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Class 2A Girls District Golf at Carroll Municipal GC
05/17/2023 Hosted by Kuemper Catholic
Team Scores
Individual State Qualifiers
Class 3A Girls District Golf at Carroll Country Club
05/17/2023 Hosted by Carroll
Team Scores
Individual State Qualifiers
Atlantic Scores
8th- Belle Berg 91
13th- Makenna Schroeder 95
25th- Abby Muller 103
34th- Emma Rose 106
55th- McKenna Sonntag 123
The 2023 State Track and Field Meet will fire up on Thursday and run through championship events on Saturday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. We’ll have coverage throughout the event on KJAN. Thursday and Friday’s schedule will have Class 1A and 4A athletes competing in the morning session beginning at 9:00 a.m. and Class 2A and 3A athletes in the afternoon session that begins at 2:40 p.m. Saturday’s championship schedule will be all classes starting at 9:00 a.m. Check out the full schedule HERE
Check out the full list of area qualifiers at our previous story HERE. You can check out heat and lane assignments at the following links:
We’ll have live updates on-air throughout each day of the event and continuous updates on our sports page. Check out the full rundown of our report times below.
Thursday, May 18
10:45 am – 11:45 am – 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
Friday, May 19
10:45 am – 11:45 am – 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
Saturday, May 20
9:45 am – 10:45 am – 11:45 am – 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm
Class 1A Girls District Golf Final @ Crestwood Hills
05/17/2023 Hosted by CAM
Team Scores
Individual State Qualifiers
CAM’s Reese Snyder and Griswold’s Joanna Reynolds and Linsey Keiser all tied for 10th with rounds of 96.
(Radio Iowa) – A competition among veterans from across the country gets underway this Saturday in central Iowa. Local coordinator, Joni Osmundson, says this is the 37th year for the National Veterans Golden Age Games. “It features around 20 sporting competitions for veterans who are aged 55 and older. It’s available to veterans all over the country. So it travels to a new city, a new community each year,” she says.
The Department of Veterans Affairs organizes the games that include everything from air pistol to bowling competitions. “Our motto is fitness for life. And the goal is to promote sports and a healthy lifestyle and active and active lifestyle for our senior veterans and giving them purpose to stay involved, stay active in their community, ” Osmundson says. She says the V-A has a lot of different programs to keep veterans active and as long as they can in all stages of their life and to support their rehabilitation and their wellness goals for both physical and mental health.
“The veterans work year round with their local recreation therapist or their local V-A coach. And so they practice they set their goals for their events, they set their goals just for their overall health and wellness,” Osmundson says. “And they use these events as motivators to keep going. And it builds the camaraderie…this event is unlike any sporting competition that you’ll see in the community that the camaraderie among the veterans is pretty incredible.” She says they are starting to see the participation come back after dropping during the pandemic. 
“We didn’t have the in person events during those years. Last year was our first year back in person in Sioux Falls,” She says. “And we saw around 400 veterans participate. So this year, we have over 700 registered and we’re getting back up there in our number. So we’re excited, excited for that.” She says there are more than 50 central Iowa veterans who registered for the event this year and there could be more from Iowa. The Iowa Events Center is the main venue for the games, but they will be spread out across Des Moines and the metro area. Osmundson says the games are open for spectators to watch, and they also are still looking for volunteers to help.
There’s still a lot of shifts available. There’s a lot of locations. So you can kind of choose you know, depending on where you live, what event is happening in your area and sign up for volunteering,” she says. You can find out about volunteering on the V-A Central Iowa Facebook page or you can go to VeteransGoldenAgegames.va.gov. The games will run through next Thursday.
Ten years after graduating from Atlantic High School Dalton Franken is taking over as head boys varsity basketball coach. Franken has been an assistant with the program for the past five seasons, including as JV head coach last season. He said he really appreciates the support he’s received from the community since the announcement was made.
Franken was a standout player for the Trojans, his team going 22-2 their senior season. After graduating in 2013 went on to star at Dordt University. He scored 1,165 points in his college career. He said he can draw on his playing experience and the coaches he learned from to help his coaching journey.
Franken succeeds Derek Hall who recently left for a position in Council Bluffs after leading the team for two seasons. Franken said there certainly is some pressure that comes along with taking over for his Alma-mater but he’ll embrace it.
Every coach likes to put their stamp on a program and have certain points of emphasis. Franken said he wants the Trojans to start with the defensive end of the floor.
