Track Races Toward Another Great Season!
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Monomoy WritesAfter a successful last Spring season at Monomoy Regional High School, track members have recollected themselves, with motivation and drive, as the 2025 Spring Track season anticipates to start. With the regrouping of the student-athletes and coaches Adam Syty, Mark Hart, and Mary Hemeon, the boys and girls’ teams are looking forward to securing a spot at the state and championship meets as a Division VI, and zeroing in on their goals.
The MRHS track coach, Adam Syty, has been coaching track professionally for 18 years – two years at the NCAA Division One level, and sixteen years at the high school level. After his first year training Monomoy students, Syty is “highly confident in both our fitness and commitment to the program.” Outside of his coaching, Syty is an English teacher, where he connects his knowledge to track. “Coaching is often a system of education,” Syty comments, “I always try to teach my athletes about the sport, the biology and chemistry, and psychology of it. By understanding those principals, we can better achieve our goals because our athletes will understand what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”
In the previous season, the boys 100m, 200m, and 4x100m records were broken, as well as the girls 800m and 4x800m records. Based on the determination of the team, all records are threatened by returning athletes. “Overall,” Syty states, “with our increased fitness and young team, no record is safe!”
Student-Athletes have anchored their goals and mindset as they reflect on their previous season, whether that being indoor track, cross country, or track, in order to encourage themselves. “Our greatest rival is often ourselves. Track is a sport where you compete against yourself both physically and mentally.” Coach Syty explains, “We are learning to push past preconceived limits and overcome the challenge of being a smaller school as we work towards a national championship.”
The goal setting of each individual athlete is bound to fluctuate, as track athletes experience, evolve, and mature from challenges that blossom. The sport of track and field is both a race against yourself and your desired objectives, and a competition against other teams. 800m runner and miler Remi Schreiner explains, “Being able to precisely quantify your achievements means you can compare your performance to previous attempts and then set exact goals to reach.”
Long jump, triple jump, and 100m hurdler Megan Gogol writes, “I have evolved throughout the years by understanding that when you are competing, the other people should not matter, and it should only be a competition between you, and how you performed last time.” Throughout her three years participating in the sport, two years of which she has served as team captain, Gogol mentions, “I have been able to become a better leader and evolve my bond with the team.”
Distance runner Quinn Muldoon writes, “at practice we all hold each other accountable for what they have to do, and we all make sure that everyone finishes their part.” Unlike other team sports at Monomoy, “the support that we give to each other is truly unmatched,” for “our team is built on the support and bonds that we have for one another.”
With the entire team pushing each other beyond their limits, student-athletes have funded their own goals in which they hope to accomplish this upcoming track season. Mile and 2-miler Nolan Strzepek voices, “I intend to become a better athlete this upcoming season.”
As the Spring season approaches, so has the competition. Thirteen meets have been scheduled, five of which are dual meets, and the rest are invitationals. Additionally, there are countless supplemental meets, such as leagues, divisionals, meet of champions, New England, and Nationals, that our team aims to reach this track season.
The greatest competition in relationship to other runners comes down to invitations, where schools all around Massachusetts meet for a full day of exciting and adrenaline-filled events. Multiple student-athletes reported their experience regarding invitational meets. Muldoon writes, “It is amazing to be able to go to big meets with 50 to 100 other schools there and still be able to hear the team through the noise.” No matter the size of our Division VI team, Monomoy always cheers the loudest.
Distance runner and 400m hurdler Erin Guerard refers, “I prefer invitational meets because they’re lots of fun and a good experience, so you’re not just seeing people in the local area, but can see more variety.” Invitationals open up a new form and style of competition that surpass the familiarity and of regular dual meets. With the 75+ schools attending, the heightened adrenaline and energy is contagious, and feeds each student-athlete with a run for their goals.
Shot Put, Discus, and Javelin athlete Kade Stephens notes, “My main source of motivation is the constant room for improvements.” After last Spring’s victorious track season, athletes who participated in indoor track during the winter improved an approximated 0.3 seconds over 30 meter distance trials. When outdoor track and field will begin to run its course, athletes who engaged in indoor track will have acquired an estimated half a second to a full second increased time at a distance of 100m.
