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Taylorville's Elsie Williamson and Jacksonville Routt's Millie Schumacher each won their first high school track and field state titles on Saturday.
Elsie Williamson can add a new gold medal to her trophy collection. The Taylorville junior heaved a winning distance of 139 feet, 7 inches in the Class 2A discus throw at the girls track and field state finals at O’Brien Field in Charleston on Saturday, May 23. Boys state qualifiers: Here are the Springfield area's 2026 state qualifiers for boys track Girls track sectional results: Here are the Springfield area's 2026 state qualifiers for girls track Best of the best: See the 25 top girls track and field performers so far around Springfield She tacked on a new personal best on three of her six attempts.
Williamson previously corralled second place in the 2024 state finals before earning fourth in 2025. She also boasts two Illinois Elementary School Association state titles in the ring. She embraced a slew of events throughout the season before solely concentrating on the discus throw.
“All season I’ve been training on a lot of different events, so it’s been really great to kind of get to focus on discus this week — a lot of hard work, lots of prayers, lots of strength from God and we got it,” Williamson said. Routt's Schumacher prevails with 800 title Jacksonville Routt sophomore Millie Schumacher similarily established a personal best to win the Class 1A 800-meter run in 2 minutes, 13. 86 seconds.
She held off Glasford Illini Bluffs runner-up Audrey Dickenson by 0. 44 seconds for her first state title of her high school career. She was a 400-meter state champion in eighth grade.