Sports : Yessak signs with Wartburg for track, cross country

Parents Jason and Anita watch as Jordan Yessak signs his Letter of Intent for Wartburg, where he will be on the track and cross country teams. Vinton native Jordan Yessak has signed with Wartburg College, where he will be a distance runner for the Knight crosscountry and indoor and outdoor track teams starting in the fall. He will major in sports management. Jordan, the son of Jason and Anita Yessak, open-enrolled to Dunkerton, where Jason was a teacher and coach and activities coordinator before recently becoming the Activities Director at Keokuk. Joining Jordan for his signing were Dunkertoncross country coach Jeff Thompson and track coach Jon Steffen. At Dunkerton, Jordan was a four-year letter winner in cross country, and qualified for the state meet three years. He was All-State and finished 8th at State his junior year. He also broke the school record that season. In track, he finished sixth in the mile run, was a two-time State qualifier in the two-mile event and once in the 4 x 800 relay. He won several conference championships, and set new records for one- and two-mile runs for Dunkerton HS. Jordan had received offersto run at Southwest Minnesota State, a D2 college in southern Minnesota, and a couple of NAIA colleges before deciding to attend Wartburg.