The flourishing Silo High School track and field program has been making history in almost weekly fashion throughout the 2026 season.
They won the first invitational track meet title in school history a few weeks ago at Davis. They achieved the highest point totals ever scored by both the girls and boys teams at the Class 3A regional meet with the Lady Rebels taking team runnerup honors while the Rebels managed a fifth-place performance.
“We started with nine participants when I got here and now we have 32,” said head coach Maggie Rose, who is in her fifth year at the helm of the Silo program. “I wanted to instill humbleness and gratitude and for them to strive to get better. Even on days when it’s tough, they give me their all. I knew it would come in time. That group is all bought in and building the program how I had hoped. They are reaping what they have sewn.
“We have made a lot of Silo history this year and it’s only going to keep growing. We started a sixth-grade program this year to get them going and we already have a lot of seventh and eighth graders moving up the ranks.”
This spring alone the two squads combined have steadily broken school re- cords 64 times in 20 different events and qualified in a school record 11 events for this weekend’s State Track Meet at Catoosa. In every one of those events they qualified with a top six time.
That’s some pretty elite company for just about any school but what sets Silo apart is they have accomplished all of that without any semblance of a track on campus.
In fact, they are the only school that has been in the Class 3A state rankings this season that does not have a track of their own. According to Rose’s research before the season, only five schools in all of Class 3A don’t have a track on campus.
Instead the Silo track athletes have embraced and taken pride in the fact that their practice sessions routinely take place on the streets around the school campus and in high traffic times running the dirt road around the next door Restland Cemetery.
With that the team adopted the moniker of the “Restland Running Rebels.”
“Our athletes came up with that slogan and it stuck,” Rose commented. “People ask where we practice at and have a tough time believing when the kids tell them. With all respect, they know that the graveyard has been what has built them and they embrace that. I really think it helps us overtrain because it’s roughly 500 meters all the way around instead of 400 meters around a normal track.
“They are thankful for what we have though, and I am very proud of them and the time and effort they put into it. Every day they put in 100 percent and it’s showing. I can’t wait to see how we do this weekend as we look for our first outdoor state champion.”
Leading that charge is junior stalwart Khloe Harris, who already holds the indoor state pole vault record and will be in quest of the outdoor state record in the event this weekend. She was also the regional champion in the 100-meter and 200-meter dash.
On the boys’ side, senior Lewis Cross took fourth in the 1,600 meters at state last year and will be one of the top contenders in that event again as well as the 800 meters and 3,200 meters where he was regional champ.
Many others are also expected to be in contention on the biggest stage in the state this weekend with the hopes of bringing a wealth of hardware back to their adopted roots where they take pride in being known as the Restland Running Rebels.
