The biggest story from last year in Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk sports sends us to the Blue Oval at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.

The Golden Hawk boys and girls track teams made their way to the Class 2A State Qualifier Meet at Eddyville-Blakesburg in May. The Golden Hawk girls won the meet for the fourth straight year, scoring 160.5 points. Mid-Prairie had three event champions on the night including Jovi Evans in the 100 and 200 with Emma Lueck winning long jump. Other auto-qualifiers for the girls included Behla Schmidt in the 100 hurdles, Danielle Hostetler in the 1500 and 3000, Harper Pacha in shot put, the shuttle hurdle with Sophie Miller, Olivia Schlabach, Nora Pennington and Schmidt, the 4×800 of Greta Sieren, Annika Poll, Brooklyn Stutzman and Hostetler and the distance medley with Dakota Mitchell, Lueck, Evans and Hostetler. Performance qualifiers included Sieren in the 800, Abby Fleming in the 1500 and 3000, and the 4×100 of Mitchell, Myli Hershberger, Lueck and Evans.

The Golden Hawk boys were team runners-up with 85 points. The Hawks had five event championships with Jayden Stafford winning the wheelchair 100, 200, 400 and 800s. Landon Sullivan won the long jump. Jayse Yoder was an auto-qualifier finishing runner-up in the half mile. Performance qualifier events included Emmett Swartzentruber and Jayse Yoder in the mile, Swartzentruber and Preston Yutzy in the two-mile. Josh Turner in high jump. Burke Berry in shot put, and the 4×800 of Thomas Flynn, Yoder, Yutzy and Swartzentruber.

Twenty-seven total Mid-Prairie events qualified for State.

Once in Des Moines, Stafford stole the show for the Golden Hawk boys, winning championships in all of his events, taking the 100, 200, 400 and 800 wheelchair titles. Other medalists included Landon Sullivan fourth in long jump and Burke Berry seventh in shot put. Other performances included Emmett Swartzentruber ninth in the two mile and 10^th in the mile, Jayse Yoder 11^th in the 800 and 17^th in the mile, Preston Yutzy 16^th in the two-mile, Josh Turner 21^st in the high jump and a 17^th place finish for the 4×8 of Thomas Flynn, Yoder, Yutzy and Swartzentruber.

For the Golden Hawk girls medal winners included Danielle Hosetler fourth in the 1500 and sixth in the 3000, fourth for the distance medley of Dakota Mitchell, Emma Lueck, Jovi Evans and Hostetler, fifth for Evans in the 100, and eighth each for the 4×100 of Mitchell, Myli Hershberger, Lueck and Evans and the 4×800 with Sieren, Poll, Stutzman and Hostetler. Other performances included 14^th for the shuttle hurdle of Sophie Miller, Olivia Schlabach, Nora Pennington and Behla Schmidt and Schmidt in the half mile, Abby Fleming 15^th in the 1500 and 16^th in the 3000, Schmidt was 18^th in the 100 hurdles, Harper Pacha 18^th in the shot put and Emma Lueck competed in the long ump.

That concludes out top 10 countdown for Golden Hawk sports from the 2023-24 school year. You can find all stories highlighted on the countdown available, free, on our website at KCIIradio.com.