WAVERLY – Members of the GMG cross country team competed at the Iowa Star Conference Cross Country Meet hosted by Dunkerton on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at the Wartburg Max Cross Country Course in Waverly.

Grace Mathern was the lone Wolverine runner in the varsity girls race, finishing 12th out of 60 scoring runners with a personal record time of 22 minutes, 11.8 seconds.

GMG’s only varsity boys runner, Braylon Darter, finished 41st (20:52.9) among the 85-runner scoring field.

This past Thursday, Oct. 22, the GMG cross country team was scheduled to compete in a Class 1A state qualifier hosted by Colfax-Mingo at Thomas Mitchell Park in Mitchellville alongside runners from Baxter, Belle Plaine, BGM, Colfax-Mingo, Collins-Maxwell, Colo-NESCO, Earlham, East Marshall, Gladbrook-Reinbeck, HLV, Iowa Valley, Melcher-Dallas, Meskwaki Settlement School, Montezuma, North Mahaska, North Tama, New Sharon, Pleasantville, and Southeast Warren.

The 2026 state championships will be held at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge, Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31.

Next week, the Sun Courier will feature a story on GMG eighth-grader Brianna Ferch and her impressive season running for the Wolverines, which included an Iowa Star Conference Championship in the junior high girls division during the Oct. 13 meet in Waverly.