A Pella High School senior enters the homestretch of the 2021 track and field season with a memory of a lifetime.
Kody Huisman won the 2021 Drake Relays Shot Put High School Championship with a throw of 58 feet, 7 inches at Drake Stadium in Des Moines Thursday. The Drake Relays pits the best Iowa High School Athletes against each other regardless of classification. Huisman says he’s worked on a new technique for throwing that mimics the spin of his discus throw, which he believes can still improve.
“It felt really good, I had shot put and figured it out, and have been working on a spin and just went out there and threw and had fun,” he says. “It felt pretty awesome to win a championship at Drake and I hope to do it again at state.”
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Kody Huisman of Pella wins the Drake Relays Shot Put championship with a throw of 58 feet, 7 inches. His first throw of 57 feet, 9 inches also would have won the title, and both marks are now the furthest in the state of Iowa, regardless of class.
While all boys and girls teams in all four spring sports have had their first competitions of the year from Pella High, it’s been an exceptional start and one of the best in program history for the boys track and field team wearing green and while.
The Dutch have swept all scored meets so far with team victories, and have done so against several top Class 3A and 4A teams, with strong performances in particular coming from thrower Kody Huisman, a deep batch of middle distance and distance runners, and a strong core of hurdlers racking up points and 1st place finishes. Pella’s performance at the DCG Mustang Classic has the team atop the Class 3A Varsity Bound power index with 1602 points, with the next closest team in ADM at 1558.
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