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The Blue Water Running Podcast

The Blue Water Running Podcast features local high school/collegiate cross country and track and field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. We highlight and celebrate their accomplishments!

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Kate Bennett: Season 2, Episode 14

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2025/06/07

This episode features Algonac High School senior Kate Bennett. Kate’s outdoor track and field career just ended in the best way possible: on May 31 at the D3 state finals at Kent City High School, she dropped a massive personal best in the 800, running 2:22.91 to finish sixth and earn All-State honors, her first trip ever to the podium. Kate’s no stranger to the state meet: she is a three-time regional champ and state qualifier in the 800, but her times kept dropping all spring in...

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Eli Bickel: Season 2, Episode 13

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2025/06/04

Eli Bickel, a North Branch High School junior, joins me to discuss his accomplishments this year in the shot put and discus. Eli earned All-State in the discus by finishing as the runner-up at the D2 state finals on May 31 with a new personal best of 180'-9" and also finished tenth in the shot put in 52’-2.25”. He has had a season of massive improvements: last year, his bests were 47'-11" and 149’, so he’s throwing significantly farther than he did as a sophomore. His shot put bes...

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Colin Boullard: Season 2, Episode 12

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2025/05/10

This episode features St. Clair High School junior Colin Boullard. At the Anchor Bay Invitational on May 2, Colin ran his best of 15.12 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles, a PR by close to half a second and meeting the Division 2 state early qualifying mark of 15.3 seconds. Colin is currently the second-fastest high school boy in the event in the Blue Water Running coverage area behind another D1 EQ hurdler, Jonah Konarz of Anchor Bay. As of the recording of this podcast, he a...

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Thomas Kann: Season 2 Episode 11

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2025/05/08

This episode features North Branch senior Thomas Kann. At the Davison Twilight Classic on May 2, Thomas dropped a huge PR and went sub-50 seconds in the open 400-meter dash, running 49.94 to take second place and hit the early qualifying standard of 50.30 for the D2 state finals. This is only the third time Kann has ever raced the 400 meters in his career, and it will be the first time he takes a trip to the state meet. He is currently the fastest high school boy in the event in the Blu...

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Cameron Gramzow: Season 2 Episode 10

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2025/04/21

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m your host, Meran, and this podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. In this episode, Cameron Gramzow, an Anchor Bay High School junior, joins me to discuss his incredible improvement this year in the shot put and discus. Cameron recently set personal bests in both events this week at the MAC Red meet agai...

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S. 2 Episode 9: The Dynamic Duo Episode with Sadie...

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2025/04/08

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast, which features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. Today, I am joined by two of the most delightful ladies in area track and field: Yale High School’s Sadie Dykstra, a junior, and Keirra Taube, a senior. Not only are they both incredibly talented and accomplished athletes, but they are also humble, hard-working, and hilarious....

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Season 2 Episode 8: The Anniversary Special with...

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2025/03/28

It’s the first anniversary of The Blue Water Running Podcast! One year, forty episodes, and 3500 downloads later, it’s been an incredible privilege to get to know local athletes and hear many amazing and inspiring stories from the Blue Water Area and beyond. The top two episodes from last year are episode #15 with Matt Armelagos of Michigan XC Speed Ratings, where I heard firsthand from one of the state’s foremost experts on statistics in cross country and track, and the transparent an...

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2025 BOYS Outdoor Track and Field Season Preview

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2025/03/21

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m excited about sunshine and warm breezes…ok, probably snow, hail, freezing rain, gusting wind, etc., but I AM excited to get back out watching Blue Water Area athletes achieve amazing things. It’s time for the 2025 BOYS Outdoor Track and Field Season Preview. Over the last few months, I’ve been looking at results from last year’s season to compile the predictions and probable performances for this year’s season. The s...

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33:06

2025 GIRLS Outdoor Track and Field Season Preview

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2025/03/20

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m excited about sunshine and warm breezes…ok, probably snow, hail, freezing rain, gusting wind, etc., but I AM excited to get back out watching Blue Water Area athletes achieve amazing things. It’s time for the 2025 GIRLS Outdoor Track and Field Season Preview. Over the last few months, I’ve been looking at results from last year’s season to compile the predictions and probable performances for this year’s season. ...

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Season 2 Episode 5: Kieran Whitlam

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2025/02/20

“You got a dream, you gotta protect it." The Pursuit of Happyness Today’s guest is Kieran Whitlam, a senior at Macomb Lutheran North High School and a member of the Inversion Vault Club. Kieran has seen phenomenal growth and success in the pole vault during his career, with his first jumps as a freshman in the mid-8 to 9-foot range moving into the 12s and 13s as a junior outdoors in 2024. Kieran was undefeated his entire junior outdoor season until the state meet, winning the Cath...

