ALL-GNC TRACK & FIELD - 22 Raiders among GNC’s honorees

Multiple individual titles for Evan Paul and Will Daniels, two relay wins and championships for outgoing seniors Gage Losiewicz and Paxton Rothmeier highlighted Medford’s list of 22 athletes who earned 2025 All-Great Northern Conference track and field honors.

In all, 13 boys and nine girls were part of performances that placed in the top three in their respective events at the 2025 conference meet, which was held May 22 at Mosinee. The boys nearly won the conference title falling just behind Rhinelander 164-155 in the final team scoring. Medford’s girls were fourth with 77.5 points. Rhinelander also won the girls team title.

All eight of Medford’s 2025 conference championships and All-GNC first-team honors came in the boys meet.

Paul, a senior, didn’t run many 100meter dashes during the season, but he did run it at the GNC meet and won the final in 11.51 seconds. He added the long jump title with his personal-best distance of 20 feet, 11 inches. Paul won a GNC award in all four of his events, adding a secondplace finish in the 200-meter dash and a third-place finish, good for honorable mention, in the high jump when he cleared 5 feet, 10 inches.

Daniels, a junior, successfully defended his 110-meter high hurdle GNC title from 2024, winning this year’s final in 16.66 seconds. He later won the 300-meter intermediate hurdles as well in 42.08 seconds. Eventually, he qualified for the WIAA Division 2 state meet in that event.

Daniels was part of a third GNC title, joining senior Hayden Koester and freshmen Sawyer Hoops and Levi Zuleger on the winning 800-meter relay team. Their time of 1:34.98 beat Rhinelander by 0.41 seconds. Koester and Hoops also were part of Medford’s GNC champions in the 1,600-meter relay. Senior Caleb Scoles was part of Medford winning team in that race for the second straight May. This year’s group, which included senior Anthony Seidel, won in 3:38.15, 0.7 seconds ahead of Antigo.

Losiewicz won his second straight GNC pole vault championship. Uncertain if he’d even be able to pole vault after knee surgery earlier in the school year, he cleared 12-6 and won the tiebreaker over Morgan DePuydt of Northland Pines to clinch it. Rothmeier won his title in the triple jump, an event he entered for just the second meet this season at that time. His winning distance was 41-3.

Rothmeier got honorable mention with his third-place time in the 100-meter dash final (11.71). Medford’s Luke Klapatauskas was the only freshman to earn an individual All-GNC honor, getting honorable mention in the 110-meter (18.41) and 300-meter (43.4) hurdles. Senior Brandon Curtis got honorable mention in the 3,200-meter run at 10:36.37 and the 400-meter relay team of freshman Colton Long, sophomore Peyton Ried, Zuleger and Rothmeier was third in 46.45 to gain honorable mention.

Rhinelander’s Greyson Gremban was named the GNC Runner of the Year after impressively winning the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs. Mosinee’s Jackson Lindell won the discus and took second in the shot put to earn the GNC Field Athlete of the Year award. Rhinelander’s Aaron Kraemer was named Coach of the Year.

Juniors Lindsay Kahn and Rivalee Stokes and sophomore Avery Losiewicz led the list of girls award winners from Medford.

Kahn earned All-GNC second-team honors with her finishes in the two longest individual races. Her times of 5:42.42 in the 1,600-meter run and 13:17.55 in the 3,200-meter run put her just behind Antigo’s Lillian L’Esperance in both (5:38.63 and 12:56.67). Kahn added an honorable mention time of 2:33.02 in the 800-meter run.

Losiewicz cleared 10 feet in the pole vault to take second, moving up one place from last year. Plus she was second in the 300-meter low hurdles at 49.76 seconds and third in the 100-meter high hurdles at 17.08 seconds. Rhinelander’s Macy Myers set a GNC record in the pole vault, winning it at 11-3.

Stokes earned a second-team spot in the discus with a then school-record throw of 123 feet. She later got to 129-10 while earning a sixth-place medal at the state championships. Stokes got honorable mention in the shot put with a toss of 3111.5.

Honorable mention also went to Medford’s 3,200-meter relay team of sophomore Willow Dassow, senior Ella Dassow, senior Carly Koski and junior Autumn Cooley and to the 1,600-meter relay team of junior Alexis Zuleger, Willow Dassow, Cooley and junior Aliyah Pilgrim.

Lakeland senior Kieran Petrie won the GNC Runner of the Year award thanks to titles in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes. She set a GNC record in the 400 at 57.82 seconds and tied the 200-meter record of 25.92 seconds. Rhinelander’s Libbey Buchman is the 2025 Girls Field Athlete of the Year. She won the discus with a GNC-record throw of 126-2 and took the shot put as well at 34-7. New Rhinelander coach Andy Wyss was named the GNC Girls Coach of the Year.