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Presenting the 2023 Times Girls Track and Field Honor Roll

The top performers from the 2023 girls track and field season

Newark’s Kiara Wesseh competes in the high jump during the Class 1A Seneca Sectional track and field meet Thursday, May 11, 2023, at Seneca High School.

The schools of The Times area sent plenty of athletes to the IHSA Girls Track and Field State Meet this past spring, with Newark, Sandwich, Seneca, Streator and Fieldcrest all represented in Charleston.

Here are those state qualifiers, the 2023 Times Girls Track and Field All-Area Honor Roll.

100 Dash

Kiara Wesseh, jr., Newark – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Lila Coleman, fr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier

200 Dash

Brooklyn Hatteberg, jr., Newark – 1A state qualifier

400 Run

Addison Ness, so., Newark – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

800 Run

Evelyn O’Connor, so., Seneca – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

1,600 Run

Sundara Weber, fr., Sandwich – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

3,200 Run

Sundara Weber, fr., Sandwich – 1A state qualifier

100 Hurdles

Kiara Wesseh, jr., Newark – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Lilly Pfeifer, fr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier

300 Hurdles

Abby Pierce, sr., Streator – 2A state qualifier

Macy Gochanour, fr., Fieldcrest – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Kiara Wesseh, jr., Newark – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Caitlyn O’Boyle, sr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier

4x100 Relay

Seneca (Caitlyn O’Boyle, Teagan Johnson, Anna Bruno, Lila Coleman) – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Newark (Addison Ness, Madison Sittler, Isabella Creps, Brooklyn Hatteberg) – 1A state qualifier

4x200 Relay

Seneca (Caitlyn O’Boyle, Clara Bruno, Anna Bruno, Lila Coleman) – 1A state runner-up, sectional champion

Newark (Addison Ness, Madison Sittler, Isabella Creps, Brooklyn Hatteberg) – 1A state qualifier

4x400 Relay

Seneca (Clara Bruno, Lila Coleman, Evelyn O’Connor, Anna Bruno) – 1A state champion, sectional champion

Newark (Madison Sittler, Tess Carlson, Brooklyn Hatteberg, Addison Ness) – 1A state qualifier

4x800 Relay

Seneca (Clara Bruno, Gracie Steffes, Ashley Alsvig, Evelyn O’Connor) –1 A state qualifier, sectional champion

Shot Put

Claire Allen, sr., Sandwich – 2A state champion, sectional champion

Gabi Maxwell, jr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Faith Baker, jr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier

Discus Throw

Claire Allen, sr., Sandwich – 2A state champion, sectional champion

Faith Baker, jr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Gabi Maxwell, jr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier

High Jump

Kiara Wesseh, jr., Newark – 1A state champion, sectional champion

Pole Vault

Teagan Johnson, jr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Addison Stiegler, jr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier

Tess Carlson, so., Newark – 1A state qualifier

Long Jump

Anna Bruno, sr., Seneca – 1A state champion, sectional champion

Triple Jump

Teagan Johnson, jr., Seneca – 1A state qualifier, sectional champion

Claire Allen of Sandwich throws the discus Saturday, May 20, 2023, during the IHSA Girls Track and Field State Meet at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
J.T. Pedelty

J.T. Pedelty

J.T. is a graduate of Streator High School, Illinois Valley Community College and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale who is some 26 years into an award-winning sports journalism career and serves as a regional sports editor for Shaw Local Media and Friday Night Drive.