The first two weekends of the season are in the books. We are still not sure of the best way to cover the indoor season since it lacks real team aspect. So here goes.     Boys 600 Meter Run  - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 1:29.14 (1:29.91)   At the Gobbler Classic, the Freshman race was won by Alexander Riley of JFK Campus. Hardly a rookie (VO2 Max), Riley ran 1:33.41   In the Varsity race, three boys hit the auto standard. Lavell Irving  (Thomas Jefferson)

As the PSAL season moves indoors for the winter, we decided to try to provide some coverage. We’ll see how it goes.   As we began, we decided to give a look over the distance events for the last 10 years of PSAL Championships and see which boroughs and/or schools tend to do well in each distance event. We analyzed how many different  runners each school had medal at City Championships since 2015. We think that’s a better sign of dominance than how many total medals, since one

The 2025 PSAL Cross Country season is over, but it’s never too early to look ahead to next fall. So here is a way-too-early preview for the next fall season based mostly  on merging this year’s top times at VCP for each runner and just getting rid of the seniors.   Borough Favorites   Boys : Staten Island:  MSIT                                                    Tristan Acevedo (Susan Wagner) Brooklyn:         Brooklyn Tech                                     Abraham Wilchins

Another cross country season has come and gone. We saw both Individual Champions defend their titles and a new girls program rise to the top. And we predicted both Team Champions!   Boys   Met or Exceeded Program Expectations Bronx Science  - the boys from the Bronx defended their title, even without their top runner. At Feds, they finished 4 th  and brought home some team hardware for the first time in program history. Benjamin Berman established himself as the fastest runne

The top PSAL teams and individuals took on the top runners from all over New York state this past weekend at Bowdoin Park. The meet is a combination of the NYS Federation Championships and Nike Cross Regionals, so the top teams and individuals also earn a trip to Oregon. At the end of the day, the PSAL had six All-Federation runners.   Boys Federation Race The Bronx Science  boys started hot for the 2 nd straight year. They were in 3 rd  place at the halfway point and just 1

We are back with even more follow up after receiving more information from our readers. Thank you so much for reaching out and helping us fill in the gaps. We appreciate and encourage your input and contributions.   First, we’d like to correct a mistake we made about Columbia Secondary School. Not realizing they were a 6-12 school, we miscalculated their HS enrollment. They are a school of approximately 200 girls, not over 300 as we originally reported.   Second, a few reader

We said that we’d be back later in the week to discuss some comments overheard at the awards/finish line area.   But first, our readers were nice enough to point out that Ben Berman of Bronx Science likely did not race because of a PSAL rule requiring athletes to have run at least one PSAL meet during the regular season in order to be eligible to race at the City Championship. This seems like a pretty reasonable rule as long as they aren’t forcing athletes to race through inj