Marengo's Jackson Heimsoth showed off his speed all spring, capping his junior year by finishing second in the Class 2A 200-meter dash at state, while also earning a fourth-place medal in the 4x200 relay. He is the 2026 Northwest Herald Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

See who all qualified for state in boys track and field from around the area.

Bishop McNamara's Malachi Lee and Bradley-Bourbonnais' Lyzale Edmon found state success to wrap historic seasons this year, with Lee winning a state title, Edmon winning three state medals and the two now sharing Daily Journal Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year honors.

Aidan Connors of Plainfield North won the Class 3A 3,200-meter state championship and is now the Herald-News Boys Track Athlete of the Year.

Congratulations to the 2026 Times Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year, Ottawa hurdler and state medalist Joey Liebhart.

Presented here are The Times area’s state qualifiers and their postseason accomplishments, the 2026 Times Boys Track and Field All-Area Honor Roll.

Meet the athletes that make up this year's Daily Journal All-Area Boys Track and Field team.

Geneva junior Bennett Konkey, who won the state titles in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes, the first in school history, is the Kane County Chronicle boys track and field Athlete of the Year.

Here are The Times area’s state qualifiers and their postseason accomplishments, the 2026 Times Girls Track and Field All-Area Honor Roll.

Downers Grove North senior and Virginia commit Philip Cupial, who won the Class 3A 1,600-meter state championship and also ran on the championship 4x800 relay, is the Suburban Life boys track and field Athlete of the Year.

Yorkville senior Owen Horeni, who took second place in the Class 3A 800-meter run and led the Foxes to conference and sectional titles, is the Record Newspapers boys track and field Athlete of the Year.

Will Rosenow doesn't know if he'll play football or throw shot put in college. But at Sycamore, he's figured out each sport make him better at the other.

Rochelle Township High School's Andrew Nuyen cleared 17-6 and placed second.

The Illinois Elementary School Association completed its 2025-26 school year with the Class 3A/4A IESA State Meet at Eastside Centre in East Peoria, with multiple area large-school student-athletes capturing all-state honors.

Breaking school and state records, Rochelle pole vaulter Andrew Nuyen finished second with a personal-best height of 5.35 meters (17 feet 6 1/2 inches) during the IHSA Class 2A state boys track and field meet at Eastern Illinois. Nuyen is signed to compete at South Florida.

Dixon's Owen LeSage won the IHSA state shot put title to lead the Dukes' medalists on Saturday. Sterling's 4x400 relay took third.

The Morrison boys repeated as IHSA state track and field champions in Class 1A and set multiple records on Saturday. Amboy, Forreston-Polo, Erie-Prophetstown and Oregon also earned hardware.

Downers Grove North's Philip Cupial raced to his second state championship in the Class 3A 1,600 and helped lead the Trojans' 4x800 relay to a three-peat, while Lyons' Joey Bockwell won the Class 3A shot put at the IHSA state track and field meet on Saturday in Charleston.

Bennett Konkey secured the first state titles in Geneva history after winning both the Class 3A 100- and 200-meter dash, while Aurora Central Catholic's 4x800 won the Class 2A state title, its first in the event since 1979.

Aiden Connors, who helped Plainfield North win the Class 3A cross country title last fall, won the Class 3A 3,200-meter run at the IHSA state track and field meet Saturday, while Dwight's Graham Meister three-peated in the Class 1A shot put with a record throw and won discus.

Cary-Grove's Logan Abrams ended his high school career with a third-place finish in the Class 3A discus, while Marengo's Jackson Heimsoth, Woodstock North's Adan Castaneda and Dundee-Crown's Oreoluwa Sobodu earned two state medals at the IHSA Boys Track and Field State Meet.

Colton VanDyke, Jackson Boryc, Noah Cornell and Benjamin Karl were second for Kaneland in the 4x100 and 4x200, Will Rosenow was second for Sycamore in the shot put, Martin Ledbetter and Parker Murry take third and fourth in 1A, plus more from state track.

Yorkville sophomore Aiden Kolkmeyer and Oswego junior Dontrell Young both earned All-State honors in three events at the IHSA Boys Track and Field state meet, while Owen Horeni ended his high school career with a second-place finish in the 800-meter run.

Bishop McNamara junior Malachi Lee won the 1A high jump title and Bradley-Bourbonnais senior Lyzale Edmon won three medals on Saturday in the 3A meet.

Here are Scott Anderson's photos from the IHSA boys track and field state championships from Saturday, May 30, 2026 at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

Mila Mardjetko struck out 15 to lead Lemont softball to a sectional title, Timothy Christian's Hudson Tseng advanced to the Class 1A state tennis championship match, Lyons' Joey Bockwell is in first place in the Class 3A shot put at state track and more in Friday's roundup.

