Mid-Missouri athletes win state titles, wrap up 2025 MSHSAA Track & Field Championships
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
Mid-Missouri has added more state champions to its 2025 MSHSAA Track & Field Championships résumé.
Across 74 events, local talent took the top step of the podium nine times at the grand finale of this year's state championships. Central Missouri athletes also accounted for 50 state medals at Adkins Stadium on Saturday.
One of Mid-Missouri's state champions was crowned twice on the last day of competition. Tolton's Elyse Wilmes won Class 4 state titles in both the 1600-meter run (4:53.13) and 800-meter dash (2:07.52), representing her second and third championships of the weekend. Wilmes became a four-time state champion in the 800-meter run and clinched her third straight state title in the 1600-meter race.
Additionally, two more local athletes also captured back-to-back state crowns. Capital City's Tyrica Sterrett ended her senior season with two consecutive state championships in the 100-meter dash, finishing with a time of 11.71 seconds. Osage's Landon Childs is also a a back-to-back state title winner, following a 4.54-meter effort.
Central Missouri saw plenty of success but shined the most in the 4x200 relays. Rock Bridge's team of Riley Rolwing, Carter Atkinson, Brennan Scott and Drevyn Seamon broke the overall Missouri state record enroute to a Class 5 state title, tallying a 1:25.13 time which was 0.37-seconds faster than the previous record holder. Helias' team of Deaven Duemmel, Kenadi Harrison, Corynn Frank and Isla Alfultis also defeated the field in photo finish fashion, winning the Class 4 state championship by just two-hundredths of a second (1:41.14)
Jefferson City's Lillian Davis concluded her 2025 campaign as a state champion at her home stadium. Davis dominated the competition in the Class 5 Girls Shot Put by 0.71-meters (13.53) and was the only athlete to surpass the 13-meter threshold with an attempt.
Finally, a pair of underclassmen also brought home the gold for the first time in their young high school careers. Hickman's John Moss set a new Class 5 state record in the 200-meter dash to take first place with a 21.06-second effort while Battle's Xavier Wandrey won the high jump in Class 5 with a meet-best 2.01-meter leap. Both of those Columbia athletes are sophomores.
However, Mid-Missouri's schools also excelled as teams. Rock Bridge (46) and Helias (45) both earned team trophies with third place finishes in the Class 5 Boys and Class 4 Girls competitions, respectively. The Bruins have finished top four at state on nine different occasions while the Crusaders have accomplished the same mission in 13 different seasons.
You can find a full list of Saturday's state medalists below:
- Class 4 Boys Pole Vault:
- 1st Place: Landon Childs (Osage)
- 3rd Place: Levi Casey (Capital City)
- Class 5 Boys High Jump:
- 1st Place: Xavier Wandrey (Battle)
- Class 4 Boys Discus Throw:
- 7th Place: Brooks Horton (Capital City)
- Class 5 Girls Long Jump:
- 3rd Place: Athena Peterson (Hickman)
- Class 4 Girls Triple Jump:
- 3rd Place: Jaidyn Tabony (Osage)
- 4th Place: Shelley Thompson (Marshall)
- Class 5 Girls Shot Put:
- 1st Place: Lillian Davis (Jefferson City)
