VETERANS

And The Newcomers

by Jackson Fifer jfifer217@g.fhsdschools.org

Girls Track Scores

Check out some of the meet scores from the 21-22 season.

21st Fort Zumwalt West Invitational

26 points (8th)

Northwest Invitational

19 points (13th)

Fort Zumwalt North Invitational

0 points (6th)

GAC Central Meet

43 points (5th)

Class 5 District 3

30 points (10th) the track and field team at FHN. McBain and St. John have both been impacted by her coaching and she has helped them be successful.

“I would say coach Martin really pushed me to go to my limits with a workout,” McBain said. “She would make me push more than I could.”

Even though McBain is moving on and going to college for her running career, she will always have the high school memories with her. St. John’s favorite memories with McBain were the early morning bus rides and long practices. McBain also had many of her own highlights through the four years.

“I would say the most important moment was whenever it was GACs for track my sophomore year, and after that I did really well and I thought, this is something I want to continue in,” McBain said. “I really love running. I love running competitively.”

McBain’s teammates, friends and coaches will always remember McBain for her dedication, hard work, energy, determination, motivation and so much more.

“I think [she’ll] be remembered as somebody that brought a lot of character to the team,” St. John said. “If we didn’t have those kinds of people that were just such a people person, then it wouldn’t be nearly as fun or like a family as it is now. So Brittany is definitely that kind of person.”

With only 9 returning tennis players this year, the players and coaches are in need of a new class of kids to come out and play in this season. Acquiring 14 new players at the beginning of this season, the players are excited to work with the new acquisitions, some of whom are friends off the court as well.

“I knew I wanted to play a sport this year and I went over the options available and it seemed tennis would be the best for me,” sophomore Maximus Fitzsimmons said.

Fitzsimmons has been practicing to prepare for the upcoming season in hopes of being a successful junior varsity player this season.

“The more I saw improvement when I started practicing, it made it really fun for me and I started getting a lot better really quickly which is fun,” Fitzsimmons said.

Although Fitzsimmons has been working in the off season, there has been much support coming his way, especially from sophomore teammate Kai Gustafson, who’s been playing for six years.

“It’s good to see more people getting into the sport like Max and you know it’s been great to see him grow so far and I’m excited to see his work this season,” Gustafson said.

Fitzsimmons and Gustafson have been supportive of each other this off-season and with the season right around the corner, everyone will be able to see the improvement and skill of the pair.