Track - Field

One local football coach has decided to hang up the whistle and put away the playbook after 46 years of coaching and five state championships at the high school level. 

There are two local high school basketball teams that will look to their upperclassmen to help stay relevant throughout the year and for a shot at the state tournament. 

Lucas Ailport 

sports intern

Austin Smestad and Cassidy Smestad are siblings who both graduated from Mounds View High School. They were multi-sport athletes in high school and picked out a single sport to pursue in college. 

Although they graduated from high school a year apart, Alex and Laurisa Titterud recently closed out their collegiate athletic careers at the same event.

The Irondale High School girls track and field team that qualified for state in the 4x400-meter relay in 2015 finished in the bottom half of the standings in the prelims and did not advance to the finals.

The Roseville Area High School track and field teams have one meet remaining on its 2016 schedule. That would be the state meet.

Jake Kubiatowicz entered the state track and field meet as the No. 2 seed in the discus and it appeared he had some work to do to overcome the top seed. It turned out that Kubiatowicz got the heavy lifting done early.

Of its eight state entries, Concordia Academy’s track and field teams amassed five all-state honors.

Roseville Area High School saw its contingent of athletes at the state track and field meet amass four all-state performances at the event held June 10-11 at Hamline University in St. Paul.