Northwest Track & Field Wins Third Title in Four Years

State Track 1Northwest High School was the 4A Team Champion at the 2025 Girls Track and Field State Meet, scoring 101.5 total points — 33 points ahead of runner-up Pleasant Valley.  It was the third state championship for the program since the high school opened four years ago.

The Wolves set three state meet records and two all-time Iowa records while winning six relay events in their historic performance.

“No school had ever won more than four of the seven relays contested in the same year. Northwest won six relays and placed third in the other,” says Northwest Athletics Director Jim Duea.

TMP 16 (1)Northwest Relay Results:

  • 1st — Distance Medley (Quinn Jorgensen, Avery Vogt, Logan Vogt, Emee Dani) — State Meet Record
  • 1st — 4x200m Relay (McCann, Katie Willits, Aunya Van Zetten, Avery Vogt) — All-Time Iowa Record
  • 1st — Sprint Medley (Aunya Van Zetten, Bella Distefano, Sadie McCann, Avery Winter)
  • 1st — Shuttle Hurdle (Aunya Van Zetten, Katie Willits, Lilly Twigg, Alayna Schulte)
  • 1st — 4x100m Relay (Aunya Van Zetten, Avery Vogt, Bella Distefano, Sadie McCann)
  • 1st — 4x400m Relay (Logan Vogt, Avery Winter, Sadie McCann, Avery Vogt) — All-Time Iowa Record
  • 3rd — 4x800m Relay (Piper Vander Ley, Katie Rush, Allison Sheriff, Emee Dani)

A221022Northwest’s success was not limited to the relays.

The team had runner-up performances by Avery Winter in the 400m dash and Katie Willits in the 100m dash.

Willits added a third-place finish in the 200m dash, Alayna Schulte was fourth in the 400m hurdles, and Logan Vogt finished seventh in the 400m dash.

In the field events, Cassidy Danburg and Sophia Schlader placed sixth and seventh in the discus, while Edie Collins was seventh in the high jump.