With all spring sports coming to an end and summer right around the corner, Outdoor Track is coming to an end after having one of their most weirdest seasons. With Testa Field gone, Outdoor Track was really struggling with having no where to practice but inside. With all the construction happening, the track team hasn’t had a chance to practice outdoor so they had to spend majority of their season indoor. Even with using Nathan Hale’s field sometimes for practice it’s been harding trying to practice there because they have to share it with girls and boys lacrosse. Outdoor track was basically a repeat of the Indoor track season but the team didn’t let that stop them from giving up and reaching their goals.
With the end of the season right around the corner, two players on the team were able to talk about their thoughts about this season. Avoy Chowdhury, 10th grader going into his 2nd season for outdoor track was able to talk about his entire experience this season on how it went. He started it off by saying this season was no where close to what they did last season. Last season when they had a track they would do these workouts no one that’s new to track would know how it feels and with having no track this year they weren’t able to get all these workouts done but recently since the weather has been good they’ve been doing it more recently. He described this season as “A season no one has experienced” because no one understands how much the track team got affected with the construction by having no track. This whole season Avoy felt like he had to work on his form because some people don’t know that the key to people being so fast and doing good in track meets is having a good form. Not only does having a good form prevent injuries from happening, it also really helps on making your workouts easier because it just forces the athlete to do more work in what he is doing and it can cause accident that can really affect the athlete.
Sophomore, Emmanuel Then Rojas described this season as pretty good so far despite not practicing outside that much. He mainly focuses on hurdling and high jump for track and he’s felt like it’s been a challenge this season. He’s been a great hurdler ever since joining the team averaging 40 seconds for 300m hurdles, best being 46.18 also for 100m hurdles his best being 11.98. Even with everything that he has accomplished so far in track he still feels like the job isn’t over and there’s still more things that has to get done. He feels like he has to work more on his techniques because he feels like that’s something he’s been struggling with so far. His goal is to win FCIACS and States so he knows that if he wants to win he’s has to improve on his techniques.
With FCIACS around the corner, the season is now officially coming to an end and going into off season. From what it looks like, we won’t be getting a track for a long time so for all the upcoming seasons so every track player has to keep pushing and get better even without having a track to practice on. Good luck to the people that qualified for FCIACS and good luck to all the players for next season.
