Maine high school outdoor track and field athletes won four New England championship titles in 2025 and five in 2024.
This year’s New England meet will be in Maine, at Noble High in North Berwick, but it will take superior season-best performances for the Pine Tree State contingent to match those numbers in 2026.
Maine does not have a top seed, and just two athletes are seeded second.
Mount Desert Island senior Seneca Haney is the No. 2 seed in the girls’ 200 meters with her Class B-winning time of 24.74 seconds. Samiya Eady, a senior from Manchester, Connecticut, has the top time of 24.06.
On the boys’ side, Edward Little pole vaulter Thomas Leblanc is seeded second with his Class A-winning height of 15 feet, and he has a season-best of 15-6. The top seed is Sean Arms of Daniel Hand (Madison, Connecticut) at 16-1.
Deering senior Ellis Wood is the No. 3 seed in the 3,200 with a Maine season-best time of 9 minutes, 22.40 seconds. Wood placed fifth in the event last season. Tycen LaBelle of Griswold, Connecticut, is the top seed at 9:14.40.
Based on seeding and past performances, the girls 1,600 meters could produce multiple top-six Maine finishers, which would earn all-New England status.
Top seed Chase Gilbert of Lyme-Old Lyme (Connecticut) is out of reach if she runs close to her seed time of 4:45.88. But Hampden Academy’s Addison Elliott (4:54.75) and Falmouth’s Georgia Moon (4:56.20) are ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, after finishing 1-2 at the Class A championship, and Scarborough’s Laurel Driscoll is a proven threat. Driscoll’s third-place Class A time of 5:01.80 makes her the 16th seed on Saturday. But she was third in this event in 2024 and 2025 and will run the event fresh. At the Class A meet, Driscoll ran the distance triple, placing second in the 800 and fourth in the 3,200 to help Scarborough claim the team title.
Portland freshman Nora Schmidt is the No. 4 seed in the 3,200, which is 23 seconds off the top seed’s time.
Other girls seeded in the top six are: Elyannah Briggs of Old Town, fourth in the high jump; Diajha Grant of Hermon, fifth in the triple jump; Alexis Hamel of Hampden Academy, tied for sixth in the pole vault; and Anna Jennings of Marshwood, sixth in the long jump.
Fort Fairfield’s Ethan Wood is tied for fourth with 10 other boys high jumpers at 6-6. Wood, who has a season-best of 6-8, placed fifth in 2025.
The New England seedings are based on athletes’ marks at their state championship meets.
Several other Maine athletes could move into a podium finish if they can match their best efforts from this spring. Among them are Scarborough senior Isabella Harmon. The Varsity Maine Girls Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year is seeded 22nd in the high jump at 5-2 (which won at the Class A meet), but she has cleared 5-8, which matches the height of top seed Danielle Bates of Timberlane in Plaistow, New Hampshire. Harmon’s best of 11-0 in the pole vault could be good enough to make the top six.
Marshwood’s Sydney Leveille is ranked 12th in the triple jump at 37-4. Her season-best of 38-5 3/4, the best in Maine this season, would be third in the seedings.
Greely’s Rowan Barry was fourth in the girls 800 in 2025. She’s just returning from an injury but did win the Class B title in 2:17.48, good for the 15th fastest seed time.
In the throws, Sloan Gardner of Cape Elizabeth is ranked 18th in the shot put at 36-11 1/4, but she was third at New Englands in 2025 and has a Maine-best throw this season of 40-6 3/4, which would be less than three inches off the top seed distance. Yarmouth’s Ella Cameron, who has qualified in all three throwing events, has a top seed of 10th in the javelin at 121-1. Her season-best of 128-2 would be ranked third, and Cameron’s top discus mark of 128-9 would be fourth.
In the boys shot put, York’s William Fagan is seeded 10th at 53-4 1/2. Fagan has thrown three feet further this season. Another 56-plus foot throw would likely put him in the top six.
Maine’s other top-10 seeded athletes and relay teams are:
GIRLS
• Miah Jacobs of Yarmouth, seventh in the 100
• Angelina Boisvert of Nokomis, seventh in the shot put
• Hayden Aines of Yarmouth, ninth in the long jump
• Yarmouth 400 relay, 10th
• Taylor Scales of Bangor, ninth in the 300 hurdles
• Hadley Perry of Falmouth, tied for 10th in the 300 hurdles
• Victoria Zandan of Greely, tied for 10th in the 300 hurdles; 11th in the long jump and 20th in the 100 hurdles
BOYS
• Nsunungui Mankatu of Lewiston, seventh in the triple jump
• Emmett Milliken of Camden Hills, seventh in the shot put
• Drew Gervais of Bonny Eagle, seventh in the 200
• Bossay Ditanduka of South Portland, eighth in the 200
• Atticus Merriam of Scarborough, eighth in the 1,600
