Triad Knights 2025-26 Season in Review
By Ray Popkess
With the final year of the Mississippi Valley Conference concluding and the six schools making up the conference going their separate ways, the Times-Tribune looks back on 2025-2026 for the Triad Knights.
Team Accomplishments
Highlighted by their first ever State Championship in Girls’ Track and Field, the Knights added to their trophy case by accumulating outright team conference titles in girls’ tennis, boys’ basketball and baseball.
Triad also added Sectional Championships in baseball, boys’ and girls’ tennis, and cheerleading. The Knights captured Regional titles in boys’ and girls’ soccer, boys’ and girls’ tennis, boys’ basketball and baseball.
The Triad boys’ soccer team also won a share of the final MVC title with Waterloo and Highland, as each of the three teams finished with an 8-2 conference record.
Another historic season was put forth by the baseball team, as they amassed the most wins in program history with a record of 36-6 en route to a second place finish at the IHSA Class 3A State Championship tournament.
Triad’s Bass Fishing team also had a historic season, placing 11th out of 62 competing boats at the State Finals on Lake Shelbyville.
The Knights also had a handful of individual conference champions in Kylie Miller for girls’ golf, Colin Crouch at 120 pounds for boys’ wrestling, Sophia Schardan in the 100m dash for girls’ track and field, Ava Gallia in the 300m hurdles, Gallia, Schardan, Addie Field and Izzy Stein in the 4x100m relay and Reyna Rehg, Stella Noonan, Mady Norder and Stein in the 4x200m relay.
Individual State Qualifiers
The Knights had athletes across multiple sports qualify for their respective state tournaments.
Kylie Miller was the lone golfer for Triad to compete in the girls’ State Tournament.
Kaitlin Wood was another lone Knight to travel to the IHSA State Tournament for girls’ wrestling.
Emmy Goins took her talents to the State Meet in cross country. Goins also qualified for state in the 3200m in track, alongside her teammates Schardan, Gallia, Field, Stein, Norder, Rehg and Noonan.
Averi Moore and London Looby each qualified for the state tournament in girls’ tennis. Their teammates Katie Watts and Hailey D’Aunoy also qualified on the doubles side.
On the boys’ side, Triad’s 4×100 and 4×200 relay teams of Brody Mriscin, Jacob Odle, Brock O’Toole and Jayden Howell took gold at the Triad Sectional to advance to state. Mriscin also took third in the 100m at the same meet. O’Toole, Cody Bagwell, Camden Geiler and Silas Thomason also competed at state in the 4x400m relay. Silas Thomason took third in the 400m, punching his ticket to state as well. Zane Meier was the highest placer at the State meet for Triad in pole vault. Bryce Van Tiegham and Drayke Williams-Reynolds both qualified in shot put and Williams-Reynolds was the first sophomore to qualify for either throwing event in Triad history. Jayden Rodgers was the first freshman in Triad history to qualify for two individual events in both the pole vault and long jump.
In boys’ tennis, Tate Moore and Joe Cass each qualified in the singles’ bracket, while Jackson Naylor, Owen Litteken, J.D. DeWitte and Cameron Holley qualified in the doubles’ bracket.
Record Breakers
In the 4x100m relay, Triad set a new state record between the squad of Gallia, Field, Stein and Schardan. They ran away with the gold medal at IHSA State competition, clocking a time of 46.87s that had never been done before at the Class 2A level.
Gallia set the Triad school record in the 300m hurdles with a time of 44.94 seconds during the 2A State Championship preliminaries.
Zane Meier set a new school record in pole vault, clearing 15’ 3” at the Triad Sectional meet.
Keegan Seipp set a new single season home run record for the Knights on the diamond, mashing 16 in total and demolishing the previous record of nine.
Nolan Keller and Lucas Thompson each became the newest Knights to accrue 1,000 points in their basketball careers.
What’s next?
With the official move to the Southwestern Conference beginning this fall, competition for the Knights will surely push their athletes to new heights.
