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We finish the final team rankings at #6 in Class 1A in both Illinois Running News and MileSplit Heartland Gannon Dunker ‘27 will lead the charge for the Panthers in Shot Put followed by the 4x800 Relay and 6 more big events on the oval! It all begins tomorrow morning for State Preliminaries 🔥

4x800 runs a great race down here in Charleston but unfortunately is the 2nd team out of State Finals. Fantastic season for these guys finishing 14th in State! Proud of our senior leaders Jackson Barrett and Ryan Pieper 🤝

4x100 RELAY WINS HEAT 3 AT 42.80 FOR ANOTHER SCHOOL RECORD 🔥 Qualify as the #2-seed for State Finals! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Alec Schlichting dominates Heat 1 of the 100m Dash in a new school record of 10.71 👀 Congrats, Alec Schlichting 👊

Our young men keep rolling with the 4x200 shattering our school record at 1:29.49 and qualifying for State Finals at #5! That’s the 3rd school record of the day! 👀 #FastCats

Alec Schlichting breaks the 4th school record of the day running 21.90 in the 200m Dash and winning Heat 2 to advance to the State Finals 🔥

4x400 Relay PRs at 3:30.00 and jumps up 8 seeds to finish in 10th place, heartbreakingly close to State Finals. Congrats to Jackson Barrett, Bryson Fransen, Jaylen Rakowska, and Ryan Pieper 🤝 Really proud of you, gentlemen.

Alec Schlichting had a historic day in the IHSA State Preliminaries setting not one, but FOUR school records and punching four tickets to the State Finals 👀 🏅100m Dash at 10.71 🏅200m Dash at 21.90 🏅4x100 Relay at 42.80 🏅4x200 Relay at 1:29.49

Speedster Jaylen Rakowska had himself a day battling it out—anchoring our 4x100 and 4x200 to school records and leading our 4x400 to a Top 10 finish. This dude’s heart and senior leadership have transformed our sprint relays the last four years. So proud of this young man #YouGoWeGo

Good morning from Big Blue and State Championship Saturday at Eastern Illinois University! Gannon Dunker will lead the charge with Shot Put Finals at 10:00am 🔥

Gannon Dunker with a monster second toss in the State Finals to finish Top 5 in the State! Congratulations to this young man on a phenomenal Sophomore season! 🏅

Tough race by our standard but our 4x100 Relay gives us our second Top 5 finish of the day!🏅Fastest team to ever come through Le-Win 🔥Love these guys!

We finish out the sprint relays with the 4x200 medaling in 8th place at State to finish out a record breaking season! Great job, gentleman! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Our team earned an official Top 10 state placement finishing in 7th place out of 283 track teams in Class 1A. It’s the 3rd highest finish in school history and the first time we’ve ever finished in the Top 10 in back-to-back years. Couldn’t be more proud of our young men.

🏆NUIC All-Conference Honors for Boys Track & Field 🏆 Alec Schlichting (Co-MVP for NUIC) Alec Schlichting Brady White Jackson Barrett Jackson Barrett Zaydan Schoonhoven-Hussain Ryan Pieper Bryson Fransen Tyree Davis Jaylen Rakowska Jaylen Rakowska Gannon Dunker Gannon Dunker ‘27

🏅5 Panther Athletes Earn IHSA Class 1A All-State Honors🏅 100m Dash: Alec Schlichting (2nd Place) Shot Put: Gannon Dunker (5th Place) 200m Dash: Alec Schlichting (5th Place) 4x100 & 4x200 Relay: Tyree Davis, Alec Schlichting, Bryson Fransen, & Jaylen Rakowska (5th / 8th Place)

Here is our updated all-time leading medalists in program history. Alec Schlichting added 4 state medals to his collection from the 2025 State Finals, becoming the first athlete in school history to accomplish that feat. As a result, he is now the GOAT at Le-Win 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

Jaylen Rakowska wraps up his career at Lena-Winslow with 5 sprint relay medals in 8 state relays, the most in school history. He sacrificed everything since 2023 to lead our relays to the podium & 2 school records, including his 100m Dash SQ. True relay guy at ❤️ #BestAnchorEver

That's a wrap on the 2025 track & field season! It was a hell of a journey with some great memories made on & off the oval. These guys will go down as the fastest team ever at L-W: Team Record: 122-25-1 (.829%) NUIC: 2nd IHSA Sectional: 2nd IHSA State Championship: 7th #Family