WELLSVILLE — Iola Middle School ended its 2024 track and field season with a bang Monday.
The Mustang athletes brought home plenty of gold — nine individual event champions — while the IMS seventh-grade girls brought home their first team trophy since at least 2000.
Headlining the charge was seventh-grader Haidyn Desmarteau, who entered four events, and won four events.
She started her day by setting a new school record in winning the long jump with a leap of 14 feet, 10 inches. Desmarteau won gold in the 100-meter dash. She was anchor in the first-place 4×100-meter-relay team, alongside Kinzley Fountain, Camryn Wille and Hannah Thompson. Desmarteau ended the day by dusting the competition in the 200-meter dash.
The IMS seventh-grade girls brought home their first league championship.
Desmarteau was joined atop the medal stand with classmate Macie Stokes, who won the 800-meter run, eighth-graders Kevon Loving (long jump); Henry Kramer (shot put), Mosiah Fawson (800 meters) and the eighth-grade boys’ 4×200-meter relay team of Noah Anderson, Colton Thompson, Fawson and Reginald Davis.
As an aside, Loving also ran a blistering 55-second 400-meter dash, good for silver.
Iola’s eighth-grade boys took second as a team, while the seventh-grade boys took third and the eighth-grade girls finished seventh.
Iola’s results follow:
Pioneer League Meet
Girls
Seventh Grade
Team Scores: 1. Iola, 133; 2. Burlington, 115; 3. Santa Fe Trail, 107; 4. Prairie View, 56; 5. Osawatomie, 25; 6. Anderson Co., 11; 7. Wellsville, 7
100 meters — 1. Haidyn Desmarteau, 13.31; 3. Kinzley Fountain, 14.38; 4. Camryn Wille, 14.53; 12. Liliana Jerome, 15.76
200 meters — 2. Desmarteau, 27.90; 6. Wille, 32.04; 7. Kashyn Curry, 33.01; 9. Fountain, 33.44
