It was a record-breaking season for Rams Track and Field.
The 2025 Girls Track & Field team finished second at the MSHSAA State Championship. Justyce Sanders ’27 was the State Champion at 200m with a school record time of 23.82. Sanders was State runner-up in the 400m, also setting a school record of 54.00. Blaike Borders ’28 also qualified for the final at 400m and finished 6th, earning All-State honors. Sanders had also qualified individually in the 100m but failed to advance to the final. The Girls 4x400m relay team of Sanders, Borders, Morgan Macam ’26, and Captain Grace Coppel ’25 broke a school record in their prelim heat (3:53.57), making them the fastest qualifier, then lowered their record (3:48.64) in the final, winning the Championship.
Coppel, who also qualified in the 800m individually, finished runner-up in a new school record (2:10.17), breaking her own record set earlier this season at Arcadia.
Captain Nicole Green ’25 was a very busy athlete, having qualified in four events. Green finished second in the triple jump in a very tight competition and finished 6th in the long jump. Green also qualified in the 100m hurdles and Shot Put, but did not advance to the finals in those two events.
The MICDS 4x800m relay team of Borders, Macam, Coppel, and Ellemieke Ferguson ’27 qualified for the Championship after being on a steady trajectory of improvement for nearly the last six weeks of the season. They managed a 4th place finish (9:34.55). Captain Alli Thelen ’25 qualified for the State meet for the second time in the pole vault and finished 9th. Gertie Habel ’27 was a High Jump qualifier and finished in 13th place. Frances Applegate ’27, who limped to a 4th place finish in our sectional championship, qualified for State in the 3200m run but was unable to compete in the meet due to injury sustained in the sectional race.
The MICDS Girls Track & Field team was crowned District Champions and Sectional Champs. District Individual champions were Sanders in the 400m and 200m and Coppel in the 800m. Thelen was the district pole-vault champion. Green won the triple jump and qualified for the sectional championship in three other individual events: Long Jump, 100m hurdles, and Shot Put. Green was a State Qualifier in each of her four years of competition here at MICDS.
The MICDS 4x400m relay team of Sanders, Borders, Macam, and Coppel also won State. Other Rams on the All-District team and Sectional qualifiers: Lillian Joe ’26 in the Long Jump, Applegate in the 3200m, and Habel in the High Jump.
It was an outstanding season. The Harriet Green award for the team’s most inspirational athlete went to Coppel, who will join the track and cross-country team at West Point next season. Green, who will compete for Northern Illinois next season, won the Greg Foster Memorial Award as the team’s top performer.
