The Washington Demons have officially sent seven individual athletes and one relay team on to this year’s track & field state championships. Washington competed in the Class 3A District 6 meet yesterday at the Mapleleaf Athletic Complex in Mount Pleasant and came away with a number of results good enough to qualify for state.

That includes three individual district champions for the Demon boys, which were second in team scoring to Solon with 130 points. Junior Micah Rees was the winner of the 1,600-meter run, finishing in four minutes and 38 seconds. He also moved to state by finishing second in the 3,200 meters with a time of just under 10 minutes 40 seconds.

Washington senior Brayden Hartman was the champion of the shot put, hitting a top toss of 55 feet one-and-a-half inches in the finals to secure a return trip to state. Sophomore Logan McDole posted a top time of 2:04 to win the 800, while junior Alec Ulin finished the 400 in 51.08 seconds and senior Elijah Morris ran the 100 in 11.01 seconds, earning runner-up finishes for both runners and auto-bids at state.

Morris and Ulin ran with seniors Ethan Patterson and Aidan Ulin to help Washington secure victory in the sprint medley as well. There is still a chance that top results compared to the rest of Class 3A will result in at-large bids to the state meet for Hartman in the discus toss and the Demons’ four-by-800-meter relay, which were third at districts and will learn if they qualified for state later today.

On the girls’ side, the one winner for Washington was senior Grace Voss, who cleared 5’1″ to take the high jump title. Freshman Iris Dahl continued her phenomenal debut season, as runner-up finishes in the 800 in just under 2:23 and the 1,500 in a hair under five minutes flat punch her ticket to state.

The Demon girls have some results that will be on the bubble, like bronze medals from Voss in the 400 and freshman Leighton Messinger in the 100-meter hurdles. Washington’s 4-by-400 and 4-by-800 teams also await their state fate.