 4x800m relay team to a seventh-place finish at the State Championships in Bloomington on Friday, June 2. Will Russell (number six) finished eighth in the 3200m and was also part of the 4x800m relay.