After a Friday and Saturday summer, right back into winter. When the meet is important, the tough suck it up. I just hoped we’d be tough enough. We were, as usual, missing key personnel with our best jav thrower on a robotics trip, and Carmen Ostroski (41′ TJ, 5’10” HJ, 51.8 split) under the weather. … Read More

The meet with our cross-town rivals marked the first of four duals that will take strategizing, as well as performance, to be successful. UD, Hatboro, Cheltenham and Quakertown each present their own set of challenges. Once again missing key people….this time to the 3-day State FBLA convention (a 53.5 400, a 4:35 mile, a 2:05… Read More

3/30/21   65 degrees – Sunny, breezy Wissahickon 106 – PW 35 100M   Isaiah Marc (W) 10.8, Jaylan Foster (W) 11.2, John Storti (PW) 11.2 200M   Brett Lehman (W) 23.8, John Storti (PW) 24.3, Steve Reilly (W) 24.4 400M   Isaiah Marc (W) 51.9, Jake Slackman (W) 55.5, Jason Stumpf (PW) 60.0 800M   Regent Walden (PW) 2:14.5,… Read More

With the team STILL short-staffed due to spring break (does this thing ever end??), we went with what we had, giving some big-meet experience to the young ‘uns. We finally got a weather break with sunshine, but temps never really rose to predictions and with the stiff breeze, the hoodies were up and down all… Read More

With spring break depleting both squads (they brought 12, we were missing 50+), it was a chance to see where we need work. And boy, do we need work. Bright spots included the 1600 meters which saw Matt Maiale and Ben Hoyer pace nice early season times of 4:33.7 and 4:34.8. Rahsheed Wright rode the… Read More

And not much good. Things started looking shaky on Wed. when trying to set line-ups for the DMR and 4×8. A few potential participants had other plans for the weekend (?) which scrapped the DMR. A cobbled together 4×8, which already included a recovering Ben Hoyer, was abandoned when Nathan Leung called in sick late… Read More

With the regular season Association meets in the books, both divisions are brought together to get those post-season qualifying marks. After running 3:36 a few weeks ago, and with soph Robert Wilson’s 53.71 putting himself on the squad, on paper we should be able to hit the 4×4 flat track cut-off of 3:33.23. We run… Read More

Throughout the season, when not working on his jumping events, Ahmir Johnson has been running the sprint work-outs with Rahsheed Wright and usually keeping up. That had me thinking ahead to the Penn Relays 4×4 where we put our four best athletes in regardless of their specialty. (Sprinter, hurdler, jumper, distance guy….whom ever gives us… Read More

The mid-season doldrums seem to be setting in early this year. With Christmas break, it seemed like half the team dissappeared for 12 days. That was followed by a week of temps barely out of single digits. Starting with our meet on 12/23, due to vacation and snow days, we’ve had 4 meets and only… Read More

Another D1/D2 combo-meet saw the distance squad improve a bit. Relay running can oftentimes bring out the important emotional aspect of high school track and field. Rather than just doing it (or not) for you, you’re doing it for the three other guys. With another thinned out squad due to vacations (and a couple of… Read More