After the first day of state track on Friday, several have reached the podium.
Centralia competed in many events in Class 3, and Van-Far and Paris had representation in Class 2. There were four events where Centralia medaled, and the team qualified for four finals on Saturday at Adkins Stadium in Jefferson City. Landen Chapman medaled in the boys 4x800 relay and 3200 for Paris, who are second in the team standings with 12 points behind the 18 points of Jefferson (Festus). Mia Kendrick medaled in the girls long jump for the Paris girls and clinched medals for Saturday in the 100 and 200. Garrett Hopke finished 12th for Van-Far in the boys 3200 with a time of 10:17.64, which was close to the personal-best 10:16.57 he set this season.
Centralia's boys 4x800 relay team of senior Peyson Bryson, senior Wesley Robertson, senior Lane Chancellor and Nolan Spickert finished eighth with a time of 8:09.22. Spickert and Robertson each ran personal-best times of 9:18.47 and 9:26.51, respectively, to finish fourth and seventh in the 3200 to both medal. Senior Kenedee Moss ran a personal-best time of 5:18.40 to finish sixth and medal in the girls 1600, and Katelynn Asbury ran a personal-best 2:23.36 to finish sixth and medal in the girls 800. Ethan Ross qualified for the finals in the boys 200 and 400 with respective preliminary marks of a second-place time of 21.57 and first-place time of 47.69, setting new school records. Ross, along with teammates Robertson, Bryson and Cody Prater, also set a new school record in the boys 4x400 relay with a seventh-place time of 3:25.93. Becca Erisman qualified for the girls 300 hurdles finals on Saturday with a personal-best time of 46.04 to finish fifth.
Chapman had a second-place boys 4x800 time of 8:19.10 along with teammates Case Morgan, Owen Buie and Hayden DeOrnellas. In the boys 3200, Chapman had a personal-best time of 9:37.65 to finish fifth for his second medal of the day. Kendrick finished fourth in the girls long jump with a distance of 5.23 meters to medal, and she advanced to Saturday's finals in the girls 100 and 200 with respective marks of a sixth-place time of 12.48 and a sixth-place time of 25.82.
Look for more state track coverage on Friday and full state track stories in the Wednesday, May, 27, 2026, edition of the Mexico Ledger.
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