New poll
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- February
- 26
I threw up a new poll over on the right. jackie Gamboli’s 1,500 time of 4:34 easily was the most surprising result of this past winter. She has looked good in the event. And to run that time in two straight meets is real impressive.
As for the new poll, I was thinking about this and wanted to know what you think. Maybe it can’t happen, but would you like to see a state team title in track and field? I feel as though it’s a team sport up until state qualifiers, and then the sport becomes an individual one. Maybe it would be too difficult to do during the winter because of the lack of facilities or maybe it would be too much running for the athletes. But I would like to see some of these schools from around the state compete against each other in a team competition.
I would think it would be easier in the spring because there would be more facilities to compete at. But I wanted to know what you think. Let me know either by voting on the poll or posting a comment.
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Dan Marra began working for the Journal News this past September. He graduated from Manhattan College in 2004 and from John F. Kennedy High School in 2000. While at Kennedy, he ran cross-country and track. He is excited to be covering the sport that he participated in throughout his four years in high school. Dan loves all sports, but has, what some may say, an unhealthy obsession with the New York Giants.
Matthew Ng has been with Varsity Central and The Journal News sports department for the past two years handling high school beats such as skiing, bowling, girls soccer and tennis. Ng is a 2004 graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School with his major in broadcast journalism.
Casey Tolfree spent her high school career playing Section 1 sports at Dobbs Ferry and is excited to have the opportunity to cover them for the Journal News. After graduating from St. John's University, Casey joined the Journal News staff in December 2007 and has covered a variety of sports including basketball, softball, and volleyball.
Teams wouldn’t work. I wouldn’t want to see them because then you would have the best runners trying to conserve energy to triple up in events rather than going for the best times possible and their own state titles. If by any chance there were teams you would definitely need to split teams up by class because otherwise the results would be over to broad of a spectrum so that the team with say the best 2 athletes would win and it wouldn’t really be a “team” title.