May 29 
The Trojan boy’s competed in the Class A state meet on Thursday (5/29) on the Eastern Illinois University track with great success. Graham Meister leads the field in the shot put with a throw of 58′ 2.25″ with 2nd place nearly 1 foot behind him. He will be tough to beat in the shot put. In the discus throw, Graham is in 3rd place going in to the finals on Saturday with a toss of 162′ 3″. In the 800 meters, Joey Faris ran a smart and controlled race of 1:57.47 to finish as the 4th qualifier for Saturday’s finals. His race in the finals will be very competitive against a strong field. In the 110 and 300 hurdle races, sophomore Joe Duffy ran personal best in both events with his 15.94 (110H) and 42.13 (300H).In both races, he finished much higher than his sectional seed times had shown. Our final race was the 4×400 with Ayden Roff, Chris Ozee, Duffy, and Faris. While they did not run a season best, their time of 3:34.84 was done with 2 chaotic moments because of the tightness of competitive teams that you run against at the state meet. With 3 sophomores on the unit, the squad’s future is bright for the 2026 season. Our lone senior, Adyen Roff, will be missed for his hard work and wonderful leadership this spring.
May 22

Girls Track

Issy Bunting finished up her high school  throwing career in the state meet. Although it was not the result she wanted, we are very proud of her accomplishments over the last 4 years. Including multiple conference titles, sectionals championships, and breaking the school record in the shot put 4 times. 

The 4×100 also finished Il their season yesterday at the state meet. Running one of their best times of the season. Avery Crouch, Belle Kelleher, Mikayla Chambers, and Bridget Zavala will all be back next season to go for that state medal. 

Mikayla Chambers Ran her second best time of the year to qualify for Saturdays finals in both the 800 and 300 hurdles. She is looking to bring home a top 9 medal in both. Goodluck!

May 21
The Trojan boys competed in the Seneca sectional meet and finished in 2nd place with 70 points.
The plan at the sectional is to qualify as many athletes as possible. Well, the plan worked very well. There were 5 individual events and 1 relay that will compete next week in the state finals at Eastern Illinois University. Graham Meister won the discus with a throw of 50.57 (165’11”) and set a another school record with a mammoth throw of 19.20m (63’0″). Joey Faris lead the 800 from start to finish with a 1:56.42. Joe Duffy placed 2nd in the 110H to advance to state and was a time qualifier in the 300H with his personal record of 42.46. Duffy and Faris combined with Ayden Roff and Chris Ozee to run a season best of 3:32.49 and win the 4×400.
Individuals that also scored for the team were: June Moldonado (7th, 3200), Evan Olson (7th, shot, 8th discus), Collin Bachand (3rd, High Jump) and Joe Duffy (4th long jump). The 4×100 relay finished 4th with Roff, Tysen Walker, Landon Koger, and Angel Martin while the 4×200 also earned a 4th with Roff, Walker, Bachand, and Ozee. It was a great evening with much success earned by hard work and much team togetherness.
State prelims will be next Thursday (29th) with finals to follow on Saturday the 31st. Congratulations and good luck!
May 19
Boys Track
The boy’s squad competed the St. Anne in their Boys Last Chance meet. The Trojans finished with 80 points in 2nd place in the 9 school event. The highlight of the meet was a throw of 170’6″ by Graham Meister which broke the school record (169’5″) that was held by John Morphey since1989. Congratulations! There were 14 personal bests last night. Sam Pugh produced PR’s in the 100 and 200 races. Landon Koger broke the 12 second barrier in the 100m with a 11.86 effort. Our 110H crew, Joe Duffy and Ty Turner came home with bests in their 110H race. The Ortiz brothers, Filemon (discus) and  Alex (shot) set new PR’s last night. Also sprinting to personal bests were Angel and Moises Martin, Jesus Zavala, Aiden Bodine and McKay Gleeson. Great job all around Trojans! Our sectional meet is Wednesday starting at 3:00 (field events) and 5:00 (running events) at Seneca HS.
May 9

Girls Track

Friday night at home the girls track team had an amazing night with 24 new personal best performances. This included Izzy Bunting smashing her own school record in the shot put for the 3rd time this season. From 12.10 meters to 12.78 meters, an improvement of 2 feet! Izzy also took 1st in the discus. Delaney Boucher took 1st in the triple jump and 2nd in the 200 meter dash, both PR’s. Brooklyn Todd took 1st in the 1600 and 2nd in the 800.  Honorine took 3rd in the 400 with a PR. Addi Avilez took 4th in both the long jump and 200, both new PR’s. Girls look to qualify for the state meet this Thursday at the sectional meet at Seneca. Good luck lady Trojans! 