- 8th Place: Stevenette Samuels (Jefferson City)
- Class 4 Girls Javelin:
- 8th Place: Sadie Sexauer (Tolton Catholic)
- Class 4 Boys 4x800:
- 2nd Place: Daniel Morris, Noah Doolittle, Alex Marberry & Ian Benne (Helias Catholic)
- Class 5 Boys 4x800:
- 6th Place: Baron Carratura, Adam Baehr, Ethan Hockman & Noah Canlas (Rock Bridge)
- Class 4 Girls 100m Hurdles:
- 8th Place: Leah Polley (Helias Catholic)
- Class 5 Girls 100m Hurdles:
- 4th Place: Athena Peterson (Hickman)
- Class 4 Boys 110m Hurdles:
- 3rd Place: Isaiah Franklin (Capital City)
- 4th Place: Landon Childs (Osage)
- Class 4 Girls 100m:
- 1st Place: Tyrica Sterrett (Capital City)
- 3rd Place: Isla Alfultis (Helias Catholic)
- Class 5 Boys 100m:
- 3rd Place: Drevyn Seamon (Rock Bridge)
- 7th Place: Langston Thomas (Hickman)
- Class 4 Girls 4x200:
- 1st Place: Deaven Duemmel, Kenadi Harrison, Corynn Frank & Isla Alfultis (Helias Catholic)
- 6th Place: Madilyn Shewmaker, Alaya Bryant-Hughes, Layla Hess & Tyrica Sterrett (Capital City)
- Class 4 Boys 4x200:
- 2nd Place: Drake Williams, Noah Stephens, Dayne Depee & Noah Northrip (Osage)
- Class 5 Boys 4x200:
- 1st Place: Riley Rolwing, Carter Atkinson, Brennan Scott & Drevyn Seamon (Rock Bridge)
- Class 5 Girls Pole Vault:
- 7th Place: Alessandra Obrist (Rolla)
- Class 4 Girls 1600m:
- 1st Place: Elyse Wilmes (Tolton Catholic)
- Class 5 Girls High Jump:
- 4th Place: Chelsea Colench (Rolla)
- Class 4 Girls 4x100:
- 5th Place: Madilyn Shewmaker, Tyrica Sterrett, Layla Hess & Alaya Bryant-Hughes (Capital City)
- 7th Place: Sierra Zuck, Leah Polley, Corynn Frank & Kenadi Harrison (Helias Catholic)
- Class 4 Boys 4x100:
- 7th Place: Quincian Leverett, Connor Bonchonsky, Logan Lane & Parker Bonchonsky (Capital City)
- 8th Place: Drake Williams, Noah Northrip, Landon Childs & Noah Stephens (Osage)
- Class 5 Boys 4x100:
- 4th Place: Riley Rolwing, Carter Atkinson, William Bliss & Drevyn Seamon (Rock Bridge)
- Class 4 Boys Long Jump:
- 5th Place: Ty Wiethop (Camdenton)
- Class 5 Boys Triple Jump:
- 3rd Place: Cha'ion Crump (Battle)
- Class 4 Boys Javelin:
- 5th Place: Elijah Dickerson (Camdenton)
- Class 4 Girls 400m:
- 6th Place: Deaven Duemmel (Helias Catholic)
- Class 5 Boys 400m:
- 2nd Place: John Moss (Hickman)
- 5th Place: Brennan Scott (Rock Bridge)
- Class 4 Girls 300m Hurdles:
- 2nd Place: Isla Alfultis (Helias Catholic)
- 7th Place: Madilyn Shewmaker (Capital City)
- Class 5 Girls 300m Hurdles:
- 6th Place: Athena Peterson (Hickman)
- Class 4 Girls 800m:
- 1st Place: Elyse Wilmes (Tolton Catholic)
- Class 4 Girls 200m:
- 2nd Place: Tyrica Sterrett (Capital City)
- 3rd Place: Isla Alfultis (Helias Catholic)
- Class 5 Boys 200m:
- 1st Place: John Moss (Hickman)
- 3rd Place: Drevyn Seamon (Rock Bridge)
- 5th Place: Langston Thomas (Hickman)
- Class 4 Girls 4x400:
- 4th Place: Corynn Frank, Lauren Verslues, Deaven Duemmel & Kenadi Harrison (Helias Catholic)
- Class 4 Boys 4x400:
- 7th Place: Benjamin Schroeder, John Glaude, William Bramon & Sam Ryan (Tolton Catholic)
- Class 5 Boys 4x400:
- 2nd Place: Justin Giles, Adam Baehr, Nicholas Timbrook & Brennan Scott (Rock Bridge)
Central Missouri earned 27 state titles and 234 medals over both weekends at the 2025 MSHSAA Track & Field Championships.
