Congratulations to the 2017 edition of the Astro Track and Field team. Division 1 Champions. Five new school records. Nine new class records. And a general shredding of the Top 3 class and Top 5 All Time record sheet. Seriously, look at this set of records. They made a mess of the thing.
A brief but deserved salute to some of the athletes coming off the sheets, displaced by the inevitable and unceasing march of youthful talent:
Zach Cicio ’14. Zach defined the short sprints for the Astros in 2013 and 2014. The barrage of 2017 100m records bumps him from several lists.
Greg Lutz ’99 similarly defined the 100m and 200m in the late 1990s, the first Astro to ever clock under 11.0h. He anchored a state record 4x100m at the Class L Championship, a race that still hangs on to the No. 5 All Time spot, 18 years later. He is bumped from several 100m lists.
TJ Urbanik ’16 had a sensational sophomore campaign. It is perhaps appropriate that another stellar sophomore, Adam Spencer, has broken his sophomore 300m IH record as well as bumped TJ from the Top 5 All Time list in that event. That Top 5 list is now entirely sub-40 FAT.
TJ’s junior javelin heave, nearly a class record at the time, drops off the junior top 3 list after an insane postseason by JJ King.
Todd Balise ’84, one of the oldest names on the books, is bumped from the discus Top 5 list by Narrik Orcuich.
James Hatch ’08 was a solid 200m force, but is now bumped from the lists by the 2017 sprinting crew.
2017 MOC boys’ results are HERE. All 2017 New England Championship results are HERE.
Congrats to all who tore up these record lists with red!