The Treynor Boys and Girls Track Teams came away with the District Championship banners, as well as a total of 20 automatic qualifiers for state track! Treynor was host of this region's 2A SQM with Clarinda, Kuemper Catholic, Missouri Valley, MVAOCOU, Noadaway Valley, Panorama, Red Oak, Shenandoah, and Tri-Center in attendance. Full results can be viewed on Black Squirrel Timing's event page. State Track 2026 will be held Thursday-Saturday, May 21-23 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Athletes and teams placing 1st or 2nd at districts automatically qualify for state, with the next top 8 in the state advancing after all results are tabulated.

Get your state track 2026 t-shirt order in by Monday, May 18th at 8:00 a.m. Items will be ready by May 20th in the afternoon. 

State Track Central websites (IAHSAA / IGHSAU) are your place to go for all the information, including general track meet information, ticketing and parking. 

Treynor Cardinal events advancing to state include:

Girls Qualifying Events:

100m Hurdles - Rylee Hemmingsen, 1st place 14.47

400m Hurdles - Nora Konz, 1st place 1:05.94

1500m - Lily Miller, 3rd place 5:12.08

3000m - Lily Miller, 1st place 11:02.92

Discus - Delaney Mathews, 1st place 106-03

Shot Put - Delaney Mathews, 1st place 41-00

800m Sprint Medley - 3rd place 1:53.96 (Zoey Zadalis, Grace Mentzer, Josie Meyers, Nora Konz)
             Alternates: Ava Saar, Madaline Knispel, Joslyn Chambers, Kadence Kotrous

1600m Distance Medley - 1st place 4:22.21 (Kadence Kotrous, Josie Meyers, Ava Saar, Madalyn Kerkmann)
             Alternates: Zoey Zadalis, Madeline Knispel, Joslyn Chambers, Grace Mentzer

4x100m Relay - 1st place 49.91 (Joslyn Chambers, Rylee Hemmingsen, Nora Konz, Josie Meyers)
             Alternates: Madeline Knispel, Ava Saar, Grace Mentzer, Kadence Kotrous

4x200m Relay - 1st place 1:45.32 (Joslyn Chambers, Josie Meyers, Madeline Knispel, Nora Konz). 
              New school record!
             Alternates: Rylee Hemmingsen, Ava Saar, Grace Mentzer, Kadence Kotrous

4x100m Shuttle Hurdle - 1st place 1:07.41 (Zoey Zadalis, Grace Mentzer, Ava Saar, Rylee Hemmingsen)
             Alternates: Nora Konz, Cora White

4x400m Relay - 1st place 4:07.00 (Madalyn Kerkmann, Joslyn Chambers, Madeline Knispel, Rylee Hemmingsen).
             New school record!
             Alternates: Nora Konz, Ava Saar, Grace Mentzer, Kadence Kotrous

4x800m Relay - 1st place 10:08.41 (Joslyn Chambers, Kadence Kotrous, Madeline Knispel, Madalyn Kerkmann)
             Alternates: Lily Miller, Anne Miller, Cora White

Boys Qualiying Events:

100m - Cauy Konz, 1st place 10.87; Keatyn Dirks, 3rd place 11.22

110m Hurdles - Luke Christensen, 1st place 15.56; Brock Casey, 2nd place 15.57

200m - Cauy Konz, 1st place 21.38; Drew Meyers, 5th place 22.18

High Jump - Riley Lauver, 2nd place 6-01

Shot Put - Mav Kalb, 1st place 50-03.25

4x100m Relay - 1st place 41.61 (Drew Meyers, Riley Lauver, Keatyn Dirks, Cauy Konz).
             The  first quartet in Class 2A to ever run a sub 42!
             Alternates: Jett Sornson, Kratyn Dirks, Zack Zadalis, Luke Parrott

4x200m Relay - 2nd place 1:29.78 (Keatyn Dirks, Kratyn Dirks, Riley Lauver, Drew Meyers)
            Alternates: Cauy Konz, Jett Sornson, Kale Eitmann, Cameron Lane

4x110m Shuttle Hurdle - 1st place 1:00.26 (Brock Casey, Luke Christensen, Kratyn Dirks, Cauy Konz)
           Alternates: Zack Zadalis, Jakcson Winfield, Alec Lovely, Riley Lauver

Camps happening at or around the Treynor area during the Summer of 2026 are listed below. Check back often for updates to this page.

