It may have been a cold weekend for the first full week of outdoor season, but the performances were summer like.
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Karissa Knabenshue, a senior from Buchannon-Upshur, has started where she left off last year. The 2010 WV State champion in the shot has the State's best shot put throw and discus. Knabenshue earned Milesplit elite standards with throws of 133' 2" in the discuss and 39' 3" in the shot at the Kim/Nutter Classic as she set meet records. Her shot put heave broke the old record of 39' 1" set by Roxanne Ward of Parkersburg in 2000. Her discus throw broke Kim Dent's old mark of 119' 8" set in 2007. Knabenshue got it started last week at the Holzer Clinic First Call Invitational with a personal best discus throw of 145' 3".