Bella Grenier Wins State Track Title; Team Places Second

The girls’ track and field team completed a historic season in June, with Bella Grenier ’25 earning an individual state championship—USM’s first since 2003—in the 3,200-meter final and setting a new school record at the Division 2 WIAA state track and field meet. Annie Norman ’25 earned a 4th place finish in the same 3,200-meter run. In addition, the girls’ team earned its first-ever team state trophy at the meet in June, finishing in second place just three points away from the title. 

The state meet also saw the USM girls’ 4x800-meter relay team of (pictured below, clockwise from bottom left) Anastasia Marich ’26, Norman, Grenier, and Cate Kohli ’27 finish less than a second behind the first-place finishers in that event (while also besting the former state-record time).

The girls’ team finished with five podium finishes in the three races they competed in. Grenier and Norman finished second and third, respectively, in the 1,600-meter run, both with sub-five-minute times that bested the previous school record time. Kohli and Marich also both competed in the 800-meter event, and Neva Miner ’26 competed in discus. Overall, the girls improved significantly from their 25th-place team finish at state the previous year. 
The team’s impressive showing at state followed championships in both regionals and sectionals this spring.

On the boys side, the 4x100-meter relay team of Geno Cooks ’26, Sam Eason ’26, Ethan Feldner ’25 and Donovan Ford ’26 wrapped up their season in the prelims, and the 4x800-meter relay team of Owen Birchall ’25, Austin Jarmuz ’27, Beckett Newman ’28, and Kiran Siddalingaiah ’25 finished in 15th place in the finals.