MacArthur Girls Track
The MacArthur girls track and field team had a successful meet at the Molly Stanner games at the armory. Junior Kristina Coiro broke the school record in the 1,000 meter run with a time of 3:01.05.
Lucia Montefusco set the old school record back in 2008 with a time of 3:03. Samantha Maloney ran the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 11.27.
Sophomore Nicole Natland jumped a personnel best 32’7” in the triple jump. Stephanie Malin and Heather Van Patten each had great performances in the field too.
The girls were gearing up to defend their five-time conference title that took place on Thursday, Feb. 3.
MacArthur Boys Track
At the two-day competition on Friday, Jan. 21 the MacArthur boys’ Track and Field team competed at Yale University.
On Friday the boys came out strong finishing in 2nd place in the 4×200 meter relay. The relay consisted of Mike Camacho, Andrei Dinoro, Dan Archer, and Erik Chevez which all ran their best times and broke the school record. They ran a time of 1:33.14, and the old record, which was set in 2010, was 1:33.32.
The same boys ran later in the 4×400 meter relay where they placed 4th. The relay team of Mike Hester, Kenny Balling, Vin Danetti, and Yuri Triglia took 8th in the 4×800 meter relay.
On Saturday, Chevez started the day off with an 8th place finish in the 400-meter race. He was followed closely by his teammate Archer who finished 12th. This was an amazing feat considering there were a total of 153 boys in the event.
Dinoro and Hester also ran very well in their 55-meter dash.
On the distance side the boys did an amazing job with some very quick times in the 3000-meter race. Those boys were Triglia, Sean Aquilino, Balling, Matt Bascelli, and Jo McClean.
