The men’s track team finished second to Frankenmuth at the 2025 Regional Championships. The men’s team scored a total of 105 points. Just behind Frankenmuth’s 111.5.

The men’s team qualified all 4 relays and a strong group of individuals for the State finals on May 31 at Hamilton High School. In order to qualify for the state meet at regional the top 2 finishers in each event advance along with any number of athletes who run the time standard for their given event. Starting in 2025 athletes could qualify for the state finals by achieving a more difficult ‘Early Qualifying Standard”. Grant Roberts had run this standard in the 100 and 200. 

The action on track started with the 3200 meter relay where the team of Leo Stravato, Caleb Carignan, Lennox Naswell and Bryce Gross took first with a time of 7:58.06. This is the second best time in school history and trails the school record by 0.2 seconds. 

The high hurdlers were led by the duo of Gage Coon and Ben Skinner who brought the best races of their careers to regionals. Ben ran a personal best time of 16:84 which placed him 10th overall. This would have advanced to the finals in almost every other regional. Gage Coon ran a personal record time of 16.19 in the premlins to advance to the finals. In the finals Gage raised his game again and ran another personal record of 15.99 which placed 6th overall and narrowly missed the state meet standard. This performance moved Gage up to 8th all time in the high hurdles. 

The Chargers were led in the 100 meter dash by Hudson Miller who ran a huge personal record of 11.49 to finish 9th and JUST missed the final by 0.01 seconds. 

The Chargers excelled in the relays as the 800 meter relay team of Jayce Beauchamp, Javontae Ross, Leo Stravato, Grant Roberts took nearly an additional second off their brand new school record as the team won with a time of 1:28.37.

The 1600 was another strong event for the Chargers as the duo of Bryce Gross and Lennox Naswell battled a strong field and finished 3-4 while also running the state meet standard. 

In the 400 meter relay the team of Jayce Beauchamp, Javontae Ross, Breckin Ciaclo, Grant Roberts ran their best race of the season and edged out a very strong Linden team. Their winning time of 43.11 trails only the school record time of 43.00 from 1987. 

In the 400 Leo Stravato battled a strong field to take 4th overall in a personal best time of 51.33 which also qualified him for the state meet. William Bade finished 17th overall with a personal best time of 55.67. 

The 300 meter hurdles saw Gage Coon and Jayce Beauchamp take on another loaded field. Each of the Chargers ran career best times of 42.34 by Gage and 43.25 by Jayce to finish 5th and 7th. Gage’s race with the 10th fastest time in school history. 

In the 800 meter run Bryce Gross went right to the lead and didn’t not let up until he broke the tape with a time of 1:58.43. Back in the pack Freshmen Ryan Rathsburg fought through a scrum of athletes to will himself to a 6th place finish with a time of 2:07.54.

The 200 meter dash was a highlight of the meet as Grant Roberts took the win with a personal record time of 21.71 which is also the top 200 meter time in Division 2 this year.  The 200 was the coming out party for freshman Princeton Clack as he ran beyond his years with personal best time of 23.21 to take 4th overall. Clack ran the fastest time by a Powers freshman in the 200 in at least the last 25 years. 

The 3200 was another good race for the Chargers as Freshman Lennox Naswell finished 3rd with a time of 9:43.36 which qualified him for the state finals. He was closely followed by Thomas Beiter in 4th place who took 16 off his previous 3200 meter personal best. 

The 1600 meter relay team of Javontae Ross, Grant Robers, Bryce Gross and Lep Stravato completed the sweep of the relays with a time of 3:27.19. This is the 4th fastest time in school history. 

The field events were led by Tyler Wood who finished 7th place in the high jump.