High school careers end on high notes, team titles decided on third day of 2025 OSAA Track and Field State Championships
Oregon’s top-ranked sprinter Aster Jones throws her hand up in celebration after winning a state title. Photo by Rian Yamasaki.
By Owen Murray, TrackTown USA
While everyone else was competing on the final day of the 2025 OSAA Track and Field State Championships, 5A pole vaulter Addison Kleinke was taking a nap.
She woke up just in time to watch her last competitor fail to clear the bar on the east side of Hayward Field. Then, she took her pole and won the title with a single clearance at 3.66m. It’s routine for the fourth-ranked national pole vaulter.
“It’s really good to secure it,” Kleinke said of her third-straight state title. “It’s definitely a relief. It’s kind of nerve wracking coming in here, knowing that I’ve told the public what my goal is.”
Caldera High School and Jesuit High School swept the 5A and 6A state titles, respectively, as athletes’ high school careers came to an end at Hayward Field on Saturday. Meet records fell as dominant athletes, including Kleinke, reflected on careers spent under the tower.
Kleinke, who also won the long jump yesterday, said her dual-sport training benefits her pole vault, too.
“Cross training is always good,” she said. “All of it translates — every single part of it, from the speed on the runway to the takeoff, the long jump has made a huge difference in the poles I’m able to get on and the consistency.”
Riverside High School senior Chloe Huyler took her second win on the weekend — after grabbing the 6A 3000m crown on Friday, the University of Notre Dame commit returned to the track with a 4:23.89, 6A meet-record 1500m win ahead of #1-ranked Ellery Lincoln.
“I think I recovered really well (from the 3000m) and put all my mental energy into this race,” Huyler said. “This was definitely the more competitive race, so I was just really mentally ready for it — and mentally ready for it as well.”
Huyler was running in a competitive field: she mentioned both Lincoln and Sophia Malinoski’s kicks as dangerous. That’s why her early lead, she felt, was so valuable.
“I think I executed exactly how I wanted to,” Huyler said. “I just wanted to get out hard and never look back. That’s what I did.”
Crater High School made itself known early, and Josiah Tostenson (who didn’t run in the 3000m race on Friday in favor of a focus on Saturday’s race) took the 5A 1500m title in 3:48.63. His teammate, newly-minted Oregon 3000m state record holder Tayvon Kitchen, finished second.
“We just like to speak our dreams to each other, and then achieve them together.”
Crater High School’s Josiah Tostenson following his and teammate Tayvon Kitchen’s 1500m sweep
“Tayvon and I just wanted to finish off our last high school races — we wanted to make sure we got done what we wanted to,” Tostenson said after the 1500m race. “We always talk about these things we can possibly do, and even if people call us crazy, we don’t really listen to them. We just like to speak our dreams to each other, and then achieve them together.”
He returned and again took care of business: a 1:52.19 800m race with a runaway kick at the end gave him his second gold of the day in his last-ever state race.
“It’s still sinking in,” he said. “But it’s great to end on a high note. That’s all you could ever ask for.”
Oregon’s top-ranked sprinter, Aster Jones, was part of the winning 4x100m relay team (and ran a new OR #1 47.30 time) with her teammates from Roosevelt High School. On the anchor leg, though, something wasn’t right, and Jones emerged for her 100m race with a wrap on her leg.
It didn’t matter. Jones ran a personal-best, OR #1 11.51 seconds in her 100m heat before returning to win the 200m race in 23.95 seconds.
“I do think I could’ve run a lot faster if I was 100 percent healthy,” Jones said after her 100m race. “But ‘shoulda-coulda-woulda’. It just feels so good that I was able to come out here and do what I just did.”
Grant Valley won both the 100m and 200m races — after running a season-best, OR #4 time in the 4x100m relay but finishing second. His 10.36 100m time is a 6A meet record.
“It’s a dream come true,” Valley, from Jesuit High School, said. “I’ve always wanted to break the meet record. It’s insane.”
Earlier this season, Valley ran a 20.86-second 200m race at a dual meet — but he felt he still had something to prove.
“There was no wind gauge, no video (at the dual meet), which sucks,” Valley said. “If anyone doubts it, I would doubt it too. I just had to come out and do what I do. I know I can do it — I just had to do it on the biggest stage.”
He didn’t quite touch that time on Saturday, but his 21.15 was still good enough for the win, and another 6A meet record.
On Friday, Benjamin Antley graduated from Grants Pass High School. On Saturday, he won the 6A 400m title.
“Everything I wanted…I haven’t stopped thinking about it since last year, when I lost,” Antley said. “To come out here, give it my best, and end my senior year with a win is huge.”
Antley stopped the clock in 47.92 seconds. This year, he said, he quit every other sport he’d joined in order to focus on track.
“It’s been exciting — kind of nerve wracking,” Antley said. “I was banking on this win, and it’s just so satisfying to see it all pay off.”
Brooklyn Anderson, meanwhile, didn’t finish her 100m hurdles race on her feet. She got caught on the last hurdle. The former gymnast tucked and rolled into an unintentional somersault…and then, feet from the line, decided to roll again.
“I just knew I had to keep rolling to keep going, because I wanted to get first.”
Thurston High School’s Brooklyn Anderson following her somersault to win the girls’ 100m hurdles
“I wasn’t sure how far back everyone else was behind me,” Anderson, from Thurston High School, said. “I just knew I had to keep rolling to keep going, because I wanted to get first.”
She did. Anderson rolled across the line in 14.93 seconds ahead of the field. The crowd roared, but she didn’t know if she’d won.
“The first emotion was confusion — I didn’t know if anyone had caught me yet,” she said. “Once I saw it up there, I was so proud.”
Rasean Jones won both the 110m and 300m hurdles races — his 13.84-second 110m is the new OR #1 time, as is his 37.03-second 300m (also a 4A meet record). Jones, a junior from Baker High School who is also a three-star football recruit, also won the 110m race at this season’s Oregon Relays.
“I haven’t seen a 13-second time since last year — it feels good,” Jones said. “I was struggling a little bit, but I’m glad 13.8 came up and I’m happy with the result.”
The boys’ team titles went to Damascus Christian School (1A/70 points), Delphian School (2A/84, three-time repeat champion), Siuslaw High School (3A/89), Crook County High School (4A/78, repeat champion), Caldera (5A/80) and Jesuit (6A/56) — which sealed its win with a new OR #1 3:17.36 4x400m relay finish.
The girls’ titles were won by Imbler High School (1A/71), Bandon High School (2A/91, repeat champion), Creswell High School (3A/56), Philomath High School (4A/80, four-time repeat champion), Caldera (5A/70) and Jesuit (6A/66); the latter two completed their sweep of the boys’ and girls’ team titles.
Next at Hayward Field is the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, scheduled from June 11-14.