Trevians relays take home All-State medals, make their mark in school record book

Last season, New Trier boys track and field had four individual state champions en route to a historic team state title.

This time around, the Trevians didn’t place as a team; however, three of the team’s relays — or 12 individuals — earned All-State finishes.

New Trier head coach Andrew Schmitt looked at those results through a glass-half-full lens.

“We didn’t have the individual superstars or state champions like last year, but as a team, we were All-State in three relays,” Schmitt said. “That’s a great testament to those seniors … that really stuck to our standards and were great teammates. And maybe we were a better team this year than the team that won state meet last year.”

New Trier’s 4-by-100, -200 and -800 relays all finished in the top 10 of the IHSA Class 3A finals on Saturday, May 30, on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. Evanston, behind three event wins (high jump: Jaden Jean-Paul; 4-by-100; 4-by-200), won the team title, making it back-to-back state champs for the Central Suburban South.

New Trier’s 4-by-200-meter team of Miles Lyons, Gio Borlo, Liam Hanahan and Dylan Nemerovski set a school record with a time of 1 minute 26.37 seconds in the finals, good enough for fourth place.

Previous to this season, the school record in the event was 1:27.34 set nearly 60 years ago (1967). This season’s quartet broke it multiple times but saved their best for last.

Nemerovski, Lyons, Borlo and James Markul teamed up for a seventh-place finish in the 4-by-100, running the race in 41.75 seconds despite one bad handoff, Schmitt said.

The 4-by-800 unit — Sebastian Vining, Jordan Kreiner, Ryan Georgopoulos and Martin Issa — ran a season-best time in the finals, capturing eighth in 7:50.36.

Nemerovski and Lyons, both seniors, narrowly missed finals appearances in their solo sprints. Nemerovski — who has the second fastest 100 time in school history behind 2025 state champ William Landwer — was a one-hundredth of a second off the finals qualifying time (10.71). He also was just off the pace in the 200.

Lyons placed 12 in the 400 preliminaries at 48.42 seconds, further lowering the school record time he set earlier this season when he bested a mark (48.84, Tom Langston) set in 1968.

Schmitt praised the seniors for regrouping and helping two relays to All-State finishes on Saturday.

“Our leader, Dylan Nemerovski, has been a part of so many moments,” Schmitt said. “He’s the second fastest guy in New Trier history and has led us on all the relays.

“Miles (a transfer from Loyola Academy) has been an incredible addition, not only as an athlete but a leader and teammate.”

Schmitt also gave shoutouts to seniors Markul, Hanahan, Borlo and Kreiner for their contributions, which are inked in the program’s record books.

In fact, over the past two seasons, New Trier boys track and field has turned over seven event records — that’s close to half (15 events) the board.

Schmitt is confident those seniors’ efforts have absorbed into the program, setting it up for future successes.

He noted that the program’s freshman/sophomore team won the conference title and had champs in the throws, jumps and distance events.

“There is reason to believe all of this good energy is going to continue,” he said. “It might change, maybe we don’t have sprinters quite as fast and that energy transfers over to distance and jumps.”

Other New Trier participants in the state finals included junior Colin Hirschle in both the 110 (18th place) and 300 hurdles (41st) and Hanahan, Borlo, Camden Hon and Erik Bertrandt in the 4-by-400 relay (33rd)

Issa, a sophomore who won the 1,600 in the sectional meet, declined to run the event at state, choosing to save his efforts for the 4-by-800 relay.

“They all want what’s best for the team,” Schmitt said. “These are amazing sacrifices. They believe in each other and did everything they could for the team.”

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