Girls Track and Field

The Seneca girls track and field team captured the program's 13th consecutive Class 1A sectional title on Thursday at Seneca High School.

Wheaton North senior Emme Smith took top honors in the pole vault while teammate Sophia Dalrymple, a sophomore, claimed the title in the long jump at Thursday's Class 3A Rolling Meadows Girls Track and Field Sectional.

St. Charles North's Alexzandria Richardson and a pair of North Stars' relays were among the state qualifiers from Thursday's Class 3A Hoffman Estates Sectional, which was delayed several times because of lightning and clock issues.

The 2025 IESA Class 1A/2A State Track Meet is being held this weekend, and The Times area saw a bevy of area young athletes qualify out of various sectionals.

Fulton repeated as sectional champion in dominant fashion and Newman qualified eight girls for state. Bureau Valley, Amboy and Erie-Prophetstown also had state qualifiers.

Solecki showed off her improvement by winning the discus (36.53 meters) and the shot put (11.17) at the Class 3A Downers Grove South Sectional to stamp her ticket to next weekend’s state track and field meet in Charleston. Both winning tosses were personal bests for Solecki.

St. Bede junior Lily Bosnich qualified for state in four events out of the Class 1A Rockridge Sectional on Wednesday, breaking two area records in the process. Bureau Valley and Amboy also are sending athletes to state.

Sandwich defending state 3,200-meter champion Sunny Weber swept the 3,200 and 1,600 at the Class 2A Sterling Sectional, teammate Molly Russelburg recorded 2As best pole vault and Yorkville's Courtney Clabough swept the shot put and discus at the Class 3A Rock Island Sectional.

The Kankakee girls track and field team led the local charge on the first day of the postseason and more in Wednesday's Daily Journal roundup.

Contributions throughout the team led Sterling to back-to-back sectional titles for the first time since winning five straight from 1991-95.

A fearless attitude and background in tumbling have helped Rock Falls junior Ryleigh Eriks break the school pole vault record in her first season of track & field. She is the Sauk Valley Athlete of the Week.

St. Francis girls Margaret Andrzejewski, Erin Hinsdale, Elena Mamminga and Allie Sheldon, who set a Class 2A state finals record in the 4x800 last spring, are running faster than ever this spring. Question is, what events will they run in Charleston?

The L-P girls track and field team is celebrating PRs with its "Strive for Gold" program, several area athletes are ranked among the state's best and more in the NewsTribune girls track and field notebook.

Downers Grove North, with six event champions, won its fifth straight West Suburban Silver championship – just the second time that has been done in conference history dating back to 1973. Glenbard West was second.

The Sycamore girls track and field team won the final three events at Friday's Interstate 8 Conference meet to claim the title over runner-up Morris and third-place Kaneland at Morris High School.

The Oregon girls won their first Big Northern Conference track & field title since 2019 on Thursday as a strong start in the field events carried over to the track.

Elena Fetzer set a meet record in the shot put, Miami-bound Dominique Johnson won the long jump and ran on a winning relay, and host Huntley won the Fox Valley Conference girls track and field championship Thursday for the fourth year in a row.

After losing the DuKane Conference indoor girls track and field title in heartbreaking fashion, St. Charles North used five victories on the day to win its first conference title in program history.

Sterling had nine top 3 finishes to place third as a team at the Western Big 6 Conference meet on Thursday in Galesburg.

Four-time reigning Upstate Eight champ Glenbard East (98 points) came in second, followed by Bartlett (74 points), South Elgin (72.3 points) and East Aurora (63 points) to round out the top five behind West Aurora (132) at the Upstate Eight girls meet.

The DuKane Conference Girls Track and Field Championship was held on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at Glenbard North in Carol Stream.

Leann Philgren worked in corporate America out of college. Then she found her calling as a special education teacher and coach, which took the Chicago native to Westmont. Philgren has been there ever since.

Plainfield North finished with 147 points to Oswego East’s 119.5, with host Minooka third at 116 in the Southwest Prairie Conference Meet on Wednesday.

Here are the leading area girls track & field athletes, representing ALO, Bureau Valley, DePue, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede

St. Charles North accumulated five wins and had multiple double-scoring events to score 132.5 points and secure a commanding victory in the Kane County Meet.

When all was said and done, St. Charles North captured the championship of the eight-team meet with 140.5 points. Huntley and Warren (103 points) tied for second followed by Fremd (96 points) in fourth, and the host Mustangs (93 points) in fifth.

The Morris boys and Lemont girls picked up team titles at the Morris Night of Relays

Prospect won with 137 points, Huntley was second with 80 and Lincoln-Way East was third with 76.5 points.

Downers Grove South senior Kailee Rodeck soars to record pole vault, Vanderbilt commit Finn Richards chasing Benet track records from 50 years ago, and Willowbrook's Amelie Ojeda breaks her school 3,200 record. That and more in Bill Stone's track and field notebook.

Downers Grove North won five of the field events and four on the track to take the team title at the Palatine Invite, while Cary-Grove freshman Alexandra Santoyo swept the 1,600 and 3,200 races.

Willowbrook senior distance standout Amelie Ojeda and Wheaton North’s Sophia Dalrymple had stellar individual days, while Glenbard West took third place as a team at its Sue Pariseau Invitational.

Winning three of the last four events, Batavia pulled ahead of Naperville Central to win its Carlson Anderson Classic Friday night, 178-172.

Wins in three of the last four events allowed Batavia to capture the team title at its own Carlson Anderson Classic on Friday night.

Downers Grove North freshman Macy Ermitage missed almost all of cross country season with a stress fracture – but she's back in a big way on the track. Ermitage won the 3,200 at Downers Grove North's Ritter Invitational, leading the Trojans to second place as a team.

The best weather of the track and field season turned into a cold reality for Katie Jewell, briefly, fortunately for Prairie Ridge’s star sprinter. She pulled up lame after winning the 100 in the McHenry County meet, but also won the 200. Matt Scardina won three races for Jacobs.

Local athletes compete in the McHenry County Track and Field Meet on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at McCracken Field in McHenry.

Sunny Weber’s coach at Sandwich wanted her to make a statement on the national stage this spring. She was looking for redemption last weekend. The Sandwich junior did both at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational in California. That, plus Plano's big night in the track notebook.

Here’s a look at the girls meet records for the Rollie Morris Invitational that will be on line in Saturday's meet at Hall High School

Ava Miedema set a school record in the 100-meter hurdles and Alexzandria Richardson won the 200, leading St. Charles North to the title of its invitational on Saturday. Huntley was second at the meet.

The track and field season is heading outdoors and here are previews of girls teams from around the Suburban Life coverage area.

With outdoor track and field season about to toe the starting line, here are five Kane County Chronicle-area girls track and field athletes to watch for in 2025.

The track and field season heads outdoors soon. Here are previews of girls track and field teams from around the Kane County Chronicle coverage area.

Here are five Daily Chronicle area athletes who can have gigantic girls track season.

We take a look at each Daily Chronicle girls track team and what they expect out of the season.

Here are preview capsules of boys track and field teams from around the Times coverage area.

Here are five Times area athletes who can have a gigantic girls track season.

Here are preview capsules of girls track and field teams from around the Times coverage area.

Here are previews of girls track and field teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

As outdoor season begins in earnest, here is a look at the 2025 girls track and field season across the Herald-News area.

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