ERIE — Iola Special Olympics athletes traveled to Erie May 12 for a track meet. Their results follow: Fayth “Golden Girl” Simpson: first in 50-meter race, softball throw and standing long jump. Kyle Schmidt: third…

EMPORIA — Southern Coffey County High’s Kyra Ohl is the Lyon County League champion in the discus. Ohl’s work highlighted the day for SCC athletes. On the boys’ side, Aiden Voorhees placed second in the…

GALESBURG — Humboldt Middle School has five league track and field champions roaming its halls this spring. The occasion was the 2021 Tri-Valley League meet, hosted by Galesburg on May 4. Humboldt’s winners were Kyler…

NEODESHA — Humboldt Middle School track and field athletes raked in plenty of hardware Monday at a meet hosted by Neodesha Middle School. Humboldt’s eighth-grade girls took second, while the eighth-grade boys were fourth in…

YATES CENTER — A pack of area high-schoolers hit some high marks on the track and in the field Tuesday at the 2021 Wildcat Invitational. Humboldt High’s Drew Wilhite was a three-time gold medalist, winning…

LYNDON — Humboldt High’s Jada Dangerfield reintroduction to track and field was a humdinger.  Dangerfield, who hadn’t participated in track and field since middle school, opened the 2021 season Thursday by winning the girls shot…

Humboldt High senior Drake Harrington signed a letter of intent Tuesday to run track and cross country at Neosho County Community College in the fall. Harrington is a standout athlete in multiple sports for the…

Marv Smith awoke each morning this fall and braced for the worst. “I was never confident at all that we were going to make it to the end of the season,” Smith said. “Right up…

Last fall, Rachel Bycroft and her Iola High Fillies cross country teammates saved their best for last. After three straight near-misses in qualifying for the 4A state meet, the IHS girls raced to a third-place…

With her senior year officially over, Crest senior Elka Billings is left to wonder how her final track season would have fared had the COVID-19 pandemic not swept the world. Billings had finished 15th, 10th,…