About Me

Hi, my name is Cole Stevens, and I am a senior at Manheim Township. Throughout my years 

at township, I have participated in and loved the sport of track. I started running track 

competitively in 7th grade before the season was canceled due to COVID. For Township, I 

have been able to aquire 22 Lancaster Lebanon League medals-including 3 league titles in 

the 1600 and 800 this past spring-10 District 3 AAA medals and 5 PIAA State medals. I hope 

opening up a meet with a younger audience sparks a love for the sport of track and provides 

new opportunities. In late September 2022; my mom suffered from a stroke in the middle of 

the cross-country season. She is the assistant coach for Manheim Township so it was already 

a big loss for the team to lose a great coach, but it made life back home a lot harder too, 

knowing she couldn't do much meant a lot more work for everyone else in the house, and 

meant we had to have different meals, get different foods, and change a whole type of living. 

Thanks to all her great friends and family friends we were able to get meal plans from 

different families that helped us a lot. I started this meet to try to spread the severity of this 

illness and want people to understand how it can change someone's life.