...field team placed first in its invitational Tuesday. Heather Backstrom won the 100-meter dash and shot put for the Gobbler...Tricia Schneider (A) 20.03 100 dash -- 1- Heather Backstrom (A) 13.16 4x200 relay -- 2-Aitkin (Melinda...

...Cloud State University. The Gobblers' 4x100 girls' relay of Ingrid Kezan, Brittany Swanson, Sarah Just and Heather Backstrom ran to a first-place time of 58.23. Backstrom also put the shot 30 feet, 4.5 inches to win that event. Boys...

...Mandy Boyd won the 55 dash in 9.85. Teammate Heather Backstrom placed third in the 55 dash and sixth in the shot...85 55 dash -- 1- Anderson (BR) 7.6, 3-Heather Backstrom (A) 7.8 4x200 relay -- 1-Aitkin 1:53.86...

...Kare Peterson, Gilbertson and Heather Backstrom also triumphed. Boys' team...A) 16.57 100 dash -- 2-Heather Backstrom (A) 13.29 4x200 relay...Peterson, Randi Gilbertson, Heather Backstrom) 54.35 400 dash -- 6-Amber...

...18.9, 4- Lisa Pagel (A) 19.9, 5- Christina Strauss (A) 100 dash -- 1- (Mille Lacs) 13.5, 4- Heather Backstrom (A) 14.0, 5- Bridget Murphy (PL) 14.3 4x200 relay -- 1- Aitkin (Melinda Arness, Molly Cummings, Boyd...

...Barnum 13, Mesabi East 12, Silver Bay 9, Ely 8, Aitkin 6, Greenway 5, Cook 5, Cotton 1 100 dash -- 8-Heather Backstrom (A) 14.10 4x200 relay -- 6-Aitkin 1:58.12 1600 run -- 1-Krista Anderson (CI) 5:19.17 4x100 relay...

...and Karen Johnson, Motley, Clara Motl, Staples, and Don Lenk, Staples. Riverwood Health Care Center-Aitkin Heather Backstrom and Mitchell Lowe, Aitkin, a boy, Ian Kent Backstrom-Lowe, 9 pounds, 11.2 ounces, June 7, 2001. Grandparents...

...28.2 3200 run -- 1-Talberg (P) 4x400 relay -- 1-C-I 4:44.3, 2-Pierz 4:50.2 Shot put -- 1-Heather Backstrom (A) 29-6, 2-Kim Nilles (C-I) 28-8, 3-Lentz (C-I) 28-6 1/2 Discus -- Maranda Fogle (C-I...

...Elston. Winthrop -- Cody Honl, Kate Stenzel. The 358 students acknowledged in the Dean's List: Aitkin -- Heather Backstrom, Andrea Barneveld, Bonnie Boyd, David Burgstaler, Kristen Burgstaler, Judy Christy Maqueda, Marilyn Insley...

...Kasandra Wiederholt and Michelle Wagner also return. Sophomores Andrea Blake, Amber Hunt, Leah Murnane and freshman Heather Backstrom round out the returning athletes. Additional varsity candidates: Seniors -- Mindy Reese, Colleen Smith. Freshmen...