Six STC track and field athletes have qualified to compete at the 2026 Drake Relays. Two boys and four girls will make the trip to Des Moines on April 22-25 to run and throw around the prestigious blue oval.

The girls 4×100 team of Brylee Nelson, Scout Ridout, Sydney Arp, and Maylee Rucker will take to the track at 9:40 a.m. on Saturday morning, April 25, for the preliminary heats of the relay. All four girls are sophomores and they ran a season-best time of 51.46 on Thursday, April 16, at the East Marshall Girls Invite. Should the girls qualify for the 4×100 finals, that race will be held on Saturday, April 25, at 2:35 p.m.

Senior Timmothy Chandonia qualified for the Trojans in the shot put. It is the second year in a row that Chandonia has made it to the Drake Relays. His best throw this season came at the Dickinson Relays at UNI on March 9, where his toss reached 54-03.75. Chandonia will compete at the blue oval at 9 a.m. on Friday, April 24.

The final qualifier for STC is senior Cadel Conner. Conner qualified in the 1600, with a season-best time of 4:21 at the Eastern Iowa Track & Field Festival in Iowa City on Saturday, April 11. He will run the 1600 at Drake at 4:36 p.m. on Saturday, April 25. Conner is in his first year of competing for the Trojans, after transferring from Grinnell this school year.