Franken said he’s been talking with some coaches he knows to get advice on building the structure for the program and looks forward to getting started with open gyms, camps, and summer ball. Catch a full interview with Coach Franken on our Saturday Morning Coaches Show this Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
Rebekah Topham
Topham had an outstanding career at Griswold from 2012-15. She finished with 11 state titles, four second place finishes, and was a 16-time state medalist. Topham’s specialty was in the distance events, claiming titles in the 1500 all four years. She is just one of five runners to win the 800, 1500 and 3000 in the same meet twice, and one of just two runners to win the 800, 1500, 3000 and 400 Hurdles in the same meet. She is the only female runner to win four state championships in cross country. Topham also left her mark at the Drake Relays, claiming titles in the 1500 and 3000 as a freshman. She competed collegiately at Wichita State, where she won seven indoor Missouri Valley Conference championships with three outdoor titles. She won the Drake relays University-College 1500 in 2016 and 2019, and finished second in the steeplechase in 2018. She ranks second on the Shockers’ all-time list in the indoor 3,000 meters while ranking third in the indoor mile and 5,000 meters.
Abbey Meyer
Meyer ran for Cascade High School from 2011-14 and collected 15 state medals. She accumulated 10 state titles and three second place finishes for the Cougars, all of them in relays. She was a part of Cascade’s 4×200 relay team that won four consecutive titles and anchored the sprint medley team that placed first or second three straight years. Meyer was also a part of Cascade’s 4×400 relay team that placed second or third three straight years. She qualified for the Drake Relays all four years of high school, running in 11 events. An all-state basketball player, Meyer played college basketball at the University of Dubuque.
Staebler ran for Clayton Ridge from 2012-2015. She finished her career with nine titles, four second place finishes and was a 16-time medalist. She won the Class 2A 800 meters three-straight years with one second place finish (.12 seconds behind fellow hall-of-famer Rebekah Topham). Staebler won the 200 and 400 two-straight years, placing second or third twice. During her Drake Relays competition she was one of three athletes to win the 200, 400 and 800 in the same meet and is the
Jasmine Staebler
only runner to do it twice. Staebler went on to star at Iowa State, where she was a four-time All-American. She ran on the distance medley relay team that won the Big 12 indoor title in 2018. She was the Big 12 indoor runner-up in the 800 in 2017 and ‘18, and anchored the second place distance medley relay in 2019. She finished sixth in the NCAA indoor 800 in 2017, and ninth in 2018. She finished eighth in the 800 at the 2016 USA Junior Championships.
The changing of the guard will continue from the fall to the winter sports season at Exira-EHK. It was announced last month that Drew Buckholdt will take over for Tom Petersen as the head football coach for the Spartans, now it has been announced that Tony Santisteban will take over as head boys basketball coach from Doug Newton. The Exira-EHK School Board approved Santisteban’s hiring at their meeting on Tuesday night.
Newton has led the Spartans program for over 20 years and has been in the district for 31 years. Newton leaves with a record of 335-194 during his tenure. He led the Spartans to a state tournament appearance in 2011, a team that Santisteban was a senior on. Santisteban has been an assistant with Newton for a strong number of those seasons after playing under him and graduating in 2011. He led the Spartans with 12 points and 3.2 rebounds per game during that state tournament season.
The Spartans are coming off a 19-5 season in 2022-23 that ended with a loss to West Harrison in the substate semifinals.
(Elk Horn, Iowa) – The Exira-EHK and Audubon Community School District Boards of Education have approved Athletic sharing agreements between the districts. Exira-EHK Superintendent Trevor Miller said it’s great both boards worked together and their respective A-D’s came up with the idea.
He said both boards are unanimous on it, and understand that times are changing and they have to be proactive. The agreement will continue to have Audubon host boys and girls wrestling and they will now host girls track. Exira-EHK will be the host school for girls basketball and girls golf.
The Exira-EHK Board also acted to approve several personnel matters, including:
Drew Buckholdt – HS Asst. Baseball Coach
Cassidy Nerland – HS Asst. Track Coach, and
Tony Santisteban – HS Head Boys Basketball Coach.
CLASS 3A
Substate 1
Storm Lake 4, LeMars 2
Substate 7
Indianola 8, CB Thomas Jefferson 0
Regular Season
CB Abraham Lincoln 3, Sioux City East 2 – OT
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