STILLWATER — Pipestone Area Schools track and field athlete Troy Mead reported he stood up in front of his teammates, and apologized. Mead was sorry for his false start to open a 4x200-meter relay at the Section 3A meet. Arrow teammates rallied around him. “I was devastated,” said Mead, now a Sioux Falls-based firefighter working in the hazardous materials division. “We all came together. We said, ‘Where do we go from here?’” The Arrows ultimately earned their way to the state true team meet as a wild card. Middle distance specialist and teammate Casey Kooiker was working with Mead at...

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