The Concord High girls’ track and field team is good. Really good. The Tide has talent, depth, skilled athletes in all disciplines, and all of that was on display on Saturday at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy. Junior Morgan Doherty won the 100-meter.
If you’re looking for the last time a boys’ running team other than Coe-Brown Northwood Academy won a Division II title, you need to look back to the 2019-20 indoor track season. If you’re looking at outdoor track specifically, you need to go back.
It was three years ago the last time NHIAA had indoor track state championships and there was a lot of uncertainty entering this season. In the end, perhaps it was unwarranted.The Coe-Brown boys’ team scored points in nine of 13 events and won four,.
Some seasons began in late November, others really just began with the arrival of the recent snow, but regardless of how they started, it’s time to think playoffs for nearly all NHIAA winter sports. Several champions – both individual and team – will.
The COVID-19 pandemic hit two weeks after the New England indoor track championships in late February 2020. The entire sports world paused, some temporarily changed, but no NHIAA sport has been paused as long as indoor track. That ends this.