Through the success of the first year coaching indoor track and field, Syty notes that “it takes the utmost commitment and dedication to chase after a dream that doesn’t exist yet, and to build it from scratch. That is what we’ve done this winter. Each athlete should take pride in what they’ve built. They will always be able to look back and say they started this – and only one group can ever say that.”
The MRHS track coach, Adam Syty, has been coaching track professionally for 18 years – two years at the NCAA Division One level, and sixteen years at the high school level. After his first year training Monomoy students, Syty is “highly confident in both our fitness and commitment to the program.” Outside of his coaching, Syty is an English teacher, where he connects his knowledge to track. “Coaching is often a system of education,” Syty comments, “I always try to teach my athletes about the sport, the biology and chemistry, and psychology of it. By understanding those principals, we can better achieve our goals because our athletes will understand what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”
In the previous season, the boys 100m, 200m, and 4x100m records were broken, as well as the girls 800m and 4x800m records. Based on the determination of the team, all records are threatened by returning athletes. “Overall,” Syty states, “with our increased fitness and young team, no record is safe!”
Student-Athletes have anchored their goals and mindset as they reflect on their previous season, whether that being indoor track, cross country, or track, in order to encourage themselves. “Our greatest rival is often ourselves. Track is a sport where you compete against yourself both physically and mentally.” Coach Syty explains, “We are learning to push past preconceived limits and overcome the challenge of being a smaller school as we work towards a national championship.”
The goal setting of each individual athlete is bound to fluctuate, as track athletes experience, evolve, and mature from challenges that blossom. The sport of track and field is both a race against yourself and your desired objectives, and a competition against other teams. 800m runner and miler Remi Schreiner explains, “Being able to precisely quantify your achievements means you can compare your performance to previous attempts and then set exact goals to reach.”
Long jump, triple jump, and 100m hurdler Megan Gogol writes, “I have evolved throughout the years by understanding that when you are competing, the other people should not matter, and it should only be a competition between you, and how you performed last time.” Throughout her three years participating in the sport, two years of which she has served as team captain, Gogol mentions, “I have been able to become a better leader and evolve my bond with the team.”
Distance runner Quinn Muldoon writes, “at practice we all hold each other accountable for what they have to do, and we all make sure that everyone finishes their part.” Unlike other team sports at Monomoy, “the support that we give to each other is truly unmatched,” for “our team is built on the support and bonds that we have for one another.”
With the entire team pushing each other beyond their limits, student-athletes have funded their own goals in which they hope to accomplish this upcoming track season. Mile and 2-miler Nolan Strzepek voices, “I intend to become a better athlete this upcoming season.”
As the Spring season approaches, so has the competition. Thirteen meets have been scheduled, five of which are dual meets, and the rest are invitationals. Additionally, there are countless supplemental meets, such as leagues, divisionals, meet of champions, New England, and Nationals, that our team aims to reach this track season.
The greatest competition in relationship to other runners comes down to invitations, where schools all around Massachusetts meet for a full day of exciting and adrenaline-filled events. Multiple student-athletes reported their experience regarding invitational meets. Muldoon writes, “It is amazing to be able to go to big meets with 50 to 100 other schools there and still be able to hear the team through the noise.” No matter the size of our Division VI team, Monomoy always cheers the loudest.
Distance runner and 400m hurdler Erin Guerard refers, “I prefer invitational meets because they’re lots of fun and a good experience, so you’re not just seeing people in the local area, but can see more variety.” Invitationals open up a new form and style of competition that surpass the familiarity and of regular dual meets. With the 75+ schools attending, the heightened adrenaline and energy is contagious, and feeds each student-athlete with a run for their goals.
Shot Put, Discus, and Javelin athlete Kade Stephens notes, “My main source of motivation is the constant room for improvements.” After last Spring’s victorious track season, athletes who participated in indoor track during the winter improved an approximated 0.3 seconds over 30 meter distance trials. When outdoor track and field will begin to run its course, athletes who engaged in indoor track will have acquired an estimated half a second to a full second increased time at a distance of 100m.
Through the success of the first year coaching indoor track and field, Syty notes that “it takes the utmost commitment and dedication to chase after a dream that doesn’t exist yet, and to build it from scratch. That is what we’ve done this winter. Each athlete should take pride in what they’ve built. They will always be able to look back and say they started this – and only one group can ever say that.”
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