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Addison Winters rewrites her own long jump and 400 meter hurdles school records, Lilah Strong ties high jump record, as both qualify for Drake Relays

The Kee girls track and field team ended up with just one meet on its competition schedule this past week but made the most of that opportunity with some record-setting and showcase-qualifying performances at the MFL/MarMac Invitational Thursday, April 16. The Lady Hawks claimed four event victories to lead the way to 92 team points and a third-place finish in that invitational field, with three of those wins resulting in school record results and two also securing another pair of qualifications for the Kee girls at the Drake Relays scheduled for later this week.

Lady Indians’ 4x100 crew of Schullo, Olson, Berns and Troendle qualifies for Drake Relays

The Waukon girls track and field team ended up having just one meet this past week, but made some recent history at that lone competition. The Lady Indians had their own Early Bird home invitational canceled Tuesday, April 14 due to weather conditions but came back strong in their lone competition of the week to win the New Hampton Invitational, racking up 98 team points behind five event victories that included a 4x100 win in a time that has qualified the Lady Indians for this week’s Drake Relays for the first time in 10 years.

The Waukon boys golf team played through a busy week of three events this past week, including a pair of late-week 18-hole events. The Indians found considerable success in that trio of competitions, winning two of the three and finishing runner-up in the other. Those wins included topping the three-team field of a Tuesday, April 7 home triangular before doing likewise in the Big Rock 18-Hole Tournament of five teams played at Fayette Thursday, April 9. The golf Tribe ended up in second place out of six teams playing in the South Winn Invitational Saturday, April 11.

The Waukon girls golf team played through a busy week of three events this past week, with all three of them ending up on consecutive days to end the week. The Lady Indians finished third in the four-team Big Rock 18-Hole Tournament Thursday, April 9 before making up a Tuesday, April 7 weather postponement Friday, April 10 and finishing second at that South Winneshiek Triangular. Waukon’s girls wrapped up their whirlwind latter half of the week placing third out of six teams at the South Winneshiek Invitational Saturday, April 11, with three of those teams not having enough players to formulate a team score.

The Kee girls track and field team took part in a busy week of what turned out to be three competition dates for some team members. The Lady Hawks finished third out of nine teams at the Bossom Relays hosted by Postville Tuesday, April 7 before coming in ninth out of 11 teams from all class sizes at the Decorah Invitational Thursday, April 9. Senior Addison Winters and junior Lilah Strong wrapped up the week competing at the Eastern Iowa Track & Field Festival hosted by Iowa City West High School Saturday, April 11, bringing home top-10 finishes in all five events they competed in, including four of those within the top-four individuals competing from all class sizes.

The Kee boys track and field team took part in its largest outdoor competition of this early season when they participated in the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31. Kee’s boys claimed a pair of first-place event finishes and one runner-up placewinning to headline their way to an eighth-place finish in the 10-team meet field with 46.5 team points.

The Hawks were also scheduled to compete at the Waukon Early Bird Invitational Thursday, April 2 but had that meet canceled by rainy weather. They were next scheduled to take part in the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, April 7 before competing in Postville’s Foster-Kiesau Relays Thursday, April 9. They will then take part in the Decorah Relays Monday, April 13 before taking part in the MFL/MarMac Coed Invitational Thursday, April 16.

The first outdoor competition of the season for the Waukon boys track and field team proved to be a promising early success, as even though the Indians were a bit short-handed due to attendance by some team members at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference early in this past week, they were still able to top the 10-team field of the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31. The track and field Tribe recorded four event wins, half of which were coupled with runner-up finishes to claim  a pair of one-two event sweeps that helped rack up 145 team points to claim team championship honors over the 10-team meet field.

In its only meet scheduled for this past week, the Waukon girls track and field team competed for the first time outdoors this season, finding some fairly good overall success despite having some team members unable to compete due to participation in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference early in the week. Despite that absence including some of the track and field Tribe’s high-end contributors and limiting participation for Waukon to just 16 of the 19 events that took place at the meet, the Lady Indians were able to claim one event victory and four runner-up finishes to help lead the way to 88 team points and a runner-up finish in the 12-team field of the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31.

The Waukon girls golf team got its 2026 spring campaign off to a middle-of-the-pack start, opening its competition schedule with a second-place finish in a triangular event Monday, March 30 hosted by Postville High School at Tri-City Golf & Country Club. A Lady Indian squad that was limited in number due to some team members participating in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference turned in a nine-hole team total of 233 strokes to finish behind Crestwood’s team total of 193 strokes and ahead of the Postville host squad that had only three team members and could not compile a team score.

Waukon High School senior Dylan Stegen signed his official commitment to play golf for Upper Iowa University in Fayette at a Thursday morning, March 26 signing event in the Waukon High School gym. Pictured in the photo at right submitted by Waukon High School from that signing event, seated in the front row, is Dylan (center) with his parents, Jenny (left) and Lee (right). Standing in the back row, left to right, are Dylan’s brother Vaughn and sister Grace, with older brother Connor also making an appearance by FaceTime at one point during the signing event.