2025 MO TF Event Preview: Overall Girls 100m Dash Outlook

Jan 14, 2025

Over the next several weeks, Missouri MileSplit will be doing a deep dive into the top returners for each event heading into the 2025 Track and Field season. We will have premium rankings pieces highlighting the top 100 returners in each classification as well as an overall outlook for each event for all non-subscribers. Let's take a look a the Girls 100m Dash.

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Class 5 Outlook

Three of the top four finishers at last year's Class 5 State Championships have graduated, but the third place finisher Kynah Simmons will be back for the 2025 season with her 11.93 (+3.2) personal best. Though this mark was wind-aided, her 11.99 (-0.4) in the State prelims was not. Simmons is a legitimate contender for the Class 5 title this spring.

Simmons, left, and Birmingham, right

Lee's Summit West's Jaimy Birmingham is the only other returner in Class 5 under 12.00 after running 11.99 at last year's BVNW Classic before running a wind-aided 12.11 in the finals at the State meet. She was fifth there, a year after finishing sixth at her District meet. Blue Springs South senior Jasmine Ross is a state long jump champion, but is, of course, one of the top sprinters in the state, as well. Ross ran 12.09 last season and ended up seventh at State. Willard's Elise Murray and Timberland's Alexa Adams come in fourth and fifth after finishing sixth and eighth at the State meet, respectively. A national-class hurdler, Adams has no fear in the 100 hurdles/100 dash double at the state level and should be dangerous in both once again in 2025.

Adams, left, and Murray, right

Surely, Cardinal Ritter has more 100 meter dashers in the chamber after graduating Aniyah Brown and Brooklyn Brady. Watch for them to post at least one, if not three, in this event at the State meet, as well. Also watch for some movers from Class 4 to potentially shake up Class 5.

Class 4 Outlook

With all of that said, the Class 5 landscape may be getting a shakeup this year as Capital City High School and senior Tyrica Sterrett (pictured at top) could be moving back up. Their reported enrollment has them right on the border between the two classes. Sterrett ran a Class 4 State Championship meet record 11.61 (-0.1) last spring and is the top returner in the entire state. She broke 12.00 nine times, starting in late April and leading all the way up to a second place finish at the AAU Club Championship in July and should be considered a top contender in either Class 4 or 5.

Festus's Jahmeshia Patterson has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in the short sprints and hurdles in only one season of competition. Patterson ran her personal best 11.75 (+0.1) in the 100 meter dash in State prelims last spring before finishing third in finals. McDonald County's Samantha Dowd was fourth overall after transferring from Poplar Bluff last spring, going from one corner of Missouri to the other. She ran 11.87 early last May. Several of the state's best athletes come in just behind those sub-12 returners, with Grandview's Jordin McGee, Carl Junction's Sydney Ward, and McCluer North' Jordyn Buckley all staking claims to sub-12.15 marks. McGee was sixth and Buckley seventh at the State meet last year.

Left to Right: Buckley, McGee, and Dowd

Class 3 Outlook

Amya Bills of New Madrid County Central

The reigning Class 3 champion is the top returner for the 2025 season: Amya Bills from Central New Madrid County. Bills won 11 times in 13 tries at the 100 meter dash during a very busy 2024 season and saved her best for last with her 12.07 personal best at the Class 3 State Championships. She stormed to victory over the second fastest returner, Kaufman's Alexis Kinney, who ran 12.34 at the State meet, but ended up with a 12.17 overall best for the season. Kinney ran the 100 18 times between the regular season and summer and has become a seasoned veteran in the straight line sprint so far.

E. M. Kauffman School's Alexis Kinney

The top two returners are nearly three-tenths of a second ahead the next closest returners with Incarnate Word's Ava Tobias at 12.45 coming in third. Tobias was eighth at the State meet last spring, just a hair behind the only other returner from the State finals: Fair Grove's Sage Crowley. Her 12.50 best is fourth overall, just ahead of Moberly's jumper-extraordinaire Bryleigh Knox in 12.59.

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Class 2 Outlook

The Class 2 girls field is stacked, once again, in 2025, led by the dominant Lindsay Ramsey. Ramsey pulled off the sprint treble in 2024 with her wins in the 100, 200, and 400 meter dashes. In the 100, she ran 11.88 at the Class 2 State Championships, capping off a season in which she won 10 times in 11 tries. The favorite to win again in 2025, she will have five other returners from the State finals with whom to contend, led by South Callaway's Reece Pahl. Pahl popped off a 12.03 mid-season last year and followed it up with a 12.27 and 12.29 at the State meet, finishing fourth overall.

Other returners from the State finals include Penney's Teagan Ford, a freshman who also ran 12.03 and finished as the State's runner-up, the Jefferson Festus duo of Zoie Bradley (12.25) and Margaret Wrigley (12.28), and Scotland County's Kwyn Hamlin. Marionville's Avery Eden makes it six returners under 12.35 in Class 2, a stacked field for sure.

Wrigley, Pahl, and Bradley, from left to right.

Class 1 Outlook

The 2024 Class 1 State Championship finals featured only one senior so expect many of the same faces to headline the Class 1 field in 2025. Worth County's Emma Spencer is tops with her 12.59 personal best from the prelims and runner-up finish in finals. Novinger's Kelsey Frederick is the next fastest returner at 12.68, though she was 13.03 for seventh in finals. Addison Grossenbacher is the third best returner out of finals and tied for the fourth fastest with her 12.85 personal best, while La Plata's Macy Davidson is third fastest with a 12.77 in prelims. Tied with Grossenbacher is Northeast Cairo's Olivia Cross. They and more will be the top contenders for the State title in a tight field of athletes. Isabella Simphaly and Clare Staley both earned all-state honors in 2024 and are sixth and seventh among returners, based on time, as well.

Left to Right: Novinger's Frederick, Lutheran Kansas City's Grossenbacher, and Crane's Simphaly