Track and Field

There will be three men running for the United States National Team in Sunday’s Worlds Marathon Championship in Oregon. Princeton’s own Colin Mickow is one of them.

Rock Falls' Mathew Marcum was named 2022 track athlete of the year.

Sterling's Alice Sotelo was named 2022 track athlete of the year.

St. Charles North senior Natalie Buratczuk, who took fourth in high jump at the Class 3A state track and field meet, is the Kane County Chronicle Athlete of the Week.

Fifteen area schools had athletes earn top-nine medals at the IESA Track & Field State Meet over the past two weekends at EastSide Centre in East Peoria, with nine earning gold medals, 10 taking second place, and 13 finishing third.

Three Sauk Valley Community College athletes competed at the NJCAA National Track & Field Championships this past weekend in Hutchinson, Kansas, and two of them notched top-eight finishes to earn All-American honors.

The finals of the IHSA Girls Track and Field Championships were held at O'Brien Field on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston on Saturday, May 21, 2022.

Newark's Megan Williams posted the top triple jump in Thursday's Class 1A state preliminaries, Yorkville's Kyle Clabough repeated as sectional shot put champion, Josh Polubinski hit a walk-off homer for Oswego East and more in Thursday's prep sports roundup.

Princeton Logan Junior High won one sectional championship and qualified in seven events for the IESA 2A State Track & Field Meet in Saturday’s sectional at Sherrard. The Logan eighth-grade girls scored 83 points to beat host Sherrard (73) for the sectional championship.

Here’s a look inside at some of the athletes who set Bureau County Track & Field records, many holding on to them for decades.

Here’s a look at the all-time Illinois Valley Track & Field records, including schools in the BCR, NewsTribune and Times coverage area.

It’s easy to look at a list of records for the numbers and who made them. But do the kids these days really know the athletes behind the records they’re chasing?

Geneva High School hosted the 2022 Kane County Boys Track and Field Invite on Monday, May 9. 2022.

LeBaron Lee struck out eight and combined with two relievers on a one-hitter as Yorkville baseball finished off a three-game sweep of Oswego East, Newark softball scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to beat Sandwich and more in Saturday's prep sports roundup.

Here's a look at the Bureau County Junior High track & field champions from Monday's meet at Princeton