JEFFERSON CITY — David Martin’s Vienna Eagle and Lady Eagle track teams had quite the season.

Sweeping both the high school boys and girls team titles at the Show-Me Central Conference (SMCC) meet in Russellville, they carried that momentum into the rest of their postseason meets.

Leaving the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) State Track and Field Championships with medals were Cooper Auten, Kevin Russell, Ava Kloeppel, Aubrey Schwartze and the Eagle 4x800-meter relay team of Troy Wulff, Bryce Ewers, Hunter Schwartze and Auten.

Before taking her cheerleading talents to the next level at the University of Central Missouri (UCM) in Warrensburg, Kloeppel looked to end her Vienna High School (VHS) track career with a pair of medals in both the Class 1 Girls Shot Put and Discus.

Kloeppel began her hunt for state medals during day one of the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) State Track and Field Championships at the Dennis and Roberta Licklider Track Complex inside Jefferson City High School’s Adkins Stadium in the Class 1 Girls Discus.

Posting a throw of 34.34 meters on her second attempt of the preliminaries, Kloeppel secured her spot in the finals sitting in fourth place with three more attempts to improve on her best mark from the first three throws.

Junior Adesola Fasipe from The Summit Preparatory School jumped into second place with a throw of 39.15m on her last attempt in the finals bumping Kloeppel down to fifth place.

Edged by Calvary Lutheran’s Kolby Morris for a SMCC title earlier in May, Kloeppel earned a silver medal at the annual SMCC Meet in Russellville with a second-place throw of 31.09m.

Morris wound up 10th in the Class 1 Girls Discus at state with a throw of 31.72m.

Russell was the next VHS athlete to find his way on to the medal stand in the Class 1 Boys Long Jump.

Winning three regular season meets at Cuba, Vienna and St. James in the boys long jump, Russell placed second at the SMCC meet with a leap of 5.49m behind Jamestown senior Tyler Wilson’s mark of 5.69m.

In the MSHSAA Class 1, District 2 Meet at New Haven, Russell won a district title in the boys long jump with a leap of 6.33m ahead of Wilson’s second-place mark of 6.27m.

During the MSHSAA Class 1, Sectional 1 Track Meet at Hillsboro’s Grandview High School, Russell topped Wilson again for a sectional title with a winning leap of 6.48m.

At state, Russell found his way on to the medal stand with a seventh-place leap of 6.30m while Wilson placed 13th with a mark of 5.84m.

Day two of state saw Auten earn a pair of medals in the span of a couple hours.

Starting his Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend in the Class 1 Boys Pole Vault, Auten then had to go run in the Class 1 Boys 4x800m relay an hour later with Hunter Schwartze, Wulff and Ewers.

Helping his 4x800m relay Eagle teammates to a sixth-place medal in a time of 8:42.11, Auten then finished out the pole vault in which he cleared 3.72m to claim yet another sixth-place medal.

Winning conference (8:51.31), district (8:54.29) and sectional (8:51.31) titles, Vienna was the lone team from their sectional to reach the medal stand.

Auten also won conference, district and sectional titles in the pole vault before finishing his senior season with a pair of sixth-place medals.

Nearing the end of the second day of the MSHSAA State Track and Field Championships for classes 1-3, Kloeppel and Aubrey Schwartze looked to finish together on the medal stand in the Class 1 Girls Shot Put.

Both Lady Eagle throwers needed their third attempt in the prelims to cement their spot in the finals.

Schwartze popped a throw of 10.90m putting her in second place entering the finals while Kloeppel posted a mark of 10.61m placing her in fifth going into the finals.

Climbing the ladder in the finals, Schwartze’s final throw of 11.48m helped her break the school record and give her a third-place medal in the Class 1 Girls Shot Put.

Kloeppel stayed in fifth place even though she was not able to improve on her best throw from the preliminaries.

Schwartze’s road to Jefferson City began with a second-place throw of 10.29m at the SMCC meet behind Kloeppel’s title-winning mark of 10.54m before placing second in the district meet at New Haven with a throw of 10.94m behind New Haven’s Alayna Lagemann’s winning mark of 11.73m.

At the sectional meet in Hillsboro, Schwartze topped the field with a winning throw of 11.10m ahead of Kloeppel (2nd, 10.41m) and Lagemann (3rd, 10.31m).

After the final throw of the Class 1 Girls Shot Put was made, half of the top eight in the event came from the sectional that Vienna competed in.

In addition to Schwartze (3rd, 11.48m), Lagemann (4th, 10.77m) and Kloeppel (5th, 10.61m), Richland’s (Essex) Lexus Mallory placed eighth with a throw of 9.99m after qualifying out of the same sectional meet Vienna competed in.

Before Kloeppel’s fifth-place medal in the Class 1 Girls Shot Put, she won a SMCC title with a throw of 10.54m before third at districts and second at sectionals.