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POWERED BY CARL’S AUTO GROUP. STATE TRACK IS OFF AND RUNNING WITH SOME DOMINATING PERFORMANCES. ON THURSDAY. ����vlog SHANNON EARHART REPORTS FROM THE BLUE OVAL. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE HERE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL STATE TRACK MEET. YOU’LL SEE COME FROM BEHIND WINS. YOU’LL SEE UPSETS. YOU WILL SEE REPEAT CHAMPIONS. BUT HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A5P. YEAH. ME EITHER. THE TWO WAY GIRLS, FOUR BY 800 METER RELAY HASN’T BEEN COMPETITIVE THE LAST FOUR YEARS. WE CALL IT THE VAN METER DYNASTY, AS THE GIRLS HAVE WON FOUR STRAIGHT. THIS YEAR’S TEAM HAS OLIVIA, HALF, PAPP, LAURA STRECK, LIZZY MCCANN AND UNDEFEATED FOUR BY EIGHT SENIOR EMMA MCCOY. ANCHORING. LOSING JUST ISN’T IN THEIR NATURE AS VAN METER FIVE POINTS IN A SEASON BEST PERFORMANCE. I KNEW FROM THE START THAT WE HAD IT. I JUST HAD TO BELIEVE IN THEM AND JUST BELIEVE IN MYSELF. IN THE FOUR BY EIGHT THREE-A RELAY, THE GILBERT GIRLS IN PINK AND BLACK WERE GOING FOR THEIR THIRD STRAIGHT TITLE. KIRA ANDERSON, CAITLYN AND SOPHIA BLAKE GASSED UP SARAH FEDDERSEN, WHO PUT HER FOOT ON THE PEDAL AND SPED GILBERT DUST SECOND PLACE BY FOUR SECONDS, TAKES DOWN A 15 YEAR OLD STATE RECORD AND BECOMES BACK TO BACK TO BACK STATE CHAMPS. ALL THAT WAS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD WAS JUST NO REGRETS. NO REGRETS, NO REGRETS. THIS IS THE FOUR A, THREE K INDIANOLA’S JORDAN BROWN. PIPER MESSERLY AND CHARLY GAUL FROM CEDAR FALLS RAN A TIGHT RACE HALF THE FIELD SET PERSONAL RECORDS, BUT IT’S PIPER MESSERLY FROM DCG WHO RAN THE FASTEST PACE IN 952, WHICH GETS HER THE TITLE. PELLA IS A FACTORY FOR LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS. MARISSA FEREBEE IS ONE OF THE BEASTS. SHE DEFENDS HER 3000 METER TITLE IN 951 .96. THE WHOLE TIME SHE WAS THINKING I WANTED TO GO HOME A STATE CHAMP AND TO STICK WITH IT. AND OUR NEW MOTTO THIS SEASON KIND OF HAS BEEN THIS IS FUN, SO JUST RUN MYSELF OUT. I’M RACING THAT. THIS IS FUN. THE BOYS WERE HEADLINED BY HOUSEHOLD NAME ETHAN ZUBER, THE ANKENY SPEEDSTER WON THE 3200 IN RECORD TIME LAST SEASON. THERE IS A NEW NAME TO KNOW IT’S ROOSEVELT’S OWN MERIT. THE SENIOR BLUE BY ZUBER ON THE LAST 200. GOING OUT ON TOP, DISMANTLING THE ANKENY STAR. MERRITT RAN NINE MINUTES FLAT TO ADD A TITLE TO HIS NAME. HONESTLY, IT’S KIND OF ALL SETTING IN NOW. THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE HERE, ALL MY TEAMMATES COMING DOWN TO THE RAIL TO CELEBRATE, IT’S GREAT. AND LIKE I SAID, I’M JUST HAPPY I GAVE MYSELF THE CHANCE. WE WATCHED DRAMA IN THE HIGH JUMP. THE FAVORITE WENT DOWN EARLY, SO THAT LEFT THE DOOR WIDE OPEN FOR NORTH POLK. SOPHOMORE REECE WAGNER. SHE CLEARS FIVE EIGHT ON HER SECOND ATTEMPT, WHICH, TO HER SURPRISE, NAMED HER CHAMPION. IT WAS LIKE JUST PURE SHOCK. IT WAS SO EXCITING. YOU KNOW, MY BRAIN JUST RACING AND EVERYTHING’S JUST IT’S GREAT. LONG JUMPER. TATUM GRAYDEN BECAME THE FIRST GIRL FROM OGDEN TO WIN A FIELD EVENT AT THE STATE MEET. SHE LAUNCHED 18FT, 3.5IN TO WIN HER FIRST STATE TITLE. THE TWO WAY BOYS 400 CAME DOWN TO 14 HUNDREDTHS OF A SECOND. PRAIRIE CITY MONROE’S RILEY GRABER GETS THE HEAD NOD, TUMBLING DOWN IN CELEBRATORY FASHION. GRABER’S TEAMMATES SAY IT’S ALL BECAUSE HE WENT BLOND, GOING BLOND IN THE HAIR MAKES IT LIGHTER SCIENTIFICALLY, SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL DO IT. I THINK IT SHOWS OUR CONFIDENCE, AND I THINK GRABER JUST RAN A REALLY CONFIDENT RACE.