By Annabel Schneider
The year is finally in full swing and as fall sports pick up,
Blue Wave sports continue to excel. Two of these teams are the boys and girls
Cross Country teams. As the season continues we are sure to hear more about
these teams, but there is a subset of the team that many Darien High School
students don’t know about.
For a Darien “trackie” there are three seasons: cross
country, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field. Indoor track and
outdoor track are basically the same; however, cross country does not include
the field sports or sprints that the winter and spring seasons do. As a result
there is a portion of the cross country team that participates in fall track or
“F track.” Technically these athletes are members of the cross country team,
but they have their own practices and do not attend as many of the cross
country meets.
Sophomore Maddie Schneider said, “I chose to do F track over
regular cross country because I wanted to train my body specifically for my
events in track. Also, I had heard about the great camaraderie among the
students in F track.”
This year the “F track” team has 3 girls and 8 boys, keeping
practices relatively intimate.
Junior Tyler Hatfield said, “F track is like a family. Each
one of us is different in some special way and it is these differences that
make us a whole. It is hard work but as we break out of our lethargic shell we
find the inner truth.”
Caption: Three of the F track runners participating in one
of the Ccross Country meets: (From Left) sophomore Carter Ashcraft, junior Tyler
Hatfield, and junior Camden Smith.
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