Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks
Mendon Unity's Saylor Barry floats down the runway, leaping 5.77 meters — 18 feet, 11.25 inches — to defend her 2024 state title in the long jump at the IHSA Girls' Track & Field State Finals at O’Brien Stadium on the Eastern Illinois University campus in 2025. Becoming the first two-time state champion in Mustang school history her junior year, as a senior she is on the way to a historic three-peat after leading the field yesterday with a leap of 5.76 meters in the event during the Class 1A preliminary competition. On May 4, Barry signed her National Letter of Intent to continue her athletic career in track and field at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.