Riley Gardner, a freshman at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, recently participated in the Division III Track and Field Championship in Birmingham, Alabama, where she made it to the podium with an eighth place finish in the girls high jump. She graduated from Crawfordsville High School in 2025, where she participated in soccer and girls track and field for three years and basketball for one year. She is the daughter of Mason Gardner of Crawfordsville and Shelbey Rusk of Murieta, California. She also will be playing soccer at Illinois College.
