By Sam Parsons

The Oskaloosa Indians girls track team competed in their state qualifying meet at Pella last night and automatically qualified for 4 state track events.

Tierney Carter will be heading to the Blue Oval for the fourth straight year after auto-qualifying for both the 400m and the 400m hurdles. In the 400m, she was district champion with a school record time of 56.92. In the 400m hurdles, she was also district champ, finishing with a PR time of 65.52.

The Indians also had two relay teams punch their tickets to state. The SMR team of Monica Hundley, Vivian Bolibaugh, Delaney Harbour, and Tierney Carter ran to a 1st place finish with a school record time of 1:48.2. The Distance Medley Relay team of Monica Hundley, Alyssa Sheets, Delaney Harbour, and Kennedy Wright auto-qualified with a season-best time of 4:26.4, which earned 2nd place.

Additional qualifiers have since been announced, now that all times have been made official: Tierney Carter will also be representing Oskaloosa in the 800m run at state, and Delaney Harbour will be representing Oskaloosa in the long jump.

The state track meets will take place from May 21-23 for all classes.