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Hometown Current area state track and field qualifiers
By Ben Lamparek, Hometown Current
May. 16, 2025 6:30 pm, Updated: May. 17, 2025 10:16 am
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State qualifiers have been released for the Iowa High School State Track and Field Meet Thursday through Saturday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.
Heat sheets will be posted Sunday.
A total of 76 Hometown Current area event entries qualified. Each event will field 24 entries.
Some athletes qualified automatically, while others were at-large selections in what was a windy day for state-qualifying meets Thursday.
Each Hometown Current area school qualified at least one event (boys and girls).
Below is a complete list of area qualifiers by event, with their seed heading into the state meet based on Thursday’s performances.
Class 3A
Boys
400 — 4. Rayce Heitman (Williamsburg), 50.27; 5. Grant Hocker (Williamsburg), 50.31
4x400 — 3. Williamsburg (Hocker, Banos, Brummel, Heitman), 3:24.36
High jump — 9. Albert Bamrick (Williamsburg), 6-3
Long jump — 8. Rayce Heitman (Williamsburg), 22-2 1/2
Sprint medley — 2. Williamsburg (Bamrick, Wetjen, Heitman, Hocker), 1:32.12
Wheelchair Para Division
100 — 3. Adam Arp (Williamsburg), 31.91
200 — 3. Adam Arp (Williamsburg), 1:08.23
Girls
100 — 11. Ailea Wetjen (Williamsburg), 12.51
200 — 13. Ailea Wetjen (Williamsburg), 26.00
400 — Ava Hocker (Williamsburg), 57.75
3,000 — 22. Channing Becker (Williamsburg), 11:30.13
400 hurdles — 2. Ava Hocker (Williamsburg), 1:05.05
4x100 — 13. Williamsburg (Uhlmann, Hocker, Hughes, Wetjen), 49.89
4x800 — 22. Axmear, Hoffman, Wilde, Becker), 10:09.56
Sprint medley — 1. Williamsburg (Uhlmann, Hughes, Wetjen, Hocker), 1:47.48
High jump — 3. Ellie Nielsen (Williamsburg), 5-5; 20. Isla Nielsen (Williamsburg), 5-0
Shot put — 20. Lilly Ness (Williamsburg), 36-6 1/4
Class 1A
Boys
100 — 2. Caleb Haack (Iowa Valley), 10.95; 6. David Rose (Montezuma), 11.29; 7. Broox Stockman (Montezuma), 11.31
200 — 2. Caleb Haack (Iowa Valley), 22.32; 19. Braydon Anderson (English Valleys), 23.12
400 — Jeffrey Crawford (Iowa Valley), 51.77
800 — 3. Gage Heyne (English Valleys), 1:58.62; 7. Lucas Eichhorn (Belle Plaine), 2:00.27
1,600 — 2. Gage Heyne (English Valleys), 4:34.22
3,200 — 2. Gage Heyne (English Valleys), 10:07.26
110 hurdles — 1. Lane Vokoun (Belle Plaine), 14.42; 7. Dakota Heishman (BGM), 15.05
400 hurdles — 2. Sam Demeulenaere (Belle Plaine), 54.87; 9. Aiden Van Waus (HLV-TC), 55.95; 14. Chance Hoyt (Iowa Valley), 56.53
4x100 — 16. Montezuma (Boulton, Stockman, Brennan, Rose), 44.56; 21. BGM (Heishman, Cooling, Hassett, Findlay), 44.87
4x200 — 3. Iowa Valley (Hoyt, Peska, Kriegel, Haack), 1:30.97; 22. BGM (Rhoads, Hassett, Cooling, Clayton), 1:33.62
4x400 — 2. Belle Plaine (Vokoun, Eichhorn, Timm, DeMeulenaere), 3:24.54; 5. Iowa Valley (Peska, Kriegel, Crawford, Haack), 3:26.87
Distance medley — 4. English Valleys (Coffman, Anderson, Osborn, Heyne), 3:37.75; 10. Belle Plaine (Walter, Timm, DeMeulenaere, Eichhorn), 3:40.48; 18. HLV-TC (Van Waus, Pirkl, Thys, Roth), 3:44.58
High jump — 6. Sean McCulloch (HLV-TC), 6-2; 22. Josh Read (Iowa Valley), 5-10
Long jump — 16. Lane Vokoun (Belle Plaine), 20-7 1/4
Shot put — 21. Mason Hoyt (Iowa Valley), 46-2 1/2
Shuttle hurdle — 6. Belle Plaine (Alcott, Timm, DeMeulenaere, Vokoun), 1:01.28; 9. Iowa Valley (Hoyt, Pedersen, Read, Kriegel), 1:01.92; 17. BGM (M. Rhoads, Gus, C. Rhoads, Heishman), 1:03.76
Sprint medley — 12. Belle Plaine (Dostal, Timm, Walter, Eichhorn), 1:36.85; 18. Iowa Valley (Read, Kriegel, Peska, Crawford), 1:37.32
Girls
100 — 6. Chloe Snook (Montezuma), 12.70; 8. Ava Gehrking (English Valleys), 12.81; 22. Maya Johnson (Belle Plaine), 13.37
200 — 4. Ava Gehrking (English Valleys), 25.91; 5. Ema Roberts (HLV-TC), 26.22; 22. Chloe Snook (Montezuma), 27.44
800 — 9. Emery Hall (HLV-TC), 2:24.41; 24. Kennedy Coover (Belle Plaine), 2:35.42
400 hurdles — 12. Aaliyah Cooper (HLV-TC), 1:08.23
Shuttle hurdle — 17. Belle Plaine (Walton, Coover, Grieder, Hultquist), 1:11.14; 21. BGM (VanDee, K. Minnaert, Manatt, E. Minnaert), 1:11.99
4x100 — 14. Montezuma (Ferry, Burgess, Williams, Snook), 51.83; 21. Belle Plaine (Walton, Stamp, Hultquist, Grieder), 52.34
4x200 — 12. Montezuma (Cook, Burgess, Williams, Snook), 1:50.44
4x400 — 2. HLV-TC (A. Hall, Roberts, Cooper, E. Hall), 4:07.43
4x800 — 6. HLV-TC (Cooper, Schmidt, A. Hall, E. Hall), 10:13.08
Sprint medley — 16. English Valleys (Lown, Koehn, Gehrking, Luers), 1:55.92
High jump — 1. Ema Roberts (HLV-TC), 5-4
Long jump — 16. Annika Hultquist (Belle Plaine), 16-04; 18. Ava Gehrking (English Valleys), 16-0 3/4
Discus — 6. Lydia Kriegel (Iowa Valley), 120-5; 20. Taylor Mikesell (English Valleys), 108-1
Shot put — 1. Lydia Kriegel (Iowa Valley), 40-4; 15. Taylor Mikesell (English Valleys), 36-2
Distance medley — 2. HLV-TC (A. Hall, Roberts, Cooper, E. Hall), 4:17.41; 17. Iowa Valley (Marshall, Schachtlie, Thiessen, Von Lienen), 4:32.09