Track parents- We had some great performances from our kids at the Fitchburg USATF meet on Saturday, with a number of top-3 finishes and a greater number of athletes qualifying for the regional (New England + NY) meet next month in New York City. The results are posted on the longmeadowtrack.org website. Lucille Kelly and Kessler Despain took home two medals each and qualified in three events. Kessler won the shot, took third in the long jump, and was in the top 8 in the 10

USATF parents- I will be posting the results to the website and sending out an email to the program as a whole about the great performances we saw at the USATF meet on Saturday, but I wanted to get the full results to you ASAP. They are attached as a Word document to this email. The regional meet will be in NYC July 14-15. USATF website says July 12-15, but July 12 & 13 (Thursday and Friday) have always been for multi-event competitions, i.e., the pentathlon, which our kids

Track Parents: The results from Saturday's Family Fun Day Meet are posted on the website, longmeadowtrack.org. It was a big event with 5 running events and 3 field events. We had 171 program athletes, parents, and siblings take part. There were 497 individual performances. This was the biggest Family Fun Day in the program's history. Nicholas Cassidy, Faith Taylor, Gabriel Macias, and Ada Grant took home King and Queen of the Track honors in the 100, 400, and 1600. Faith

Track Parents- This week we will have practice on Tuesday and Thursday at LHS 5-6 pm (no Monday extra session) for only the kids doing the USATF meet on Saturday in Fitchburg. If you have not registered for the USATF meet and intend to do so, time is short. Go to the website, longmeadowtrack.org, under the USATF meet tab for all the details, but you need to become a USATF member first, which involves registering online and then verifying age with a birth certificate. And th

Track Parents- The weather looks good for tomorrow and we should have the most parents and siblings competing ever. With the King and Queen of the Track races in the 100, 400, and 1600, and kids gunning for their best performances of the season, it should be a lot of fun. Remember water bottles (1 quart per person) and sunscreen. The kids can wear either their color track T-shirt or the white singlet. You must wear your BIB NUMBER. If you have lost your bib number, come a

Track parents- The deadline for signing up for Saturday's June 9 meet is 8 pm TODAY (Wednesday). Parents and siblings can also sign up. There are separate forms on the website, longmeadowtrack.org, for program athletes and for parents and siblings. This is our last regular meet of the season. We expect to see a lot personal best performances. Alex

Track parents- Please email me if your child is planning to run the June 16 USATF meet in Fitchburg and tell me what events he/she is planning to do. This will help us plan out practices next week for our USATF runners. Second, if any parents have pictures they have taken from our meets and want to share them on the website, please email them to me. We would love to get pictures to show our program in action. Alex

Track parents- We had a ton of great, and in a few cases, astounding, performances at the Middle School Amherst Meet, the Middle School State Meet, and at our meet against Ludlow. I will give a special shout-out to Nate Morrin who ran the 1600m on Saturday for the first time this year, and he joined our four member sub-6 miler club. His previous best from last year was over 7 minutes. Nate skipped the 6's entirely and ran 5:54 on Saturday. Elly Narotsky PR'd by 29 seconds

Track parents- We are looking forward to a great meet tomorrow with Ludlow. Below is the order of events. Be sure to wear the white singlet with the bib number on the front. We have an extra set of bib numbers if you have lost yours--just arrive early to get your bib number and put in on. Be sure to have a full quart of water and sunscreen tomorrow! Order of Events Running Events: 1600m (all groups) (begin at 9:00) Group 1 200m Group 2 200m Group 3 200m Group 4 200m Group