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Solon Economist

Spartans compete in IATC Outdoor Championships

June 11, 2025

IOWA CITY — Three Solon track and field athletes competed in the Iowa Association of Track Coaches (IATC) 2025 Outdoor Championships this past Saturday at Iowa City West High School. Recent graduate...

Lady Spartans finish their track season Saturday with sprint medley

Joel Kellar May 24, 2025

DES MOINES — As the sun rose on a cloudy Saturday morning in Des Moines, the final day of the Lady Spartans track season had arrived. One event left, one more attempt at a podium finish. It had eluded...

Girls’ 4×400 Relay top ten finish highlights Friday at State Track

Joel Kellar, For the Solon Economist May 23, 2025

DES MOINES —  It’s been the same group of girls all season long; Quinn Armentrout, Jerzey Haluska, Grace Hoeper, and Kobie Lietz. Those four make up a dominant 4x400-meter relay team. One that has...

Spartan’s jump out of the blocks to start the 2025 State Coed Track Meet

Joel Kellar, For the Solon Economist May 22, 2025
This year the Solon Economist is fortunate to have Joel Kellar on the scene in Des Moines to cover the 2025 Class 3A State Coed Track and Field Meet. Joel will provide reports for all three days and an in-depth summary of the Spartans' and Lady Spartans' time on the Blue Oval in the May 29 edition.
Eli Kampman qualified on
time for the 2025 Class
3A State Coed Meet this
week in the 200-meter
dash Thursday, May 15,
in Mount Vernon with a
3rd place finish in 23.10.
He also took 3rd in the
100-meter dash (shown
here) in 11.49.

Solon’s orange and black to appear on Drake’s blue track

Solon Economist May 21, 2025

MOUNT VERNON — Solon’s varsity girls and boys track and field teams are sending eleven events to the 2025 Class 3A State Coed Meet this week at Drake University in Des Moines after last Thursday’s...

Solon’s WaMaC champion 4x800 team celebrates a school record. Left to right Kolar, Svalstad, Kabela, and Bevans

Middle School boys track wraps up record setting season

Mike Kabela May 14, 2025

Solon’s Middle School boys’ track team wrapped up a record setting season placing second in the 8th grade Large School Division of the Mike Henderson Boys’ State Track Meet in Waukee Saturday...

Kobi Lietz crosses the finish line in the 800-meter sprint medley relay Thursday, May 8 in the WaMaC Super Meet at Mt. Vernon HS

A challenging day, but with some bright spots

Ryan Suchomel, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun May 14, 2025

MOUNT VERNON — The WaMaC Super Meet has never been loaded like this. Fourteen conference records were broken Thursday, May 8, at Rogers Family Field in Mount Vernon, where the Clear Creek Amana...

Shafer, Opiol, Grimm, and varsity sprint medley take gold at Muscatine’s Dick Washburn Invitational

Solon Economist May 6, 2025

MUSCATINE — Solon’s junior varsity (JV) and varsity girls track and field teams competed in Muscatine High School’s Dick Washburn Invitational Tuesday, April 29 with the varsity girls placing third...

Spartans win North Cedar Boys Invitational

Solon Economist May 6, 2025

STANWOOD — The Spartans notched a meet victory Tuesday, April 29 in the Cedar County town of Stanwood as they won the North Cedar Boys Invitational with 63 team points. Eli Kampman, Anders Holmes,...

Senior Cole Carney leaves the blocks for the first leg of the sprint medley relay Tuesday, April 22 in Solon’s Denny Gruber Co-Ed Relays. Carney, junior Brady White, senior Evan Burg, and junior Eli Kampman not only won the event in 1:37.38 but also set a new meet record in the process. The previous time of 1:37.63 was set by Solon in 2023.

Spartan’s Track and Field break meet record at Denny Gruber Relays victory

Abbey Ballauer, For the Solon Economist April 30, 2025

The Solon boys' track and field team made strides on the track as well as team history at the Denny Gruber Relays on April 22 at Solon High School, setting a new personal record in the 800-meter sprint...

Layla Shipley sails over the bar in the early stages of the high jump Tuesday, April 22, in Solon’s Denny Gruber Co-Ed Relays. Shipley paced fifth in a three-way tie at 4’-8”.

Lady Spartans shine at Denny Gruber Relays

Abbey Ballauer, For the Solon Economist April 30, 2025

Energy was high at Solon High School Thursday, April 22, as the Lady Spartans took their mark for the girls 4x800-meter relay at the Denny Gruber Relays— and they didn’t disappoint. Athletes Sydney...

Solon Spartans take on the Drake Relays

Abby Princehouse, For the Solon Economist April 30, 2025

The Solon Girls' and Boys' Track teams hit the blue oval at Drake Stadium April 24–26, taking on some of the best competition in Iowa at the Drake Relays. The girls' team punched their ticket in both...

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