Reluctant star Willms enters IGHSAU T & F Hall of Fame

    DES MOINES — Former Dike-New Hartford track and field star Hannah Willms knew what she wanted to do in college from a young age. She loved playing volleyball … that was her sport. Now five years after graduating from high school, Willms finds her home in the hall of fame for a very different sport.
    Willms was one of three individuals inducted into the Iowa Girls’ High School Athletic Union Hall of Fame Saturday on the final day of the state track and field meet.
    “I didn’t accept the fact (that track was my sport) until probably my senior year of high school,” Willms admitted during an interview  following the ceremony. “I have always been a volleyball player, always knew I wanted to go play volleyball in college; but during our first Monday practice in high school, the magic minute, I almost ran a full lap in a minute and my coach was like, ‘You’re going to run 400s,” and I was like, ‘Oh no - why did I have to run that fast.”
For more of this story see the May 28 Grundy Register.