• June 15-June 17: Treynor Youth Girls Basketball Camp for 2nd-5th and 6th-8th Graders. Download flyer and registration form for more information.
• June 17th: FREE Youth Volleyball Camp at Iowa West Field House, featuring former Division I UNO Maverick p;layer Brynlee Arnold. Spots are limited, so register here ASAP.
• June 22-June 25: Track/XC Camp. Register by June 1st to secure a t-shirt. Click here for registration and information.  
• June-July: Summer Strength & Speed Schedule. See the Cardinal Performance Website for more details
  • HS Boys (9-12): 6:30 AM (Ends 8:00; Wednesday ends at 7:30)
  • HS Girls (9-12): 7:45 AM (Ends 9:00; Wednesday ends at 8:45)
  • MS Co-Ed (7-8): 9:00-10:15 AM (Tuesday & Thursday only)
• June-July: Summer STEM Camps at Impact Hill in Oakland are scheduled for June and July. Check out impacthill.org or register here.
• June 11-July 16:  Junior Golf Camp at Bent Tree Golf Course. See flyer for details.
• Late August (Dates TBD):  'Lil Cheer Camp (details to be released)

The Winter 2025-26 Highlights Newsletter has been released! Read it here to learn what it means to be a Treynor Cardinal, where excellence is expected, achieved and celebrated. 

In an effort to promote safety, students in the elementary and middle school have recently been presented with lessons regarding street safety, particularly while walking or riding bicycles or scooters.  This is done in conjunction with our local KKAD25 (Keep Kids Alive Drive 25) group that is primarily led by JOI Club students who formed their own sub-group in 2016. Since that time, the Treynor KKAD25 group has been promoting safety messages aimed primarily at licensed drivers.  This year, focus was added to promote messages to our younger students regarding street safety. The KKAD25 group was a presence at a few home basketball games, offering prizes to these kids who visited the table and/or competed in trivia games.  

After the recent lessons in our K-8th grade classrooms, students were given the opportunity to sign a pledge card. The students pledged to:

• Follow the rules, including stopping at stop signs
• Wear a helmet
• Use front & rear lights in the dark
• Wear reflective clothing, especially at night.
• Ride on sidewalks when possible (or in the same direction as traffic if unavailable).
• Yield to pedestrians.
• On sidewalks, slow down when passing and say "passing!"
• Not go back & forth between sidewalks and streets just to avoid stop signs or traffic
• Not wear headphones or use their phone
• Do their part to make their neighborhood a safer place to ride, walk or run

From those cards, names were drawn for prizes and ultimately a grand prize of an electric scooter (one for K-5th students and one for 6-8th students). Runner-up prizes included a t-shirt, key chain, snap bracelet, candy with safety messages and other small prizes.  Thank you to those who have helped the KKAD25 group financially, as this provided funds to purchase the scooters and other prizes for this initiative. Thank you to Judd Knispel of State Farm for sponsoring the t-shirts and the long-term support of the Treynor KKAD25 group. Thank you to our Middle School teachers for presenting the lessons and to Mrs. Carrie Currin, Elementary Counselor, for her passion in bringing the lessons to the kids during her class time with students.

To read more about the history of the KKAD25 group, you can read this web article.

We hope that the motto of the parent company, KKAD25, is evident in our local efforts:  “Making streets safer for all who walk, cycle, play, drive, and ride”.

