The Canby-Minneota girls track team won the Redwood Valley Invitational Tuesday by scoring 116 points. That was seven ahead of host Redwood Valley.
Worthington won the boys team title track title Thursday, with 183 points.
With versatility being among its strongest assets, optimism is running high with the Canby-Minneota track teams this season.
The Canby-Minneota girls track team will be young with only 12 girls out that are in the top three grades.
The Canby-Minneota boys flexed their muscles Monday at the SDSU track meet in Brookings, moving up 11 places from a year ago and finishing second to Sioux Falls Christian.
Drivers from the Dakotas and Minnesota came to close out the 2017 racing season at Fiesta City Speedway in Montevideo on Wednesday night and when it was over, all track champions had been named.
Emerging from Canby-Minneota’s track team as the leader of the pack was hurdler Carter Wente.
Perhaps the best chance to make the state for the Canby-Minneota girls is the 4x800-meter relay.
A week earlier at Cottonwood, Carter Wente took several nasty spills in the 300-meter high hurdles.
A year ago, Norah King went to school in Sioux Falls.