After a freak accident on Kaneland's track shut down his sophomore season, junior Luke Gadomski put up 26 points in four events to help the Knights win the 52nd Peterson Prep in their first home meet on a new track.

Winning five track events, including three of the four relays and two field events at Friday’s Les Hodge Open Invitational at Batavia, Kaneland’s first outdoor meet of the season, was just icing on the cake for the Knights.

Dylan Hodges and Braedon Shaners won titles for Sycamore this weekend at the Illinois Top Times Championships, an unofficial state meet for indoor track.

As the outdoor season starts ramping up we take a look at each Daily Chronicle area boys track and field team.

We take a look at five boys track athletes poised for breakout seasons.

The amount of multisport standouts in local boys athletics runs very deep. So many athletes with NCAA Division I offers in one sport are still playing another. It makes for a lot of strong candidates for the Daily Chronicle 2024-2025 Boys Athlete of the Year.

Eli Crome was not only part of Sycamore's state championship 4x400 relay team, but took third in the open 400 to earn the second and third state medals of his career. He's the Daily Chronicle boys track athlete of the year.

Sycamore senior Eli Crome closed out his high school career in style, anchoring the Spartans' 4x400 relay to the Class 2A state championship in Charleston after taking third in the 400. Teammate Aidan Wyzard took second in long jump and DeKalb's Jacob Barraza third in the 1,600.

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Schools compete for Class 2A state titles in Charleston on Saturday, May 25, 2024.