The damp, cold start to spring sports season in Iowa has cost the Panorama Panther track teams three meets since the opening day of competition on March 26. Despite fewer opportunities to compete, a pair of Panthers are among Class 2A’s best female track athletes through the first two weeks of the season. Quikstats Iowa shows Panorama junior Morgan Johnk as recording the top 100 meter hurdle time in Class 2A at 16.5 seconds. The time was clocked during Panorama’s only outdoor meet so far this spring, the Gail Davis Relays in Perry, on March 30. Johnk has also registered Class 2A’s fifth-best high jump on March 17 at the Central College Indoor Meet, clearing 5’2.25′.

Senior Devyn Kemble ranks among the top five athletes in three sprint races in Class 2A. Her best placing is in the 200-meter dash, clocking half a lap in 27.57 seconds in Perry. Kemble’s result is one-tenth of a second slower than Sumner-Fredricksburg Ivy Hirsch for the top time in the state. Kemble also holds fourth place spots in Class 2A’s 100 meter (13.46 seconds) and 400-meter (1:03.03) dashes. The Raccoon Valley Radio Network caught up with Kemble at the Gail Davis Relays in Perry, and she has high goals for the end of her high school athletic career. “It’s been my goal to win state in anything,” Kemble said, “Last year, in the 400, I placed fourth (overall); It would just be awesome to go out with a bang and win that (event).”

The Panorama boys and girls track teams hope to resume their season Tuesday at the Earlham Invitational.