Weequahic High School Track Teams Have Winning Season

WeequahicNationalChampsShuttleHurdleRelay
Weequahic 4 Man Shuttle Hurdle Relay Team Won the New Balance High School National Championships on June 19, 2016!

CaliforniaHurdleTeam
In April the boys shuttle Hurdle team traveled to Arcadia California to compete at the Famous Arcadia Invitational. The boys not only won the race but ran the 3rd fastest time in meet history!

The time was a US #1 time for the 2016 season!

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The Weequahic Boys Team celebrating their big win with Queen Latifah in Beverly Hills, California.
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Weequahic Won their 2nd straight North II Group 1 state Championship

Jim Lambert For The Star-Ledger

The Weequahic boys inched closer to the state and national records in the boys shuttle hurdles with another blazing performance at the 46th East Coast Relays on Monday in Randolph.

Using a different order than usual, junior Ihmir Marsette led off with a 14.2, senior James Jean followed with a 14.3, senior Stephan Hughes then went 14.2, and sophomore Isaiah Greene anchored in 14.2 as Weequahic stopped the clock at 56.86.

The 56.86 is the second fastest time in N.J. history, No. 4 in U.S. history, a meet record, and the fastest time in the nation this season.

Weequahic’s 56.86 broke the meet record of 56.88 set in 1988 by Camden Wilson, just missed the state record of 56.63 set by Union Catholic when it won the New Balance National title, and is very close to the national record of 56.32 set in 2004 by Westside of South Carolina.

Weequahic dropped nearly a second off its previous best time this season of 57.82, which it ran at the Blue Devil Classic in Westfield last month.

“We wanted to touch 56 today and get a glimpse of what that feels like and then go back and work on some more things to get faster,” said Marsette.


StateChamps
The Boys and Girls Track Team won the Group 1 Central Jersey Sectional State Championships in February!