Hazleton Area Boys Track & Field

🚨PIAA AAA CHAMPIONSHIP🚨 🏃‍♂️ Day 2 📅 Saturday, May 23, 2026 📍 Shippensburg University (Seth Grove Stadium: 1871 Old Main Dr, Shippensburg, PA 17257) ⏰ 12:30 pm Live results: milesplit.live/meets/763671 Purchase Tickets: piaa.org/sports/tickets…

🚨PIAA AAA CHAMPIONSHIP🚨 🏃‍♂️ Day 1 📅 Friday, May 22, 2026 📍 Shippensburg University (Seth Grove Stadium: 1871 Old Main Dr, Shippensburg, PA 17257) ⏰ 9:00 am Live results: milesplit.live/meets/763671 Purchase Tickets: piaa.org/sports/tickets…

🚨PIAA STATE QUALIFYERS🚨 Congratulations to Kevin Lucas (SR) and Joel Vasquez (SR) for qualifying for the PIAA AAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP this weekend! Link to live results: milesplit.live/meets/763671

🚨2026 WVC MS CHAMPIONS🚨 Congrats to the Middle School Team for winning the inaugural Wyoming Valley Conference MS Championship! They racked up 151 points, more than doubling the 2nd place team. The future is bright for the Cougars!!! Link to results: milesplit.live/meets/749259/s…

🚨MEET DAY🚨 🏃‍♂️ Middle School 📅 Friday, May 15, 2026 📍 Jake Sobeski Stadium (109 Baltimore Ave, West Pittston, PA 18643) ⏰ Throwing Events 2:30pm / Track Events 3:00pm Live Results: milesplit.live/meets/749259ht…:

🚨MEET RESULTS🚨 Link to meet results: hasdcloud-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Link to season results: hazletonareatf.com/ms-schedule-26

🚨MS RESULTS🚨 Link to meet results: hasdcloud-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Link to season results: hazletonareatf.com/ms-schedule-26

🚨NEW VARSITY DISCUS RECORD🚨 Congratulations to Joel Vasquez (SR) for breaking his own VARSITY DISCUS RECORD with a throw of 166-1! Link to varsity records: hazletonareatf.com/var-records

🚨MEET DAY🚨 📅 DAY 2 (Tuesday, May 12, 2026) 📍 Scranton Memorial Stadium (801 Providence Rd, Scranton, PA 18508) ⏰ 3:00 pm Link to live results: milesplit.live/meets/747186 Link to purchase tickets: events.hometownticketing.com/boxoffice/piaa…

@pntrack Someone I know once said “Speed grows like a tree!” 🤔

@HazletonAreaTF That’s “playing the long game”! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

I hesitate to share this but maybe it needs to be shared. When coaches fail kids, someone should speak up. Twice in the past two weeks, 4 girls, all freshmen & sophomores, made nearly a 3- hour round trip to train with me in the parking lot of Dryden Elementary, across from my house. The girls run at a small school. They are talented. Their MPHs (Dashr Silver): 18.9, 18.7, 18.6, and 17.9. Their verticals (OVR): 25, 24, 22, 19. Solid athletes! After the first session, parents said the workout was the first positive experience of the season. The girls wanted to do it again. Problem #1: track practice should not be consistently miserable. 🥴 The girls told me that their meet warmup was to run two laps as a team. I showed them how sprinters warm up. When they asked their coach if they could try a new warmup, the coach made them run a mile. 🥴 They think their best chance to qualify for state is the 4x1. (Remember, they are all underclassmen.) I had them practice handoffs. They had been taught some crazy things: 1) Run in middle of lane (no inside-outside lane ownership) 🥴 2) Baton stayed in right hand (no R-L-R-L). 🥴 3) One “go mark” at only “5 short steps” (measured to be 12’) 🥴 4) They had never been videoed doing an exchange 🥴 I taught them how to do it right, hoping their coach wouldn’t find out and punish them with a two mile run. Our go mark was 16’ with a bang step (first step down at mark). I videoed every exchange. I maintained their upsweep technique. They looked GREAT. ⚡️ The girls were free to train yesterday because they didn’t have practice on the Monday of Sectional… because the boys team had a meet. 🥴 For Sectional tomorrow, I wish they weren’t all required to do 4 events. Wish they could concentrate on 4x1 and 4x4 (they have a chance in both). One girl is entered in 4x1, 4x2, 300h, and 4x4. Never have I entered a boy in those 4 events, let alone at a Sectional. Another has to run 200 and 4x4 back-to-back. 🥴 It’s sometimes hard to support the work of other coaches. Kids get one chance to do high school sports.

🚨MEET DAY🚨 🏃‍♂️ Varsity 📅 DAY 1 (Monday, May 11, 2026) 📍 Scranton Memorial Stadium (801 Providence Rd, Scranton, PA 18508) ⏰ 3:00pm Link to live results: milesplit.live/meets/747186 Link to purchase tickets: events.hometownticketing.com/boxoffice/piaa…

🚨MS MEET RESULTS🚨 Link to results: hasdcloud-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Link to season results: hazletonareatf.com/ms-schedule-26

🚨MEET DAY🚨 🏃‍♂️ Middle School 📅 Thursday, May 7, 2026 📍 Hazleton Area HS (1601 West 23rd Street, Hazle Township, PA 18202) ⏰ 4:15pm

🚨CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON🚨 🏃‍♂️Varsity 📅 Monday, May 4, 2026 📍 Wilkes Barre Area HS ( 2021 Wolfpack Way, Plains, PA 18705) ⏰ Field events: 2:30pm / Track events: 3:00pm Link to LIVE RESULTS: milesplit.live/meets/747184

🚨VARSITY 100M RECORD🚨 Congratulations to MATTY BURKE for tying the VARSITY 100M RECORD last night vs Berwick! Link to all varsity records: hazletonareatf.com/var-records

🚨MEET RESULTS🚨 Link to results: hasdcloud-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Link to season results: hazletonareatf.com/var-schedule-26

🚨NEWSLETTER🚨 Link to newsletter (Vol 6 Issue 6): hasdcloud-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Link to all newsletters: hazletonareatf.com/newsletters

🚨MEET DAY🚨 🏃‍♂️ Varsity (Senior Day) 📅 Thursday, April 30, 2026 📍 Hazleton Area HS (1601 West 23rd Street, Hazle Township, PA 18202) ⏰ 5:00pm

🚨MEET RESULTS🚨 Link to yesterday's varsity results: hasdcloud-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Link to 2026 season results: hazletonareatf.com/var-schedule-26