16 • COMMUNITY ADVOCATE • Friday, July 2, 2021
COMMUNITY SPORTS Algonquin, Westborough High celebrate track team success By Kevin J. Stone Contributing Writer REGION - Saturday, June 12th was quite a day for both the Algonquin girls track team and the Westborough boys track team. Both rivals represented the MidWach League and then some, taking home sectional titles. “This championship was the expression of two years of work by so many of our student-athletes,” said Westborough coach Roger Anderson. “Last year, The Westborough boys track team poses for a team photo. with no spring season, many of our guys continued to work out through the spring, summer, fall “So, clearly, we are very pleased, of 46’10.75”. He took third place and even this past winter, where however not surprised, that our in the discus competition with we had practices only for our guys performed their best when a 130’1” throw. indoor track team.” it mattered most.” Alan Nguyen took second “Their performances were Senior Ian Welch won the 110 in the long jump with a 20’11” indicative of consistent longhigh hurdles race with a time of jump, fifth in the 110 meter high term effort,” he added. 14.90 seconds. He also won the hurdles with a time of 16.09 “The language we used triple jump with a 42’10” leap seconds and fifth in the pole was that in this pandemic ‘We and was a member of the 4x100 State of-the-art Treatments vault with an even score of 10 showed up, for each other, for relay team that took third place. feet. Kevin Xu was second in new patients, same day our team, for our school andAccepting Ethan Nolin-Halpern was secthe pole vault with a jump of can arranged. for ourselves,’” Anderson said.appointments ond in the shot putbe with a throw 12’6”. The 4x100 team, consistOpen M-F 8am-4:30pm
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ing of Erik Burgdorfer, Welch, Tyler Finnerty and Thaddeus Rodriguez-Felix took third place in a time of 44.99 seconds. Anderson has coached multiple sports for a number of years, even recently winning a volleyball state title. But he acknowledged there was something to be learned by how this crop of seniors and student-athletes have handled things.
“More than anything, the power of a positive mindset and the ability to embrace those things that we can and cannot control [is important],” he said. “The belief in hard work and joy as the pathways to success [is also important].” As Westborough won, Algonquin’s own title was the second straight for its program. Coach Patrick Galvin echoed many of the same sentiments as Anderson when talking about his squad. “I am so proud of our entire team for their level of commitment to each other, training, and competing in the midst of a pandemic,” he said. “The season began in January with ten optional outdoor practices in the parking lot with literally freezing temperatures. At our first official Fall II season practice in March, a steady snow came down upon us, and we battled through many days of 90+ deTrack | 17