BAILEY SCHMIMKE, BHS RELAY TEAMS ALSO WON TITLES
Iowa high school boys track and field competition can be traced back to the early 1900's. But, the Iowa girls program didn't get underway until the early 1960's. In 2005, both programs, the boys and girls, started performing State Track competition at the same site on the same day.
For the girls, class competition began in 1978 with two classes, 3-A and a 2-A/1-A combo. In 1981, all three classes were split and in 2003, a fourth class, 4-A, was added.
It took some time for the Boone High School girls program to reach prominence but it certainly did, especially in the 2013-16 years, when several individual and relay championships were achieved.
Actually, it was Tami Colby, in 1984, that became the first big BHS girls winner. That year, she placed second in the 3000 run at the State Indoor meet.
That brings to mind a terrible Iowa athletic tragedy remembered. While a cross country runner at Iowa State a few years later, Tami and her teammates were in two planes returning to campus after a meet. One of the planes went down and there were casualties. Tami, fortunately, was on a second plane that did land safely.
Dianna Slight and Bailey Schminke rein as BHS state champions in individual events. Slight won the 400 dash title, back-to-back, in 2015 and 2016. Her 2015 time in the event was 54.73, which still ranks as the sixth best Iowa time ever. She also won a long jump crown at 17 6 3/4 in 2016 and was second in the 3-A 100 that year. She was also an important member of several top BHS relay units.
Bailey Schminke placed second in the long jump in the 2013 state meet and then took top honors in that event in 2015 with a leap of 18 1 1/4.
Two Boone High relay teams have come home at number one. The 4 x 100 team of 2014 ran 49.46 and the sprint medley foursome of 2015 clocked 1:46.43. That's the 21st best time recorded in that event.
A 2014 sprint medley team placed second, a 4 x 200 team was runnerup in 2015 and in 2016, both the shuttle hurdle and 4 x 200 teams took second place state honors.
Slight, both Bailey and Linsey Schminke, along with others, such as Breanne Aspengren, Madlyn Danner, Payton Lyons and Jada Wyrick, were members of those relay teams with high state meet finishes.
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IN TOREADOR BOYS TENNIS, FIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
In boys tennis, Boone High School has produced state champions in both singles and doubles play.
That history got started almost 80 years ago when the Toreador doubles team of Dick Farley and Dick Lantz captured the state doubles championship in 1942.
The next time BHS claimed championships it was in 1-A class competition.
In singles, Bill Courter was the state winner in 1984 and John Ellis claimed number one in 2012. Courter had been runnerup in 1983 and in 1989, Ryan Grabau placed second.
Turning to doubles play, the Courter and Eric Foster duo were the state champion in 1982, while Chad Moklestad and Mitchell McPartland were best in 2012.
Ramin Mikaili and Foster placed second in 1981 while in 2010, John Ellis and Moklestad teamed for a runnerup finish.
Due to injury, Grabau was forced to default in a singles consolation match in 1991.
A pair of BHS doubles teams finished third. That would be Andrew Ahrens and Chris Hagan in 2002 and the twosome of Mason Hulse and Corbin Wafful in 2018.
In team play, the Toreadors have been a consistent threat, making 14 different appearances at state.
They've finished third six times......1990, 94, 2000, 2011, 2012 and 2018. Three times they've finished fourth......2001, 02 and 2014.
The BHS team also earned their way into state play in 1983, 86, 2016, 17 and 19.
Chad Moklestad and Kelli Greiner were the state coed runnerup in 2013.
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IN THE 1920'S, BHS TEAMS DID SOME TRAVELING
In viewing some old newspaper articles, it was surprising to see that various Boone High School athletic teams have participated in activities in other states.
The Boone state championship basketball team of 1920 accepted an invitation to compete in a tournament in Chicago that featured outstanding teams from several other states. The 1921 team repeated as Iowa champions and were asked to compete in a tourney in Madison, Wisconsin but declined.
Steve Shaler, BHS-59, has added information about a 1921 boys track and field team traveling all the way to Colorado for competition.
In a Des Moines Register article Steve sent that is dated May 11, 1921, readers are told that Coach Duke Williams took his squad to Boulder, CO to a "big meet staged by the University of Colorado." Nineteen schools are entered, nine of them from Colorado and 10 from out of state. The Boone team is the only Iowa entrant.
Coach Williams indicated that he would take "Hap" Moran, Bernice Myers, Clyde "Squirrel" Moore, Harry Schroeder and Wesley Shaler to the Colorado meet. Wesley Shaler, Steve's dad, was a half-miler and miler.
Coach Williams was pretty confident. He said he believed that his squad would win the pole vault, shot put, discus, mile run and 440-dash. Coach said, "I think we'll get some firsts. The boys are in good condition after winning an Ames dual meet, 90-20, at Ames."
Naturally, the squad was going to enjoy some of the surroundings while in Boulder. They were to leave Boone on Thursday afternoon and workout on Friday before the Saturday meet. But then, Sunday, an auto trip to Colorado Springs, Manitou and a ride to the top of Pikes Peak were scheduled. They were to return to Boone Monday or Tuesday morning.
The thing that amazes the Kornerman is the fact that this and similar events took place 100 years ago and I can remember when I was working at the Iowa High School Athletic Association, 1970-2000, there were strict rules regarding Iowa high schools competing in out-of-state events. In fact, it seems to me such competition was not allowed at all except, perhaps, when it was Iowa border schools matching up with neighboring state border schools. Long travel, loss of school time etc. were cited as reasons for the restrictions. Perhaps things have changed in recent years.
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BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Kerry Hannan, 56, Ogden..........Hatie Sue Ball, 81, Boone/Stratford..........Don Vest, 90, Independence, MO. BSH-49. A Boone survivor is a sister, Ethel Morgan........Merle (Bud) Webb, 84, Boone/Ames. Air Force vet. Married Patricia Kruger in 1962 and that marriage was dissolved. Married Linda Fox and that couple divorced. Married Carolyn Reynoldson in 1978. He had come to Boone in 1973 to open the Pamida store here. From 1977 until its closing in 1988, he owned and operated Webb's Hardware. In retirement, was a school bus driver, worked at Ames Lab and for Tones Spices. Survivors include his wife, Carolyn, four sons, including Marcus Webb of Boone, a daughter and four sisters.
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