Articles filed under Track and Field
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Spanning the sports, from prep football to basketball and track and fieldFeb 02, 2026 10:57 pm - The Daily Herald prep sports newsletter has you covered, whether it’s “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran’s latest football recruiting update, a feature on a local University of Wisconsin track and field athlete or the latest rankings for boys and girls basketball.
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College Achievers: Aurora Central grad maintains fast times at WisconsinFeb 01, 2026 3:38 pm - College Achievers: On Jan. 28, the Big Ten Conference highlighted Aurora Central Catholic graduate Patrick Hilby as one of its men’s indoor track and field athletes of the week.
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‘Never thought a meet would not pay:’ Grand Slam Track bankruptcy takes a toll on struggling runnersJan 30, 2026 10:13 pm - His name wasn't splashed across any of the headlines when Grand Slam Track — the running league that was supposed to infuse cash into the sport and its athletes' bank accounts — declared bankruptcy, making it official that dozens of runners and even more vendors might not see any of the money they were promised.
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Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda and Ethiopian Hawi Feysa win the men's and women's Chicago MarathonOct 12, 2025 1:10 pm - CHICAGO — Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda and Ethiopian Hawi Feysa won the men's and women's races at the Chicago Marathon by comfortable margins on Sunday. Kiplimo crossed the l...
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New U.S. sprint star Melissa Jefferson-Wooden helped save her dad's life when she was 17Sep 19, 2025 7:52 pm - American sprinter Melissa Jefferson-Wooden has a gold medal from the world championships. Two of them, in fact. Her biggest win of all might be that her father, Melvin, was on hand in Tokyo to watch her. The country's brightest new sprint star donated stem cells from her bone marrow in 2018 to help her dad overcome a potentially deadly sickness in which the marrow doesn't produce enough white blood cells to enrich the immune system.
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Cruel September takes two legends of Illinois running communitySep 10, 2025 8:12 pm - State track and field and cross country suffered a blow with the deaths of retired North Central College coach Al Carius and media expert Mike Newman.
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Bad blood. Lyles shoved by Bednarek after his win in 200 meters at US nationalsAug 03, 2025 7:20 pm - Noah Lyles landed the day’s biggest blow on the track, passing Kenny Bednarek for the win, then looking his way to talk some trash. Bednarek’s answer was a two-handed sho...
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‘He’s missed greatly by everybody’: Late Fremd coach Dave Yates continues to inspireJun 18, 2025 8:39 pm - At the Windmill City Weekend Shootout girls basketball event, Batavia coach Kevin Jensen continues what he and the late Fremd coach Dave Yates started
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Naperville parents voice objections after transgender student competes in track meetMay 20, 2025 9:28 am - Parents on Monday packed a Naperville Unit District 203 school board meeting after a transgender female student competed at a track meet at a middle school.
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Bregenzer, Znajda can count themselves among ‘the best of the best’Apr 02, 2025 6:42 pm - Barrington’s Joe Bregenzer and Prospect’s Veronica Znajda are among 26 student-athletes statewide named to the Illinois High School Association’s 2025 Academic All-State Team.
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