Outdoor track and field is both an individual and team sport. During each meet, individual scores combine to create team scores and teams are ranked by the cumulative totals. But when it comes to the championship season, unlike other team sports, it’s not teams that qualify to compete, it’s individual members of teams.

Last Tuesday, May 10 at Wiscasset, Boothbay Region High School track teams bested the competition and continued to build their roster of championship season competitors. BRHS girls won the meet with 86 points, followed by Winthrop, 64.5, Mt. Abram, 55 and Wiscasset, 41.5. The Boothbay boys also prevailed with 101 points, followed by Winthrop, 85, Wiscasset, 47 and Mt. Abram, 40. 

Winning is always good, but more importantly, at the event more BRHS athletes broke personal records and qualified for the state finals.

“It was another fantastic job last night,” Coach Nick Scott wrote in an email, “We swept the competition again for the second time in a row. There were also some fantastic individual results, with several lifetime PRs, state qualifying marks, and additions to the Seahawk Top Ten list being achieved.”

The Seahawk Top Ten is a list of the all-time top ten BRHS track athletes for each track event and gender (posted online with this story). As the years go by, new athletes displace some of the old in the individual top ten brackets, but many of the all-time champs have held their records for decades.

BRHS’s record holders for track events (in chronological order, excluding relay) include Alden Jordan (1960, long jump), Steve Callahan (1984, 100m dash, 200m dash), Sandy Maddocks (1988, 100m and 300m hurdles, 1990, javelin), Tammy Campbell (1988, 1600m run), Angel Tibbetts (1989, discus, shot put), Sarah Brewer (1990, high jump, triple jump), Matt Carter (1990, 1991, 400m dash, 800m run), Betsy Beck (1995, 100m dash, long jump), Mike Leighton (1998, high jump), Matthew Brown (2000, shotput, 2001,discus), Nathaniel Hodgdon (2000, javelin), Mike Cook (record year not available, triple jump), Joyce Chagan (2004, 200m dash, 400m dash, 800m run), Lauren Forgues (2006, 1600m racewalk), Charles Chavtur (2010, 110m and 300m hurdles), Matt Forgues (2010, 1600m racewalk), Chase Brown (2012, 1600m and 3200m run) and Hannah Morley (2013, 3200m run). Many of these same athletes hold top ten spots in other events, as well.

Morley is the only current BRHS track star who is a track record holder. She holds the record for the 3200m run and is in reach of the records for the 800m and 1600m, as well. Others on the present BRHS team who have earned their way into the top ten are: Abel Bryer (javelin), Matt Burnham (400m dash), Samantha Carter (1600m racewalk), Loren Genrich (300m hurdles), Eli Gudroe (long jump, triple jump), Shane Johnson (discus), Jacob Leonard (110m hurdles), Olivia Paolillo (300m hurdles), Lisa Pawlowski (high jump), Draco Peaslee (200m dash), Angie Perkins (300m hurdles, 200m dash, 400m dash, high jump), Stevie Reny (110m hurdles) and Morgen Wilson (300m hurdles). A few of these athletes may even be able to upset the record holders.

Next week, BRHS track teams will have two more opportunities to compete. They travel to Lisbon on Tuesday, May 17 for an MVC event and then to Cony on Friday, May 20 for a Class A, B and C meet.