It was another historic season for the Petoskey track and field team, one that needed a look back on with nine records set.
PETOSKEY — It feels more and more like we’re closer to the start of a new high school athletic season, than the one we just came out of.
But, there’s something that happened during the 2024-25 school year and spring season that’s just hanging around.
Well, it’s actually nine things at Petoskey High School.
During the 2025 spring track and field season, Northmen athletes set nine school records that’ll go up on the wall, some might hang around for a while.
For both boys and girls, most of the records set came with a focus on sprinter speed, including four of the five records on the girls side.
Alison Bailey was part of three records, including her own set in the 200 meter dash. Bailey broke a 33-year record held by Sarah Graham in 1992. Bailey broke the mark of 26.35 twice, the second time capping her high school career at the state finals in 25.70 seconds.
The girls 4x100 relay team of Nevaeh Leonard, Emma Mitas, Alexandra Petok and Bailey also broke a record set only a year ago, running 49.28 seconds. Before the record was broken and re-broken multiple times in recent years, a mark of 50.40 had stood for over 40 years.
The same relay group of Leonard, Mitas, Petok and Bailey set a new mark in the 4x200 as well, running 1:44.00, topping a regionals mark from a year ago by 00.18.
In hurdles, Petok also came away with her own individual mark in the 100 meter high hurdle event, taking teammate Sarah Bailey’s record with a time of 15.40.
Sarah Bailey will keep a record of her own, however, as she set a new pole vault record in 11-feet even, breaking her own previous record of 9-feet, 9-inches.
On the boys side, relays smashed many of their own marks already set in recent seasons.
Sam Mitas was part of three records set in 2025, giving him four total for his all-state career.
Mitas set a new individual mark in the 200 meter dash in 21.94 seconds. The future Grand Valley State sprinter already held the 100 meter dash mark of 10.82 as well.
The 4x100 relay team of Mitas, Logan Beer, Kaiden Boyce and Seth Mark ran 41.83, a new 2025 record, then Beer, Boyce and Mitas combined with Mitch Eberhart to claim the 4x200 school record in 1:28.89.
An individual hurdle record was also earned by senior Johnny Lipchik in the 300 meter event, running 40.27 seconds in the Big North Championships.
While not a record, Beer, who will run at Lake Superior State, became just the second PHS athlete ever to run sub 11 seconds in the 100 meter dash, doing so with a 10.93 second time at the state finals. It earned him an all-state fifth place finish.
With only Sarah Bailey, Emma Mitas and Petok back for next season, many of the records set will likely be in place for a handful of years, with 2025 marking the end of one of the greatest sprint classes in PHS history.
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This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Petoskey track and field rewrites the record books in 2025, set nine marks
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