Coach Geysen: The Franklin T&F program will never be the same without you. Thanks for inspiring so many athletes (and coaches) to be the best they could be and keeping us grounded.
You always made practices/meets fun and exciting during your time as our coach.
It’s official! Franklin boys win the Hocks for the first time in 44 years! Very close and competitive meet all around. Couldn’t be more proud of this group be we still have work to do. Congrats
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Epic 4x800 today. They were all around 2mins for each leg with Calitri being called up as a last minute replacement. Fourth in NE’s w/ an 8:03. They would have had the school record had they not broken it last week!
And to top off the night both the boys (8:00.4 - 6th) and girls (9:17.4 - 2nd) 4x800 teams set new school records! Quite the day for FHS track at the state meet.
Franklin High School Track and Field Throwing Coach Mark Rudolph has been named MSTCA’s Assistant Coach of the 2024 Spring Track Season.
Congrats Coach Rudolph!!
Congrats to Tyler Brogan for getting the indoor track and field male athlete of the year. The picture is a little funky but the announcement came from Jackie Joyner-Kersee!
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Nice work today at the Hock Meet! Both the boys and the girls took 2nd place out of 11 teams behind a very talented OA squad. Boys capture the Kelly-Rex Championship as well!
In her final competition as a Franklin Panther, Sarah Dumas takes 3rd Place at the National Championship. Her 4825 points is a new FHS Record and she has earned her 4th all-America award!
Rumor has it that she also got the Spike Award for the meet (if you know, you know)
Congrats to the girls team for taking home the Hockomock league title!
As a team they scored 155 points which was just over 60 points more than the second place team!
Huge congrats to Coach Trovato who was awarded the MSTCA D1 Girls coach of the year!
Well deserved Coach! We’re all proud and grateful for what you do for the entire T&F community
Boys XC places first in the ‘A’ race! Brogan and Hagen went 1-2 with Calitri placing 8th. Freshman team also ran well with all 6 athletes getting medals. Girls team placed 5th with 8 girls medaling
One last shout out to Connor Kucich, Clancy Golden, & Tyler Powderly who ran their last races as Franklin Panthers today.
Powderly managed two PRs in the open 400 and 4x400 (51.6). Thanks for a great four years!
FHS D1 Track and Field Athletes:
Lily DeForge - Holy Cross
Liz Hopkins - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sarah Dumas - University of Pennsylvania
Quinten Hardt - Stonehill College
Congrats to Sarah Dumas, Cailyn Bruno, & Ella Chandaria for their success at today’s indoor pentathlon. The girls finished 3rd as a team and Sarah captured 2nd overall.
Girls 4x400 & 4x800 competed hard today at Nationals as did Lily DeForge and Liz Hopkins in the shot put.
Boys 4x400 (not pictured) finished the season with a PR and a time of 3:31.42
Congrats to Hallie Atkinson, Emma Clifford, Julia DiGiacomo, Bella Pierre, Julia Fenerty, and Avery Knous for being named girls indoor captains next year.
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Hockomock league takes 1-2 in the mile. Brogan runs an indoor PR and a new school record of 4:17.76 with his 2nd place finish in the MIAA All-State Meet
Tomorrow’s World XC Championships in Denmark features 3
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!!! French national champion and former Eagle of the Year Liv Westphal
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leads team France in the senior race, and BC freshmen Nicole Clermont & Kayla Smith compete for the first time as Team USA members!
Franklin Girls Track win Hock Champs with 96pts. The Panthers were led by DeForge (sp) & Fraulo (hj) who both got 1st along w/ the 4x400 team (O. Costa, Cliff, L. Costa, Fenerty). The team’s depth played a key role in winning the meet. Franklin scored in 12 of the 13 events.
I've checked and re-checked and I believe the boys 4x200 have set a new school record at nationals with a time of 1:32.27 besting the old record of 1:33.71.
Congrats Sidwell, Lovell, Dunlap, and Dragsbaek!
Sarah Dumas earns another school record and 2nd place in the meet of Champions at Westfield State. Her time of 63.19 was a second faster than her time last week
Too many great performances to list right now but congrats to the boys team for winning a very close meet against Attleboro 52-48! This makes the boys team 5-0 and for the first time ever Kelley-Rex champions!
Tyler Brogan and Sami Powderly present a donation in the memory of Coach Kristen Polizzotto of Stoneham High School from the Franklin Track and Field Booster Club to the MSTCA Executive Rick Kates.