La Grande athletes win three state titles at 4A track meet
La Grande left Hayward Field with four individual titles, as Emilee Huntsman doubled up and Brogan Hedgepeth and Renee Hutchison added wins.
La Grande’s track program turned a big-stage meet at Hayward Field into a showcase for a small Union County school, with Emilee Huntsman, Brogan Hedgepeth and Renee Hutchison combining for four state championships at the 2026 OSAA / OnPoint Community Credit Union Track & Field State Championships in Eugene.
Huntsman delivered the widest range of results for the Tigers, winning both the 100m Para race and the shot put. Hutchison added a state title in the high jump, giving La Grande another champion in a meet where 4A competition was contested Saturday alongside the 6A and 5A fields. The other classifications were split into Friday and Saturday sessions, but La Grande’s finishes landed squarely in the spotlight of the state meet’s top-day schedule.
Hedgepeth’s discus win added the kind of heavyweight mark that can anchor a program’s reputation. The La Grande junior won the 4A discus title with a throw of 188-10, capping a season in which OSAA had already listed him No. 10 in Oregon high school history at 193-5. That 193-5 mark was the best in Oregon this season across all classifications, and it came after he set school records in both the discus and shot put at the Legends Twilight Invitational in Walla Walla, Washington. At that meet, Hedgepeth threw 193-5 in the discus and 56-10 1/4 in the shot.
The results fit a broader pattern for La Grande High School, a 4A school in the Greater Oregon League with Matt Wolcott listed as the boys and girls track and field head coach. The Tigers have shown they can score on both sides of the program at state level: at the 2022 4A championships at Hayward Field, La Grande scored 32 points on the girls side to finish eighth and 18 points on the boys side to place 17th.
For a district the size of La Grande, that kind of repeated state-meet presence matters. Strong performances in multiple events help keep athletes in the pipeline, reinforce school pride in Union County and give administrators a concrete reason to keep backing track and field as a program that can produce not just qualifiers, but champions.
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