The results are in! Three Hempfield athletes placed at Indoor States! Check out the top 8 in all events:
PennLive Results for State Indoor High School Track & Field Meet
Tory Long placed 8th in the 60 meter dash! The sprint events are always very difficult to earn a place each year in the state competition! His time of 7.07 looks like it might eclipse the school record held by Justin Kiscadden (2002). Great job Tory!
Devon Santos placed 7th in the 60 Hurdles in 8.19! This also looks like a school record! It replaces Kori Meshaw another GREAT Hempfield hurdler!! Devon is in great position to have an incredible senior year!
And the rookie, Steph Laudien, a FRESHMAN!! What a rookie season! Steph placed 8th in the Long Jump with a jump of 17'2" and 4th in the Triple Jump with a 36'4 inch leap! And both jumps seem to shatter the indoor records held by Spencer Nendza (2010)! What a great future and look out Lancaster-Lebanon League!!!
Check out complete results at - State Indoor Track and Field Meet Results 2014
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Congrats to Hempfield Athletes Going to Indoor States!
The Indoor Track Season is ending and several athletes have qualified for the state indoor meet! Here is the list:
Girls
Steph Laudien - Triple Jump & Long Jump
Danielle Poletti - Pole Vault
Boys
Adam Karl - High Jump
Tory Long - 60 & 200 meters
Devon Santos - 60 Hurdles
4 x 200 Relay
To check out the entire field, check the link at:
PIAA Indoor Track & Field Participants
Good Luck Hempfield!
Girls
Steph Laudien - Triple Jump & Long Jump
Danielle Poletti - Pole Vault
Boys
Adam Karl - High Jump
Tory Long - 60 & 200 meters
Devon Santos - 60 Hurdles
4 x 200 Relay
To check out the entire field, check the link at:
PIAA Indoor Track & Field Participants
Good Luck Hempfield!
Friday, December 6, 2013
Hempfield Track & Field Blog - What Will The Focus Be?
Another year of Track & Field! As a reminder, here are the gold for this years blog:
1 - Hempfield High School Track & Field
The young men and women will do their best to carry on the tradition of Hempfield Track and Field! As mentioned earlier, a lot of the recent success in the outdoor season is directly linked to the indoor season. Here again is the schedule for this season:
This blog will cover the new generation of Hempfield Athletes as they attempt to improve their abilities on & off the track!
2 - Hempfield Athletes participating in College Track & Field
Here is the list that I have so far:
1 - Hempfield High School Track & Field
The young men and women will do their best to carry on the tradition of Hempfield Track and Field! As mentioned earlier, a lot of the recent success in the outdoor season is directly linked to the indoor season. Here again is the schedule for this season:
12/20 – Kutztown University
1/11 – Franklin & Marshal College
1/25 – Penn State University
2/1 - Kutztown University
2/15 – Lehigh University
3/1 – States @ Penn State
3/3 – Outdoor Starts!
2 - Hempfield Athletes participating in College Track & Field
Here is the list that I have so far:
Shane Symonds Kutztown University
Last year I retired from coaching and one of the benefits was attending college track & field meets! Traveling to different universities, talking to Hempfield graduates, and enjoying college level track and field was a brand new experience! And this year should be another great year for Hempfield grads!
3 - Hempfield Track Alumni
This is also a whole lot of fun! Many of my friends on Facebook are Hempfield Track & Field alumni! They are all over the country! They have families! They are still competing! And we have some amazing stories to tell! One of the first stories will be covering one of the top hurdlers ever to graduate from Hempfield - Jerry Frey! More to come!
Hempfield Hall of Fame Track & Field
Class of 2005-2006
Adam Burket
Robert Rivard
Kevin Schadt
Marilyn Senz
Class of 2006-2007
Richard Horst
Carol Miller
Traci Fisher Shaub
Pam Neiss Stuper
Class of 2007-2008
None
Class of 2008-2009
Kirk Liddell
Doug Nauman
Meryl Schmidt Shoemaker
Class of 2009-2010
Troy Millhouse
Class of 2010-2011
Patrick Fatta
Amy Stairs Grube
Jodi Heistand Habecker
Ike Rittenhouse
Class of 2011-2012
Jeff Bradley
Jeff Fritz
Class of 2012-2013
Warren Taylor
Follow Hempfield Track & Field! This season will add new stories, new achievements, and of course……………
Hempfield Track & Field
"The Tradition Continues"
Monday, December 2, 2013
More on Zach Miller
The news about Zach Miller is spreading! Check out the Blog - iRunFar
Great read!! Some of the highlights!
He didn’t just win, either, he ran the third-fastest time in the now 50-year history of the race.
