While spring sports begin to wrap up this year most people at Eastview tend to focus on sports such as baseball and boys lacrosse. Many often forget about the hard work that the boy’s track and field team has put into their season. With sections just coming around the corner I went out to see how the boys are doing this year.

“With only a hand full of seniors running this year it has been hard to win and place in major meets”, coming from senior Brandon Peterson. The boys Track team has only 11 senior runners compared to the 45 under classmen. “We are a very young team and should be state contender in the following years” said junior Joe Peterson. Earlier this year the boys placed third in conference true team which showed that they could be a contender in the Conference this coming week. I went out and talk to coach Swanson to get the scoop on this upcoming meet.
“ If we get after it we could defiantly place in the top two teams at the meet and prove to be a force to be reckoned with.”

Although the team has been doing well this year I wanted to find out if there were any week areas to the team. The main point scorers this year have been the jumpers (high jump, long jump, triple jump). Although very young they have proved to have three of the top jumpers in the state. Another strong point of the team seems to be the distance runners. Although a very close group, they work hard every day and it shows in their performances. One of the weak points on the team seems to come from the sprinters due to their inexperience and young age, although they are working hard to perform better in the following years. The hurdle crew who is lead by senior Aaron S. seems to have a group of talented individuals who have a lot of potential in following years.

Leading the boys Track team this year are the captains including Steven D, Valara T. and Ian S. I went out to interview Steven on how this upcoming section meet is going to go and what kind of performance we can expect to see. “You can expect to see a solid performance from the jump and distance department along with hurdles and sprinters. If come into it thinking we can win I think we could have a chance of doing it.” So come out this Tuesday to support the boys Track and Field team