I’ll be back with a summary of the weekend’s meets, but while most of you are enjoying Mother’s Day, if you have some free time there’s a whole bunch of track stuff for you to loook at. Here’s my Rockland story on everything from Shelby Greany to the Ramapo relays domination over the weekend. Over [...]

After a 12 hour day I’m a little tired, so this will be a quick post, but I’ll be back on tomorrow to give you some of my thoughts on the weekends results. Since I’ve been on the track and field scene this was by far the most impressive weekend of overall performances by Section [...]

It should be an interesting week next week with county meets coming up. Today in the paper we have our weekly notebooks. In Westchester, Casey has Mount Vernon on top with New Rochelle, Bronxville and Ursuline close behind. I would be on the look out for an ever-improving Lakeland/Panas team. In Rockland, the situation became [...]

If you can’t make it to White Plains High School on Friday, the paper will be shooting a live webcast of all the days events. The address is: www.lohud.com/vcsports1. I will post it again as we get closer to Friday.

The quality is pretty good, so if you can’t make it to the Loucks Games, just [...]

The seeds for this weekend’s Loucks Games have been posted. If you have some time and want to check them out click here to view the boys. To take a look at the girls’ seeds click here.

Shelby Greany does it again. The Providence-bound senior set the national record in the steeplechase tonight as she took first in the Cornwall Steeplefest in 6:33.7.

FYI – the previous record was held by Marie Lawrence of Reno in 6:36.05, the state record was previously held by Lindsay Ferguson (Saratoga) with the same time and Kara [...]

Make sure you log on to our gameday central blog and vote for this week’s gameface. Click here to view the candidates.

We have two good track candidates – Miles Peterson (Pleasantville) and Tanaya Yarde (Mount Vernon).

The Penn Relays are such a great experience. The atmosphere, the crowd, the stadium – I think it’s the best high school track meet to compete in. I was there yesterday and you can check out that story here.

I’ll have a post on Penn now and then I’ll be back and recap the rest of [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts. Unfortunately I was not able to go down to Philly Thursday or Friday, but I’ll be there on Saturday. In case you missed it, my colleague, Sam Borden was in attendance yesterday and he had a story in today’s paper about what it’s like running at Penn and the [...]

After a couple day hiatus we have some track action. First, Wednesday is notebook day. In Westchester/Putnam, Fordham Prep holds the top spot, but Iona Prep and New Rochellere are right there. Also, keep an eye on Hen Hud. For the girls, there a bunch of talented teams led by Mount Vernon. Bronxville is off [...]

As I said in my previous post, it’s been a quiet few days for track. I figured now is as good as time as any to take a look at where some of these senior athletes will be competing next year. There’s a lot of talent this year and below I listed where a number [...]

Since it’s been a quiet day or two with Section 1 track and field as the rain wiped out a number of dual meets, I figured now is a good time to post a new poll. Again, I appreciate everyone that exercised their right to vote, but now I ask you to do it again.

What [...]

Alright, sorry for the delay. I hope you checked out all the stories in today’s paper, including the all-star section. Now it’s time to wrap up all the other track meets from the weekend and talk about what happened.

New York Relays

If I remember anything from this track, Icahn Stadium tends to be a bit windy. [...]

There was a lot of track and field in today’s paper, so I hope you picked it up. First, we’ll start with the articles on Red Raider. The Westchester/Putnam article focused on Ossinnig senior Jesse Drinks, looking very sharp this early in the season. The Rockland story, written by Casey Tolfree focuses on the success [...]

Another busy weekend of track and field and another weekend of some pretty impressive results.

I know we didn’t cover the New York Relays, but I’ll have a post tomorrow summarizing all of the weekend’s highlights. Also tomorrow, the long awaited all-star section comes out in the paper. I hope you pick up a copy and [...]

This has been a long day, I need to get up in a couple hours to go back to North Rockland and I just finished watching the movie Fireproof with my wife. If you never heard of it, watch Oprah.

But for the meet, it was a pretty exciting first day. I think the two best [...]

I was over at Harrison High School yesterday for the Fulton Invitational. You could check out my story here. I always find this meet one of the more relaxed meets of the season. I really enjoy covering it.

