Boys will be boys

As I continue to empty the vault on posts for 2017, here's a photo from a few weeks ago in the gray gym (which, by the way, will be getting torn down in June 2018 ... more on that in the future?), of a smattering of our men's XC/distance team with two 12-year-old boys who stopped by to play some hoops with our team. Alert followers of the blog and the program know how much I despise the idea of our athletes playing basketball. In this case, we made an exception. The youngster on the left is Eamonn, an athletic and energetic 6th grader who has cystic fibrosis (CF), the same medical condition that sophomore sprinter Santosh "Tosh" Krishnan manages with success as a dedicated athlete on our team. Anyway, Eamonn is a "friend of a friend" who suggested a meeting with Tosh, after she read the wonderful profile piece on him in Marist Magazine this summer. We have sort of "adopted" him as one of our own, and we look forward to future fun outings with him. So yeah. For one day, anyway, basketball was allowed.