Waukon girls cross country team gets 2026 campaign off to a successful start with win at Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational
Surge of sophomores and seniors ... This group of Waukon girls cross country runners help pace each other along the course at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, August 25, with Postville sophomore Tenley Deering (far left) also keeping pace on her way to a 33rd-place finish in a time of 23:09.76. Left to right for the Lady Indians are seniors Claire Johnson and Jaelyn Johanningmeier, and sophomores Elsie Sweeney and Lyla Stigler. Stigler and Sweeney helped round out the Waukon girls’ team scoring, as Stigler placed 14th overall and 12th for team scoring with her clocking of 21:51.46 and Sweeney finished 18th for team scoring, 21st overall, in a time of 22:09.08. Johanningmeier finished 23rd overall, 20th for team scoring, in a time of 22:11.63, and Johnson placed 28th overall, 25th for any team scoring purpose, with her clocking of 22:45.18. Photo by Dave Davies.
Being ranked second in the initial Class 2A rankings by the Iowa Track & Field Coaches Association, the Waukon girls cross country team took its first competition steps toward proving that high regard when the Lady Indians - literally - ran away with the team title at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, August 25. Placing four runners within the top 15 individual finishers and all five of their team-scored runners within the top-21 of that overall field of 130 runners at the all high school meet with just a single girls race, the distance Tribe tallied 53 team points to top the remainder of that field of nine scored teams by at least 20 points.
The Waukon girls were next scheduled to compete in the Charles City Invitational this Thursday, September 3. The Lady Indians will then take part in the North Fayette Valley Invitational at West Union Thursday, September 10 before competing at the Starmont Invitational scheduled for Tuesday, September 15.
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