Boys Track

The boy’s track and field squad had a big victory in their final regular season meet against 3 other teams. The Trojans produced 22 personal records during the competition. Ty Turner led the way as he PR’ed in all 4 of his events and Sam Pugh did the same in all 3 of his. Jesus Zavala and Moises Martin race to PR’s in their 100m and 200m races. Joey Faris lowered his 800m best by nearly 4 seconds. His time of 1:55.79 is the 2nd best 800 in school history and has him 1st in Class A rankings. Being this meet was our Senior Night meet, the coaches want to congratulate our 4 graduating athletes. Ayden Roff, Angel Martin, Sam Pugh, and June Moldonado. They are fine athletes but even better young adults. We wish them good luck as they leave high school. Next up for the team is the Seneca Sectional on Wednesday, May 21st starting at 3:00 pm.

May 6
The Tri-County Conference track and field meet was held at Seneca High School on May 6th. The boy’s team scored 128.5 points win their first conference meet with a 28.5 point gap over the 2nd place LW-RB. Winning for the Trojans as an individual were Graham Meister (shot put, discus), Joey Faris (800,1600) and Joe Duffy (long jump). Graham’s shot put effort broke his own meet and Joey’s time in the 800m was also a meet record by 7 seconds. 2 of our relay teams finished 1st to earn All Conference honors. On the 4×800  champion runners were: Chris Ozee, Aiden Bodine, Mekhi, and McKay Gleeson. The 1600m relay sent a new conference meet record with Roff, Ozee, Duffy, Faris passing the baton. In the TCC, an athlete earns  All Conference honors as a champion. Collin Bachand scored in 3 jumps (long/high/triple) to help the winning cause with his 16 points. Every winning team has athletes scoring points in the lower places that  contributed the team victory. Congratulations to the whole team!
The Lady Trojans finished in 5th place with 48 points which was a great performance. Izzy Bunting earned individual wins in the shot and the discus throw. The 4×100 squad of Avery Crouch, Belle Kelleher, Mikayla Chambers, and Bridget Zavala turned a 2nd place and season best of 51.84 which is faster the the state qualifying standard. Crouch, Kelleher, Zavala, combined with Adi Avilez to finish in 3rd place. The 4×400 relay with Avilez, Sophia Keri, Issy Hakey, Honorine Mwizerwa finished 4th. Delaney Boucher placed 4th in the triple jump and was 6th in the 100 and 300 hurdles. Brooklynn Todd set a season best in her 5th placing. In the shot Hannah Keri PR’ed and finished 5th while Kailyn Haggard earned a 6th place. That was strong effort and the coaches are proud of you!
May 2
The Trojan track and field team competed in the Herscher Invitational on Friday night. In the19 schools event, both girls and boys squads finished 4th behind 3 Class AA teams which means we were the best Class A team in the event. 1st placers were: Izzy Bunting (shot), Graham Meister (shot, meet record) and Joey Faris (1600, personal best by 18 seconds). Mikayla  Chambers with her 2nd place in the 800 was faster the than old meet and set a new school record of 2:18.29. Our 4×100 and 4×200 relays produced  much improved season bests. For the girls: 4×1 (Avery Crouch, Belle Kelleher, Chambers, Bridget Zavala) and 4×2 (Crouch, Kelleher, Zavala, Adi Avilez). For the boys: 4×1 (Ayden Roff, Tysen, Walker, Collin Bachand, Angel Martin) and 4×2 ( Roff, Walker, Martin,  Chris Ozee). Congratulations Trojan athletes! We compete in the Tri County Conference meet on Tuesday in Seneca and then finish our regular season with a senior night meet that begins at 4:00 pm. Come out on Friday and support all of these fine athletes.

April 25
The Trojan track and field team competed in the Manteno Invite and did a fine job as the boys squad scored 105 points to finish 2nd and the girls ended in 4th place with 72 points. Leading the boy’s team was Graham Meister with wins in the shot put and discus where he added 6 feet to his discus best, Joey Faris won the 800 and anchored the winning 4×8 great help from Chris Ozee, Mekhi Hakey, McKay Gleeson and 4×4 relay team that also saw winning performances from Ayden Roff, Ozee, Gleeson. On the girls side, the team saw Izzy Bunting win the shotput and finish 2nd in the discus with a 6 feet personal best, Mikayla Chambers who won both the 800 and the 300H with fine times under the meet conditions and Avery Crouch who finished with a 1st place in the 200m dash. With Avery, her teammates in the 4×100 relay (Belle Kelleher, Bridget Zavala, Chambers) ran a great race for 2nd place in the that event.
April 22

Boys Track

The Tony Thorsen Invite was held last evening in windy and rainy conditions. But, we preserved and finished in third place and very close to 2nd. Joe Duffy had 2 wins in the hurdle races and both were personal bests. Joey Faris cracked the 2 minute barrier in the 800 with his victory and a 1:59.01 time. Against strong competition, the 4×1 (Ayden, Tysen, Collin, Angel) and the 4×2 (Ayden, Tysen Aiden, Angel) lowered the season times by several seconds. Chris Ozee and McKay Gleeson PR’ed in the 400m dash. Filemon Ortiz has personal bests in both the shot and discus. Graham Meister broke 140 feet and set a personal record while later he won the 50m donut dash against the top throwers in the shot put. Nice job Trojans!

