Running to success: Outdoor track season comes to a close

Crystal Tweed

Posted 6/17/25

MIDDLETOWN – Now that the NYSPHSAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships have come and gone, it’s a wrap on competition season with just a few exceptions. A handful of local athletes …

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Running to success: Outdoor track season comes to a close

Grace Halloran of Sullivan West- burned up the final 200 meters of the 1500 to finish first in her heat with a time of 4:45.49 race to finish just shy of a full second ahead of Lucy Fleckenstein from Skaneateles. Halloran broke the school record in the 800 and 1500 meters this season.

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Quenten Liciaga jumped 6-04 and finished 5th in his heat this Saturday. Liciaga recently broke Monticello High School’s 40-year-old high jump record with a jump of 6-04 2 weeks ago, then broke his record just days later with a jump of 6-07.

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Van Furman finished in the top 15 in the 3200 with a time of 9:09.54.

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Sophia Richardson finished in the top 10 in the 200-meter qualifier on Friday and brought home 2nd place in the 400-meter finals for Class C, finishing with a time of 56.51 on Saturday.

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Fallsburg boys relay team top row left to right Donovan Hart, Tyiese Mack, seated, Nazir Lopez, Nick Storm. They are joined by their Coach Danielle Halikias.

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2025 6:30 am

Crystal Tweed

MIDDLETOWN – Now that the NYSPHSAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships have come and gone, it’s a wrap on competition season with just a few exceptions. A handful of local athletes will be heading to the Adidas Track Nationals in North Carolina this weekend, including the Fallsburg boys 4x100 team, who ran a time of 43.66 on Friday.

Tri-Valley’s Kane Poje threw a 53-11.25 in the shot put to top the Class C finals and came in 8th overall in the merged class results, and Anna Furman finished 2nd in the Class C steeplechase. TV will send Van Furman, Kane Poje and Anna Furman to the New Balance Nationals this weekend in Philadelphia.

Monticello’s girls 4x100 relay team finished first in their heat on Friday, running their season’s best time of 50.81.