Lizzie Schlueter, top, and Rylee Jenkins, above, were named to the 2022 All-KMAland Girls’ Track & Field Team.

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KMA Sports continues its end-of-the-year track awards with the 2022 All-KMAland Girls’ Track & Field Team. Eligible individuals for this team include those from the Bluegrass, Corner, Hawkeye Ten, Pride of Iowa, Rolling Valley and Western Iowa Conferences and all Council Bluffs schools and all KMAland Nebraska and KMAland Missouri schools. No individual will be selected for more than one event. This creates some challenges with putting the team together, but also allots for as many deserving KMAland athletes as possible to claim this honor.

This year’s team features nine seniors, eight juniors, two sophomores and one freshman. If you break it down by state, this teams has 10 Iowans, five Missourians and five Nebraskans. Eight members of last year’s team earned a spot on the 2022 squad.

East Atchison freshman Lizzie Schlueter and  Rock Port sophomore Rylee Jenkins both made the 2022 All-KMAland Girls’ Track & Field Team:

300 meter hurdles, Lizzie Schlueter, freshman, East Atchison – Insert the “she’s a freshman!” chant. Schlueter was a fourth-place state medalist in Class 1 300 meter hurdles and part of a state champion 4×400 meter relay squad. You might want to get used to hearing this name because Schlueter should be a mainstay for the next three years.

Discus throw, Rylee Jenkins, sophomore, Rock Port – She didn’t have her best throw at state, but her chuck of 123-03.00 was still enough to get the job done in Class 1 to win the champtionship. Her season-best toss was 132’11.75’’.