The 2026 Missouri Track and Field Season is in full swing and stellar performances continue to flood our rankings database. It was a big week for distance results in particular, as we mentioned in our weekend recap. Week 3 was chock full of strong performances - who do you think was the performer of the week?
Each Monday this season, we will be running a poll with five candidates for Performer of the Week that was, highlighting five athletes from around the state who did something amazing in the last seven days. Vote for who you think deserves the honor!
Polls open at 7:00am on Monday and remain open until 5:00pm on Friday. The athlete who wins will move to our end-of-the-season "Performer of the Year" poll and will not be nominated again for the weekly poll for the rest of the season. Athletes who were nominated and do not win will not be eligible to be nominated for one full week.
Congratulations to our recent poll winners:
Week Zero (3/19-3/21): Lincoln Herring - Blue Springs
Week 1 (3/23-3/29): Burke Schwentker - Blue Springs South
Week 2 (3/31-4/4): Louden Bolinger - Webb City
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Here are this week's nominees:
Jack McGovern - Rockhurst
McGovern posted one of the greatest marks in any event in Missouri history at Saturday's Arcadia Invitational, running 8:49.10 for 3200 meters. It is MO #1 overall, MO #1 all-time for sophomores, US #1 for sophomores so far this year, US #4 all-time for sophomores, and US #23.
Carson Driemeier - Festus
Driemeier ran a MO #1 mark in the 1600 of 4:10.92 at the Webster Groves Statesmen Invitational. It is also #38 nationally.
Patrick Slack - Poplar Bluff
Slack ran both the fastest and sixth-fastest 110m hurdles marks of the past week, topping out at 14.20 at the Jackson Bob Sink Invitational on Tuesday. He is #1 in Class 4 and second overall in the state.
Bennett Fraser - Kirksville
The reigning Class 4 State champion hit a season best of 56.20m (184-4.75) at the Joe Shy Relays, the top discus mark of the week and top Class 4 mark in the state so far this season. He also finished second in the shot put in a season best throw of 17.23m (56.6.5), third in Class 4 so far.
Luka Wangia - Lutheran South
Wangia cleared 2 meters in the high jump 2 more times last week, jumping 2.01m (6-7.25) at the Lutheran South Field Meet on Thursday and 2.03m (6-8) at the Northwest Invitational on Saturday. Wangia won both meets and is tops in Class 3 at the moment.