Sibling revelry: MV brother-sister lead way at state meet

Marmaton Valley's Janae Granere and Jaedon Granere both earned state track meet medals over the weekend in Wichita. Even better, they and a host of other talented athletes all will return to their respective schools for 2023

May 31, 2022 - 2:21 PM

Marmaton Valley High's Jaedon Granere, center, leans across the line to take third place in the 2A boys 200-meter dash finals Saturday at the state track meet. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

WICHITA — Jaedon Granere’s introduction to high school track ended on a high note Saturday.

The Marmaton Valley High freshman capped his year with a third-place finish in the boys 200-meter dash, running into the teeth of a brutal south wind, but still finishing in 24.07 seconds.

“I knew I might not be able to catch Bryson or Mason out there,” Granere said.

Marmaton Valley High’s Janae Granere medals in the triple jump and long jump Friday and Saturday at the state track meet. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

Marmaton Valley High’s Piper Barney competes Friday in the Class 1A girls 300-meter hurdles at the state track meet. Barney later medaled in the triple jump. Photo by Richard Luken

Marmaton Valley High’s Piper Barney medals in the Class 1A girls triple jump at the state track meet Friday. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

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That would be event champion Bryson Turner of Madison, who won the event in 23.08 seconds. Mason Schurr of Osborne took silver in 23.25 seconds.

“I was able to start kicking it in at the end of the season,” Granere said. “I’m pretty happy.”

Granere highlighted another memorable Class 1A State Track meet performance by a small, but productive, Marmaton Valley squad.

Older sister Janae Granere, sophomore, added to the jumping medals she earned in 2021 by taking fourth in the triple jump and eighth in the long jump. Meanwhile, MV freshman Piper Barney took home the seventh-place medal in the triple jump.

Wildcat junior Kaitlyn Drake narrowly missed out on a medal, placing ninth in the girls high jump, 2 inches out of a medal spot. (Medals go to the top eight finishers).

CREST HIGH also took a group of underclassmen to state, led by junior Ethan Godderz, who took 10th in the long jump and 12th in the triple jump. Sophomore Brenton Edgerton took 14th in the 100 meters. Mia Coleman took 14th in the 100-meter hurdles.

Meanwhile, Josie Weers, the only Southern Coffey County High state participant, took 14th in the 1A girls javelin.

EACH OF the three schools’ participants carry a similarity — youth. All will get a chance to return to state in 2023.

Class 1A State Track Meet

Marmaton Valley

Boys

200m

3. Jaedon Granere, 24.07

Girls

300m hurdles

16. Piper Barney, 54.13

400m

13. Janae Granere, 1:03.15

High jump

9. Kaitlyn Drake, 4’10”;

Long jump

8. Jan. Granere, 16’2.25”

Triple jump

4. Jan. Granere 35’.25”

7. Barney, 33’10.75”

Crest High’s Ethan Godderz competes in the long jump at the Class 1A state track meet Friday. Photo by Richard Luken

Crest High’s Mia Coleman clears a hurdle during the Class 1A girls 100-meter hurdles prelims at the state track meet Friday. Photo by Richard Luken

Crest High’s Brenton Edgerton, right, crosses the finish line in the Class 1A 100-meter dash Saturday at the state track meet. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

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Crest

Boys

100m

14. Brenton Edgerton, 11.7

Long jump

10. Ethan Godderz, 19’10.5”

Triple jump

12. Godderz, 40’6.5”

Girls

100m hurdles

14. Mia Coleman, 17.46