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Season 2 Episode 4: Mike Buslepp, Romeo XC

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2025/01/31

On the Michigan high school running stage, there was no bigger star in 2024 than Romeo’s girls' team. Coming off of a 2023 state title, the Bulldogs entered 2024 with big goals and high expectations. They won the Jackson Invitational, the Portage Invitational, and the Holly-Duane Raffin Festival of Races with their top five runners in the top ten places; these are all some of the most competitive invitationals in the state. They won the MAC RED Championships, the Mac...

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59:25

Season 2 Episode 3: Matt Fecht, MCC

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2025/01/26

In April 2022, The Macomb Community College athletics department hired Matt Fecht as the head men’s and women’s cross country coach. Fecht came from Wayne State University, where he was the assistant coach, and is an accomplished runner. He was a 2002 All-American at MCC and his team placed in the top-10 at the NJCAA championships. He went on to run for Wayne State after competing for MCC. He was a three-time national championship qualifier and an NCAA Division II All-Americ...

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Season 2 Episode 2: Lily Lemanski, SC4

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2025/01/20

On this episode, our guest is Lily Lemanski, a 2024 graduate of Marlette High School. On the track, Lily has tried almost every event, from the 4x100 at the state meet to consistent seasons of long jump and high jump. In both her junior and senior years, Lily was a GTL East Conference champion between the mile with a PR of 5:48 and the 800. A regional runner-up in the 800 both years, her highest finish was 13th at the D4 state meet in 2:30. She didn’t run cross country until...

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S. 2 Episode 1: Indoor Track & Field Recap #1

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2025/01/12

Indoor Track and Field Recap: Dec. 14, 2024-Jan. 12, 2025Welcome to 2025 and a new year and podcast season of all things cross country and track and field! I’m your host Meran and this is the Blue Water Running podcast, which features the accomplishments of local high school and collegiate athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. Winter is upon us and if you aren’t participating in another sport, perhaps you are honing your track and field skills indoors. The Michigan ...

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Episode #33: Top Moments of 2024

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2024/12/27

Top Blue Water Running Moments of 2024Welcome to the final stretch of 2024! As we finish another incredible year of local athletics, I’d like to take a moment to look back on the highlights and achievements of the Blue Water Area and how local athletes have shown us what it means to push limits, break barriers, and strive for greatness. I'm your host, Meran, and this is episode #33 of The Blue Water Running Podcast. In this special year-end episode, we'll spotlight the standout pe...

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Episode #32: Max Whittredge (SC4 Men's XC/Track Coach)

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2024/12/12

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m your host, Meran, and this podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. You can follow Blue Water Running on Instagram, X, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. You can also find meet and athlete reports/articles and a recently added merchandise shop at www.bluewaterrunning.org.We have a BOGO special for this week's podcas...

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Episode #31: Andrea Rheaume (SC4 Women's XC/Track Coach)

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2024/12/12

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m your host, Meran, and this podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. You can follow Blue Water Running on Instagram, X, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. You can also find meet and athlete reports/articles and a recently added merchandise shop at www.bluewaterrunning.org.We have a BOGO special for this week's podcas...

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Episode #30: Noah Verlinde

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2024/12/03

“I’m not defined by any particular result I could ever achieve, but more so am proud of the work I put in and the attitude that I had going in trying to achieve those goals, and whether or not I was able to bring people along the way to help them as I go up as well. That’s a universal lesson and probably the greatest lesson running has given me.”Hello and welcome to episode #30 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! On November 23, the Division 2 cross country national meet was held a...

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Episode #29: The Me-Ran Miles Story

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2024/11/17

When the cross country season ends, many athletes feel excitement, pride, satisfaction, confidence, or a sense of accomplishment. For many others, though, the reality is not so positive: they might feel disappointment, inadequacy, relief that they are done racing, or sadly even a sense of failure. Perhaps their season didn’t live up to their expectations: they couldn’t run due to an injury or illness, they didn’t get faster, they didn’t run what they had previously in their career...

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Episode #28: The Wessel Sisters - Alannah and Faith

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2024/10/25

Hello and welcome to episode #28 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. This episode features the Wessel sisters, Alannah and Faith, who run for the Macomb Athletic Club for Homeschoolers (MACH). Alannah is a freshman and Faith is a sophomore and both have had a very successful and consistent cross country season t...

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