Auto Butler Female Athletes Of Month For Redbirds: Dominate at Illinois College Indoor Invitational

ALTON - Alton High’s girls track and field team won the overall title Friday, March 13, 2026, at the Jacksonville Indoor Invitational at Illinois College, highlighted by six-event victories and multiple school records.

Alton finished the meet with 99.5 points. Mascoutah was next with 87.5 points and Civic Memorial recorded 39 and Roxana 32.5 points. Jersey was 14th with 12 points and Marquette Catholic tallied 8 points.

Head Coach Chelsea Anderson said the Lady Redbirds “placed first overall” and recorded “six first-place finishes, two second-place finishes, three third-place finishes, and one fourth-place finish, and an eighth place.”

The Alton track and field squad girls are Auto Butler Female Athletes Of The Month.

The Redbirds' Rayna Raglin set a school record while winning the 60 meters in 7.42 seconds, according to Anderson, who also said Raglin won the 200 in 24.92 and the 400 in 58.46.

The meet included a school-record performance by the 4x800-meter relay team of Vail Schwab, Sophie Helfrich, Aliyah Rehling and Karma Armstead, which won in 10 minutes, 31.13 seconds. Anderson said the group “knocked off 10 whole seconds of their time from last week.”

Schwab won the 800 in 2:29.4, and Rehling placed third in the 800 in 2:38.4, Anderson said. Sophie Helfrich finished third in the 1,600 with a school-record 5:44.20.

Alton’s 4x400 relay won in 4:25.18 with Ma'Rye Holloway, Haylee Brown, Karma Armstead, and Leah Hubbard, with Anderson citing “an amazing last leg by Leah. Hubbard had a great comeback on the fourth leg in the 4X400 (with three freshmen) to secure the team win.”

In other results, Anderson said Justice Haynes placed third in the 60 meters with a personal record of 7.83 in her indoor debut. "The 4x200 relay of Justice, Moriah, Amayah, and Leah finished second in 1:49.87," Anderson said.

It is good for the team to have Justice Haynes from the basketball team back, and she ran “a 7.8 in the 60 meters for her first meet.”

Field event placers included "Leah Hubbard, taking third in the long jump at 4.93. Arie finished second in the triple jump with a personal record of 10.00, and Olivia Williams placed eighth in the high jump at 1.45," Anderson said.

Anderson credited the team’s improvement to preparation and said, “We’ve put in the work, and the progress is showing.”

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