(6-8-25) The Coldwater Girls track team won the D III State title yesterday in Columbus on Saturday, scoring 65.50 points…followed by Oberlin with 38 points and Columbus Grove with 32 points .

The state title for Coldwater was their the first since 1996 (see details at the bottom of the post). Coldwater finished second in D-III at last year’s state meet.

Coldwater’s Izzy Zahn, in her final high school meet, won the 400 (52.89 seconds) and 200 (23.04), which were both new Division III state record times. Zahn anchored the winning 1,600 relay (Audrey Alig, Lana Kaiser, Kiersten Keller, Zahn: 3:53.94), which also recorded a new D-III state record.

On Friday, Zahn won the long jump with a jump of 18-8.50.

Fort Recovery’s Anna Roessner won the D-III state title in the 100, tying the state record with a time of 11.75. Roessner finished second to Zahn in the 200 (23.89) and placed third in the 400 in a time of 55.57.

D III featured numerous stars during the weekend—

Division III: Coldwater’s Claire Bertke (fifth in 100, 12.42; seventh in 200, 25.65), Coldwater’s 400 relay (Brookelyn Sudhoff, Ava Smith, Kiersten Keller, Claire Bertke; fifth, 50.08), Coldwater’s Audrey Alig (second in 800; 2:13.73), Marion Local’s Grace Moeller (second in 100 hurdles; 14.65), Marion Local’s Grace Moeller (fourth in 300 hurdles; 44.95), Minster’s Molly Brame (sixth in 100 hurdles, 15.31), Minster’s Claire Bohman (sixth in 1,600; 5:15.99), Minster’s 1,600 relay (Sophia Dirksen, Annie Hemmelgarn, Joanna Topp, Claire Bohman; fourth, 4:00.15), St. Henry’s 800 relay (Morgan Baumer, Evie Gast, Sam Lauber, Ellie Fullenkamp; sixth, 1:45.28), St. Henry’s 400 relay (Morgan Baumer, Karlee Buschur, Sam Lauber, Ellie Fullenkamp; sixth, 50.20), St. Henry’s Karlee Buschur (sixth in 300 hurdles; 45.63)

BOYS

Celina’s Jon Lutz placed second in the D-I 110 hurdles (14.05) he told the Lima News –

“Yesterday (Friday’s preliminaries), all I had to do was qualify (for the finals). So, I went out there qualified and did my thing. Then after that race I was having some hamstring problems. So, all night long I was getting ice on it, resting up, and doing the things I needed to do to come out and get this thing done. I came out here, got a good start and it was all so close. I pushed myself to get better and the result was second.”

St. Henry’s Harrod, Kaiser shine in the sprints

St. Henry’s Cole Kaiser placed second in the 100 (10.88), while teammate Carson Harrod finished third in the 110 hurdles (14.70) in D-III.

Division III: Marion Local’s Victor Hoelscher (sixth; 100, 11.08; 200; fourth, 22.00), Marion Local’s 800 (Mason Jones, Oliver Huelsman, Justin Knouff, Victor Hoelscher; fifth, 1:29.99), New Bremen’s Sam Bernhold (800; seventh, 1:56.98), St. Henry’s 800 relay (Carson Harrod, Zack Heath, Will Gerlach, Cole Kaiser; sixth, 1:30.18), St. Henry’s 400 relay (Carson Harrod, Zach Heath, Kenseth Hoying, Cole Kaiser; fourth, 43.51)

2025 State Meet Results​

A look back….

Coldwater girls won three consecutive Ohio D II Stampionships…1994, 1995 and 1996.

from the 1996, June 5th-11th Mercer County Chronicle