Girls Track

Not the finish the Lady Trojans were looking for last night in a rain soaked ending to the home meet. Finishing 6th out of 10 teams. There were many personal bests recorded last night however.

Highlights of the night, 

Addi Avilez, Sophia Keri, Elizabet Ramirez personal bests in 100

Sophia Keri, Honorine Mwizerwa, Olivia Valdez, and Eliabet Ramirez personal best in the 400

4×100 relay took 2nd place with a new personal best time, Avery Crouch, Belle Kelleher, Mikayla Chambers, Bridget Zavala

4X200 relay took 3rd place with a new personal best time, Avery Crouch, Belle Kelleher, Addi Avilez, Bridget Zavala

Issy Bunting took 2nd in the shot put and 1st in the discus

Personal best for Kaitynn Todd and Kailyn Haggard in the shot put

Personal best for Kailyn Haggard and Hannah Keri in the discus

Hoping for a weather change for Friday so we can return to Manteno invite where the girls placed 2nd overall as a team last year. 

April 15
The Trojans hosted their 1st home meet with Prairie Central, Herscher, and Henry-Senachwine. The Trojans finished 2nd in the boy’s event and 3rd in the girl’s competition with 64 and 48 points respectively. Our athletes continued to to improve with 24 personal best for the boys and 20 new records for the girls. Congratulations to our fine athletes.
https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/586542/results/all

Boys Track

In our 1st home meet, we continued our steady improvement as the team turned in 20 personal bests. Filemon and Alex Ortiz both had PB ‘s in the shot and discus. Joe Duffy won the 110 & 300 hurdles with PB’s.  Also finishing 1st were Joey Faris in the 400 and Collin Bachand in the triple jump. Evan Olson had a big improvement in the discus for the win. McKay Gleeson had a 4 second PR in the 800. Ty Turner had bests in the high jump and the 110HH and also a strong effort in his 1st triple jump. Noah Hines had 2 records in the 100m and 400m. Congratulations to our fine track athletes!

Girls Track

Lady Trojans competed at home last night and did very well, totaling 23 personal best performances. 

High Lights

Issy Bunting took 1st in shot put and 2nd in Discus

Mikayla Chambers took 1st in 300 hurdles, 2nd in 200, and 3rd in 100

Brooklynn Todd took 3rd in the 1600 

Delaney Boucher took 1st in the triple jump, and 3rd in the 100 hurdles

4X100 of Avery Crouch, Addi Avilez, Delaney Boucher, and Bridget Zavala took 3rd

4×200 of the same 4 girls took 1st. 

Lady Trojans look to bring home another trophy this Friday at the Seneca Invite.

April 11
The Trojan track teams competed in the St. Anne Invite on Friday night. Both squads finished in 1st place. Our athletes ended the meet with 16 personal records and 11 season bests in 23 different events. also 5 of our relays also turned in a season bests. The athletes showed great determination, desire, and competitive spirit that made the coaches very happy and excited for the upcoming invitationals.

