Sentinel photo JEFF?BAST Indian Valley’s Michael Brode tosses the javelin at Thursday’s District 6 Class AAA?track meet at Mansion Park in Altoona. Brode was one of seven Warriors to qualify for the state meet in Shippensburg. For more, visit cu.lewistownsentinel.com.

ALTOONA — For the second year in a row, Indian Valley used the District 6 Class AA meet to make a statement about its track and field program.

The Warriors crowned five district champions, advanced seven participants to the state meet May 23-24 at Shippensburg and finished second only to State College in the girls team standings.

Were there disappointments? Sure — a few members of the team failed to live up to their seeding, and you might even say to their potential. But in most of those cases, the difference was the difficulty based in the fact that only the winner of each event gets an automatic bid. In several cases, the ones who missed the extra week did so by tiny fractions of seconds against the state qualifying standard, which allows additional athletes to advance.

Among those who will make the trip to Seth Grove Stadium are a few who have been there before. Others are headed south for the first time to compete on Memorial Day weekend.