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The Waukon girls track season neared completion in very familiar fashion, as for the third consecutive year the Indian track girls have qualified three sprint relay events for the Class 3A field of the Iowa High School State Track Meet. This year, however, those sprint relays will have additional company at that season grand finale.

The Waukon boys track team punched its ticket to extension of the 2015 season by qualifying four events for the Class 3A field of the Iowa High School State Track Meet Thursday, May 14 at the State Qualifying Meet hosted by Decorah. Each of those four events involve return trips by previous qualifiers, including all five seniors on this year’s team.
Two of those State Meet qualifications for the Indians came automatically in all half-mile fashion, as the foursome of junior Peyton Hesse and seniors Adam Benzing, Marshall Lyons and Landon Sivesind earned qualification in championship fashion by breaking the tape in the 4x800 with a clocking of 8:27.08. Lyons then clinched automatic qualification again with a runner-up finish in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:08.76. That foursome had gained State Meet qualification last year in that same relay event, although Hesse was unable to compete in the season grand finale due to a hip injury.

The Kee girls track team competed in its final week together this past week, hosting its only home meet of the 2015 season before trying to extend its season as much as possible. The Hawks won that home invitational Monday, May 11, and then had their season brought to a close Thursday, May 14 for all but one team member at their Class 1A State Qualifying Meet at Edgewood-Colesburg, as senior Val Meyer earned qualification for this year’s Class 1A shot put field of the Iowa High School State Track Meet.
Meyer will now compete among Class 1A’s shot put elite this Thursday, May 21 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.

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The Kee boys track team was competing for extension of its season at its Class 1A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Edgewood-Colesburg Thursday, May 14. That extension happened for just one of this season’s Hawks, but it happened in two events, as sophomore Danny Brennan ended up as a double State Meet qualifier for the Hawks in the two events that have become his specialties this season, the 400 meter dash and 800 meter run.
Brennan won automatic qualification for this season’s Class 1A field in the 400 meter dash of the Iowa High School State Track Meet, topping Thursday’s State Qualifying Meet field in the event with a clocking of 53.54 seconds. Although Brennan was just over a second off of a second event championship and automatic State Meet berth, the 2:05.99 runner-up finish he clocked in the 800 meter run was good enough to gain Brennan one of the 12 top non-championship berths in the event out of all Class 1A State Qualifying Meets from across the state.

To the Editor:
At this time of year, I always think of the teachers that gave their time to teach us 11-13 year-old girls flag drills to be performed on Memorial Day and the 4th of July. We did the flag drills on the stage as the school band played. After the program we were taken to the cemetery and we would put our small flags on the servicemen’s graves.
This isn’t the main thing I have to tell about. My husband Ted’s brother served in the navy during World War II on an aircraft carrier. In his last letter to us, he was feeling so sad that he hadn’t received mail from home. A short time later his ship was hit by a kamikaze. He was among the 92 young men killed that day.

The Waukon boys track team got a large dose of Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) competition this past week in its two scheduled meets. The Indians were one of five NEIC teams that competed at the New Hampton Invitational Monday, May 4, finishing fifth in that seven-team overall field. The track Tribe then finished sixth in competing against all of its NEIC colleagues at the annual Northeast Iowa Conference Meet hosted this year by Oelwein Thursday, May 7, falling just shy of winning any NEIC event crowns this season.
The Indians were scheduled to host their own Indian Relays Monday, May 11, but had that meet canceled due to injury concerns with competing in cooler weather this close to the Class 3A State Qualifying Meet looming on the schedule at Decorah this Thursday, May 14.

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The Waukon girls golf team traveled to the Edgewater Golf Club in Oelwein Monday, May 4 for its last Northeast Iowa Conference dual match-up of the season and its only competition of the week. The Lady Indians wrapped up their dual meet season in fine fashion, edging out a 201-207 triumph over the host Huskies.
The Lady Indians were scheduled to host the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Monday, May 11 before preparing for their Monday, May 18 Class 3A Regional First Round Tournament at Clermont.

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The Waukon boys golf team wrapped up regular season dual meet play early last week, hosting Oelwein Monday, May 4 and Charles City Tuesday, May 5 in a meet rescheduled from April 7. The varsity squad came up short in both matches, losing 185-169 to Oelwein and 175-169 to Charles City.
The Tribe linksters will now prepare for their Class 3A Sectional Tournament this Friday, May 15 at Decorah.

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The Kee girls track team competed in a pair of meets this past week, matching up against a number of other Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) teams in both large fields. The Lady Hawks finished 14th out of 15 teams at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Monday, May 4 before coming in 11th in the 11-team field at the Upper Iowa Conference Meet hosted by West Central but held at North Fayette Valley High School in West Union Thursday, May 7.
The Hawks were scheduled to host their own postponed home invitational Monday, May 11 before trying to extend their season at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet scheduled for Thursday, May 14 at Edgewood-Colesburg.

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The Waukon girls track team recorded a pair of fifth-place finishes in their two meets this past week, and experienced a milestone along the way. That milestone was the rewriting of a 30-year-old school record in the 4x200 relay by the foursome of senior Lyvia Bulman, juniors Nicole Behrend and Madison Snitker and sophomore Regan Wasson at the Northeast Iowa Conference Meet hosted by Oelwein Thursday, May 7, with the track Tribe recording its other fifth-place team finish at the Waverly-Shell Rock Invitational Tuesday, May 5.
The Indian track girls will now prepare for their Class 3A State Qualifying Meet scheduled for Thursday, May 14 at Decorah.

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