Waukon girls track and field team ties for first team championship at State Qualifying Meet in 40 years behind 10 State Meet qualifications

Lady Indians have 14 different young ladies qualify in total of nine events for season grand finale

An extensive weather delay full of lightning and rain that pushed the finish of the Class 2A State Qualifying Meet at North Fayette Valley Thursday, May 14 into more than an eight-hour ordeal that ended just past midnight certainly proved to be worth the wait for the Waukon girls track and field team to accomplish something that had not been done in 40 years.

The efforts put forth by the Lady Indians resulted in a whopping 10 qualifications for this year’s Class 2A State Meet, including top-five finishes in 15 of the 18 events they competed in to help rack up 109 team points and end up sharing the meet’s team championship with the other Indians at the meet, Forest City. The orange team championship banner the track and field Tribe was awarded at the end of the meet was the first such banner bestowed upon the Lady Indians since the Waukon girls track and field team won the Class 2A Regional Meet team championship during the 1986 season, a team led by such senior names as Beth Siegrist, Melissa Williams, Laura Larson and Rhesa Ashbacher, who was crowned the Class 2A 400 meter State Champion that season.

The large and well-rounded representation for the Waukon track and field girls at this season’s State Meet will now compete among the Class 2A elite in their respective events later this week at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. 

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