Track meet season started for the varsity girls and boys on Saturday at the Cy Springs Panther Invite, and Old Man Winter made his presence known. Despite extreme winds and miserable temps that dropped throughout the day, the Spartans battled the elements and their competitors and posted solid results in many areas.  

The girls team finished second place overall out of 14 teams, and the boys were third out of 13.  

Point earners - Girls

Sarah Akpan - 1st place 200 meters

Sophia Akpan - 1st place 300 meter hurdles

Mikayla Osborne - 4th place 400 meters

Niamh Collins - 1st place 800 meters ; 3rd place 3200 meters

Maggie Pearce - 2nd place 3200 meters

Siena Yoder - 4th place 1600 meters

Addison Lanning - 6th place Shot Put

4 x 100 relay - 2nd place (Mikayla Osborne, Sarah Akpan, Paris Strange, Sophia Akpan)

4 x 400 relay - 2nd place (Sophia Akpan, Mikayla Osborne, Paris Strange, Sarah Akpan)

4 x 800 relay - 1st place (Siena Yoder, Anastasia Sciretti, Megan Broom, Allie Weinhardt)

Point earners - Boys 

Luke Rives - 6th place 100 meters

Blake Daniels - 6th place 200 meters

Carson Jones - 5th place 110 meter hurdles

Emanuel Galdino - 1st place 3200 meters ; 1st place 800 meters

Jackson Potter - 1st place 1600 meters

David Kalwahali - 3rd place 3200 meters ; 4th place 1600 meters

Maddox Durnell - 5th place 800 meters ; 5th place 3200 meters

Daylan Rushing - 5th place 1600 meters

Kolton Delancy - 6th place Discus ; 6th place Shot Put

4 x 100 relay - 6th place (Recharde Pride, Blake Daniels, Day’vonne Singleton, Luke Rives)

4 x 800 relay - 1st place (Zach Tobin, Daylan Rushing, Ben Pearce, Jackson Potter)

NOTE:  With the exception of the throwing events (discus, shot put), all other field events (pole vault, high jump, long jump, triple jump) were canceled due to weather.   

Full meet results can be found here:   results

Stratford sub-varsity will begin the season on Thursday, Feb. 17th at 4pm at the Stratford track complex, and the varsity will compete next Saturday the 19th at the Will Taylor Relays at Stratford High School.