The Forester track and field teams completed the 2026 outdoor season at the Midwest Conference Championship Meet on Saturday. The Lake Forest men placed seven at the meet and the women ninth.

Highlighting the Foresters' performance on Saturday was a victory in the men's 800m by junior Ollie Francis, who finished two laps around the track in 1:55.14. Francis was in the lead at the 200-meter mark and immediately slipped back into the the pack. He entered the final turn in fourth place, was tied-for-second coming out of it, and then out-sprinted the competition to earn his third consecutive conference title in the event. Francis also finished first in the 800m at the MWC Indoor Championship Meet in February and the MWC Outdoor Championships last May.

Lake Forest athletes broke five school records on Saturday and freshman Brayden Long contributed to three of them. He joined juniors Payton Ross and Shuntaro Nakamura and senior Mason Wright on the 4x100m relay and their time of 42.35 seconds was a full second faster than the previous mark set earlier this spring. In addition to setting the team record, they finished third in the race to earn All-MWC honors.

On Friday Long qualified for the finals in the 100m and 200m and he broke his own program records and earned All-MWC distinction in both events on Saturday. Long was the runner-up in the 100m in 10.60 seconds and placed third in the 200m with a time of 21.71 seconds. He was named MWC Newcomer of the Year after the meet.

Another team record fell in the women's discus, where junior Jennifer Guerrero posted a distance of 22.61m.

The Forester men tallied 58 points on the weekend, easily the most in program history. Additional contributions to that total on Saturday came from a fourth-place finish in the triple jump (12.91m) by sophomore Ryan Talty, a fifth-place finish by Ross in the 110m hurdles (15.47 seconds), and a seventh-place finish by sophomore Liam Foo in the 400m hurdles (59.55 seconds).

The men's 4x400m relay team of Foo, Francis, freshman Jace Rackleff, and sophomore Alex Pavlov closed out the competition with a third-place finish, All-MWC status, and school record time of 3:25.95.

The Foresters' top performer on the women's side on Saturday was junior Lettia Hoda, who placed fifth in the 5000m with a clocking of 18:14.14. Sophomore Zahra Tait was also eighth in the triple jump with a mark of 9.61m.