HHS Boys Varsity Track and Field Win Westchester County Championships

For the first time in Harrison High School’s history, the Boys Indoor Track and Field Team won the Indoor Westchester County Championship.  The team will share co-championship honors with New Rochelle High School who tied Harrison with 61 points.

Harrison competed against schools from Mount Vernon, Yonkers, White Plains, and New Rochelle – all of whom have graduating classes that are double, triple and even quadruple Harrison’s size.

“As a coaching staff, we knew the boys team had a chance in the beginning of the season to contend only if all of our scoring athletes could bring their “A Game” on the same day,” said Coach Dominic Zanot.  “Through the leadership of our senior captains: Ben Adler, Giovanni Valdes-Fauli, Alexis Ledesma, and Jeremy Altamuro, our boys performed with focus and determination from the first event until the last.” 

Harrison Boys athletes set 14 different personal records at the Westchester County Championship.

Individual results of athletes Who Placed in Top 6th are:

Shot Put:  1st Place - Brandon Merluccio (Personal Record)
                  2nd Place – Jeremy Altamuro

Triple Jump:  2nd Place – Deven Jacobi (Personal Record)

Long Jump:  3rd Place – Deven Jacobi
                      5th Place – Alexis Ledesma

55m Hurdles:  2nd Place – Giovanni Valdes-Fauli

55m Dash – 5th Place – Giovanni Valdes-Fauli (Personal Record)

1000m Run: 2nd Place – Ben Adler (Personal Record)

4 x 200m Relay:  4th Place – Giovanni Valdes-Fauli, Dan Quinn, Ryan Moretti, and Ezra Lieblich (Personal Record)

4 x 400m Relay:  3rd Place – Matt Konigsberg, Ben Adler, Nick Nelson, Christian Saavedra (Personal Record)

The Boys Varsity team also captured the Hurley-Quinney Invitational at Cornell University on January 19th against schools from Section 4 (Binghamton area), Section 6 (Buffalo area) and Section 2 (Albany area).  The Boys competition was decided in the final event of the Invitational between Harrison, West Seneca High School and Vestal High School.  The HHS Boys placed 1st, 3rd and 5th in the Weight Throw to secure the victory.

Individual Boys Results from Cornell are:

Shot Put:  1st Place – Jeremy Altamuro
                  4th Place – Brandon Merluccio

Boys Weight Throw:  1st Place – Jeremy Altamuro (New School Record)
                                      3rd Place – Brandon Merluccio
                                      5th Place – John Abadir

Pole Vault:  2nd Place - Michael Sin
                     4th Place - Jon Crozier

Long Jump:  3rd Place – Deven Jacobi

Triple Jump:  3rd Place – Deven Jacobi

55m Hurdles:  3rd Place – Giovanni Valdes-Fauli

55m Dash:  5th Place – Giovanni Valdes-Fauli

300m Dash: 4th Place - Dan Quinn

1600m Run: 2nd Place- Ben Adler

4 x 200m Relay:  Dan Quinn, Giovanni Valdes-Fauli, Ryan Moretti, Ezra Lieblich

4 x 400m Relay:  4th Place - Ben Adler, Mike Scoli, Nick Nelson, Matt Konigsberg