A look back at ADM's sports highlights in 2024 – Des Moines Register

To wrap up the 2024 season, Dallas County News takes a moment to highlight some of the biggest accomplishments for ADM (all listed items are unranked).
No one seemed to tell the Tigers that having a new coach for the second year in a row was supposed to be hard. Not to mention that they would be without two players that are now at Iowa and Iowa State.The season may have started a tad slow with a 13-8 win, but with new quarterback Hudson Shull under the center, the Tigers’ offense quickly turned into one of the state’s most elite scoring threats as the team scored at least 25 points in all but one game the rest of the season and averaged over 32 points per game.Shull ranked fourth in Class 4A with 31 touchdowns scored, putting in 13 through the air and another 18 on the ground after leading the team with over 1,000 yards.
After leaving the state tournament in 2022 and 2023 without a win, the softball team finally made a breakthrough in 2024, advancing to the title game after winning their first two rounds against Fort Dodge and North Polk.
Sophomore Lauren Hagedorn put Fort Dodge to bed with a complete game shutout, while it was the bats led by two Cameran Smith hits that put North Polk away in the semifinals. 
Now over 30 wins to tie a five-year high, ADM pulled up to face Carlisle in the championship. A 5-1 lead was quickly on the table with Hagedorn hitting a triple and Macy Person hitting three times. But the Wildcats stuck around, bringing the game to a close in the seventh inning after breaking a 6-6 tie.
Legends were born. Or at least, they grew in 2024 for Aiden Flora and Brevin Doll.
The two all-state athletes had already seen success on the football field (now a Cyclone and Hawkeye, respectively) and made their mark as track stars. But their senior seasons were on a whole different level.
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Together at the state meet, Doll and Flora were part of six state record-setting events between their solo and relay events. Perhaps most impressively, Doll and Flora both broke the state record in the 100-meter dash in the prelims, with Doll crossing at 10.40 seconds and Flora at 10.61 seconds. They’d take first and second place in both the 100 and 200 events. 
And together with Tyler Gelhaar and Mason Varnony, they’d also set the all-time state record in the 4×100 relay at 41.33 seconds in the prelims (but would take second place overall, with a time that would have set the record prior to their first run). With Grant Rychnovsky and Zach Lohmann, they’d take first prize with an all-time mark of 1:25.55 in the 4×200 relay, though.
With four first place finishes and another three silvers between them, ADM finished with 71 points altogether, just one point behind Western Dubuque.
The Tigers put themselves in the top polling position in 2024 after winning the Class 3A championship in a true team effort — one that looks promising for 2025 with so many girls ready to return for another trip to Des Moines.
ADM had two gold medals between London Warmuth in the high jump, hitting a new peak of 5-foot-8, and another top mark from the shuttle hurdle team of Haley Nelson, Isabella Smyth, Elise Coghlan and Josi Dufoe.
Bad weather couldn’t stop ADM’s boys golf team from performing at their best, bringing home the state championship this year.
In what is typically a two-day contest, this year’s meet was shortened, playing just one day at Veenker Memorial in Ames. Shooting 304, the Tigers finished three strokes ahead of Waverly-Shell Rock for first place in Class 3A. That was headlined by Easton Korell, going six-under par with a score of 66. Carter Madison placed 13th at 78 while Grant Jansen and Finn Garton tied for 20th.

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