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 [...]
Well rounded track team busy with meets
By Jaime Thomas The Horde track team has been on its feet the past week, traveling to various meets and competitions. Following a couple of well-placed meets, the team didn’t fare as well against Stillwater and Lake George on Tuesday when they came in third overall. Though they couldn’t quite beat their opponents, some members [...]
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 fares well at championships
The Granville indoor track team made its mark at the Division IV Sectional Indoor Track and Field Championship last weekend. “I’m very proud of everyone who competed today,” Coach Jay Condon said in an email. “We had 13 entries and had eight entries place — not to mention all the personal records we had. It [...]
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. [...]
Wiskoski wins FR 45 meters
Haley Wiskoski won the freshman girls 45 meter hurdles during a track meet held at Union College last Saturday. Wiskoski finished the race in 10.2 seconds, nearly a second faster than her season best. She also competed in the girl’s triple jump, recording a distance of 24 feet 7 inches. Morgan Winters also competed in [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Another record falls to Ferguson
PJ Ferguson continues to set school records. A week after breaking theWhitehallschool record in the boys 1600 meter race,Fergusonset the bar even higher, improving upon his own record last Saturday at an Indoor Track League meet, held atHudsonValleyCommunity College. Fergusonbroke the previous record of5:29, set by Mickey Bezio in 2009, by 13 seconds when he [...]






VPR commentator entertains at Slate Valley Museum
By Jaime Thomas About 75 people gathered at the Slate Valley Museum Thursday evening to listen to Vermont Public Radio [...]