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Health & Fitness

HHS Varsity Boys and Girls Track and Field Win League Championships

The Harrison High School Varsity Boys and Girls Track and Field teams captured the League IIIA Conference Championships for the second consecutive year.  Both teams posted impressive overall scores, finishing near the top in almost every event. 

The Boys team won the Championship with an extraordinary 172 points, followed by Rye with 74 points, Fox Lane with 64, Byram Hills with 46 points, and Horace Greeley with 43.  The Girls team’s total was also a remarkable 147 points.  Fox Lane finished in second place with 87 points, followed by Rye with 62, Byram Hills with 59, and Horace Greeley with 42 points.

“We as coaches were so proud to see that the number one priority of our athletes was to represent the name of our school and our town,” said Coach Dominic Zanot. “In addition to the dominating performances during the competition, our teams were role models for the other schools on how to take an “individual” sport and turn it into a true TEAM environment.”

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In the past decade, the Harrison High School Varsity Boys and Girls Track & Field teams have won the League Championships six times . The Girls have been victorious for the past six consecutive years beginning in 2009 and the Boys were crowned Champions in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014.

League Champions by event were:

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Girls Track & Field

4 x 400 Relay : Marissa Gazzola, Erica LaManna, Ella Eisinger, Christine Cardascia
Discuss: Kyle Lefkowitz
200m: Jia Luo
Triple Jump: Chloe Schettino
Long Jump: Emily Dugoff
Pentathalon: Lea Sarmiento

Boys Track & Field

4 x 100 Relay: Deven Jacobi, Dan Quinn, Ezra Lieblich, Giovanni Valdes-Fauli
Discuss: Jeremy Altamuro
Shot Put: Jeremy Altamuro
100m: Deven Jacobi
110 Hurdles: Giovanni Valdes-Fauli
200m: Dan Quinn
Triple Jump: Alexis Ledesma
Long Jump: Deven Jacobi
Pole Vault: Michael Sin
400 Hurdles: Alexis Ledesma
Pentathalon: Hunter Sable

The HHS Varsity Boys and Girls Track and Field teams will compete on Saturday, May 17th at the Westchester County Championships and will compete in the Section 1 Championships on Friday, May 23.

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