Track and Field 2025: Wayzata girls, Hastings boys are Class AAA champions

Hastings went into the final event of the Minnesota State High School League's 2025 Boys and Girls Track and Field Meet on a rainy Thursday evening at St. Michael-Albertville High School knowing a win in the Boys 4x400 would lead to an even bigger win.

The team of Jack Cloutier, Gunner Hanstad, Johnathan Vickney and Sebastian Strauss came through, accumulating 12 team points with a victory in 3:19.41. That upped the Raiders' total to 52 points and to the top of the team standings for the first time in program history.

Mounds View (49), Elk River (48) and Stillwater Area (47) were all close behind in a competitive meet.

Hastings also won the 4x200 with a season-best mark of 1:25.80. Strauss and Hanstad were on that team with Cole Zeien and Lane Hoffman. 

Strauss went on to win the 400 in 49.02 seconds, then Hoffman captured the 200 title in 21.22 seconds. Both are juniors.

The Wayzata girls needed no such dramatics with 102.5 points for their second state championship and first since 2007.

The Trojans were similarly successful in relays, winning both the 4x800 and 4x200 and taking second in the 4x400. Addison Neitz, Alyson Kleyman, Lila Golomb and Julia Link took the 4x800 crown in 9:16.67. Constanza Castillo, Carolyn Voss, Tessa Cherne and Tenley Senden ran the winning 4x200 in 1:40.96.

Junior Maddie Gullickson added another gold Thursday by running 4:49.50 in the 1,600, two days after she also captured the 3,200 crown.

St. Michael-Albertville was second with 73 points, Minnetonka third with 64.

Here's a roundup of Thursday's other Class AAA events.

Class AAA Girls

Home, sweet home — A St. Michael-Albertville duo captured multiple gold medals on their home track. Junior Emma Kvant even set an all-time State Meet record with a time of 53.94 seconds in the 400. She went 1-2 with teammate Gabriella Keefer in the 200 with times of 24.62 and 24.70. And Keefer, a senior, ran to the 100-Meter Dash title in 11.89 seconds.

Raising the bar — Roseville Area junior Jayda Wilson went over the bar set at 13 feet in the Pole Vault, clearing the rest of the field — and her State Meet-winning height from a year ago — by a foot.

More champions

• Maple Grove topped Wayzata in the 4x400, with Rebecca Lang, Lillian White, Eva Williams and Mackenzie Laux running 3:52.52.
• Moorhead was the 4x100 champion in 48.53 seconds. The team consisted of Audrey Janich, Cipriana Jones, Kaityn Walthers and Quinn Erickson.
• Lakeville South junior Evan Welsch was the 100 Hurdles champion in 14.27 seconds.
• Mounds View sophomore Allison Richter took the 300 Hurdles crown in 43.62 seconds.
• Chaska junior Noella Ross ran 2:12.92 to claim the 800 gold.
• Elk River sophomore Shiaflyn Cooper was the Triple Jump champion at 38-0.5
• Stillwater Area junior Sylvia Boyum earned the Shot Put championship (41-2.25)

Class AAA Boys

Three-peats — Wayzata junior Macalister Hedtke won both the 200 Wheelchair (44.20 seconds) and Discus Wheelchair (40 feet, 6 inches) for the third year in a row.

On repeat — Hopkins senior Henry Risser successfully defended his 800 title in 1:52.82. Anoka junior Isaiah Salami once again was the High Jump champion, clearing 6 feet, 6 inches.

Pair of golds — Elk River ninth-grader won both the 100 Wheelchair (22.86) and 400 Wheelchair (1:32.91).

Gold to go with a record — Minnesota all-time 110-meter High Hurdles record-holder Joshua Kyei-Baffour of Rochester Century took first place in that event with a time of 13.94 seconds. His record performance earlier this season (in much nicer conditions) was detailed by John's Journal.

More champions

• The Triple Jump runner-up on Tuesday, Elk River senior Tonie Torboh took the next step with a Long Jump title on Thursday at 22 feet, 6.75 inches.
• Stillwater Area junior Tyler Curnow was the Discus gold medalist with a toss of 176 feet, 8 inches. He was third in the shot put on Tuesday.
• Chanhassen senior Myles Woods ran a winning 100-Meter Dash in 10.44 seconds.
• Cretin-Derham Hall senior Michael Seifu topped the podium in the 300 Hurdles (37.73).
• Mounds View senior Casey Poppler was the 1,600 champion in 4:15.90.
• Elk River won the 4x100 with Brecken Keoraj, Jackson Freeman, Owen Westberg and Levi Harris in 42.07 seconds.
• Eden Prairie claimed the 4x800 title in 7:59.94 with Elijah Donaldson, Tyler Doolittle, Elijah Magare and Simeon Donaldson.