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PHOTOS: Class AA and A State Track and Field Meet

CASEY KREIDER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 months AGO
by CASEY KREIDER
Casey Kreider is a photographer for the Daily Inter Lake and was awarded the 2024 Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year from the Montana Newspaper Association. He is a graduate of Penn State University and previously worked as a photographer for Lancaster Newspapers in Pennsylvania. He can be reached at [email protected]. | May 24, 2025 6:00 PM

Scenes from the Class AA and A State Track and Field Meet held May 22-24 at Legends Stadium in Kalispell.



    Flathead's Alivia Rinehart clears a hurdle en route to a first place finish in the girls 100 meter hurdles at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Will Hollensteiner and Lane Chivers clear the final hurdle for a first- and second-place finish in the boys 300 meter hurdles at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Alivia Rinehart clears a hurdle en route to a first place finish in the girls 300 meter hurdles at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Polson's Astin Brown took first place in the boys shot put at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Simon Douglas celebrates as he crosses the finish line for a first-place finish in the boys 800 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Bigfork's Tamret Savik clears 6' for a fourth-place finish in the boys high jump at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Grace Sliman clears 5' in the girls' high jump at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Rachael Wilmot took first place in the girls 200 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Alivia Rinehart sprints to a first-place finish in the girls 200 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Ginger Bergland took second place in the girls 300 meter hurdles at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls' Jack Phelps sprints to a fourth-place finish in the boys 200 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Bigfork's Austin Savik took second place in the boys 300 meter hurdles at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Rachel Brannan competes in the girls triple jump at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Will Hollensteiner took second place in the boys triple jump at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Bigfork's Tamret Savik took second place in the boys triple jump at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Alivia Rinehart celebrates with Gallatin's Anita Black after Rinehart's first-place finish in the girls 100 meter hurdles at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls' Stanley Stremick competes in the boys triple jump at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Polson's Morgan Delaney took first place in the girls 3,200 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Polson's Morgan Delaney and Libby's Capri Farmer took first and secondj place in the girls 3,200 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls Chloe Savoy competes in the girls 800 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Simon Douglas celebrates as he crosses the finish line for a first-place finish in the boys 800 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Alivia Rinehart clears a hurdle en route to a first place finish in the girls 300 meter hurdles at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Ginger Bergland took second place in the girls 100 meter hurdles at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls' Lane Voermans competes in the boys shot put at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls' Easton Brooks competes in the boys triple jump at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Will Hollensteiner sprints to a first-place finish in the boys 200 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Rylee Bigelow took fifth place in the girls discus at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Alice Dolezal competes in the girls triple jump at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Cooper Pelc took fourth place in the boys triple jump at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Cooper Pelc took fourth place in the boys triple jump at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Rachael Wilmot sprints to a first-place finish in the girls 100 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls' Jack Phelps sprints to a second-place finish in the boys 100 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Ben Bliven sprints to a second-place finish in the boys 100 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Lauren Bissen took third place in the girls 1600 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Owen Thiel took second place in the boys 1600 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Ronan's Connor Durglo competes in the boys triple jump at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Saturday, May 24. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Flathead's Will Hollensteiner and Lane Chivers finish first and second in the boys' 400 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Rachael Wilmot takes first place in the girls' 400 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Breanna Barnes clears 11'6" for first place in the girls' pole vault at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Glacier's Owen Thiel placed first in the boys' 3,200 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Owen Thiel placed first in the boys' 3,200 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)200 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Lauren Bissen placed first in the girls' 3,200 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls' Lane Voermans placed first in the boys' discus at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Glacier's Will Astle competes in the boys' discus at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Ben Winters competes in the boys' discus at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Dylan Smith competes in the boys' discus at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Whitefish's Simon Douglas took second place in the boys' 1,600 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Libby's Capri Farmer took fourth place in the girls' 1,600 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Columbia Falls' Lane Voermans placed first in the boys' discus at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Flathead's Kasen Kastner placed third in the boys' 800 meter run at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Columbia Falls' Oliver Kress clears 13'6" for third place in the boys' pole vault at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Columbia Falls' Oliver Kress clears 13'6" for third place in the boys' pole vault at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Polson's Astin Brown placed third in the boys' discus at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Polson's Morgan Delaney placed ninth in the girls' 1,600 meter run at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23.
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    Bigfork's Peyton Benson runs in the girls' 4x100 meter relay trials at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Friday, May 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Glacier's Cole Opre clears 13'6" in the boys pole vault at the Class AA state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Thursday, May 22. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Polson's Kellyn Nelson clears 11' in the girls pole vault at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Thursday, May 22. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Columbia Falls' Soli Bullemer clears 10'6" in the girls pole vault at the Class A state track and field meet at Legends Stadium on Thursday, May 22. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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