
By Cooper Chadwick
Junior Michael Cooks is an integral part of the 2025 Wichita Southeast Track and Field team.
Cooks runs the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m, he has put in months of work and practice to help him make a difference in his first year for the Buffaloes.
“I’ve been working with my coaches a lot and I have a personal strengths and conditioning coach. I also do indoor track during the winter to prepare me for outdoor track,” Cooks said.
As a sprinter there are different phases to each sprint, and for Cooks, he excels at his breakout acceleration, but needs improvement on his top end speed.
“Weights and training, working with coaches, doing top end speed drills,” Cooks
said about improving that top end speed.
Cooks is most excited for regionals and state so he can show off all the hard work he has put in.
“My goal is to run a 10.65 or under because I want to PR but not by a little,” Cooks said. “My team goal is to win state in the 4×100 because we have been working hard for it.”
Cooks runs the third leg of the 4x100m for the Buffaloes with a strong time of 10.71 in the open 100m.
Even though this is Cook’s first season running track he has big plans for the future. Cook has hopes of going to college on a track scholarship and eventually going to the Olympics for the 100m and the 4x100m.