A look at area state qualifying meets

The Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released joint team assignments for state qualifying cross-country meets Wednesday.

The meets begin next week.

Class 3A and 4A meets will be Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 4 p.m., and 1A and 2A will be the following day at the same time.

In Classes 2A-4A, the top three teams and top 15 individuals will qualify for the state meet. In 1A, the top two teams and top 10 individuals qualify. A minimum of five individual qualifiers will qualify from each site not on a qualifying team.

Here is a look at each state qualifying meet involving area teams.

CLASS 3A

At Williamsburg

Teams — Davenport Assumption, Ballard, Burlington, Center Point-Urbana, Central DeWitt, Fort Madison, Grinnell, Keokuk, Mount Pleasant, South Tama, Washington, Williamsburg

Ranked teams — Girls: #5 Fort Madison, #8 Ballard, #14 Williamsburg, #17 Center Point-Urbana; Boys: #4 Grinnell, #8 Central DeWitt, #13 Davenport Assumption, #16 Fort Madison

Ranked individuals — Girls: #7 Avery Fedler (Mount Pleasant), #12 Aaliyah Causey (Center Point-Urbana), #13 Avery Rump (Fort Madison); Boys: #6 Kyle Olson (Central DeWitt), #9 Cadel Conner (Grinnell), #17 Barrett Jesina (South Tama), #19 Andrew Rees (Washington), #20 Adam Wilke (Central DeWitt), #26 Isaac Sandquist (Grinnell), #27 John Murphy (Davenport Assumption), #30 Liam Crites (Grinnell)

Area runners to watch — Girls: Channing Becker, Maddie Gorsh & Edie Axmear (Williamsburg); Boys: Marcus Pirkl & Nile Busch (Williamsburg)

CLASS 1A

At North Linn

Teams — Belle Plaine, Bellevue, BGM, Calamus-Wheatland, Columbus Community, Durant, Easton Valley, HLV-TC, Hudson, Iowa Valley, Lone Tree, Lynnville-Sully, Marquette Catholic, Midland, North Cedar, North Linn, North Tama, Prince of Peace, Rivermont Collegiate

Ranked teams — Girls: #11 Lynnville-Sully, #13 Hudson; Boys: #9 Lynnville-Sully, #10 Columbus Community

Ranked individuals — Girls: #8 Mollie Hansen (Hudson); Boys: #19 Colton Alberts (Lynnville-Sully)

Area runners to watch — Boys: Carter Corona & Aston Brown (BGM), Drew Thys & Allan Scott (HLV-TC), Devin Timm (Belle Plaine)

At Pekin

Teams — Danville, English Valleys, Highland, Hillcrest Acadamy, Holy Trinity Catholic, (Boys Only), Keota, Louisa Muscatine, Martensdale-St. Marys, Montezuma, Moravia, Moulton-Udell, New London, North Mahaska, Pekin, Sigourney, Twin Cedars, WACO, Wapello, Winfield-Mt. Union

Ranked teams — Girls: #7 Martensdale-St Marys, #9 English Valleys, #20 North Mahaska; Boys: #4 WACO, #12 Louisa-Muscatine, #20 Pekin

Ranked individuals — Girls: #2 Karson Oberender (Martensdale-St Marys), #3 Chloe Glosser (Pekin), #7 Maclaine German (Martensdale-St Marys), #16 Fiona McGill (Louisa-Muscatine), #23 Josie Dykstra (WACO); Boys: #6 Jude Dykstra (WACO), #20 Troy Klett (Sigourney), #21 Cole Millikin (Pekin), #26 Hayden Riggan (Louisa-Muscatine)

Area runners to watch — Girls: Anna Luers & Addison Achenbach (English Valleys); Boys: Isaac Frazier & Will Luers (English Valleys)