The Indianola girls track and field team qualified 11 events to the State Track and Field Meet this week at the Drake Blue Oval, earning an extra six events in at-large bids. Head girls coach Kim Ardnt tells KNIA News the girls performed well at the qualifiers, enough to get a lot of events in and make some noise to surprise people at state, but the squad knows they still have a lot to improve upon.

“Something I heard from them since Thursday was yeah we had a lot of new personal bests to qualify for state, but they still feel like they haven’t run their best race yet. We are going to be working on some of the small fundamental things like handoffs and footwork, and try to get that all cleaned up for this next week.”

The State Track and Field Meet is Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at Drake University.