By Holly Gordon
Senior Sarah Colon is currently in her final season of Varsity
Indoor Track after her long four year track career. Colon began to
competitively run when she joined Darien’s Cross Country team in the fall
season of her freshman year. She ran Varsity Cross Country, soon becoming a key
runner for the team. After a successful fall season, Sarah was excited to run Indoor Track, testing her running talent on a different type of terrain. Her
freshman year, she regularly ran the 1600 meter. Her best time was 6 minutes and
5 seconds. Colon continued running her freshman year on the Varsity Outdoor
Track team in the spring season. She greatly improved, running the same 1600
meter she ran in the previous Indoor season approximately 30 seconds faster.
Colon continued to run her sophomore year, exploring a new
event, the 3200 meter race, during Indoor and Outdoor track. Although running a
different event was good experience, she soon realized running the 1600 meter
was a better fit. After exponential improvements her first two years of high
school, Sarah felt that her junior year did not produce the same rapid growth.
However, Colon still ran the 3200 meter event in under 12 minutes, a huge accomplishment hard for anyone to achieve. “Running makes me less stressed,” Colon said.
For friends and fellow team members, it is no secret that
Colon has impressive talent. “I hear Sarah is better at running than she is at being
beautiful and she’s pretty beautiful,” senior Claire Treesh said.
Support Colon and the rest of the Indoor Track team in their
next competition, the Yale Invitational at Yale University on Friday, January
18th!
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