Fiercest Competitor

Meredith Leenhouts – The one that would most scare you to compete against. The league proves the point that nobody wants to go up against her.
If there is anyone in this league unafraid to run against her they are incredibly naive or incredibly supid!

Drew Harrington (4)

Drew Harrington (OA) - He never loses, I honestly believe he could run any event in the league and win it. Add to the fact that he's still recovering from injury and that makes him even better.
Drew Harrington (he runs with such intensity, is he like that always?)
It is Drew's intensity that makes him a solid candidate.

Ali Cuozzo
You don't get that good by being a pussycat. She's got fangs when she needs them.

Brittany Borchard
Good and getting better all the time - but not yet award-level scarey. But scarey enough that I'm already sorry I said it!

Kristy Fuller (2)- Winter hat, hood and game face on every
week. I'm scared of her.

She is just plain intimidating.

She's got the game face and the intensity to pull it off.

Marcus Vaughn (5) - Not fierce in the conventional sense, but his
confidence and swagger, as well as his attention getting wardrobe
intimidates his opponents. That is important in the short sprints.(he's already up, but why not restate the case?)

He's an extremely focused athlete and he works hard to achieve his goals
His outfits alone scare people.

If I knew that all I needed was a swagger and cool clothes I'd still be competing.Attacking the hurdles like he does shows he's more than just a Ralph Lauren wannabe.

Meg Crowley. Iwould never want to be on the starting line against her. She always goes out to do her best, and puts in 110% everyday.

The sheriff might be slightly off in her high jump aim but she's gritty enough to score points at an incredible pace.

Patrick Sweeney (2)
The newest track guru of the league. Who else brings an ancient copy of a Sports Illustrated to the Adidas Games and gets the autograph of the meet's star runner.

Dwight Estey (3)

I think Sweeney did a lot for the coaches in the league but I vote for Dwight Estey for promoting the league. You have photos, stories from not only our
league but from other athletes competing in the area.

If he really cared he'd quit his day job and do this full time.

Latif Thomas (FX) - He made the athletesacceleration site and has helped the Mansfield sprinters tremendously by making their own workout regiments for the winter.

The new kid on the block. Will I someday be saying - "I knew him when!"

Jerry Espinosa (3)-got Bally's to sponsor MA indoor track plus takes time to
mentor the north teams, particularly in high jump (can you think of a
better year for high jump, especially for girls?). It's great to have his positive attitude and encouragement

Jerry is back to his roots. Track molded him and now he's using it as a way to help the latest generation of athletes reach their potential.

Mike Rizzolo - He solely manages the Franklin website (www.fhstrack.org), looking up all the results and attending all the meets religiously so he can take pictures of every single athlete, JV and varsity alike.

He is putting in countless hours helping recognize the Franklin athletes. A selfless promotor of the team!

Jen Macnamara (3)- in the hurldes...wow!

She was determined to win despite the numerous predictions that she would place third at best
She had the race of her life at the right time.

She used the indoor Hocks to burst onto the scene as a State Level performer - a role she played to the hilt in spring track last year.

Matt Battista (2) - 5'4" to 5'10" in the high jump

Wow! He did it when it counted.

Stephanie Pratt - Despite the fact she bumped the Franklin girls out of the top three I was very excited for Stephanie Pratt. I couldn't have handled the stress in that competition. Congrats to Stephanie for her PR and 3rd place in a very competitive field.

One of North's greatest surprises all season. She just keeps getting better.

Mansfield Girls – The Mansfield girls’ team as a whole at hocks.

If there were any doubters before they have to be convinced now!

Steve Marsh - (increased best throw from 46'8" to 48'10")
Saltzman's sophomore PR picking up a 3rd place from the 'slow'
heat.

Most people increase by inches. Steve went from good to really good in one day.

Sam Robbins - Huge PR and second place in the 1000

I'm getting used to Sam's theatrics. When the pressure is on Sam's cookin.

Dave Lint - sophomore PR's by 1.2 seconds and runs faster

I keep hearing this name. And I thought lint was only what you found on the dryer screen.

Brian Dundon (2) - He dropped 4 seconds from Franklin to Reggie and might have beaten Lyon in the 300; we still don't know. This kid's the real deal.

His second place 36.40 surprised everyone.

I dissed him in my Hock preview and he made me pay. Now a Gobis article! Brian is entering track nirvana.