https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/594012/teamscores

https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/594012/results/all

March 29 Outdoor Team Recap
Girl’s head coach-Mitch Thompson
Boy’s head coach-Larry Lane
assistant coach-Allie Trewartha
BOYS
Top returners: Graham Meister (throws), Holden Grimes (throws), Ayden Roff (sprints,4×400), Tysen Walker (sprints), Joe Duffy (hurdles, jumps,4×400), Collin Bachand (hurdles, jumps), Chris Ozee (mid distance).
Newcomers: Joey Faris (mid distance), Mekhi Hakey (mid distance), Evan Olson (throws), Angel Martin (sprints).
Comments: The team should have a fine season in 2025. Our depth is much better than last season when we combine our returners and newcomers. Meister is the defending champ in the shot put and both Grimes and Olson earned both shot and discus medals in their grade school careers. Faris was a 2 time state qualifier in cross country and qualified in 800m last spring. Duffy, Bachand, and Ozee were grade state qualifiers and had good freshmen seasons and are much improved as  sophomores. With Martin, Walker, Faris, and Duffy our 4×400 should be strong again since Roff and Duffy ran on the 2024 state 4×4 relay and Roff also did in his freshman season. Our expectations are to be in the hunt in all our invitationals, conference and sectional and take a much larger contingent to state in May.
GIRLS
Top returners: Izzy Bunting (shot put) is a 2 time state and IPTT qualifier and has broken her school record already. Mikayla Chambers (800,400,200) was state qualifier in 2025 with Chambers medaling 9th in 800 and has qualified in IPTT twice in the 800 and 400 with medals in the 800’s. Both Izzy and Mikayla are leaders for the team. Sophomore Delaney Boucher (triple jump, hurdles) and sprinter Belle Kelleher (JR) will lead our team in those events. We are happy to see the improvement in those athletes which leads to big expectations for them this spring.
Newcomers: The newcomers have boosted our sprints and sprint relays greatly. Bridget Zavala joins from Minooka as a junior with sprint talent. We have gained numerous freshmen that had success in grade school to boost our sprint team. They are 4 freshmen that bring talent that was not available in past years. They are: Issy Hakey, Adilynn Avilez, Avery Crouch (5th in 135lb class in wrestling), and Addy Taylor (jumps, hurdles) give the team much more depth inn the sprints and relays.
Comments: The 2025 team has 2 proven leaders and champions in Bunting and Chambers which always benefits a team. Since our girls now have 19 on the squad which is growth from last year’s 11 athletes. That growth and  talent in the the newcomers give the team much hope and determination to be a greatly improved group. The team is really young as Izzy is the only senior and there are only 4 juniors on the roster. Our sophomores and freshmen maybe young but they have junior high experience and the determination to be a strong squad when the big May meets come around.
March 14
BATAVIA DISTANCE MADNESS: Mikayla Chambers and Joey Faris competed in this invitational event that had only 800m, 1600m, and 3200m races. Mikayla ran 2:25.62 in the 800 and finished out of 94 runners which was quite to her season’s best. With a 2:04.68 that was a season best, Joey finished 34tho out of 96 athletes. The competition was tough with most of the competitors were either 2A or 3A athletes.
BBCHS INVITATIONAL: Once again the Trojans competed against larger schools and did very well with athletes producing 15 personal bests and being the 2nd highest scoring Class A squad. Scoring for the Trojans were: Graham Meister (SP,1st), Evan Olson (SP,8th), Joey Faris (800,2nd), Joe Duffy (60HH,7th), and 4×400 (Duffy, Faris, Roff, Walker,8th). Great job Trojans!
Lady Trojans Track had a strong day at ONU again this past Saturday. Bridget Zavala and Sophia Keri had a personal best times in both the 60 and 200 meter dashes. Brooklynn Todd had a personal best time in the 800 meter run. Izzy Bunting took 2nd in the shot Put. Mikayla Chambers had to out lean another girl for the win in the mile.
March 11
The boy’s team finished 3rd with 51 points at the Reed Custer Indoor Quad against the host school and Wilmington and Streator. The athletes turned in many personal bests last night. The top performance for the Trojans was the 60’5.25 throw of Graham Meister. Graham’s throw produced an improvement of nearly 4 feet. The team came home with 10 efforts that were great improvements from the 2024 meet at Reed Custer. The other field event athletes turned in strong performances without lots of practice. They were Joe Duffy (LJ), Collin Bachand (HJ, TJ), Ty Turner (HJ), Holden Grimes (SP) and Evan Olson (SP). Duffy, Adyen Roff, Tysen Walker, and Joey Faris showed fine speed in the sprint races. Middle distance runners, McKay Gleeson and June Maldonado stood out with PR’s in the 800. The coaches were quite pleased the the performances. Congratulations Trojans!
The Trojan track team has had their first 2 indoor meets with lots of success.

Feb 22

Graham Meister competed int the Grayslake Central Throwcase IV on Saturday, February 22. He finished 2nd with a throw on 17.32 (56′ 10″). In a field of 55, he had the 3rd, 4th, and 5th best attempts of the meet and was the best Illinois competitor in the meet.
On Wednesday, February 26, the entire squad went to Olivet Nazarene to challenge themselves against strong competition. Leading the Trojans was Mikayla Chambers, with wins to the 600m and 400m race, and Graham Meister who dominated the shot put event. Our new athletes had great performances and a good number of our returners sent indoor bests. It was a strong team performances.

Sprinters Delaney Boucher, Bridget Zavala, Belle Kelleher, Addi Taylor, Izzy Hakey, Olivia Valdez, Honorine Mwizerwa, and Addi Avilez all had strong showings in the 60, 200 and 400 meter dashes. A trio of first time throwers in Hannah Keri, Kailyn Haggard and Emmalynn Anderson all had a great start to their season in the shot put. Brooklynn Todd with a great first mile run of the season. Mikayla Chambers had two strong performances in the 400 and 600 meters runs, winning them both.

https://www.athletic.net/team/16312/track-and-field-indoor/2025

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