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Eric Dysinger

On May 21, the Western Plains High School track and field team competed in the KSHSAA Regional Track Meet in Hays.

Of all the Bobcat competitors, senior Eric Dysinger is the only one who qualified for the KSHSAA State Track Meet in Wichita on the campus of Wichita State University.

He qualified in long jump with a jump of 20 feet, 2 inches.

Dysinger will jump for a state championship on Friday in WSU’s Cessna Stadium.

This will be the 100th year of KSHSAA State Track and Field.

Dysinger’s coach is Travis Schafer.

“As a senior, I’m very proud he could make it to state his last year,” Schafer said. “He’s worked hard for four years, and his best jump of his career couldn’t have come at a better time.”

Dysinger said it feels good to be able to compete at state, especially his senior year.

“It’s a relief to go,” he said. “I would have felt like I let down my team if I wouldn’t have.”

Dysinger said he isn’t too fired up about the meet just yet, but he said he knows it’s coming.

“Once I get to the stadium and see all those people, it’s going to be pretty exciting,” he said.

Dysinger said it is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for him, and while he’s taking it all in, he knows he still has to compete against other top athletes in the state. He’s hopefully he will see some success.

“The competition is going to be tough, but I’m going to pull out another big jump,” he said.

Even in the face of stiff competitors, Dysinger said he was glad he would have his coach there with him.

“I just want to thank Mr. Schafer for coaching me all year,” he said.