For any questions or comments about the group's effort, please reach out to JOI Club/KKAD25 Sponsor, Shelly Bailey.

We are excited to announce the six classroom grants selected for the 2026-2027 school year from the sixteen applications submitted. 

Here is a little bit of information about each of the grants selected from their applications:

• Carrie Currin - “The Cardinal Closet is a school-based resource cabinet designed to support elementary students who may lack consistent access to basic necessities. Located within the school, the closet will provide snacks, hygiene items, and seasonal clothing such as hats, gloves, and outerwear. It will also include take-home food options for students experiencing food insecurity.  This initiative ensures that all students—regardless of circumstance—have access to the essential items they need to feel comfortable, confident, and ready to learn.”
• Alex Herrington - “Over the past few years, I have been really thinking about the ways I could improve student collaboration and higher order thinking in group work. I came across an Edutopia video entitled "Learning on Their Feet" and sensed that it might be just the solution I was looking for. The premise of the article suggests that vertical learning is a framework for high quality group work. Vertical learning is when students collaborate standing up working on a vertical surface (white board).”
• Jane Leick - “I am interested in purchasing a new activity/game to integrate into my physical education curriculum called 9 square in the air. This is a game that can be played indoor or outdoor, which is very appealing to me, as the winter months get long with finding new ways to keep kids engaged in staying active with our games and keeping things fresh. This game is a competitive game, but one that equalizes the playing field, as it's not a mainstream sport, so kids are all starting from the same point essentially.  My hope for this game would be that all kids would enjoy the game while being active, including jumping, moving around, connecting kids to each other while they're having fun together.”
• Taryn Maquire - “Learning to read is a challenging task as a young child. We spend a large amount of instructional time on phonics, spelling rules, and sound patterns in 1st grade. The breakdown and isolation of teaching of these skills helps prepare them to become readers and see these sounds and patterns in words and text. One valuable step in this transition of reading is to practice these phonics skills and sound patterns in decodable text where these familiar and taught patterns will appear in text to be practiced.  I would love to have a library of decodable texts to align with my phonics and spelling sounds instruction. This would help provide practice for students to apply isolated phonics skills that are taught during instruction. Just like with all new skills, additional practice helps us become better at the skill we are achieving to mastery.”
• Kelsey Winchell - “A grant for flexible seating in my 4th grade classroom would help create an environment that better supports how students actually learn and focus. Children at this age are not built to sit still in one desk for long periods of time, and research shows that reducing sedentary time in classrooms can improve attention, engagement, and overall learning behaviors. Studies on active classroom environments and flexible seating have found that when students have opportunities to move or change positions while learning, they often stay more focused and involved in lessons. Adding options like high-top tables, small booths for partner work, and comfortable floor seating would allow students to choose spaces that fit the type of learning they are doing while still keeping clear expectations and structure in the classroom.”
• Shantelle Vohs - “In my 2nd grade classroom, I see daily how even capable, kind, and motivated students can miss important learning opportunities when math instruction remains abstract. Hands-on math manipulatives will transform these moments into meaningful learning experiences by actively engaging students and helping them visualize concepts. Tools such as base-ten blocks, number blocks, time, money, and fraction models directly support the Iowa Core Mathematics Standards by allowing students to build number sense, understand place value within 1,000, and develop effective strategies for addition and subtraction. These resources will ensure all learners—especially those who benefit from tactile and visual support—can access and stay engaged in math instruction.”
• Total awarded: 6 grants for $2,629.00

As you can see the Treynor School Foundation Classroom Grants are going to great use and will be a great addition for these teachers’ students.

I would also like to give a special “thank you” to our selection committee members: Kelsey Stupfell, JoEllen Travis, Jill Kay, Brandon Vorthmann, and Rick Nickerson.

If you would like to support future classroom grant applications, donations can be made by clicking on this link.

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Dr. Joel Beyenhof

Superintendent