Geneva junior Bennett Konkey ran the fastest preliminary times in both the Class 3A 100- and 200-meter dash, while Aurora Central Catholic's 4x800 relay ran the fastest time in Class 2A, and more qualifiers for the state finals from Friday.

Cary-Grove senior Logan Abrams advanced to the Class 3A discus finals but fouled on all three of his attempts in the shot put. He medaled in both throws events last year. Plus, Class 2A results in Friday's Northwest Herald boys track and field state meet roundup.

In the Class 2A and 3A prelims at the IHSA Track and Field State Championships, Bradley-Bourbonnais' LyZale Edmon advanced to the finals in the 200 meters and as part of both the 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams while Manteno's Briggs Cann qualified in the 400 meters.

Sterling and Dixon both had big performances in Friday's preliminaries at the IHSA state boys track and field meet.

Lincoln-Way West has entries in 12 of the 18 events at this years Class 3A boys state track and field meet

Bishop McNamara's Malachi Lee, Cale Hamilton and Brock Clott were three of six area boys track and field athletes to advance to Saturday's state finals from the Class 1A prelims at Eastern Illinois University. This and more in Thursday's Daily Journal roundup.

Morrison's 4x200 relay broke its own state record in Thursday's Class 1A preliminaries. Here is a roundup of area competitors from the opening day of the IHSA state boys track and field meet.

Can Bennett Konkey find the top of the podium in both sprints? Will Aurora Central Catholic's 4x800-meter relay find the podium after just missing?Here are five storylines to watch for Kane County-area athletes at the IHSA state boys track meet.

The IHSA boys track and field state meet is this weekend on the campus of Eastern Illinois in Charleston. Here are five storylines to watch for Suburban Life-area athletes this weekend.

Kaneland boys track and field senior Jackson Boryc, who won the Class 2A Rochelle sectional titles in the 4x100 and 4x200-meter relays and also qualified for state in the 100 and 4x400, is the Kane County Chronicle Athlete of the Week.

The IHSA boys track and field state meet is this weekend on the campus of Eastern Illinois in Charleston. Here are five storylines to watch for Kendall County-area athletes this weekend.

The IHSA boys track and field state finals take place Thursday-Saturday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Here is the full list of state qualifiers from the Kendall County area.

The IHSA boys track and field state finals take place Thursday-Saturday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Here is the full list of state qualifiers from the Suburban Life area.

The IHSA boys track and field state meet takes place Thursday through Saturday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Here is the full list of state qualifiers from the Sauk Valley area. Dixon is chasing a state trophy in 2A and Morrison is the defending 1A champion.

The IHSA boys track and field state championships run Thursday-Saturday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Here is the full list of state qualifiers from the Northwest Herald area.

Junior high track and field athletes from across the area claimed 10 state titles spanning classes 1A through 4A at the IESA state meets held over the last two weekends in East Peoria.

Indian Creek junior Parker Murry enters the state boys track preliminaries as the top seed in the high jump, while Sycamore thrower Will Rosenow enters as the top seed in the shot put and 2nd in the discus. We look at IC, Hinckley-Big Rock, DeKalb, Genoa-Kingston and Sycamore.

Alex Casanas won three events as Hinckley-Big Rock won a boys sectional track championship for the first time. Indian Creek was third behind throwers Wyatt Gletty and Isaac Willis.

Forreston-Polo's 4x400 meter relay broke its own school record as F-P took second as a team at the Class 1A Oregon Sectional boys track and field meet on Friday. Oregon also had state qualifiers at the sectional.

Joseph Michelini secured his third state trip in the shot put, leading Lake Park's boys track team to Friday's sectional title, while star hurdler Benjamin Schoettle led Glenbard West to second, Geneva's Bennett Konkey swept the 100 and 200 and Batavia's Darin Ashiru the jumps.

In one of the most competitive 2A boys track & field sectionals in the state, Rochelle and Byron finished in the top 5 of team standings.

Oswego junior Jezhian Sprinkle overcame hitting a hurdle on his first race to sweep both hurdles races, among the many individual highlights along with Lemont's Nathan Murray running the state's second-best 400 while Hinsdale Central took the team title at Downers Grove North.

Wilmington's McKenna Van Tilburg advanced to Saturday's state finals in four events and Milford/Cissna Park's Addison Lucht advanced in three to lead a group of Class 1A girls track and field athletes in Thursday's prelims. That and more in Thursday's Daily Journal roundup.

Morrison boys track and field took third at the Class 1A Erie Sectional on Thursday, and Erie-Prophetstown was fifth as area athletes qualified for the state meet next week.