UNION — Closing their season last month at the Union Middle School Relays inside Union High School’s E.A. Stierberger Stadium, Owensville Middle School (OMS) track and field athletes coached by Matt Candrl wound up breaking three school records while posting top-10 times or marks in numerous other events.

Saving his best for last, OMS eighth grader Seth Mitcham won the boys 200-meter dash in a new record time of 25.10 breaking the old record of 25.29 ran by Dustin Faragher ran during the 2014 Hermann Middle School (HMS) Relays.

Mitcham also sprinted into the top 10 in OMS history with a time of 12.30 in the boys 100m dash from the Blair Oaks Middle School Invitational.

That record is currently held by the late Jason Kottwitz with a time of 11.7 from a 2008 track meet at Hermann Middle School.

OMS distance runner Robbie Rodriguez nearly joined Mitcham in the record-breaking department at Union.

Posting a time of 2:17.87, Rodriguez put himself in second place all time in the boys 800m run behind Daniel Herrera’s time of 2:17.07 from the 2012 UMS Relays.

Earlier this past spring at the St. James Middle School Invitational, Trace Lange ran himself into the top 10 with an 800m time of 2:23.24 good for eighth place on the list.

Jace Duerr placed himself among some of the best OMS hurdle racers with a time of 15.78 in the boys 100m hurdles from a quad track meet at Union.

Terry Nowack is the current record holder in the boys 100m hurdles with a time of 15.1 dating back to the 1989 OMS Relays.

Season-ending track action at Union also yielded a top-10 time in the boys 4x200m relay.

OMS’ squad of Ricky Ringeisen, Kison Curtman, Mitcham and Duerr posted a time of 1:45.32 putting them seventh all time in the boys 4x200m relay among OMS track athletes.

One has to go back to 2014 to find the current record holders of the event in the team of Wyatt Ellis, Sean Irwin, Tanner Rector and Faragher in a time of 1:40.67 from the 2014 Cuba MS Invitational.

Rodriguez and Lange earned another place in OMS track and field history as part of the boys 4x400m relay.

Finishing in a time of 4:05.93 at the Hermann MS Relays, the team of Roman Crowe, Davey Nichols, Lange and Rodriguez posted the ninth-fastest time in OMS history.

Current record holders in the OMS boys 4x400m relay include the team of Corbyn Hamann, Connor Wellman, Ricardo Marquez and Cody Lenauer in a time of 3:56.67 from the 2022 OMS Relays.

During a rainy afternoon at New Haven High School in late April, another OMS school record was broken in the boys 4x800m relay by the team of Lange, Rodriguez, Nichols and Crowe in a time of 9:41.37.

They broke the previous record time of 9:46.97 by the team of Austin Terry, Paul Tyree, Bam Wizeman and Aden Steineker from the 2017 OMS Relays.

Switching to the girls side of the track, OMS eighth-grader Ambrosiah Salamone put her name in the OMS Track and Field record books in five events.

She broke the school record in the girls pole vault clearing 2.82m during the Missouri Middle School State Championships held in Waynesville.

Holding the record previously was current OHS girls pole vault school record holder Katie Candrl who cleared 2.64m back in 2017 at the Cuba Middle School (CMS) Invitational.

Salamone also posted the fifth-fastest time in the girls 100m hurdles at OMS with a time of 19.04 from a quad meet at Union while Kiera Hamm posted the fourth-fastest time in the event with an 18.73 at the Missouri Middle School Championship meet.

Candrl holds the OMS record in the girls 100m hurdles with a time of 17.34 from the 2017 OMS Relays.

Alexis Christensen put herself amongst some solid distance runners with a time of 2:41.51 at the UMS Relays good for sixth in OMS history.

Recent Drury University (DU) and Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Hall of Fame inductee Hailey Diestelkamp currently holds the OMS record in the girls 800m run with a time of 2:29.96 from the 2012 UMS Relays.

In an event only held at some relays, OMS’ girls 4x100m throwers relay team of Adelyn McDonald, Kat Buhr, Lydia Barnwell and Lilyana Rossi posted a time of 1:10.13 good for third fastest in school history at the 2026 OMS Relays.

Currently holding the record from the 2022 OMS Relays with a time of 1:06.02 is the team of Lexis Manning, Cameron Ryerson, Rylee Dare and Lainey Moss.

Salamone and Hamm added their names to another top-10 time in OMS track history.

Posting a girls 4x200m relay time of 2:01.14 from the HMS Relays, the OMS team of Gracie Rosselli, Aubrey Mogenson, Salamone and Hamm put up the eighth-fastest time in school history.

Current record holders in the OMS girls 4x200m relay include the team of Anna Koepke, Sue Meyer, Kristen Charboneau and Emily Ellis with a time of 1:54.88 from the 2011 CMS Relays.

Narrowly missing break 4:40 in the girls 4x400m relay at the HMS Relays, the Dutchgirl 4x400m squad of Kennedy Reams, Salamone, Hamm and Christensen posted the sixth-fastest time in the event at 4:40.58.

Going back to the 2010 UMS Relays, that is where the current record-holding team of Emily Koepke, Amanda Lauer, Charboneau and Ellis posted their time of 4:22.51.

Also posting the sixth-fastest girls 4x800m relay time in school history was the foursome of Jolie Vandegriffe, Rosselli, Christensen and Reams finishing in 11:51.23.

Ten years earlier, the OMS girls 4x800m relay team of Sophia Ashner, Kendra Hults, Paige Heckelmann and Erika Lauer posted the current record time of 10:40.06.

Reams and Vandegriffe both cleared 1.40m in the girls high jump putting them in a tie for third place in OMS history behind Diestelkamp’s jump of 1.47m from 2011 at Cuba.

Salamone also leaped into the top 10 of the OMS girls long jump with a mark of 4.50m at Union placing her fourth all time.

Paige King (2013) and Emily Ellis (2010) both posted leaps of 4.65m at Owensville and Cuba respectively to share the OMS record.