| 2026 Class 4A Sectional Assignments
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Sectional 1
@ Wheeling High School
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Host: Vernon Hills Hawthorn North
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 9:00 AM
@ Wheeling High School
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900 S. Elmhurst Rd.,
Wheeling
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Seed Meeting:
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 5:00 PM
@ VIRTUAL
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Antioch
Beach Park
Grayslake
Gurnee Woodland
Lake Forest Deer Path
Lake Villa Palombi
Libertyville Highland MS
Lincolnshire Daniel Wright
Long Grove Woodlawn
Mundelein Carl Sandburg
Mundelein Fremont
North Chicago Neal
Vernon Hills Hawthorn North
(Host)
Vernon Hills Hawthorn South
Waukegan Smith
(Co-op)
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Sectional 2
@ TBD
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TBA
@ TBD
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Algonquin Heineman
Barrington Prairie
Barrington Station
Cary
Hoffman Estates Jefferson
Ingleside Big Hollow
Lake in the Hills Marlowe
Lake Zurich North
Lake Zurich South
Palatine Sundling
Palatine Winston
Rolling Meadows Plum Grove
Round Lake Magee
Round Lake MS
Wauconda
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Sectional 3
@ Mt. Prospect Lincoln
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Host: Mt. Prospect Lincoln
TBA
@ Mt. Prospect Lincoln
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Arlington Heights South
Arlington Heights Thomas
Buffalo Grove Aptakisic
Buffalo Grove Cooper
Buffalo Grove Twin Groves
Evanston Chute
Evanston Haven
Evanston Nichols
Highland Park Edgewood
Highland Park Northwood
Mt. Prospect Lincoln
(Host)
Mt. Prospect River Trails
Prospect Heights MacArthur
Wheeling Holmes
Wheeling London
Wilmette JHS
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Sectional 4
@ TBD
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TBA
@ TBD
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Bolingbrook Brooks
Bolingbrook Humphrey
Bolingbrook Jane Addams
Cicero Unity
Downers Grove Herrick
Downers Grove O'Neill
Lemont Old Quarry
Oak Park Brooks
Oak Park Julian
Plano
River Forest Roosevelt
Romeoville Lukancic
Romeoville Martinez
Sugar Grove Kaneland Harter
Woodridge Jefferson
Yorkville
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Sectional 5
@ Manhattan JHS
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Host: Manhattan
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 9:00 PM
@ Manhattan JHS
,
15414 W. Smith Rd.,
Manhattan
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Seed Meeting:
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 5:30 PM
@ VIRTUAL
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Calumet City Dolton 149
Flossmoor Parker
Frankfort Hickory Creek
Frankfort Summit Hill
Homer Glen Homer
Homewood Hart
Lansing Memorial
Manhattan
(Host)
Markham Prairie-Hills
Matteson Colin Powell
Matteson Huth
(Co-op)
Minooka
Mokena
New Lenox Liberty
New Lenox Martino
Shorewood Troy
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Sectional 6
@ TBD
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TBA
@ TBD
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Belvidere Central
Belvidere South
Burlington Central
-8th Only
Crystal Lake Beardsley
Crystal Lake Bernotas
Crystal Lake Lundahl
DeKalb Clinton Rosette
DeKalb Huntley
(Co-op)
Elgin Prairie Knolls
-7th Only
Harvard JHS
Loves Park Harlem
McHenry MS
McHenry Parkland
Rockton Stephen Mack
Roscoe
Sycamore
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| IESA Track & Field 2026 Class 4A Sectional Assignments |
Sectional 7
@ Geneseo HS- Bob Reade Field
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Host: Geneseo MS
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 9:00 AM
@ Geneseo HS- Bob Reade Field
,
700 N. State St.,
Geneseo
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Seed Meeting:
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 6:00 PM
@ VIRTUAL
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Dixon Reagan
East Moline Glenview
Freeport
Galesburg JHS
Geneseo MS
(Host)
Moline John Deere
Moline Wilson
Ottawa Shepherd
Rock Island Edison
Rock Island Washington
Rockford Eisenhower
Rockford Flinn
Rockford Lincoln
Rockford RESA
Rockford West
Sterling Challand
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Sectional 8
@ Urbana MS
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Host: Urbana MS
TBA
@ Urbana MS
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Bourbonnais UGC
Champaign Edison
Champaign Franklin
Champaign Jefferson
Charleston
Chicago Heights MS
Coal City
Danville North Ridge
Kankakee JHS
Mahomet-Seymour
Mattoon
Mt. Zion
Rantoul Eater
Steger Columbia
University Park Crete Monee
Urbana MS
(Host)
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Sectional 9
@ Morton JHS
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Host: Morton JHS
TBA
@ Morton JHS
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Bloomington Evans
Bloomington JHS
Canton Ingersoll
Chatham Glenwood
Decatur Stephen Decatur
Dunlap MS
Dunlap Valley MS
Macomb
Morton JHS
(Host)
Normal Chiddix
Normal Kingsley
Normal Parkside
Pekin Broadmoor
Springfield Jefferson
Springfield Washington
(Co-op)
Washington Central
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Sectional 10
@ Edwardsville High School- Winston Brown Complex
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Host: Edwardsville Liberty
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 9:00 AM
@ Edwardsville High School- Winston Brown Complex
,
6161 Center Grove Rd.,
Edwardsville
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Seed Meeting:
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 6:00 PM
@ VIRTUAL
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Alton
Bethalto Trimpe
Cahokia Wirth
Collinsville
Edwardsville Liberty
(Host)
Edwardsville Lincoln
Granite City Coolidge
Highland MS
Jacksonville MS
Jerseyville Community
Mascoutah
Quincy
Springfield Franklin
Springfield Grant
St. Jacob Triad
Taylorville JHS
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Class History
The first IESA state track meet for boys was held in Wenona in 1932 with 28 schools attending. A 24" trophy for the winning team was donated by the merchants of Wenona.
From 1932 to 1984 there were two classes of boys' track, Class A (Heavyweights) and Class B (Lightweights). Class B was based on age, weight, and height from 1932 to 1968. In 1969, the weight factor was dropped and competition was based on age and height factors. Class B was discontinued in 1985, changed to grade level play (7 and 8) and school size, our present classes.
The girls' track program, initiated in 1972 at the regional level, moved to state finals in 1974 in two divisions: Class A for grades five through eight and Class B for grades five and six only. These two classes were continued through the 1979 season. From 1980 through 1984, the Girls classes were changed to correspond with those of the boys based on age and height factors. Class B girls were measured during those years for height the same as the boys. Beginning in 1985, those classes were dropped and reorganized into four classes by school size and grade level (7A, 7AA, 8A and 8AA). It was split again in 2021 into the current classes of 7-1A, 7-2A, 7-3A, 7-4A, 8-1A, 8-2A, 8-3A, and 8-4A.
Boys' and girls' wheelchair divisions in 1A/2A and 3A/4A were added in 2024.
How Class Split is Determined
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