Speed to burn

Flathead's Ben Bliven took first place in the boys 100 meter dash at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier's Charlotte Osler releases a throw in the javelin at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Flathead's Olivia Rinehart clears a hurdle in the girls 110 meter hurdles at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Flathead's Lane Chivers takes the baton from Colin Smith in the boys 4x400 meter relay at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8.
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Glacier's Mark Ahner clears 6' in the boys high jump at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier's Ethan Anderson clears a hurdle in the boys 100 meter hurdles at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Whitefish's Simon Douglas took first place in the boys 3200 meter run at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Flathead's Will Hollensteiner clears 6' in the boys high jump at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Whitefish's Rachael Wilmot and Flathead's Olivia Rinehart finished first and second in the girls 100 meter dash at the Kalispell Time Trials at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, April 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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by Daily Inter Lake
| April 9, 2025 12:00 AM

A breezy, cool afternoon at Legends Stadium was apparently close to optimal conditions for some Kalispell Time Trials athletes Tuesday, including five boys and one girl from Flathead High.

If the meet was scored — it wasn’t — Glacier would have out-pointed the other eight teams in the field, boys and girls, But for pure wheels, it was the Braves and Bravettes.

It started with the boys 400-meter relay, which the Flathead quartet of Colin Smith, Lane Chivers, Ben Bliven and Willilam Hollensteiner won in 42.50 seconds, best in Montana regardless of class.

Then came the 100-meter dash, which Bliven won in 10.86 seconds, which leads the state.

Then Flathead’s Kasen Kastner ran 1:56.37 to win 800 in a state-best time — with Glacier’s Owen Thiel second (and No. 3 in AA and the state) at 1:57.53. The two switched spots in the 1,600, with Thiel winning in 4:40.21 and Kastner coming across at 4:43.58.

Kastner later ran second leg on the winning 1,600-meter relay team that included Chivers, Bliven and Hollensteiner. Their time of 3:27.81 leads Montana as well.

Speaking of Hollensteiner, he breezed through the 400 meters in 48.86 seconds, with Chivers finishing second at 50.30. Those two now rank first and third in the state and 1-2 in Class AA.

Hollensteiner added a win in the 200 in 22.54 seconds, which sits No. 3 in AA and Montana.

On the girls’ side it was Bravette Alivia Rinehart who hit light speed on a partly sunny day: She and Whitefish’s Rachael Wilmot finished first (25.40) and second (25.50) in the 200. Those are the top two times in Montana.

That was one highlight for the girls: Rinehart edging Wilmont, 12.65-12.67, in the 100 was another. Rinehart’s day also included a third victory, in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.08.

Glacier sophomore Lauren Bissen won the 800 in 2:22:17, which is third-best in AA; Libby’s Capri Farmer, a freshman, had an excellent time of 2:54.40, fourth-best in A.

Glacier’s Breanna Barnes, Carmen Eddy, Emmery Schmidt and Zeila Wagner teamed up to win the girls’ short relay; Dacie Benkelman, Alyssa Vollertsen, Schmidt and Eddy won the long relay for the Pack Tuesday. Both relays rank second in AA.

Glacier really made its presence known in the field events. Allie Krueger (36 feet, 1 inch) and fellow sophomore Rylee Bigelow (35-8) went 1-2 in the shot put, and both hit the State AA qualifying standard in the process; Charlotte Osler led a 1-through-4 Wolfpack finish in the javelin; Jaedyn Pevey won the high jump, clearing 5-2; Schmidt marked 16-4 to win the long jump and Barnes won the pole vault at 10-6.

Krueger and Bigelow sit 3-4 in the AA in the shot. Olser is No. 4 in the AA javelin rankings.

Flathead had a 1-2 finish in the 1,600 with freshman Everett Holland and Emery Eash.

Other winners on the girls side: Kera Owen of Polson in the triple jump (33-8.25); Chloe Savoy of Columbia Falls in the 3,200; Browning’s Teslin Trombley in the 400; and Libby’s Sidnie Thompson in the discus.

The boys discus had some excitement, because Columbia Falls’ Lane Voermans had the longest throw in Class A, 169-10.5, to beat Glacier’s Dylan Smith (163-8.5). For a time Voermans had the longest throw in the state, but Gallatin’s Jack Murray threw 170-3 Tuesday.

Smith, meanwhile, sits No. 3 in AA.

Glacier’s Ethan Anderson won the 110-meter hurdles in 15.08, while Chivers was second and Bigfork’s Austin Savik was third. Savik turned around and won an Anderson-less 300 hurdles — the Wolfpack senior ran 39.97 on March 28 — in 43.97.

Glacier also saw Ben Winters and Will Astle finish 1-2 in the shot put, and Mark Ahner clear 6-2, a PR, to win the high jump (Hollensteiner was second at 6-0). The Pack’s Cole Opre hit another PR in the pole vault, winning at 13-9. Oliver Kress (13-6) and Isak Soyland finished 2-3.

Whitefish’s Simon Douglas hit his PR while winning the 3,200 in 10:05.87; that sits No. 2 in Class A and Browning’s River Racine, who ran 10:11.53, sits No. 3. The Bulldogs also clocked the fastest Class A long relay of the season, 3:31.37.

Eureka’s Jesse Day won the javelin and his teammates, Cole Sartori (52.85) and Josh Lambertsen (52.95), ran the second- and third-fastest 400s in Class B.

Full results can be found at athletic.net.