Ridge View Athletes Shine at BVU Elite Indoor Track Meet

Carter Todd and Derek Heilman each crossed the finish line in first place at the BVU Elite Indoor boys track and field meet, giving Ridge View two individual event victories at Buena Vista University's Lamberti Recreation Center.

Todd and Heilman, along with Storm Lake's Joel Ramirez-Parra, all won an individual event to highlight area performances in the boys meet. The three victories marked a strong showing for local programs in a field that drew competitors from across northwest and west-central Iowa.

The meet, held on a Friday inside BVU's campus facility, brought together more than 20 schools from the region. The Lamberti Recreation Center was designed to house intercollegiate athletic competition and practices, and its Dennis Young 200-meter, six-lane Mondo track is utilized for indoor track meets. The event featured ten disciplines across sprints, distance, relays, and field events, including the 200 and 400 meter dashes, 800 and 1500 meter runs, the 4x200, 4x400, and 4x800 relays, the long jump, high jump, and shot put.

The field of participating schools stretched from Storm Lake to Sioux City and beyond, with programs including Alta-Aurelia, Carroll, Cherokee Washington, Denison-Schleswig, East Sac County, Harris-Lake Park, Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, Le Mars, Manson-NW Webster, Missouri Valley, Sioux City West, South Central Calhoun, Spencer, West Bend-Mallard, West Harrison, Whiting, Woodbine, Coon Rapids-Bayard, IKM-Manning, and GTRA all sending athletes to Storm Lake for the competition.

For Ridge View, the twin victories from Todd and Heilman represented a tangible early-season benchmark ahead of the outdoor campaign. Ramirez-Parra's win gave the Storm Lake program a home-floor highlight in one of the region's most competitive indoor invites of the year.