Lancaster-Lebanon League Track & Field Champions for 2025. (Pictured is 3-time champion Hector Vergara of Octorara.)
Boys Champions
Section 1: Cedar Crest
Section 2: Warwick
Section 3: Octorara
League Champion: Cedar Crest
track & field
Manheim Township senor Isaac Churchville is a team guy. Someone that can be counted on when a teammate may need a pick me up. Or someone who can bring out the best in another.
Churchville is a thrower for the Blue Streaks. He has thrown the discus in past seasons but has added the shot put this season. Last year he finished 13th in the discus at the Lancaster-Lebanon League Meet with a throw of 128’3”.
Jebbeh Ngafua is one of the top jumpers returning to Lancaster-Lebanon League track & field this season, and the senior will be counted to provide leadership for Elizabethtown’s girls team this spring.
Ngafua, after spending her freshman year as a middle sprinter, moved over to the jumps as a sophomore. In 2024, she placed third in the L-L League Championships in the triple jumpat 36-6 1/2 and took sixth in PIAA District 3 Class AAA at 36-1.5.
Georgia Ealy, a Manheim Township senior, is focused on getting better. And that is a significant goal since she has been doing well thus far.
Ealy is a middle distance/distance runner for the Blue Streaks. She is coming off a fall cross country season that saw her 22nd-place finish lead Township to a sixth place at the Class AAA state championships. Talk about getting better, she was 40th after one mile, 34th after two and passed 12 runners in the final 1.1 miles.
Now in track season, she states her top team goal is to see how much her team can improve.
Izzy Heisey is someone who says she likes to stay busy.
Her journey will continue to stay that way next year when she will attend the United States Military Academy at West Point. There she will run for their Division 1 track program and major in cybersecurity.
In the immediate, the Hempfield senior will fill her time by competing for the Black Knights track team, working two jobs, creating fun films or vlogs with her camera, running, hiking, playing pickleball and spending time with family and friends.
McCaskey track teams have a history of excelling. The boys and girls teams are coming off Lancaster-Lebanon League Indoor Championships. The girls finished second in the state. One of their stars is Ruby Garner-Valle, a long-distance runner who has set a school record in the 3,000-meter indoor event with a time of 9:54:49. She has her sights set on the outdoor season.
Wynne Kelley, a senior, says Garden Spot’s track and field team looks to significantly improve this season with a complement of
returners and a group of excited and ambitious younger athletes.
The Spartans will be strong in the Section 3 field events and “show-up” on the track, she says.
Wynne competes in shot, discus and javelin. Her goals are to get to Districts in shot and Leagues in discus. She plans to get 35 feet-plus in the shot and to break 100 feet in the discus. She is adding javelin this year.
Will Newport, a senior from Hempfield is hoping this spring track and field season is one that will vault him into the record books.
Newport is coming off a strong indoor season that saw him establish personal-best pole vaults on two occasions. On March 1, at the PTFCA Indoor State Championships at Ashenfelter Indoor Track at Penn State, Newport placed seventh with his best effort to that date at 14-0. Then two weeks later at the Nike Invitational at the Armory Track in New York City, he went 14-0½” to claim sixth in the Boy Emerging Elite Division.
This spring Frank Lucarino, Solanco senior, returns as the top performer in discus for the Lancaster-Lebanon League. Last year
he earned a Silver Medal in the L-L meet.
Frank competes in discus and shot. His personal records are 151 feet, inches in discus and 49 feet, 11¾ inches in shot. His goals, respectfully, are 180 feet and 55 feet.
For the Golden Mules, Frank says in all sports Lampeter-Strasburg is their rival, though Warwick, the reigning champ in Lancaster Lebanon League Section 2, looms as well.
Devin Wagstaff, a junior at Donegal, recalls with interest his attendance at a four-day conference in Indianapolis, stemming
from his Student-Athlete Leadership Program. The conference included high school athletes from throughout the United States. The theme focused on enhancing athletes’ group leadership skills and motivation, which Devin hopes to help him and others on his track team.