Melissa Murphy from Mansfield, who got 2nd in the 600 after pulling her hamstring, which is usually devastating.

I didn't know about the hamstring. She didn't sneak up on me. I've been afraid of her all season.

Ty Lynn Graham

Not a surprise to me. She has tortured the competition all season and came a centimeter from winning it all.

Jake Hopkins

Maybe

Francesca Perretti

Also Maybe

Shanika Pitts (6) - She didn’t run in all the meets and DQ'd at
Hocks but ran a crazy dash time at the Invite.

Maybe I don't understand sprints at all, but the "on false start and you're out" rule is stupid.

Second place in the state after one season. Ouch!

Ty Lynn Graham (2) - But the one event factor brings that down a little bit.

Not a one-event person if you saw her in the 4X200. North's best HJ from a first season performer - in fact probably the league's best for less than two months on the job.

Melissa Murphy - 2nd at Hocks, beat Leenhouts in the 3 and ran 43.29

I'd take that performance any day.

John Lancaster  (2)- Lancaster isn't new to track, but he's new to the league. it depends on your definition. Either way he was clearly the best dash runner.

Foxboro won the lottery with this phenom.

John Lyles (2) - If not Lancaster than Lyles, he's a true rookie and beat everyone in the league in the dash, namely Lancaster

Since Lancaster had already done track at XBHS, Lyles' first year was absolutely amazing. One of the best in the state already.

I think he is the surprise of the league. He beat the best sprinters in the league (Lancaster,Young, Vaughn) in his first season running. Also, a
6.66 55m is impressive first year.

Now you're talking. A first year sprinter of this calibre. Whoosh.

Adam Scheiber (high jump)

Not bad but not yet.

Mike Walker-37.52 open 300 at class, 52 mid 400 leg; getting cut from basketball was the best thing to happen to him

He's the best in the league at falling and getting back up. Getting cut from basketball helped him find his best sport.

Brianna Sionne (M) surprised me the most with her 1:41 in the 600.

Brianna is the real deal. How would she look in red?

Ali Cuozzo (2) - She's a multi-talented athlete

Quiet and deadly. What can't she do?

Marcus Vaughn (2) - Multi talented and has that flash and style that
catches your eye and makes you pay attention to where he is and what
he's doing on the track.

Who wouldn't want to be Marcus Vaughn - the darling of the runway?

Meredith Leenhouts (2)– Has been League MVP, dominant and a hard worker.Terry Young (2) - Terry is like a brother to me, he has always helped me with everything and if everyone else knew him like I did, they'd know he is a true role model.

With her as the poster child of the Hockomock everyone would be enlisting!

Katie O

Underated. How much does she have to do to get full credit? No more! What other distance runner keeps high jumping to grab a few more team points. Totally unselfish!

Drew Harrington - Athletes from all over the state have
been talking about Drew and know his performances from
each race. He is a hard worker that came back strong
from and injury in the fall.

I'm getting redundant, but I was the reluctant convert. Now I know it. Drew is the consumate athlete.

Tim O'Koren probably won't win - but this kid works hard and is one of Franklin boys leading scorers. I love how he won't start a race until he shakes each competitors hand.

Come up and shake my hand in the spring.

Kristy Fuller- she puts in an unbelievable amount of work to be good. She gave up soccer in the fall to train on her own, and boy did she train. She has an unbelieveable about of self-dedication, and it's paid off.

I saw her dedication in the Fall. Typical of the upper echelon athletes. She just wants to be the best. Nothing else will do.

Kim Coughlan - She quit Gynmastics (captain elect) to compete in her first
indoor season. She is the hardest worker and will run/jump any event since her true events(LJ,TJ) aren’t offered during the regular season. She
has been training to jump in the outdoor season and has already PR'd in LJ (17'4.5)

It is tough to put a first-year indoor performer as league role-model. But who can argue with someone that has put it all together in the long jump when the league doesn't even have a pit.

Clark Kent Award

Meredith Leenhouts. Man , you would never know behind that quiet, polite girl is an All-State champion powerhouse. Seriously, she never even leads workouts unless the coaches make her.

She's too hard to disguise.

Joe Conroy (KP) - Just doesn't look like an athlete

Should I tell Joe who dissed him?

Jill Sergi (in any other division a 5:23 mile would have placed her in the top 5)
Matt Mckenzie Franklin's top finisher in the 600 at Hocks (from the unseeded heat)

Pound for pound a distance superhero.

