Greene County added two At-Large State Track & Field qualifiers, one for girls and one for boys, meaning 10 total Greene County events will compete next week at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Coach Derek Merk’s girls have qualified seven events and Coach Chad Morton’s boys’ squad has three.

The At-Large qualifiers are Kamryn Sanders in the long jump for girls and Jesse Miller in the shot put for boys. Both are seniors who placed third in those events and both were already State qualifiers as Miller made it by winning the discus throw on Thursday in Ida Grove at a Class 2A State Qualifying Meet while Sanders is on the girls’ 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 meter relays.

The automatic events making it to State for the Rams at Drake Stadium in Des Moines on May 18-19-20 in additional to Miller in the throwing events for boys is the distance medley relay with Camden Strennen, Richard Daugherty, Nick Stream, and Drew Wolterman. That relay was second at Ida Grove Six automatic State qualifying events for the girls that placed first last Thursday include four that placed first. They are Olivia Shannon in the 200 meter dash, the 4 x 100 meter and 4 x 200 meter relays with Shannon, Sanders, and the Heupel twins, Natalie and Katrina, and Natalie in the 400 meter dash. Also, Kaycee Pittman made it to State with a second place finish in the 800 meter run, and the 4 x 400 meter relay was second with Shannon, Pittman, and both Heupel’s.