It was twice as nice for the Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk girls track and field team in 2019. Our number two sports story from the last school year highlights the Hawks second consecutive girls track and field championship. The Golden Hawk girls qualified nine events for the state meet including Marie Hostetler and Mitzi Evans in the 800, Hostetler and Evans in the 1500, Hostetler in the 3000, the team of Amber Swart, Mitzi and Abbigail Evans and Maddie Edgington in the 4×100, the 4×200 team of Swart, Cassidy Rourke, Edgington and Abbigail Evans, the 4×800 team of Angelina and Abbigail Evans, Moriah Brase and Kate Cavanagh, the sprint medley team of Edgington, Rourke, Swart and Mitzi Evans, Tori Boyse in the discus and the distance medley team of Abbigail Evans, Rourke, Swart and Hostetler.

The Golden Hawk girls won the state title with 49 points over second place Aplington-Parkersburg with 39 points. Mid-Prairie’s time in Des Moines was highlighted by three state championship events, all of which involved Marie Hostetler as she brought home individual gold in the 1500 and 3000 while being a part of the state championship distance medley team. Other events for the Hawks included Hostetler runner-up in the 800 with Mitzi Evans 21st, third place for the sprint medley team, fourth for the 4×200 team, eighth for Boyse in the discus, ninth for the 4×800 team, a finals appearance for the 4×100 team and 18th for Angelina Evans in the 1500.

The Golden Hawk boys qualified five events for the state meet including Clarke Latcham, Caleb Thomas, Grant Boyse and Elmir Ganibegovic in the 4×100, Latcham, Quinn Schmidt, Boyse and Ganibegovic in the 4×200, Schmidt, Brad Tornow, Miles Burrows and Justin Schwartz in the 4×800, the sprint medley team of Latcham, Schmidt, Ganibegovic and Boyse and Jack Baker in the discus. The 4×800 team was sixth, the 4×200 team seventh, the sprint medley team 11th, the 4×100 team 17th and Baker was 20th in the discus. Tomorrow we will present the number one sports story from the last school year for the Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks and it takes us to the cross country course.