Zach's job on the cruise ship?
I have a mechanical-engineering degree, but in college I did an internship with a printing company and I designed printers on an engineering team. When I got out of college, I got an offer from this British printing company to run their print operations on cruise ships. So I’m the Digital Print Shop Manager (my title), but on the cruise ship they just call me the Chief Printer. I’m in charge of pretty much all the printing that goes on on board the cruise ship. So I deal with all the customers and do all the paperwork and everything, but I also maintain all the equipment. If we’re in the middle of the ocean and something breaks down, we have to fix it as fast as possible or we start losing money. So I’m the guy that’s lying underneath the printer with a flashlight and a screwdriver. I fix everything. That’s a big part of my job.
Zach's work schedule?
I’m usually at sea for five months at a time and then on land, on a vacation for about two months. It’s not strict. The first time I did it, I was at sea for seven months and then I was on vacation for six weeks. Then I was somewhere on the ship for three and a half months, now I’m off for two and a half months. I go back in December and I’ll be there for the winter for about four months. I’ll get off in April.
Zach's background in running?
My high school track coach. I came home and I saw him and he pulls out his phone and he goes, “I have a race for you. You’re going to run the JFK 50 Mile.” I look at it and I’m like, “Fifty miles? That’s a long race. I can do 31, but 50?” I really wasn’t sure. I was talking to him and a local pro triathlete from my area who I went to high school with, Andrew Yoder, and we all agreed, at least those two agreed–no, I agreed too–that I needed to get in some sort of high-profile race. I wasn’t so sure about JFK. So I started looking around and I found Bootlegger. I went to my coach and I said, “Coach, I found a race. It’s in Nevada. It’s the USATF Trail 50k Championships. This I can do.” He says, “Yeah, that’s the race. That would be great.” He’s like, “I’d even take you to it except I’m on vacation in Florida.”
They asked Zach about running 50 miles under 6 hours?
I knew I was strong. I was training well. I had accidentally run 35 miles with my track coach one day at 7:40 pace with a bunch of wrong turns. I was running; my track coach was biking. When I say “accidentally” it just sounds funny that way. It was supposed to be a 30-mile loop around a lake near Reading, Pennsylvania. I made some wrong turns and was determined to get the right route, so I kept backtracking. By the time I figured it all out, it was about 35 miles. I wasn’t tanked when I finished. I was talking; I was fine. I hadn’t taken any water during the run, just some homemade gels that I make. My coach had water for me, but when we got to the hills, it’s a lot of singletrack trail. When we got to the hills—he was on his mountain bike and I was running—and he said, “See you at the top,” and I never really saw him again. So I didn’t get my water, which was okay. That gave me some confidence for JFK. It suggested maybe I could run around six hours for JFK because I know that JFK’s middle section is all flat. That middle section is real flat and the trail I was running had some good hills in it. That was a good indicator.
This is an amazing story! Read it!
Great read!! Some of the highlights!
He didn’t just win, either, he ran the third-fastest time in the now 50-year history of the race.
Zach's job on the cruise ship?
I have a mechanical-engineering degree, but in college I did an internship with a printing company and I designed printers on an engineering team. When I got out of college, I got an offer from this British printing company to run their print operations on cruise ships. So I’m the Digital Print Shop Manager (my title), but on the cruise ship they just call me the Chief Printer. I’m in charge of pretty much all the printing that goes on on board the cruise ship. So I deal with all the customers and do all the paperwork and everything, but I also maintain all the equipment. If we’re in the middle of the ocean and something breaks down, we have to fix it as fast as possible or we start losing money. So I’m the guy that’s lying underneath the printer with a flashlight and a screwdriver. I fix everything. That’s a big part of my job.
Zach's work schedule?
I’m usually at sea for five months at a time and then on land, on a vacation for about two months. It’s not strict. The first time I did it, I was at sea for seven months and then I was on vacation for six weeks. Then I was somewhere on the ship for three and a half months, now I’m off for two and a half months. I go back in December and I’ll be there for the winter for about four months. I’ll get off in April.
Zach's background in running?
In elementary school, we’d run the mile. I couldn’t run 100 meters to save my life, but I could beat most of the kids in the mile. Not all of them—I’d get beat by one or two kids, but I could tell I was pretty good. In eighth grade I started running track, and I kept playing soccer. Around 10th grade, the coaches started bugging me about running cross country. They’d be like, “Zach, what are you doing this fall?” I’d be like, “I don’t know,” because I’d want to play soccer. So in 10th grade–it was really hard–but I decided to stop playing soccer seriously and to run cross country. I told my high-school coach and he said that he’d pretty much expected it. He wasn’t fazed by it.
