The IHSA held their Class 1, 2 and 3A finals in girls track and field Saturday, May 18, 2024 at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
Dixon senior Olivia Cox, who qualified for the Class 2A state track and field meet in the shot put and discus, is the Sauk Valley Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Shaw Media Group Editor Joshua Welge.
Dixon senior Olivia Cox, who had the sixth-best sectional discus throw statewide and has the fourth-best discus throw in Class 2A this spring, leads Sauk Valley area medal contenders this weekend in Charleston.
Fulton won the Class 1A Bureau Valley Sectional on Wednesday, while Newman, Erie-Prophetstown, Bureau Valley and Amboy are also sending athletes to state.
Sterling won the Class 2A Rochelle Sectional despite not having an individual champ, Mendota and Genoa-Kingston both had individual freshman champions, Sycamore had a surprise pole vault champ and Sandwich's Sunny Weber kept up her domination.
Teams from Amboy, Ashton-Franklin Center, DePue, Earlville, Erie-Prophetstown, Putnam County, Henry-Senachwine, Bureau Valley, Milledgeville, Morrison, Marquette, St. Bede, Indian Creek, Hall and Newman competed in the Class 1A girls track and field Sectional on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at Bureau Valley High School.
Several area girls track teams including Sycamore, Genoa-Kingston, Dixon, Sterling, Rock Falls, Sandwich, Plano and Mendota competed Wednesday in the Class 2A Rochelle Sectional .
Schools from Sherrard, Port Byron Riverdale, Erie-Prophetstown, Hall, Rockridge, Bureau Valley, Monmouth Roseville, Orion, Princeton, Sterling Newman, Kewanee and Mendota all competed in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference girls meet on Friday, May 3, 2024 in Mendota.
The Sterling track and field teams put on a show at the 72nd Annual Sterling Night Relays on DuWayne Dietz Track at Roscoe Eades Stadium on Thursday. The Golden Warrior girls won the team title, while the boys finished second in eight-team fields.