Of all of Minnesota’s high school sports, none has more participants than track and field. So, there’s no lack of talented track and field athletes to keep an eye on this spring season.

Meet 15 returning state champions and record holders to watch. State, class and meet records mentioned are according to Minnesota Prep Track & Field and Cross Country’s and Athletic Live databases.

Hattie Anderson

Minneapolis Washburn senior

Anderson is a dual threat for the Millers — lightning fast on the track and also a standout in field events. Her 11.97-second performance gave her second place in Class 3A the 100 meters, and she also finished second in the triple jump, with a 37-foot, 11-inch performance.

And, perhaps most notably, Anderson is the reigning 3A state champion in the long jump, leaping a school-record 19 feet, 0.25 inches. Her 38-foot, 4.25-inch showing in the triple jump later in the summer helped her finish 12th at the Nike Outdoor Nationals.

Adaylia Borgmeier

Mankato East junior

As a sophomore at last year’s state championship meet, Borgmeier added to her already extensive medal collection by rewriting her own state records in the 400-meter (1 minute, 10.51 seconds) and 200-meter (33.86 seconds) wheelchair races, with an 800-meter gold sandwiched between.

Borgmeier has also represented the United States at the youth national level in wheelchair track events and was named to the 2025 Para High School All-American team by U.S. Track & Field.

Audrey Brownell

Staples-Motley senior

Brownell, a Tulsa commit, could make history as a senior. She’s just a 3,200-meter state title away from becoming the first Minnesota runner to win a high school state championship in every distance running event, according to state high school track and field records.

Brownell has already won Class 1A titles in the 4x800, 800, 1,600 and cross-country 5K races. Last year, she defended her 1,600-meter title with a time of 5:02.38 but came up just shy of a 3,200-meter victory, less than a second behind St. John’s Prep sophomore Margaret Duffy.

Alexis Fahey

Forest Lake senior

Committed to Notre Dame, Fahey has won back-to-back Class 3A state titles in the discus, as well as picked up two first-place finishes in the event at the Hamline Elite Meet.

Her throw of 150 feet, 8 inches won her last year’s discus title, while her personal best of 155 feet reportedly puts her at 15th all-time in the state record books, and the furthest distance of any returning thrower in the state this year. She also placed third in the Class 3A shot put last June.

Devin Filzen

Winona senior

Few throwers are as dominant as Filzen. He won his fourth Class 2A state title in the wheelchair shot put last June, throwing 23 feet, 5.5 inches to break his own 2A record. He also won a title in wheelchair discus, throwing 47 feet, 11 inches for yet another class record.

He has also cleaned up in track wheelchair races, with the 1,600-meter class record and last year’s state titles in the 100 and 800.

Sean Fries

Minnetonka senior

Fries has continued to climb the ranks of Minnesota’s boys distance runners, winning his first state championship in the 3,200-meter race (9:04.99) last June and placing second in the 1,600. The Stanford-bound Skipper’s senior year has already been equally impressive, with a 14:50.6 time in taking the Class 3A cross-country title. It was a course record for a high school runner at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

Maddyn Greenway

Providence Academy senior

One of the state’s most decorated high school athletes has wrapped up her record-setting basketball career with the Lions. But Greenway has one more spring sports season to add to her medal collection, which includes 11 state titles across basketball, soccer and track.

The Kentucky basketball commit and All-Minnesota Girls Basketball Player of the Year defended her state title in the 300-meter hurdles last June, running 42.57 seconds, the fastest time in the state last season and seventh fastest all time in Minnesota. She also anchored a 4x400 state title relay team and placed third in the 100-meter hurdles last June.

Maddie Gullickson

Wayzata senior

Gullickson won her first Class 3A cross-country title last fall, but the North Carolina State commit has long since cemented her place at the front of the big schools’ 3,200-meter field.

Last track season, Gullickson won her third consecutive 3,200 state title with a time of 10:26.45, more than 15 seconds ahead of second place. She also earned her first 1,600 title, with a time of 4:49.50.

Lorenzo Hampton III

Fridley senior

Hampton was the defending Class 2A champion in the 300-meter hurdles heading into last year’s state meet but was disqualified from the event after a false start. He still took the time to head to the finish line and congratulate the rest of the field, and don’t worry, Hampton didn’t go home empty-handed.

He won the 110-meter hurdles title with a time of 14.07 seconds, a Class 2A meet record. His 14.01 mark from earlier in the year is the ninth-best time in state history.

Emma Kvant

St. Michael-Albertville senior

Kvant put her blistering speed to use on the soccer field last fall and was named Class 3A’s Ms. Soccer, but it’s her track and field talents that will take her to Kansas next fall after her senior season.

As a junior, Kvant set an all-time record in the 400-meter race in the state meet’s prelims (53.74 seconds) in addition to winning titles in the 400 (53.94) and 200 (24.62), along with helping the Knights earn a second-place team finish in Class 3A. Since then, Kvant placed fifth at the Nike Indoor Nationals in the 400, earning first-team All-America honors.

McKaylen Lewis

Math & Science Academy junior

As a freshman, Lewis won Class 1A titles in both the high jump and long jump. In the latter event, she leaped 19 feet, 9 inches, eliciting gasps from the crowd at St. Michael-Albertville when her title-winning distance was announced.

Lewis dealt with some injuries as a sophomore, but, come June, she defended her long jump state title with an 18-foot, 5.5-inch performance and placed second in the high jump.

Later that June, Lewis jumped 20 feet, 1.5 inches to place second at the Nike Outdoor Nationals. According to MN Prep Track & Field, that’s the farthest long jump of any Minnesotan girl. The all-time Minnesota High School League record is 20 feet, 1.25 inches.

Joshua Schmidt

Chaska senior

When Schmidt cleared 16-6 in the boys pole vault to win the event at last year’s Class 3A state championship meet, he set an MSHSL all-time record. He fell just short of his attempt at 17-0.

Both Schmidt, a North Dakota State commit, and Cambridge-Isanti senior Calvin Piescher, a Colorado State commit who placed second at state last year, are among the best boys pole vaulters in state history. Both will be in contention for breaking the state record this year.

Sebastian Strauss

Hastings senior

Hastings’ relays were a big part of the Raiders winning their first Class 3A boys track and field state title last June, and Strauss ran in both the first-place 4x200 and first-place 4x400 relays. He also won the 400 championship with a time of 49.02 seconds.

His stellar summer continued with an eighth-place finish in the 400 at the Nike Outdoor Nationals, running 47.56 seconds, and helping his 4x200 relay team win a national title.

Elizabeth Tuttle

St. Paul Academy senior

Three active athletes have top times among the state’s top 15 performances all time in the 100-meter hurdles. All three hurdlers are defending state champions, competing in each of the state’s three size classifications.

Lakeville South senior Eva Welsch (a Duke commit who shines nationally in the heptathlon) has run 14.27 seconds, while DeLaSalle junior Laila Moses has run 14.28 seconds (a Class 2A record). Tuttle’s personal-best time, also a Class 1A record, was the fastest of them all: 14.15 seconds. To win state last year, she ran a 14.67-second race. She also defended her 300-meter hurdles title.

Jayda Wilson

Roseville senior

Wilson is the two-time defending state champion in the Class 3A pole vault. She is one of only seven Minnesota girls to have vaulted 13 feet or more in state history, per Minnesota Prep Track & Field and Cross Country. She juggles long jump, relay and sprints duties for the Raiders, too.