Friday’s Class 3A girls’ state track and field roundup: A distance medley triumph, coupled by Sophia Stahle’s title in the 400-meter hurdles, sent Solon to the top of the 3A girls’ leaderboard heading to the final day.
Friday’s Class 4A state track and field roundup: Neither a strained quad nor a broken collarbone can stop Iowa City High’s Eva Reynolds, who took silver in the 400-meter hurdles.
Friday’s Class 1A state track and field roundup: Springville’s Nia Howard won the 400 hurdles, an event she nearly gave up. Midland’s Jaden Gatts won the high jump with a personal-best.
Friday’s Class 4A boys’ state track and field roundup: Iowa City West earned a pair of titles in relays (and learned a lesson). Linn-Mar’s Nicholas Gorsich claimed the 400 hurdles title with a personal-best.
Photos from Friday’s first session of the 2023 Iowa high school state track and field meet.
The 2023 Iowa high school state track and field meet continues Friday, starting with events in Class 1A and 4A and followed by 3A and 2A events in the afternoon session. Follow The Gazette’s live blog for updates throughout the day.
Mid-Prairie’s Danielle Hostetler powered past second-place finisher Hillary Trainor of Sumner-Fredericksburg as she entered the backstretch and never looked back, finishing in a gold-worthy time of 10:20.73 for her third straight state championship in the Class 2A 3,000-meter run.
Thursday’s Class 3A girls’ state track and field roundup: Sydney Maue is a self-described, “self-taught” high jumper. Maue cleared 5 feet, 6 inches and earned Class 3A runner-up girls’ honors.
State track and field, 3A boys: His legs ‘jump-started’ after an earlier race, Mount Vernon’s Zach Fall races to 400-meter championship.
Photos from Thursday’s second session of the 2023 Iowa high school state track and field championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, featuring Class 2A and Class 3A competitors.
Thursday’s Iowa Class 1A state track and field results: South Winneshiek finished second in the girls’ 3,200-meter relay at last year’s state meet, so Thursday’s top-of-the-podium effort seemed a natural, but far from effortless, progression.
Iowa City High and Johnston ran the fastest boys’ 3,200-meter relay race in state history Thursday morning. City’s Ammon Smith, Ayman Noreldaim, Ford Washburn and Truman Thompson zipped to an all-time Iowa best in 7 minutes, 37.66 seconds.
Thursday’s Class 4A state track and field roundup: Linn-Mar’s T.J. Jackson and Iowa City High’s Matt Schaeckenbach both cleared 6-11 in the high jump, with Jackson the winner on misses.
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