Featured Athlete /// Adada Langatau, Iberia HS


Inside Adara Langatau’s State Title Season


Story By: Kaydi Alderman Photography By: Jacob Warden/Maries County Advocate, Ayla Russell


 The crowd’s silence shattered into cheers as the metal plate    membered with a smile. “One second, it was just me and the ring. The next, I was hearing the crowd and realizing I’d just done it.”            pline, and a mindset built through years of hard work. A standout student-athlete from Iberia High School, Adara was involved in ev-            hours into perfecting her craft, analyzing videos of her form, setting goals, and never settling for less than her best.


94 /// November 2025


“For me, athletic success came from the drive to get better every  Adara’s path to the podium wasn’t easy. She battled through a painful femoral impingement and a torn labrum in her hip, an injury that nearly ended her senior season before it began. Doctors recommended sur- 





 “I wanted to see my goals through, no matter what.”


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