I
joined the winter track team after ending my high school
basketball career. I was cut from the Varsity Basketball
Team and realized that the chances of me getting on the
team in my senior year were very slim. I still wanted
to stay in shape for the upcoming baseball season and
I didn't want all my progress from the cross country season
to go to waste.
So after talking to my cross country coach
who was also the track coach, he suggested winter track.
I originally told him my reason for joining winter track
and we decided that shot putt would be the best event
for me due to the fact it was like throwing a baseball.
Well, I'm here to tell you, "Throwing a shot putt
is as much like throwing a baseball as hitting a baseball
is to hitting a hockey puck." I found this out rather
quickly at our first meet. I was waiting to throw and
I was next to these gigantic 220 lb. 6'2" weight
lifting machines and some of them were women. Yet, I figured
I was a baseball player so I would be fine. Well, after
throwing a whopping 16 feet and the average girl throw
was between 20-30 feet, I went straight to my coach and
said, "Either you find me something else to do or
I quit." He suggested long distance the 1600m and
3200m and it was there that I could at least be competitive
and still accomplish the conditioning for baseball. I
eventually was also put on the 3200m relay team and although
I wasn't great at it I held my own.
1991 WINTER TRACK VARSITY
Date
Meet
Event
Time
Time
Overall
Place
Overall
Leg
Of Relay
12.19.91
Conference
I Kick-Off (RCC)
1600m
0:05:32.4
NA
NA
NA
3200m
0:11:57
NA
NA
NA
12.27.91
Pearl
River Holiday Fest (RCC)
1000yrd
0:02:46.6
NA
NA
NA
1600m
0:05:25.2
NA
NA
NA
1.21.91
Rasbeck
Relays (RCC)
3200m
0:11:55.1
NA
NA
NA
600yrd
0:01:34
NA
NA
NA
4x800m
0:02:42
NA
NA
3rd
Leg
1.26.91
Dutchman
Games (Union College)
3200m
0:11:52.3
NA
NA
NA
2.05.91
Benefit
Run (RCC)
3000m
0:10:43.5
NA
NA
NA
200m
27.4
NA
NA
NA
2.09.91
League
Championships (RCC)
3200m
0:11:28
NA
NA
NA
4x800m
0:02:28.3
0:09:42.6
4th
3rd
Leg
2.16.91
Class
A Championships(RCC)
3200m
0:11:24
NA
NA
NA
4x800m
0:02:28.1
NA
NA
3rd
Leg
1992 WINTER TRACK VARSITY
Date
Meet
Event
Time
Time
Overall
Place
Overall
Leg
Of Relay
12.12.92
Developmental
(RCC)
1600m
0:05:24
NA
NA
NA
800m
0:02:26.2
NA
NA
NA
12.18.92
Conference
I Kickoff (RCC)
3200m
0:11:36
NA
NA
NA
1600m
0:05:27
NA
NA
NA
1.10.92
Rockland
Invitational (RCC)
1600m
0:05:20.7
NA
NA
NA
4x800m
0:02:42.2
0:09:21.5
NA
3rd
Leg
1.19.92
Dutchman
Games (Union College)
3200m
0:11:32.6
NA
NA
NA
1.25.92
Markeiwicz
Invitational (RCC)
3000m
0:10:26.1
NA
NA
NA
200m
27.9
NA
NA
NA
Baseball
vs. Track Medley
1600m
0:02:21.7
800m
0:04:09:.4
2nd
NA
2.01.92
League
Championships (RCC)
3200m
0:11:17.1
NA
NA
NA
4x800m
0:02:23
0:09:10
2nd
1st
Leg
2.16.92
County
Championships(RCC)
3200m
0:11:17.9
NA
NA
NA
4x800m
0:02:19.5
0:09:07.2
4th
1st
leg
2.22.92
Class
A Sectional Meet(West Point)
1600m
0:05:01.8
NA
NA
NA
4x800m
0:02:16.6
0:08:47.6
NA
1st
leg
*
Color Change In Statistics Indicates Personal
Best.
