Today,
we pause to reflect on an exhausting, emotional – and very, very successful! –
weekend of track and field. The “pause” part is easy = it’s snowing like crazy
here, Marist is shut down for the day and we are hunkered down at home.
The
MAAC Championships featured three individual champions – Lexy Samperi, women’s
long jump (school record, too!), Amari Mathis, 60-meter dash (dominant
performance) and Julianna Mirabile, 800-meter run in a stirring, thrilling
race.
In
addition! A total of seven (7!) school records were broken or re-set. That
brings the final, grand total of school records broken or re-set to a whopping
26 for the indoor track season. Yes, that includes several athletes who rebroke
their own records – essentially personal-best marks. But the marks are better
than any Marist athlete in their respective events. So, that’s a school record!
This
was a challenging indoor track season on a day-to-day practice basis, given the
relentlessness of the winter weather – which shows no sign of ending anytime
soon!
We
are now taking a few days to mentally and physically reset as a program, before
we dive right into the outdoor track season.
We
are greatly looking forward to returning to outdoor track practice at North
Field – but that seems like a fuzzy, distant concept given all the snow that
still needs to melt. Realistically, we’re probably not getting out there until
after Spring Break at this point. There is more snow on the way, and not many
warm days in the forecast. And, because of the newness of the track, we are not permitted to shovel or clear snow off the track. We need a lot of sunny, warm days!
As
I’ve been saying daily for the past several months: “Make plans, not excuses.”
After the three-month grind of indoor track, which saw our school record board
rewritten multiple times, I’d say that it has worked out OK for our athletes.
Onward
to outdoor track!
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