If you didn’t see Chris Carrington yesterday on our VC Live show, it’s on demand and you can [...]

You can take a look at the Penn Relays info. The accepted relay teams have also been posted. You can view them by clicking here.

Don’t forget to go to vclive to watch North Rockland’s Chris Carrington preview the Red Raider Relays.

The Hen Hud/Ossining/Peekskill dual will be in the paper tomorrow, but here are some highlights from that meet:
Jessie Drinks from Ossining eased up in both the 100m and 200m posting times of 10.6 and 22.9.  Hen Hud’s Zach Weisbrot beat Ossining’s Claude Easy in the 400m.  Zach’s time was 50.6 and Claude’s was 51.4
Cal Reuter [...]

If you didn’t see the promo in today’s paper, tonight we will be airing the first spring edition of Varsity Central Live hosted by Kevin Devaney. It will be previewing the Red Raider Relays this weekend and North Rockland runner Chris Carrington will be on the show to talk about it.

It starts at 8 p.m. [...]

The first notebooks of the spring season are out today. Casey Tolfree has the Westchester/Putnam notebook with Mount Vernon as the top team. In Rockland, there are no surprises as North Rockland and Suffern are the two top teams.

For the boys, in the Westchester/Putnam notebook, Fordham Prep holds the top spot and we know about [...]

Below I posted the meet results from yesterday. Also, at the Iona Prep Invitational, Zach Keefer of Fordham Prep blazed to a 48.3 time in the 400 meter dash. It’s the top time in the state and a new school record for Keefer. He’s a good 600 runner indoors, but this is his event. If [...]

I’m sure some of you have heard, but long-time Irvington cross country and track and field coach Peter Oley passed away Saturday from colon cancer. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to meet him, but in talking with a number of coaches, athletes and friends of Oley, it’s hard to imagine anyway having a greater [...]

OK, the selections for Gameface! of the week are up again. Make sure you log on by clicking here and vote. Our lone track athlete that made the poll is Jessica Falcon from North Rockland. Be sure to vote for her.

Another busy weekend of track and field in Section 1. I’ll try and catch you up on all the times, distances, heights and happenings from the past three days. My colleague, Casey, spent some time talking about the Nanuet Relays, so be sure to check that out.

I’ll try and sum up some other stuff from [...]

That was a rough day to run yesterday. Cold, rainy and windy. And they call this spring track? Anyway, before I drag myself to our family outing and before you go anywhere today, be sure to check out the stories in today’s paper. I was up in middle-of-nowhere, New York. The people who reside there [...]

After slowly improving for much of the last few months, culminating with their race at NSIC, it’s time to take the Iona Prep 3,200 relay team as a serious threat. Unfortunately for them they have to race against Farrell and Fordham Prep who could break 7:50 in the event. But yesterday at the Arcadia Invitational [...]

Here are the individual acceptances for Penn Relays. Let me know what you think….

Boys Individual Entries

HS Boys Mile Run
ID Athlete School City, State
1 Jeremy Rae Lakeshore Fort Erie, ONT
2 [...]

There weren’t that many meets yesterday, but I’ve listed the ones that took place below.

Also, since I see some comments about the 13.6 time Claudio ran, I figure I’ll throw in my two sense and see what you think. First with the wind, he wasn’t really running into it, it was more blowing side-to-side.

After the [...]

There are new athletes for you to vote for on Gameface! Make sure you click here to go and vote. In this edition, there are two track athletes that deserve your vote – Tameekia Cooper from New Rochelle and Tim Lonergan of Rye. Be sure to log on.

As usual, thanks for everyone that voted on the last poll, and there were a lot of you, 217 to be exact. The winner was Chris Carrington, racking up 16 percent of the vote. I can’t argue with that decision. There were a number of other athletes that were right with him – Claudio Delli [...]

Granted the spring season techincally has gotten under way, anyone who was competing yesterday, probably still wished they were running inside the friendly confines of the armory. It was pretty cold out yesterday. And then the wind made it so tough.

Hopefully next weekend will be a little better, although it doesn’t look to promising. Even [...]