Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

DES MOINES – When the dust settled on the 2025 state track and field meet on Saturday evening West High found itself in a familiar position.

West High posted a third consecutive top-five team finish placing fifth with 53 points.

One of the big reasons for the Trojans’ recent string of success, senior Moustafa Tiea, added one final chapter to his incredible high school story on Saturday.

Tiea finished third in the Class 4A 800 to help West High lock up another top-five team finish.

“Knowing that I am able to leave the team on a high note means a lot more than anything I achieved,” Tiea said. “At the end of the day I am on Iowa City West not on team Moustafa Tiea.”

The defending 800 champion Tiea clocked a 1:52.96 while running in the opening heat on Saturday.

West Des Moines Dowling senior Owen Wolfe won the 800 in a time of 1:50.51 while Ankeny senior Ethan Zuber was runner-up in 1:52.53.

Tiea’s time of 1:52.96 out of the first heat was faster than the 1:54.24 that he ran while winning the 4A title a season ago.

“I look at it as with the cards that were given to me I did the best that I could,” Tiea said. “Whatever position I was put in I wanted to execute the best that I could.”

A pair of West High relays joined Tiea in adding to West High’s point total on Saturday.

The Trojan sprint medley relay foursome of Mason Woods, Harel Gameti, Julian Manson and Mason Goering finished seventh in a time of 1:31.62.

Cedar Falls won the sprint medley in a time of 1:30.19.

The West High shuttle hurdle relay team of Ely Smock, Waleed Ibrahim, Cade Towler and Ryder Gorsh finished seventh in a time of 1:02.52.

Ankeny won the shuttle hurdle relay in a state meet record time of 56.06 while Waukee Northwest was runner-up in 56.16 and Cedar Rapids Kennedy was third in 56.55.

Class 4A State Track Meet

Girls Results

Team scores (top 10/area teams) – 1. Waukee Northwest 101.5; 2. Pleasant Valley 68.5; 3. Cedar Falls 56; 4. Indianola 52; 5. Ankeny 51; 6. West Des Moines Valley 43; 7. Johnston 34; 8. Ames 30; 9. Dallas Center-Grimes 29; 9. West Des Moines Dowling 29; 21. City High 11; 24. Liberty High 5; 30. West High 1

Individual results (event winners; area competitors)

100 – 1. Grace Erick (Sioux City East) 11.98

200 – 1. Grace Erick (Sioux City East) 25.29

800 – 1. Olivia Fehn (Johnston) 2:12.03; 14. Abigail Burns (City High) 2:17.98

1,500 – 1. Charlee Gall (Cedar Falls) 4:29.87

100 hurdles – 1. Emma Havighurst (West Des Moines Valley) 13.68; 8. Sophia Olivo (West High) 15.14

Sprint medley relay – 1. Waukee Northwest 1:45.72; 10. City High (Dede Aboussa-Folly, Janiah Newell, Ellie Fraga, Maeve Bowen-Burt) 1:50.14; 21. Liberty High (Ivy Nuro Gyina, Alexi Thigpen, Chelsea VeDepo, Averie Bilskemper) 1:54.68

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Waukee Northwest 1:01.1

4×100 – 1. Waukee Northwest 47.37

4×400 – 1. Waukee Northwest 3:47.46

Boys Results

Team scores (top 10/area teams) – 1. Ankeny 100; 2. Cedar Falls 78; 3. West Des Moines Dowling 66.5; 4. Ankeny Centennial 61; 5. West High 53; 6. Johnston 43; 7. Waukee Northwest 36; 8. Waterloo West 33; 9. Cedar Rapids Prairie 32; 10. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 31; 17. City High 12; 24. Liberty High 6.5

Individual results (event winners; area competitors)

100 – 1. Ben Frazier (Waterloo West) 10.83

200 – 1. Braeden Jackson (Ankeny Centennial) 21.64

800 – 1. Owen Wolfe (West Des Moines Dowling) 1:50.51; 3. Moustafa Tiea (West High) 1:52.96; 16. Sam Showers (West High) 1:56.46

1,600 – 1. Owen Wolfe (West Des Moines Dowling) 4:09.21; 5. Keegan Decker (Liberty High) 4:13.64

110 hurdles – 1. Quinton Alexander (Cedar Rapids Prairie) 13.65

Sprint medley relay – 1. Cedar Falls 1:30.19; 7. West High (Mason Woods, Harel Gameti, Julian Manson, Mason Goering) 1:31.62; 20. Liberty High (Jackson Burnes, Leo Rozz, Keshawn Wyldon, Cale Baldwin) 1:35.62

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Ankeny 56.06; 7. West High (Ely Smock, Waleed Ibrahim, Cade Towler, Ryder Gorsh) 1:02.52

4×100 – 1. Ankeny Centennial 41.29

4×400 – 1. Cedar Falls 3:14.35

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