The Suffern track teams flexed a bit of early season muscle at the annual Suffern Indoor Invitational meet last week. The Mounties hosted schools from all over the Rockland County and the Hudson Valley at Rockland Community College on Friday, January 16, with the girls team taking first place while the boys finished third.
Suffern wins the girls team title and Pine Bush takes the boys team title. Clarkstown North is second-place boys team, Suffern is third.
— Nancy Haggerty (@HaggertyNancy) January 17, 2015
The machine-like consistency of the track team’s success is a credit to Coach Joe Biddy, a Suffern institution, who has coached the boys team for 43 years. Biddy’s a relative newcomer to the girls program, having coached the girls team for only 38 years.
After disappointment last week, Suffern’s Matt Leanza wins the pole vault, jumping 13 feet. Teammate Jake Diamond is second. — Nancy Haggerty (@HaggertyNancy) January 17, 2015
Credit should go to those covering Suffern sports, The Journal News sportswriters and photographers who often travel throughout the area to cover who’s doing what on the fields and courts of play.
Suffern finishes 1-2 in girls 3,000 meters with Jenna Borenkoff 1st and Elina Breton 2nd. Pearl River’s Kaitlin Harding is 3rd.
— Nancy Haggerty (@HaggertyNancy) January 16, 2015
Suffern’s Imani Solan takes the girls 55-meter dash in 7.0. Hamilton’s Janel Batiste is 2nd and Spring Valley’s Gessnide Pierre is 3rd. — Nancy Haggerty (@HaggertyNancy) January 16, 2015
LoHud writer Nancy Haggerty basically live-Tweeted the action at the Suffern Indoor Invitational, which saw many of Suffern’s current and rising stars break the tape.
Rachel Ludwikowski of Suffern holds off Fox Lane’s late-charging Vicky Martinez to win the girls 1,000 meters (3:02.4 to 3:02.6). — Nancy Haggerty (@HaggertyNancy) January 17, 2015
Sloatsburger Matt Leanza vaulted himself to victory, jumping 13 feet in the pole vault. Young 13-year old Suffern Middle School sensation Mary Hennelly set the 7th grade state record in the 600 meter run. And, of course, Suffern girls star Imani Solan pretty much won everything she participated in, which is why the University of Pennsylvania signed her to a track scholarship.
Shoutout to Mary Hennelly of Suffern, who set the 7th grade state record in the 600m in 1:37.4, over Katelyn Tuohy, who was also under, 1:39
— MileSplit NY (@MileSplitNY) January 17, 2015
Twitter reporting courtesy of LoHud’s @HaggertyNancy.
