By Jaime Thomas Track Coach Jay Condon said the team is coming along and in good shape for its approaching league championship next Wednesday. In a dual meet last Tuesday, both the boys and girls track team beat nearby Whitehall but lost to host Hudson Valley. Senior Gabe Pratt kept busy finishing first in the [...]
Winters paces track team with top three finishes
Before the season began, Justin Culligan, Whitehall’s track coach, talked about the competitive drive of Morgan Winters. Last Tuesday, members of the Wasaren League witnessed that drive first hand. The eighth grader finished in a tie for first place in the girls’ 100 meter dash and was part of a 4×100 relay team that finished [...]
Track team wraps up season
David Greenough paced the boys indoor track team with a pair of top five finishes at the Division IV, Section II Championships, held Sunday at SUNY Albany. Greenough finished in a three-way tie for fourth place in the boy’s high jump, clearing 5 feet, 4 inches, and fifth in the boy’s triple jump, recording a [...]
Four athletes place in multiple events
Morgan Winters was one of four Whitehall athletes to place in multiple events at an indoor track meet held Sunday at Williams College. Winters finished third in the girls’ long jump and second in the triple jump. She also won the girls’ freshman 55-meter dash, trimming more than a quarter second off her season best. [...]
Winters sets school record in triple jump
Whitehall’s Morgan Winters set a school record in the indoor triple jump at a league meet held last Friday at Union College. Winters’ mark of 30 feet 1.5 inches breaks the previous record of 29 feet 7 inches set in 2002 by Melissa Senecal. The mark is made all the more impressive by the fact [...]
Track athletes show improvement in second meet
In first track meet of the season, Cullen Flynn was unable to record a successful try in the men’s pole vault. On Saturday, he finished fifth and earned his team two points. Flynn was one of several Whitehall athletes who showed improvement in the second indoor track meet of the season. Flynn cleared 6.5 feet [...]
Track wraps up season high note
Strong performances by Rebecca Lavin and Zach Diekel led the Whitehall boys’ and girls’ track teams to a pair of fifth-place finishes at last week’s Section II Class C sectionals held in Fort Plain. Diekel captured the boys’ shot put title and finished second in the discus, and Lavin turned in a second-place finish in [...]
Whitehall’s field athletes place well again at relays
Zach Diekel and Rebecca Lavin continued to star for Whitehall’s track and field team at the Muse Relays held Saturday at Glens Falls High School. Both placed in two events, including Diekel’s first place finish in the shot put. Diekel’s throw of more than 44 and half feet was one foot and four inches further [...]
Track teams get first wins
Whitehall’s boys and girls track teams picked up their first wins of the season, going 2-1 in a meet against Greenwich, Cambridge, and Waldorf on Tuesday afternoon. Dave Rich led the boys with four top-three finishes, including two wins, and Tyler Perry and Tyler Sweenor each added wins for Whitehall. Rich won the 110-meter hurdles [...]