Chris Kalafarski (2)- every time I see him open up the 400 I have to double check for a cape; plus, he's been above and beyond this year competing with whooping cough and a sore knee

He's always there to support his Teammates.

I think he looks more like a runner than a computer whiz. And he's actually both.

Jake Hopkins

His cape was blowing in the breeze during the league meet 600M.

Lance Llewellyn

To him Jake Hopkins was Lex Luthor

Matt Gannon

Matt found the phone booth but is still looking for the right number. I have no doubt he'll find it.

Holly Heinricher - I know she'll never get this award but I
had to throw it in. Shes all business once she's called to the line. But for the other 23 hours and 58 minutes of her day, she looks and especially acts like a kid who has no interest or ability to compete like she does. She is doing a dance on the starting line of a big meet because someone told her she wouldn't, the untrained observer would quickly underestimate her abilities.

More like the bionic woman!

Greg Clayman (3) - One of the better dash runners in the league, but the kid weighs 110 pounds soaking wet. Just doesn't look like he should be quick, but he is.

Seriously this kid weighs about 110 lbs and runs a 5.7. He will be a force next year.

I have it on good authority that he is 138 lbs. without the cape.

Meghan Crowley- you would never guess this 95 pounder is one of the best HJ, dash runners, hurdlers and 4x4legs in the league.

Clarke Kent didn't have a personality. Meghan exudes it.

Katy O'Brien (3)

Meredith Leenhouts (5)- 4 1000m Hock titles in 4 years and a force from the 300-2 mile.

She has 4 1000m titles, 3 800m titles and can win just about any event.

Marcus Vaughn (3) - He has been dominant since day 1.

Drew Harrington - He's been up and down but has the most solid career
behind him.

To comment on any one of these would be disrespect to the other three. They've all paid their dues - big time!

Holly Heinricker – She’s already a star but Heinricker gets my vote

Already a star but wil burn much bighter before she's thru.
Francesca Peretti

Shows the potential.
Kat Dixon (FR)

Works for a hard boss. But that's how you get good - if you don't get fired.
Jake Nevens

Don't know him but I'm sure I will soon.
Courtney Barletta – sophomore, 6th in the dash, 2nd leg on
champion 4x4 team - 63 seconds leg, 47.8 in the 300 at Franklin as well
as 6.2 in a trial, but no one knows who she is. This spring and next year
she should come into her own as one of the better 100-400 runners in the
league.

Already has an impressive resume.
Dave Lint (2) - sophomore. has dropped PR almost 3 seconds in two
weeks. 37.07 300m time and 54.1 4x4 leg (he can run faster - he ran 27/26 in
the 4x4). 5'4 in the high jump and he's a pretty confident kid.

Only a sophomore running 37! And his coach is Latif Thomas, how could he not become a star.

Dave broke 37 (36.95) as a sophomore, something that Saltzman couldn't do at the same age.

Tough to call this guy an apprentice. He's got the best publicity department of all the candidates.
Greg Clayman - the lightest sprinter in the league by about 20 pounds or so.

They call him a lightweight now, but wait a few years.
Ty Lynn Graham (2)

The potential is daunting. Now it gets interesting.
Adam Scheiber (high jump)

Tough event to apprentise in. Most high jump coaches are as flaky as their jumpers.
Brian Witcher (50, 300)

It takes a lot of dirty work to become a great sprinter - unless you're "the one."
Kyle Hitchcock (2)- What is he going to do if Marcus isn't in front of him? Plus, he jumped 5'9!

He has great potential in the hurdles and high jump.

Not only shows the tools but has that eager to learn quality. Has a passion for the sport.
Laura Clagg-This is her first true indoor season. She is coming on at the end of the season coming in 5th at Hocks and 2nd at the class meet (7.66).
Comes to work on time - stays late - and expects the big pay day soon.
Kat Dixon (hurdles) ... she's a freshman and she's got great upperclassmen to work up to.

There's at least one person who's sure she is the next big star.

Bookends Award

Chris Kalafarski and Lance Llewellyn- I can't think of a better opener and closer pair (expect for maybe OA's 4x4) in any relay

The Brother's Grimm

Mary Shea and Holly Heinricher for their 4x4

Little Women
Tolland and Lancaster for their record breaking 4x2.
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