06/05/2026
Now that our season is over, I wanted to brag on our girls a little and thank a few people. We talked a lot about goals this year, individual and team goals. We aren’t quite where we want to be but we had a great season and we have a ton to build on! Also let me say we did this with 12 girls, every single girl was a major contributor to our successes and they are just a great group
of girls on top of being some pretty good athletes. I can’t wait for next year with this group, we are only saying goodbye to 1 Senior Raegan Gilliland and a good core group of 8th graders moving up.
Some things we accomplished this year-
*SVC meet 3rd place(Highest SVC Finish since 1994, most points scored by PV at the SVC meet since 2007, with 89 points)
*SVC Champion in the 100 Hurdles-Emily Burke
SVC Champion in the 100-Emily Burke
*Southeast District D5 3rd place
13 podium finishes at Districts
4 District Runner Ups(Makayla Tennant-shot and disc, Whitney Utz-High Jump, 4x100 team of Faith Proehl, Dejiah Crowder, Bryanna Winterod, and Izzy Garnes)
9 out of 12 girls qualified for Regionals(Pole Vault, Shot, Disc, 100, 200, 4x100, 4x200,4x800)
*Region 16 D5 29th place
2 podium finishes at Regionals(Makayla Tennant-shot, Whitney Utz-High Jump)
1 State Qualifier(1st qualifier since 2016, Whitney Utz-High Jump)
*D5 State Meet 56th Place
1 All Ohioan, 6th Place High Jump Whitney Utz
*2 school records broken
100 Emily Burke
200 Emily Burke
*Too many personal bests to name
*Some personal victories as well(working through mental hurdles and injuries)
So thankful for our village of people that help these kids and me out(Taylor Williams, Scott Baker, Justin Immell, Ben Burke, Dalton Ewry, Paul McAllister, Ki Pulliam, Blake Lloyd and the other league coaches who constantly encourage our athletes)
Also a huge shout out to the PV Athletic Boosters. If you don’t know they are the best! They make sure our kids are taken care of every step of the way. A few things they helped the Lady Bearcats with this year.
-provided help with fundraising
-provided every athlete with a team hoodie at the beginning of the season
-provided a team meal before our league meet
-Snacks and drinks for districts and on
-A regional sweatshirt for all regional qualifiers
-State meet tickets for any coach and team memeber that wanted to support
-a state meet shirt for Whitney
