U of Penn 2/15/25 - At the Track and Field Coaches Association of Greater Philadelphia's year-end Meet of Champions, Dom Harvey-Sheppard, Amari Nash, Q West and Zion Ford won their heat going away but finished a close second to Souderton from a different heat. In a highly competitive year for this event,1:28.68 ranks us #4 PA. 

Other highlights: Jason Verriere hit a PR in the pole vault with 13-9 finishing in 2nd and making the State Standard. 

Dom Sheppard had an indoor personal best at 200M running 21.97 (#2 Wiss all-time, = #9 PA) in 3rd place. 

Ralph Antonucci placed 5th at 3000 knocking 12 seconds off his previous best with 8:51.57 (#21 PA.)

The 4x400 team (3:23.58 #3 Wiss all-time) saw 3 out of the 4 have person bests. 400 splits were: Imari Nash 51.34 PR, Aiden Wescott 50.89 PR, Xavier Johnson 50.62 PR and Jonah Sydney 50.55 finishing in 4th and ranking #9 PA.

 Staten Island NY - Our annual trip to the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex paid off bigtime. In the pre-lims of the 4x200, Dominic Harvey-Sheppard (22.01), Amari Nash (21.87), Quentin West (22.64) and Zion Ford (22.33) clocked 1:29.15, the second fastest time of the day. This bettered 1:29.88 (Dunswell, Williams, Dolberry-Wescott, Wright) from 2016 at the PTFCA Indoor State Championships. . Research shows our first two legs combined have run faster than ANY first two legs in the state by a full second.

Other highlights included Personal Bests: Sheppard's 5th place medal in the 55 Meter Hurdles, Jack Pickle's 2:00.78 800, Nash's 22.70 200.

The Ocean Breeze Invitational is THE largest high school track meet the the country with thousand of athletes competing over two days.

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U. of Penn, Sun 1/26 - Back to the Ott Center. Good news and bad news seems to to be the story line for this team. First, the good news: The 4x8 saw all four runners have indoor personal bests while finishing in 2nd place 8:17.98.  Jack Pickel, Jishnu Dass and Enzo Gobin put Ralph Antonucci in solid third place. Ralph anchored in  2:00.97 moving up a spot. 

60 hurdles had Aiden Wescott in his first ever attempt at the barriers. He made the finals with a respectable 8.77. Dom Sheppard also qualified in 8.98. Aiden struggled in the final (9.75) coming off the 4x2 literally 5 min earlier. Dom, however, had his best race of the season in second place with 8.40, under the state meet standard.

Now the bad news. Coming off a great meet last week with state-ranked wins from the 4x2 and 4x4 with 8 different guys, we decided to keep the teams intact but flip the events. The 4x2 (Jonah Sydney, Zion Ford, Jayden Davis, Aiden Wescott) won the event going away but was DQ'd on a lane violation. Next, the 4x4 (Dom Sheppard, Jayden Davis, Q West, Amari Nash). No lanes, scratch start. Our Lead-off got tangled in traffic on the second backstretch, went down and didn't finish (DNF). 

Philadelphia, Pa. 1/19/25 - A huge step up from Lehigh's Rauch Field House, U of Penn's new indoor track facility (Ott Center) gave us the opportunity to run fast and we did. In a meet where almost all of our athletes ran personal bests, the final two events of the day were the cherry(s) on top. The 4x2 team of Dominic Harvey-Sheppard, Amari Nash, Q West and Zion Ford won the event in 1:30.00, #2 ranked state-wide (#1 Souderton 1:29.03) and only .12 off our school record. 

The next event, the 4x4, was a surprise as three of the four were coming off either illness or injury. Jayden Davis (covid), Aiden Wescott (pneumonia) and Xavier Johnson (hamstring) all ran personal bests up front before handing off to anchor Jonah Sydney (49.97). He tracked CB East anchor but fell just short in 2nd place. 3:25.24 puts us at #3 PA behind CB East and North Penn. (Jonah's 49.97 marks the 52nd Wissahickon athlete to split sub-50 sec for 400 indoors or out in school history.)

Meanwhile on the distance side, Ralph Antonucci is chipping away at a 3000m state qualifier. He dropped 7 sec from his previous best with 9:03.58 (needs to hit 8:58.43).