Check out the Northwest Herald's team-by-team boys track and field preview for the 2025 season with top returners, key newcomers and information on each local team.

Here are five boys track and field athletes to watch in the Northwest Herald area for the 2025 season.

Algonquin resident and Huntley High grad Owen Cravens just missed medaling at the Paris Paralympics.

Owen Cravens, an Algonquin resident and Huntley High School graduate, will make be making his Paralympics debut Monday.

Evan Jager, a 2007 Jacobs graduate, finished fourth in the USA Track and Field Olympic Trials on Sunday night in Eugene, Oregon. Normally, the top three runners make the Olympic team, but Jager may have a shot because of his world ranking to still make Team USA.

Jacobs graduate Evan Jager finishes fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the USA Track and Field Olympic Trials on Sunday night. The two-time Olympian still may have a shot at his third trip to the Olympics.

Jacobs graduate Evan Jager battled his way into the 3,000-meter men's steeplechase finals from Friday's qualifying heat at the USA Track and Field Olympic Trials.

Here is the 2024 All-Fox Valley Conference boys track and field team.

Cary-Grove's Reece Ihenacho was on top of his game at the IHSA Boys Track and Field State Meet, where he won the Class 3A discus with near-state-meet record throw. Ihenacho is the 2024 Northwest Herald Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

McHenry County athletes compete in the IHSA Boys State Track And Field Meet on Saturday, May 25, 2024, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

Cary-Grove's Reece Ihenacho just kept throwing farther in the Class 3A discus and takes the title at the IHSA Boys Track and Field State Meet, almost setting the record, along with more standout performances by area athletes.

Schools compete for Class 3A state titles in Charleston on Saturday, May 25, 2024.

Dundee-Crown's 4x100- and 4x200-meter relays are in prime positions heading into the Class 3A finals at the IHSA Boys Track and Field State Meet. Cary-Grove's Reece Ihenacho leads in the 3A discus by almost four feet.

Cary-Grove thrower Reece Ihenacho was Class 3A discus runner-up last year at the IHSA Boys Track and Field State Meet. Now, Ihenacho hopes to land a throw that will get him not only the title, but a meet record.

Cary-Grove's Logan Abrams and Reece Ihenacho each won title and had a runner-up in the throws; Huntley's sprint relays propelled the Red Raiders to another team title at the Class 3A Huntley Boys Track and Field Sectional.