Official Twitter page celebrating the successes of Huntley High School Boys Track and Field (opinions and posts by Head Coach Chris Maxedon are my own)
Huntley Track and Field Alumni - get this on your radar! On 3/15/24 we will be hosting the 1st Annual Joel Popenfoose “Coach Pop” ABC Indoor Invite. We will have a DJ playing music during races and will celebrate T&F the way Coach Pop would - ending the night with an alumni run!
Here it is…His first day of ever high jumping Junior
@HoodMckale
going over 6’4” with a bungee (so probably more like 6’2-6’3) after 30 minutes of work with Coach Ernst. Big things ahead for this young man! Keep up the hard work McKale!
While we didn’t bring home any medals or hardware this year, I am really proud of our kids! It was a great 1st year as the head coach of this program and want to say thank you to everyone who supported us along the way. Most of all I want to thank our coaching staff! You are 💥!
Congratulations to horizontal jumps specialist
@zachery_35
who committed today to compete in track and field at
@JudsonU
! Really happy that this senior found a place to continue his career! Congrats Zach!
Our 2nd state qualifier is in the books!
@SwimHayden
qualifies in the shot put finishing 2nd with a throw of 16.94 (55’7”) which is a new PR and
#3
all-time at Huntley High School! Congrats Hayden!
This is such an awesome group of guys and coaches that truly enjoy being with one another and that is the most rewarding part of their success. Practice and competitions don’t seem like work - that is when the fun happens! Congratulations guys on getting that 🏆 back home…
Congratulations to
@HuntleySoftball
!!! Your 2019 IHSA Class 4A STATE CHAMPIONS! Wish I was there to celebrate with you but enjoy it! You all deserve it!!!
As we celebrated the end of another great season,
@Huntley_CC
decided to take on the DC Cobbs Burger Challenge - while it may not seem impossible, the time that Coach Kaplan finished it in is ridiculous. He has probably earned a spot on many record boards tonight…we are proud???
Congrats to Junior
@Jackywacky21
on being named tonight’s Athlete of the Meet. In his first ever high school track meet, Jack long jumped 5.26m, ran the open 400 in 57.10, got sick and won his battle with a garbage can and came back and ran an awesome leg of his 4x4! 💥
Good luck to
@IanGeisler1
as he runs in his last IHSA state cross country meet tomorrow on Peoria. Proud of everything this young man has accomplished in his career thus far!
@Huntley_CC
@IowaXC_TF
HHS Signing Day 2019 with
@Pitrone96
who is headed to
@Carthage_FB
to play football for the Red Men...hopefully
@Carthage_MXCTF
will reach out to us about this guy throwing shot put and hammer for them too!Congratulations Alex!
Excited to see what this group has in them this week. We are competing in 9 events at the state meet…How many medals will we being home? Let’s goooooo boys!
Another great career comes to a close today as
@egrxnewold
finishes 10th in the 400m dash with a time of 50.25. Congratulations on a great career and thank you for everything you have done for our program Evan! Best of luck at GVSU!
One of the best athletes to ever come out of Huntley High School is heading to Chicago Bears rookie minicamp!! Incredibly proud of Tim McCloyn who played at Illinois State. Tim was a football/track guy at HHS!
@DMccloyn
@846MAC
Beyond excited and proud of my good buddy Steve Raethz (
@HuntleyGBB
) to be selected to the IBCA Hall of Fame! Steve is the best Huntley head girls basketball coach I have seen in my tenure here (he is the only one in 24 years!) Joking aside, he is the BEST IN THE BUSINESS!
Congrats to our first
@IHSA
State Qualifier of the day…
@zach_rysavy42
exceeds the auto-qualifying mark in the triple jump going 13.41m. Congrats Zach!
Congratulations to our guy Luke Grubbs for being named Athlete of the Meet tonight. Luke struggled for most of last season, but opened the season tonight with a great open 800. Luke ran 2:03.94. Great things ahead for this outstanding senior! Way to go Luke!
Congratulations to our guys on a great night at the 2019 Fox Valley Conference Indoor Championships! We scored 150 points and scored in every event that we competed in! Had guys from all 4 grade levels score points! Great team balance! Big things ahead for this crew!
What a day for our guys! All 7 guys that competed at the
@_IL_Top_Times
meet today go home with at least 1 medal! So proud of all of these guys! They truly set the standard for our program. Looking forward to what’s in store during the outdoor season…congrats guys!!!
To any college coaches or any HS coaches who know of a college coach looking for a jumper, this is Huntley Senior Zach Fitzgerald
@zachery_35
. He is looking for a place to jump next year! He was only with us for 2 days this year because of 🏀. He is flying under the radar! LOL
Tonight’sAthlete of the Meet is Junior
@HoodMckale
as he breaks the school indoor high jump record in his first meet ever high jumping, clearing 1.95m (6’4.75”). Congrats on a big night McKale!
Huntley 4x800 relay of
@chrisdsimek
@IanGeisler1
Jeremy Roe and
@Jadonconroy
set a new FVC indoor and HHS Field House record with a 7:59.07!!! Great race fellas...way to set the tone on the track!
🚨 MEET RECORD 🚨
@55_vinny
runs an 11.15 in the 100m dash to break the F/S record at the Minooka SmithStrong Invite. Vinny breaks the record of former Red Raider great
@DubbieSauce
. The old record was 11.24. Congrats Jet!
Our first winner of Athlete of the Night -
@EdwardWallJr1
for his efforts in the 60m/200m, his hit in the 4x200 and the effort after he took the spill at the exchange! Great effort in his first HS track meet! Congrats!
I feel for the freshman discus throwers I have coached over the years. They get excited about trying to break records. When asked what our freshman discus record is, the looks of disbelief kill the mood...I hope that one day it is broken, but for now it’s 163’8”!
our G.O.A.T!!!
We talk frequently about performing your best every time you compete. Today this group of guys all tied or bested their indoor lifetime PR’s. Great job out of these guys and all of our guys that competed tonight!
Our guys competed great tonight and we came away with a W at the 40th annual Bill Jackson ABC Invite at Lockport HS, as we narrowly defeated the host Porters who are an outstanding team! Congrats on an awesome night boys!
Congratulations to our guys on another outstanding McHenry County cChampionships meet! Eight times in a row is pretty awesome! We scored 152.50 points as a team...2 teams tied for 2nd with 74 points each.
Congrats to
@SwimHayden
for again winning an invite in the shot put. Tonight Hayden won the Burlington Central Rocket Invite with a toss of 16.00m. Nice job Hayden!
Tonight’s Co-Athlete’s of the Meet are sophomore
@loganborzych
for his performances in the LJ, 110 and 300 hurdles and 4x400 relay and freshman
@zach_rysavy42
for his performances in the TJ, 4x200 and 4x400 relays! Congrats to both guys on a great night!