Buhler High School’s duo of Corbin Starkweather and Jenna Lackey helped get the Crusader girls off to a good start at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships Friday morning with first-place gold medal performances.
The state track meet took place Friday and Saturday at Crossland Stadium on the Wichita State University campus.
The Buhler girls team placed second with 75 points. Andale won the 4A girls state title with 98 points.
Starkweather, a junior, captured the first-place gold medal in the Kansas Class 4A girls 3200 with a Kansas Top 10 time of 10 minutes, 55.81 seconds.
Isabella Friesen, a sophomore, placed fourth with a Kansas Top 50 time (11:15.71). Buhler sophomore Lauren Welch placed 15th (107-3).
Starkweather also placed second in the 1600-meter run with a Kansas Top 25 time and personal record of 5:09. Isabella Rivera placed fifth with a personal record time of 5:17.
The Buhler girls squad’s second gold medal on Friday morning came when senior Jenna Lackey finished first in the 4A girls pole vault. She cleared 11-6, setting a personal record and a posting a Kansas Top 10 effort.
The Buhler girls 4×100-meter relay team of Jenna Lackey, Aaliyah Leving, Addy Keller and Sophia Spies took second and tied the school record set last year in 2025 by Lackey, Leving, Spies and Camryn Goertz with a time of 49.07 seconds.
The Buhler girls 4×800-meter relay team of Laney Reiff, Isabella Rivera, Friesen and Starkweather placed second with a time of 9:30.22.
Lackey placed third in the girls 200-meter dash with a personal record and Kansas Top 25 time of 25.3 seconds.
Buhler senior Jessa Losew, who signed a track letter of intent with Wichita State University, placed third in the 4A girls high jump (5-4, personal record at Buhler).
As a member of the Hutchinson Central Christian girls track team, Losew won the first-place state gold medal in Class 1A as a junior (5-8) in 2025.
Buhler freshman Bayleigh Miller placed fifth in the 4A girls 100-meter finals (16.24) and sixth in the preliminaries (16.13). She also placed ninth in the 300 hurdles (50.2).
Spies placed sixth in the 100-meter dash (12.55) and eighth in the 200-meter dash (26.09).
Regier tied for ninth place in 4A girls pole vault with a personal record and Kansas Top 50 mark (10-0). Buhler’s Khloe Blackwell placed 13th (9-6).
Buhler senior Aidan Howard placed 12th in the 4A girls discus (108-6) and sophomore Addysyn Keller paced 13th in the 4A girls long jump (15-8.5).
