“I feel like that really helped me stay in the right mentality throughout ... In the team race, Ames carded a 315 in the second round of play to surge past Waukee Northwest.

He also ran track and field in high school. "First and foremost, I want to thank God, my Family, and my Coaches for helping me along this journey of mine," Collins tweeted Monday afternoon.

The over-confidence, he said, was not a new issue. “It's always plagued me my whole life since I've been a kid,” he said after losing the championship. “Just get over-confident and just don't ...

“My mom has always come to everything,” Haliburton told The Ames Tribune. “There have been nights when we played in Milwaukee, so she would go and work and leave with me with a teammate or ...