I started running cross country and I just fell in love. I just loved it. From then on, it was just running year-round—cross country, indoor track, outdoor track. In high school, I was good, but I wasn’t an absolute star. I only ran probably 16:55 or something in cross country for 5k. I ran the two mile in 10:05. My 1600 time was 4:47. I didn’t have much speed. But by my senior year our team did go to state, and we were really excited about that. I never medaled or anything. We were just happy to go.
And Coach Bradley had some influence!My high school track coach. I came home and I saw him and he pulls out his phone and he goes, “I have a race for you. You’re going to run the JFK 50 Mile.” I look at it and I’m like, “Fifty miles? That’s a long race. I can do 31, but 50?” I really wasn’t sure. I was talking to him and a local pro triathlete from my area who I went to high school with, Andrew Yoder, and we all agreed, at least those two agreed–no, I agreed too–that I needed to get in some sort of high-profile race. I wasn’t so sure about JFK. So I started looking around and I found Bootlegger. I went to my coach and I said, “Coach, I found a race. It’s in Nevada. It’s the USATF Trail 50k Championships. This I can do.” He says, “Yeah, that’s the race. That would be great.” He’s like, “I’d even take you to it except I’m on vacation in Florida.”
They asked Zach about running 50 miles under 6 hours?
I knew I was strong. I was training well. I had accidentally run 35 miles with my track coach one day at 7:40 pace with a bunch of wrong turns. I was running; my track coach was biking. When I say “accidentally” it just sounds funny that way. It was supposed to be a 30-mile loop around a lake near Reading, Pennsylvania. I made some wrong turns and was determined to get the right route, so I kept backtracking. By the time I figured it all out, it was about 35 miles. I wasn’t tanked when I finished. I was talking; I was fine. I hadn’t taken any water during the run, just some homemade gels that I make. My coach had water for me, but when we got to the hills, it’s a lot of singletrack trail. When we got to the hills—he was on his mountain bike and I was running—and he said, “See you at the top,” and I never really saw him again. So I didn’t get my water, which was okay. That gave me some confidence for JFK. It suggested maybe I could run around six hours for JFK because I know that JFK’s middle section is all flat. That middle section is real flat and the trail I was running had some good hills in it. That was a good indicator.
This is an amazing story! Read it!
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Hempfield Winter Track & Field Schedule
Next week the Hempfield Track & Field Season begins! One of the key reasons we think the program has turned it up a notch is the winter track season! The coaches have worked hard to keep the winter season in check & prepare the athletes for the long haul into the outdoor season starting in March.
The team usually practices 3 days a week and averages a meet every two weeks. Here is the tentative winter meet schedule.
Dec 20 - at Kutztown
Jan 11 - at F & M
Jan 25 - at Penn State
Feb 1 - at Kutztown
Feb 15 - at Lehigh
Mar 1- States at Penn State
Outdoor Season begins March 3!!!
The team usually practices 3 days a week and averages a meet every two weeks. Here is the tentative winter meet schedule.
Dec 20 - at Kutztown
Jan 11 - at F & M
Jan 25 - at Penn State
Feb 1 - at Kutztown
Feb 15 - at Lehigh
Mar 1- States at Penn State
Outdoor Season begins March 3!!!
"The Tradition Continues!"
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Hempfield Ready to Start The Indoor Track Season!
It's that time again! You may see those "crazy" teenagers running around your neighborhoods! And since we ALL were once crazy teenagers, get ready for another great season of Hempfield Track & Field! Visit the Hempfield Track & Field Websites:
Indoor Track Website
Outdoor Track Website
This year, you may order track and field clothing & accessories at the "Hempfield Track Stuff"
Send form to
Curt Rogers
175 Cooper Ave.
Landisville 17538
Indoor Track Website
Outdoor Track Website
This year, you may order track and field clothing & accessories at the "Hempfield Track Stuff"
Send form to
Curt Rogers
175 Cooper Ave.
Landisville 17538
Cheer on the Black Knights!!!
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Zach Miller - WHAT A RUN!
The more I read the articles, the better Zach's race gets!!
Even though the time, 5:38:53 is the third best time ever(WHICH IS AMAZING!), the course director thinks it is the BEST ever because of the conditions!
And, Zach NEVER ran 50 miles before Saturday!!!!
Zach works on a cruise ship! Cannot run many miles on a cruise ship! (Only treadmill work!)
Zach barely qualified, from a 50K race(31 miles!)
Read the entire article -
Miller's JFK 50 Mile victory is one of legendary proportions
GREAT JOB ZACH MILLER!!!
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