We had some very good performances the last two days at the championships, finishing 3rd overall and a lot of personal records were set. We competed very hard as a team and I am proud of all of our accomplishment this season.

We will meet on Monday for our closing team meeting and for information of our upcoming picnic set for Sunday the 21st. All uniforms will need to be turned in and the locker room will need to be emptied out of all contents. For those of you that have not brought in their no frills fundraiser please do so Monday.

   1) Spring Ford                127        2) Owen J. Roberts            98   
    3) Methacton                   96        4) Perkiomen Valley           66   
    5) Norristown                  63        6) Boyertown                  60   
    7) Pottstown                   53        8) Phoenixville Area          48   
    9) Pottsgrove                  35       10) Upper Perkiomen            33   
   11) Pope John Paul II           23                                         

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Informational Meeting

Tuesday February 7, 2017 2:30 pm in the LGI

First Practice Monday March 6, 2017

The will be a parent meeting for Spring Track 

on Wednesday, March 22nd at 6:30 PM 

in the LGI room. 

Congratulation to all the Boys who were selected to this years All Area Team representing Methacton Track & Field. Great Job on a Great Season.

Coach Shaffer

2017 Mercury All-Area Boys Track and Field Selections

Jeff Stover Posted On July 2, 2017  

First Team

100: Austin Montgomery, Norristown

200: Austin Montgomery, Norristown

400: Stone Scarcelle, Spring-Ford

800: Liam Conway, Owen J. Roberts

1,600: Liam Conway, Owen J. Roberts

3,200: Liam Conway, Owen J. Roberts

110 hurdles: Stephen Chapman, Spring-Ford

300 hurdles: Stephen Chapman, Spring-Ford

4×100: Norristown (Austin Montgomery, Richard (Tyler) McCray, Koran Butler, Rahmir Wiggins)

4×400: Spring-Ford (Stephen Chapman, Milan Sharma, Evan Horrocks, Stone Scarcelle)

4×800: Boyertown (Josh Endy, Cy Evans, Dominic DeRafelo, Payton Stanziani)

High jump: Jacob Howard, Pottstown

Long jump: Tyrese Reid, Upper Perkiomen

Triple jump: Dorian County, Phoenixville

Pole vault: Chad Smiley, Spring-Ford

Shot put: Justin Adams, Pottsgrove

Discus: Pat Maloney, Methacton

Javelin: John Keenan, Methacton

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Second Team

100: Tyrese Reid, Upper Perkiomen

200: Isaiah Domine, Perkiomen Valley

400: Shyheed May, Owen J. Roberts

800: Michael Clark, Methacton

1,600: Xavier Friel, Hill School

3,200: Jacob McKenna, Spring-Ford

110 hurdles: Joshua Magee, Perkiomen Valley

300 hurdles: Joshua Magee, Perkiomen Valley

4×100: Owen J. Roberts

4×400: Norristown (Austin Montgomery, Richard (Tyler) McCray, Koran Butler, Rahmir Wiggins)

4×800: Spring-Ford (Zach Smith, Milan Sharma, J.T. Clark, Patrick Power, Ben Pierce)

High jump: Zion Small, Phoenixville

Long jump: John Keenan, Methacton

Triple jump: Michael Ziegler, Pottsgrove

Pole vault: Alex Caballero, Pottstown and Jared Christman, Methacton

Shot put: Daniel Adeboboye, Hill School

Discus: Aidan Hayward, Owen J. Roberts

Javelin: Evan Gianetti, Boyertown

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Honorable Mention

Boyertown: Gerald Fretz, Christian McComb, Max Miller, Mike Sesher.

Daniel Boone: Matt Glady, Ben Hofmanner, Zak Reagan, Jan Vasquez.

Hill School: Toni Adewole, Bennett Booth-Genthe, Jay Carter, Jake Fetterman, Ian Lawrence, DaQuan Morris, Damian Walsh.

Methacton: Josh Brycki, Nick DeFilippis, Aiden O’Leary, Karan Singh, Alex Yablonski.

Norristown: Koran Butler,

Owen J. Roberts: Andrew Malmstrom,

Phoenixville: Gabe Puleo, Christian Schaaf.

Pope John Paul II: Robert Erwin, Matthew Lohr.

Pottstown: Malik Brown,

Spring-Ford: Pete Agler, Bret Aldinger, Justin DeFrancesco, Zak Musetti, Jake Pajovich, Grant Smith, Zachary Smith,

Upper Perkiomen: Brandin Wheatley,

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The Boys Track team competed at the multi- school Haverford Invitational on Saturday and came away with some impressive performances. Pat Maloney led the way for the Warriors with a 1^st place finish in the discus throw. Maloney’s throw of 149’ 9’ notched his first gold of the season and set a new meet record. He also finished 12^th overall in the shot put in a field of 52 and qualified for the PAC Championship in that event.

Other medal performances on the day went to the 3^rd place finishes by Mike Clark in the 800m with a PAC qualifying time of 2:02.39. Chase Reber in the Javelin with a throw of 152’6’’ and the 4x400 relay team of Mike Clark, Nick DeFilippis, Chris Meehan and Max Jones

4^th place finishes went to the 4x100 relay team of Zac Gribosh, Lucas Carr, Joe McKeon and Josh Newman with a time of 45.05 and Leland Merskey in the Javelin, with a throw of 146’4 which qualified him for the Pac Championship.

Running in the talented field for the 3200m race was Garrett McPhillips who notched himself a PAC Championship qualifying time for his efforts and Alex Yablonski in the 110 hurdles who finished 9^th overall and has now qualified for both hurdle events this season

The team opens up their league with an away meet at Boyertown on Wednesday

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Upper Darby- Methacton Boys Track Team had a great showing for the opening of their spring season at the Upper Darby Relays on Saturday. The warriors garnered several medals on the day being led by the first place finish by the 4 x 800 relay team of Aiden O’Leary, Nick DeFilippis, Josh Brycki, and Mike Clark. Freshman Matt Varghese also took home gold in his debut for the warriors in the JV 1600 meter race qualifying him for the PAC Championships with a time of 4:46.52

The team of Zac Gribosh, Lucas Carr, Joe McKeon, and John Keenan took silver in the 4 x 100 relay along with Pat Maloney and Nick Falcone scoring a silver in the Discus relay with a combined throws of 248’ 4”. Maloney’s effort on the day qualified him for the District 1 championships.

The Shot Put team of Karan Singh and Tonee’ Ellis finished the day with the bronze medal with a combined throws of 79’.1”. Singh’s effort qualified him for the PAC championships.  

Scoring valuable team points for the Warriors with fourth place finishes were Max Jones and Matt Weisenberger in the Triple Jump and the Distance Medley relay team of Matt Varghese, Josh Newman, Sean Ritchie, and Justin Leggin. Fifth Place finishes by Chris Huber and Alex Yablonski in the 300 Hurdles, Chase Reber and Leland Merskey in the Javelin and a sixth place finish by Lucas Car in the High Jump.

Topping off the day for the Warriors was a new Freshman School record being set in the Sprint Medley Relay for the team of Mike Torcini, Nick Hanson, Nick Olivieri, and Kevin McCullogh with a time of 3:58.36

 The Warriors finished Second overall on the day out of the 37 teams in attendance with a total of 55 points. Next week the Boys will travel to the Haverford Invitational on Saturday.