Southwest Iowa represents at IATC Championships

AMES — Last week, area track and field athletes kicked off their season at the IATC Indoor Championships at Iowa State University in Ames.

Competitors from Creston, East Union, Mount Ayr, Lenox, Murray, Nodaway Valley and Southwest Valley all competed in the event. Each class names a male and female outstanding athlete of the meet.

Southwest Iowa claimed both titles in Class 1A with Mount Ayr’s Ryce Reynolds and Murray’s Leksi Gannon. Reynolds set three meet records as well as automatically qualifying for the Drake Relays in the 400m through the Blue Standard.

Reynolds’ three events all took first. In the 200m dash, he ran a :22.42. The 400m dash was a :48.76, a time ranked in the top 50 in the nation this season. The time comes just short of his state record time of :48.21 set at the state championships last season. The 4x400m relay team consisting of Reynolds, Dyson Thompson, Jackson Ruggles and Preston Fleharty finished in 3:30.90.

Gannon placed first in the 200m dash (:25.98) and 60m dash (:08.01). Her 200m time set a new meet record. In the 400m dash, she earned second with a new PR of 1:01.04.

Also earning wins at the indoor championships were Gabe Funk of Lenox, Aubree Shields of Mount Ayr and Emma Cooper of Southwest Valley. Both Funk and Shields earned silver last season at state in their respective events.

Funk took first place in the 60m hurdles in a time of :08.24, a personal best and top five time in the state. He also medaled with two relays. The distance medley relay of Funk, Donald Bashor, Dawson Evans and Owen Grundman placed sixth in a time of 3:50.43 and the shuttle hurdle relay of Brody Brokaw, Jordan Martin-England, Evans and Funk placed fifth in :35.44.

Shields placed first in the high jump, clearing 5-03, just shy of her 5-04 personal best from the state meet. She also competed in the shuttle hurdle relay with Dannie Stewart, Tatum Friedrich and MaKel Jones. The relay earned ninth in a time of :46.23.

Cooper far surpassed her performance at state, jumping 16-10.75 in the long jump compared to her last season best of 16-03.75. She earned three medals at the meet, taking sixth in the 60m dash (:08.2) and fifth in the 200m dash (:27.53). Both times were new PRs.

Morgan Cooley, an East Union sophomore, broke a nearly 50-year Eagles record in the shot put with a throw of 51-0.5, topping the previous mark of 50-7.27 set in 1977. His efforts earned him third place behind two senior state medalists, Ethan Thimmes of North Cedar and Jonah Reiling of Lisbon.

Creston’s Brandon Briley earned a podium spot with his fifth-place finish in the 800m dash in 2:05.43. The boys 4x800 and 4x400 relays each took seventh, one place shy of medalling.

The 4x400 consisted of Davin Wallace, Austin Evans, Weston Trapp and Briley. The team finished in 3:39.32. The 4x800 was ran by Evans, Colby Brammer, Jackson Pettegrew and Briley. They finished in 9:06.8.

Though Nodaway Valley didn’t come away with any gold medals, the team had five events place. Senior Annika Nelson placed second in the 60m hurdles with a time of :09.75. She competed in the 4x100m relay with Grace Britten, Maddie Weston and Emma Lundy where the team finished second in :52.36. The relay placed second at state a year ago.

Lundy and Nelson both competed in the open 200m dash, Lundy finishing fourth in :27.3 and Nelson with a :28.13 to take ninth. Lundy found her third medal of the day in the girls sprint medley relay with Weston, Lindsey Davis and Izzy Eisbach, which placed fourth in a time of 2:00.52.

Wolverine junior Trenton Warner earned fifth in shot put with ihs performance of 45-08.75.

The Lenox girls sprint medley relay of Bentley Petersen, Carley Larson, Zoey Reed and Sadie Cox also medaled. Their 2:01.99 placed them sixth.

Boys Class 3A results

Shot put — 14. Quinten Fuller, Creston: 43-05.75

4 x 800 relay — 7. Creston (Austin Evans, Colby Brammer, Jackson Pettegrew, Brandon Briley): 9:06.80

1,600 medley relay — 11. Creston (Tyler Riley, Evans, Davin Wallace, Briley): 3:49.31

800 meters — 5. Briley: 2:05.43

4 x 400 relay — 7. Creston (Wallace, Evans, Weston Trapp, Briley): 3:39.32

Boys Class 1A results

Shot put —

3. Morgan Cooley, East Union: 51-00.5

5. Trenton Warner, Nodaway Valley: 45-08.75

22. Rowan Sackett, Mount Ayr: 36-03

26. Kash Wasteney, Mount Ayr: 34-09.25

28. Shawn Ayers, East Union: 34-03.5

4 x 800 relay — 18. Mount Ayr (Aidan Murphy, Braylon Greenwell, Michael Adkisson, Tegan Hill): 10:17.20

