Atlantic girls track and field excited for new opportunity

March 23rd, 2021 by admin

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The Atlantic girls track and field team is ready to get back to competition after the season was wiped out in 2020. The 2021 team gathered last week for team photos and to meet with media members and there was a collective excitement for a new year.

Atlantic returns a strong senior core that had some great success as sophomores. Atlantic qualified for State in the 4x400m Relay, 4x800m Relay, and Distance Medley in 2019. Madison Botos, Taylor McCreedy, Kennedy Goergen, Alyssa Derby, and Haley Rasmussen were all contributors to those relay events. Goergen said they have been working hard to push themselves to new heights this year.

Botos said the team really gets along well and they have developed some great bonds, especially with those relay teams.

Rasmussen also was a State Qualifier in the 200m and Long Jump. Derby also qualified for State in the 200m. Rasmussen said it will be a little different to start the season this year without results to look back on from last season.

Taylor McCreedy hopes to cap off her strong distance career with a great season. She was a State Qualifier in the 1500m in 2019. McCreedy had some great thoughts to describe what missing out on last season was like.

A number of other strong contributors to the team fill the upper classes: seniors Lauren Nicholas and Caroline Pellett and junior Addison DeArment. Sophomore Ava Rush will look to make an impact in the middle distance after being a strong contributor on the cross country course. DeArment talked about goals for the year.

Atlantic Head Coach Matt Mullenix said it has been great to get started again. Mullenix saw a lot of progress during his first season taking over the program in 2019 and he said it will be a new starting point for a number of athletes.