The chance to advance to next week’s state meet in Des Moines is tonight for all high school track teams and plenty of area schools will make a trip to Wayland for districts.

WACO is one of 10 district host sites for class 1A and the meet will also feature area schools Highland, Columbus Community, Hillcrest Academy, Lone Tree, Sigourney, Keota, and Winfield-Mt. Union. Other teams making the trip for the co-ed competition include Calamus-Wheatland, Danville, Lisbon, New London, North Cedar, and Wapello. The Columbus Community boys won two of their final three meets and head coach Scott Dennler is ready for the loaded field. “I think this district might be the best in class 1A. We need to repeat performances like we have and if we do, we can get a lot of events to Des Moines.”

The top two from each event will receive the automatic bid to the Blue Oval. All of the action begins at 4 p.m. today in Wayland.