Shuttle hurdle relay — 5. Lenox (Brody Brokaw, Jordan Martin-England, Dawson Evans and Gabe Funk) :35.44

60 meters —

10. Donald Bashor, Lenox :7.4

14. Preston Fleharty, Mount Ayr :7.52

25. KC Sitzman, Southwest Valley :7.68

400 meters —

1. Ryce Reynolds, Mount Ayr :48.76

9. Dyson Thompson, Mount Ayr :55.01

10. Wyatt Mendenhall, Southwest Valley :55.11

17. Jordan Martin-England, Lenox :56.37

20. Austin Lack, East Union :57.76

60m hurdles —

1. Gabe Funk, Lenox :8.24

24. Tate Dugan, Mount Ayr :24.19

1,600 meters —

20. Adan Trujillo, Mount Ayr 5:18.25

21. Jacob Driskill, East Union: 5:20.98

200 meters —

1. Ryce Reynolds, Mount Ayr :22.42

18. Tate Dugan, Mount Ayr :24.19

1,600 medley relay —

6. Lenox (Donald Bashor, Dawson Evans, Gabe Funk, Owen Grundman): 3:50.43

10. Mount Ayr (Preston Fleharty, Jackson Ruggles, Garrett Walter, Adan Trujillo): 3:57.42

19. East Union (Chaz Cornelison, Austin Lack, Pheolan Kelley, Jacob Driskill): 4:11.11

20. Nodaway Valley (Trenton Warner, Eli Harris, Ashton Honnold, Avery Lewis): 4:19.7

800 meters —

15. Jacob Driskill, East Union: 2:15.43

23. Tegan Hill, Mount Ayr: 2:19.10

4 x 100 relay — 13. Southwest Valley (KC Sitzman, Wyatt Mendenhall, Brody Crozier, Isaac Currin) :47.06

4 x 400 relay — 1. Mount Ayr (Dyson Thompson, Preston Fleharty, Jackson Ruggles, Ryce Reynolds): 3:30.90

Girls Class 1A results

Shot put —

12. Jorja Holliday, Nodaway Valley: 31-03.75

14. Mackenzie Richards, Southwest Valley: 31-02.25

18. Grace Britten, Nodaway Valley: 29-09.25

31. Adley Dredge, Mount Ayr: 25-10.25

High jump — 1. Aubree Shields, Mount Ayr: 5-03

Long jump —

1. Emma Cooper, Southwest Valley: 16-10.75

18. Addison Glade, Nodaway Valley: 13-11.75

25. MaKel Jones, Mount Ayr: 12-10.5

28: Dannie Stewart, Mount Ayr: 12-05

Sprint medley relay —

4. Nodaway Valley (Maddie Weston, Lindsey Davis, Izzy Eisbach, Emma Lundy): 2:00.52

6. Lenox (Bentley Petersen, Carley Larson, Zoey Reed, Sadie Cox): 2:01.99

4 x 800 relay — 18. Mount Ayr (Kacie Larsen, Tatum Friedrich, MaKel Jones, Addison Doolittle): 12:15.65

Shuttle hurdle relay — 9. Mount Ayr (Dannie Stewart, Tatum Friedrich, MaKel Jones, Aubree Shields) :46.23

60 meters —

1. Aleksys Gannon, Murray :08.01

6. Emma Cooper, Southwest Valley :08.2

7. Annika Nelson, Nodaway Valley :08.21

10. Maddie Weston, Nodaway Valley :08.32

30. Zoey Reed, Lenox :08.85

46. Bentley Peterson, Lenox :09.24

400 meters —

2. Aleksys Gannon, Murray: 1:01.04

7. Sadie Cox, Lenox: 1:03.07

18. Ashlyn Murphy, Mount Ayr: 1:07.56

19. Aubree Clark, Mount Ayr: 1:07.97

60m high hurdles —

2. Annika Nelson, Nodaway Valley :9.75

18. Sierra Pearson, Southwest Valley :10.88

200 meters —

1. Aleksys Gannon, Murray :25.98

4. Emma Lundy, Nodaway Valley :27.3

5. Emma Cooper, Southwest Valley :27.53

9. Annika Nelson, Nodaway Valley :28.13

22. Ashlyn Murphy, Mount Ayr :30.12

4 x 100 relay — 2. Nodaway Valley (Grace Britten, Maddie Weston, Emma Lundy, Annika Nelson) :52.36

4 x 400 relay —

11. Nodaway Valley (Izzy Eisbach, Joanna Larson, Lindsey Davis, Emma Lundy): 4:30.56

15. Mount Ayr (Aubree Shields, Kacie Larsen, Ashlyn Murphy, Aubree Clark) 4:36.56