Boys track is on the run for a sixth straight league title

by William Belson

With spring being on the rise it also brings along with it the five-years-in-a-row league champion boy track squad, our Pittsford track stars. The team started its preparations for their season the second week of March.

The boys track squad only lost a total of three seniors from last year, leaving the team still well intact. The track squad though there is a good number of people on the team it is quite young with about eight returning as sophomores and a lot of freshman, and only two seniors. “My expectations are the same as any year; you want to get better every day at practice, work exceptionally hard, represent our school and our community with class, excellence, and tradition, and win the league championship,” said Coach Burger.

This year the track team, though young, is looking forward to having a good season with some of the young but experienced runners. “I think our strengths will be our field events, middle distance, and distance, but our weaknesses will be our sprinters,” said senior Ben Wines. Wines was not alone in his though with them being echoed by junior Steven Rose. “Our distance, middle distance, and field events are always extreme and phenomenal, our distance crew is going to be set with Brent (Smith) and Luke (Irwin), but the league this year has sprinters from all the schools and Pittsford is always lacking in that one great sprinter we never really have,” explained Steven. Down the line, the expectations for this season begin and end with one thing: a league championship.

Though the squad this year is looking for another league title they will keep on working. “We are pretty young; we have mostly freshmen and sophomores, but I think we will be tough in the field events and maybe in the distance,” said Coach Burger.

Will the guys make it six in a row, or will they come out of this season disappointed that for the first time in five years they don’t have a trophy to hoist. The guys are working hard to make sure the latter doesn’t happen.