March 27

The Dwight Trojans came away with from the Illinois Prep Top Times (unofficial state indoor meet) with 8 outstanding performances. In 3 events, Trojans earned a medal and in 5 of the 8 events, our athletes produced All Time bests.
Graham Meister won his 3rd IPTT meet in a record breaking throw of 62′ 7.75″ which bettered the previous record by over 3 feet. Mikayla Chambers just missed an All Time best with her 800 time 0f 2:18.42 and brought home a silver medal. Our 3rd placing event was the girl’s 4×400 relay (Chambers, Belle Kelleher, Delaney Boucher, June Woods) with of 6th place time of 4:14.44 which lowered their season best by six seconds. June Woods also ran in the 400m dash finishing in 1:03.37. Joe Duffy turned in a PB 9th in 60HH with 8.85 finish. Our triple jumper, Collin Bachand set a personal best twice and ended with a record of 41′ 7.75″ which is very close to our school record. Joe Faris competed in the 800 where he ran a 2:02.31 and finished in 9th place (out of 18). Our boy entrant in the 400m, Tysen Walker finished with a time of 55.35.

 

March 21:

The Trojan boy’s team competed in the Bryon Last Chance meet on Saturday. They had an outstanding meet as every as 8 of the 9 athletes brought home a medal. We scored 68 points in 4th place behind two 2A squads and a 1A power who had more entries in many events than us. In the field events, our results were: shot put-Graham Meister (1st, 56′ 3.25″) and Filemon Ortiz (39′ 3.25″) set a personal record, high jump-Collin Bachard (5′ 10″) finished 2nd and Ty Turner (5′ 6″) finished 6th, triple-Collin (40′ 6″) had big PR in 1st and Ty (32′ 6.25″) was 6th again, long jump-Joe Duffy (20′ 3.5″) ended in 2nd with an indoor best and Michael Leithliter (18′ .75″) earned a 6th place medal. On the track, Tysen Walker ran an All Time best of 53.88 for 3rd, Joe Duffy (9.03) produced an indoor best to finish 3rd and Joe Faris won the 800 with an indoor record of 1:59.87. Our meet ended with a 2nd place finish in the 4×400 (Chris Ozee, Bachard, Duffy, Faris) in a fine time of 3:41.40.

 

March 14:

The team returned to ONU for the BBCHS Invite on Saturday. The performances were many and nearly in every event. The boys competed in 26 events and our athletes produced 19 indoor personal records. Alex Ortiz threw a season best shot put very close to his All Time best. Athletes who set indoor PR’s were: Joe Faris (1600m), Joe Duffy (long jump, High Hurdles), Ryker Anderson (60m, 200m). We saw 5 Trojans produce their All Time bests. They were; Collin Bachand (high jump), Ty Turner (high and triple jump), Filemon Ortiz (shot put), and Moy Martin (200m). In Friday’s Batavia Distance Madness, Joe Faris ran 2:00.78 in the 800m which was an indoor best when he finished 17th out of 99 competitors. Congratulations to our Trojan squad!

Saturday the Lady Trojans competed in the Bradley-Bourbonnais invite at Olivet. Chloe Biros had a PR time in the mile, good enough for a great 4th place finish.  June Woods had another strong 400 meter dash for 6th place.  Chloe Leithliter had a PR time in both the 60 meter dash and 200 meter dash. The 4×400 relay of Delaney Boucher, Isabella Kelleher, Izzy Hakey, and June Woods took 7th place with a new PR time. Emma Eggenberger also took 7th place in the shot put with a new PR throw.

June Woods

The Lady Trojans competed in the U High Lady Indoor Invitational at the IWU track in Bloomington. The meet was very competitive with most of the schools were 2A or 3A squads. We like the challenges. The team had one girl, June Woods, earn a 6th place medals where  she cut 2 seconds of her indoor 400m time. indoor personal bests were turned in by Chloe Leithliter (60m), Chloe Biros (800m), Kailyn Haggard (shot put), and Delaney Boucher (triple jump). The 4×200 relay (Leithliter, Boucher, Belle Kelleher, Lizzy Hakey) ran a time of 2:00.58 which was 9 seconds faster than the performance in the 2025 meet. Our next meet will be Saturday at the BBCHS Invitational at Olivet Nazarene U. which starts at 9:00 am.

 

 

The Trojans opened up the 2026 season with strong performances from many athletes in a meet that had 3 Class A teams in the 15 team event. Scoring for the Lady Trojans in individual events were June Woods (2nd 400), Delaney Boucher (400 5th), Mikayla Chambers (2nd 800), Chloe Biros (3rd 1600), and Emma Eggenberger (7th shot). The 4×200 (Boucher, Izzy Hakey, Chloe Leithliter, Belle Kelleher finished 7th while the 4×400 squad (Boucher, Woods, Hakey, Nicole Schimdt) came in 6th place. Individual placers on the boys side were Graham Meister (1st shot), Joe Faris (2nd 800) and Tysen Walker (2nd 400). The 4×400 team (Faris, Walker, David Allen, McKay Gleeson) finished in 6th. Michael Leithliter turned in strong performances in the long jump, 60, and 200 with little practice. Belle Kelleher and Chloe Leithliter produced fine races in the 60 and 200. Nicole Schimdt’s PR in the 800 and her split in the 4×400 was heartwarming to see.

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