Bay State Running’s Parent’s Guide to the 2025 Cross Country Season
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Introducing Bay State Running’s Parent’s Guide to Cross Country
Memorable Moments, Spring 2025: Assa Shines On National Stage With 5K Silver
It was yet another eventful season for our MA track & field athletes. Throughout the summer months, Bay State Running will feature some of our most memorable performances during the outdoor campaign. Here we feature Marblehead’s Nathaniel Assa. While he demonstrated some talent his first two years as a high school distance runner, we’re sure Assa grabbed […]
Memorable Moments: Spring 2025: Hennessy Smashes State Mile Record at Nationals
It was yet another eventful season for our MA track & field athletes. Throughout the summer months, Bay State Running will feature some of our most memorable performances during the outdoor campaign. Here we feature Westford Academy’s Abigail Hennessy. The most exciting part? She still has one more year to go. With plenty of races ahead, the […]
Memorable Moments, Spring 2025: Pulpi Claims MOC Gold, Clocks 48.08 PR In Standout Season
It was yet another eventful season for our MA track & field athletes. Throughout the summer months, Bay State Running will feature some of our most memorable performances during the outdoor campaign. Here we feature Reading Memorial’s Ryan Pulpi. (Photo by Byron Flagg) With times in the 52-second range for the 400m, Pulpi showed the potential he […]
Legends of the Fall #3
Four boys have won back-to-back to Foot Locker National Championships: Grant Fisher, Edward Cheserek, Lukas Verzbicas, Dathan Ritzenhein, and Abdirizak Mohamud. Most of those names should sound familiar. The last one however, may not. Mohamud, of Boston English High School in Massachusetts, didn’t even win his Divisional Meet in 1996. So who is Abdirizak Mohamud? […]
BSR Scribbles: Former C-C Star Ratcliffe Primed for USATF Nationals After 3:33 1,500m
The country’s top track & field athletes will be in Eugene, Ore., in less than two weeks for the Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships. Former Concord-Carlisle standout Thomas Ratcliffe appears ready to excel at the elite competition (July 31 to Aug. 3), where he’s scheduled to toe the line in the 5,000-meter run. The 27-year-old Ratcliffe, […]
Memorable Moments, Spring 2025: Deardorf Soars To State’s No. 7 All-Time At New Balance Nationals
It was yet another eventful season for our MA track & field athletes. Throughout the summer months, Bay State Running will feature some of our most memorable performances during the outdoor campaign. Here we feature Lexington’s Aubrey Deardorf. One of the state’s most impressive records for girls is the long jump mark of 20 feet, 11.75 inches, […]
Memorable Moments, Spring 2025: Skeete Sets State TJ Record with 50-Footer at New Balance Nationals
It was yet another eventful season for our MA track & field athletes. Throughout the summer months, Bay State Running will feature some of our most memorable performances during the outdoor campaign. Here we feature Catholic Memorial’s Amar Skeete. When it comes to the triple jump, there’s no doubt the future looks bright for Skeete. He opened […]
Legends of the Fall Part 2
Shalane Flanagan Shalane Flanagan is one of the most recognizable names in US distance running. Her Silver Medal at the 2008 Olympics in the 10,000m and her win at the 2017 New York City Marathon cemented her place in history. All journeys start somewhere, and that incredible career started here in Massachusetts, at Marblehead High […]
Memorable Moments, Spring 2025: Lady Hurricanes’ 4x400m Takes Fourth At Nike
It was yet another eventful season for our MA track & field athletes. Throughout the summer months, Bay State Running will feature some of our most memorable performances during the outdoor campaign. Here we feature Amherst-Pelham’s 4×400-meter relay. (Photo/Instagram/Mass Track) The benchmark for a top girls’ 4x400m squad each year is to run a time under four […]