Athens' Burgess Wins Twice As Girls Place 4th At Northwest Rangers Invitational; Wildcat Boys Finish 8th
By: Tim Birney / April 11, 2026
SHICKSHINNY, Pa. - Abby Burgess won two events to lead the Athens girls to a fourth-place finish at the Northwest Rangers Track & Field Invitational here Friday. Meanwhile, Graham Wanck, Chase Ingram and the 4x800-meter relay highlighted the boys’ 8th-place showing with thirds.
"Both the girls and boys teams had very good meets," said girls coach Mike Bronson. "Coach (Mike) Panek's boys had a good night too. Overall, on both sides we had a lot of really great performances last night."
Burgess crossed the finish line first in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.7 seconds and in the 200, clocking 26.9. She added a fourth in the 400 in 1:01.82, and teamed with Kaitlyn Leonard, Ella Marhefka and Bilikula Wennie to take sixth in the 4x100 relay in 51.97 seconds.
The Wildcats' Evelyn Panek recorded a third-place effort in the high jump, clearing 4-10, and Elizabeth Denlinger took third in the pole vault at 8-6.
Graham Wanck ran to third place in the 1600 in 4:38.03 and eighth in the 800 with a time of 2:06.09. He was also part of the third-place quartet in the 4x800 relay which included Matt Rossettie, Lucas Persun and Alex Thompson, and registered a time of 8:35.1.
Also placing third was Chase Ingram in the pole vault with a height of 11-6. He also finished ninth in the 110 hurdles in 19.26.
Read more results on Valley Sports Report.
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Tim Birney
Tim Birney is the founder / owner of River Road Media Group. He was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Waverly High School in 1984.
Birney earned an Associate's Degree in Journalism from SUNY Morrisville in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism / Public Relations from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1988. He began his newspaper career at The Daily Review in Towanda in 1989, before moving on to The Evening Times in 1995. He spent more than 10 years at the Times, the last four as Managing Editor.
River Road Media Group includes five sites in "The Sports Reports" family that cover 24 school districts in five counties: Valley Sports Report (launched Aug. 10, 2009), Tioga County (NY) Sports Report (Aug. 13, 2018), and Northern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 31, 2020); Northern Tier West Sports Report (March 15, 2021) Southern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 16, 2021).
