Viqueens grab gold in shuttle hurdle

For the second time in three years, the Stanton girls were golden in the shuttle hurdle relay.
Two years after winning gold in the event at the Iowa State Track and Field meet, Stanton’s Hannah Olson nipped Fremont-Mills’ Lana Alley by a nose to win the Viqueens’ the gold by .06.
Olson teamed with Kyla Hart, Lauren Roberts and Lauren Johnson to top the 1A field with a state-record time of 1:04.69.
Olson and the Viqueens weren’t done there, however.
Olson, a senior, was second in the 100-meters – to her shuttle hurdle relay rival, Alley – and 16th in the 200-meters. She also helped the 4x100-meter relay to a ninth-place finish. Hart, Roberts, Johnson and Olson ran a 51.31 in the preliminaries.
Johnson had a top leap of 16 feet to place 11th in the long jump.
Griswold’s girls won four medals in Des Moines.
Addison Adams and Carsyn Adams were fifth and eighth, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles. Addison added an eighth-place medal in the 100-meter hurdles.
Both Adams girls and Reese Laverty and Brystol Wyman were fifth in the shuttle hurdle relay dominated by the Corner Conference.
Council Bluffs St. Albert captured the Class 1A girls crown with 46 points to Saint Ansgar’s 40 points.
The 1A boys title went to Lisbon with 54 points. ACGC was the runner-up with 44 points.
The Griswold boys’ Conner Bowers won a fourth-place medal in the high jump at state and had six top 12 finishes.
“The Tigers qualified eight events to state, achieving personal records in four, a testament to their offseason and weekend grind,” said Griswold coach Andy Everett. “Beyond school records and all-time rankings, the state meet instilled a lifelong passion for the sport. It’s not the destination but the journey.”
On Thursday, the Tigers’ shuttle hurdle relay team of Peyton Cook, Auden Wilson, Wyatt Silk and Bode Wyman placed 11th while Holden Jensen smashed his 3200m personal record by 20 seconds, running 9:54.99 to finish 12th, breaking the ten-minute barrier and claiming fourth on Griswold’s all-time list. Cody Dorscher then ran a personal-best 51.33 in the 400-meters, finishing 11th and securing sixth on the all-time list.
The following day, Conner Bowers earned a fourth-place medal in the high jump, while RJ Dishong threw a personal-record 148-09 in the discus to finish 10th, just shy of the finals. Dorscher added a 10th-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles.
On Saturday, the sprint medley relay of Wyman, Bowers, Wilson and Dorscher took 18th, with Jensen capped the Tigers’ day with a 12th place finish in the 1,600.
Essex’s Isaiah Sholes was seventh in the high jump with a top leap of 6 feet, 1 inches.
Walker Mendenhall medaled for Southwest Valley with his seventh-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles. The Timberwolves’ Brody Crozier added ninth and 18th place finishes in the 100-meters and the long jump.

East Mills Boys State Place Winners
    4x200m relay: 18th place, East Mills (Jackson Embree, Cooper Stearns, Jiri Brodigan and Walter Seipold), 1:33.50.

Essex Girls State Place Winners
    3000m: 16th place, Ella Sandahl, 11:24.57.
 
Essex Boys State Place Winners
    High jump: seventh place, Isaiah Sholes, 6’ 1”.

Griswold Girls State Place Winners
    100m hurdles: eighth place, Carysn Adams, 16.54.
    400m hurdles: fifth place, Addison Adams, 1:05.94; eighth place, C. Adams, 1:06.66.
    Shuttle hurdle relay: fifth place, Griswold (Reese Laverty, Wyman, A. Adams and C. Adams), 1:08.25.
    4x400m relay: 15th place, Griswold (Amanda Houser, A. Adams, Sadie Gohlinghorst and C. Adams), 4:11.38.
 
Griswold Boys State Place Winners
    400m: 11th place, Cody Dorscher, 51.33.
    400m hurdles: 10th place, Dorscher, 56.54.
    1600m: 12th place, Holden Jensen, 4:31.86.
    3200m: 12th place, Jensen, 9:54.99.
    Discus: 10th place, R.J. Dishong, 148’ 9”.
    High jump: fourth place, Conner Bowers, 6’ 1”.
    Sprint medley relay: 18th place, Griswold (Bode Wyman, Bowers, Auden Wilson and Dorscher), 1:36.55.
    Shuttle hurdle relay: 11th place, Griswold (Wyatt Silk, Wilson, Peyton Cook and Wyman), 1:03.02.

Stanton Girls State Place Winners
    100m hurdles: second place, Hannah Olson, 14.88.
200m: 16th place, Olson, 26.61.
    Long jump: 11th place, Lauren Johnson, 16’.
    4x100m relay: ninth place, Stanton (Kyla Hart, Lauren Roberts, Olson and Johnson), 51.31.
    Shuttle hurdle relay: first place, Stanton (Hart, Johnson, Roberts and Olson), 1:04.69.

Southwest Valley Boys
Place Winners
    100m: ninth place, Brody Crozier, 11.22.
    400m hurdles: seventh place, Wyatt Mendenhall, 56.11.
    High jump: 17th place, Walker Bissell, 5’ 9”; 17th place, Gavin Wetzel, 5’ 9”.
    Long jump: 18th place, Crozier, 19’ 7”.
    Shuttle hurdle relay: 24th place, Southwest Valley (Mendenhall, Riley Hartman, Bissell and Wetzel), 1:05.66.