Photos by KCII’s Nate Gonner

Twelve Washington High School student athletes will be making the trip to Des Moines next week to compete at the state track and field meet. The district meet held in Mt. Pleasant Thursday had the Demon boys’ track team claim second place in two events and automatically qualify for the state competition.Tommy Peterson will be going in the shot put competition and Ethan Hansen, Bryce Rickey, Kyle Schindler and Gage Redlinger will be running the 4×200 meter relay. Also, Jacob Hennigan will compete in the 110 meter hurdles and the shuttle hurdle relay team of Hennigan, Alex Gonzalez, Caleb Bex and Redlinger has qualified.

Four girls will be also be representing the Demons in Des Moines. Macy Marek will be running in the 100 and 200 meter dashes after winning both events at the regional meet last week. And the sprint medley team of Marek, Kenzie Marek, Amber Salow and Morgan Kimball has qualified.