
DES MOINES – You want to run your best when you advance to the State Track Meet, and Garrett Watts came as close to that as he could.
Watts ran the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.12 seconds on Friday morning, May 19. That was just one one-hundreth of a second off his previous best, set in the state qualifying meet.


Watts’ effort placed his 22nd in the prelims at the Class 1A state meet. He needed to be in the top eight in order to make the finals.
It was a good weather day for the hurdlers. Eighteen of the 24 contestants set new personal records in the prelims.