| Numerically, the 2004 Watchung Hills track & field program is a success
before the first starter’s gun is fired. There are 60 candidates out for the boys team under head coach Mary Sok
while the girls’ squad under the direction of Jennifer Greenberg has 49 members. |
| Sok, now in her third year at the helm, is looking for improvement in a
program that went 6-3-1 in dual meet competition in 2003. There are nine seniors on the boys’ roster, including
two of the four quad-captains, Jake Crystal and Steve Kinney. The other members of the Class of 2004 are Brandon
Chen, Jon Cesareo, Jose Fernandez, Andrew Lam, Kevin Leibler, Shawn Mitchell and Jimmy Shih. |
| Adam Cornelisse and Chris Palmer are the juniors who have been named quad-captains.
The other 11 juniors on the team are Dave Heath, Mark Kearsing, John Park, Sharmir Parmar, Mike Rameriz, Steve
Reif, Jose Rodriguez, Mike Schroeder, Matt Sestokos, Greg Shipman and Frank Summers. |
| "Palmer qualfied for the Group IV meet last May and had an excellent
indoor season, especially in the triple jump," stated Sok. "Cornelisse set a new school record indoors
and has looked good in practice." |
| Included among the 20 sophomores on the team are Alex Chin, Bobby Dahlinger,
Anthony DiNuzzo, Dave Fetchko, Eric Hansen, Steve Hirsch, Vladimir Kostrama, Amraj Lalli, Brian Monetti, Jeff MacConnell,
Chris Mosquera, Jeremy Pennino, Nick Profeta, Adam Pogash, Nate Sahleman, Steve Smith, Scott Thomas, Harrison Tsai,
Dhiraj Verma and Kevin Wilfong. |
| There are 18 newcomers to the program. The freshmen are Greg Bartolomei,
Jack Beckert, Matt Conrad, Matt Crystal, Greg Dubois, Pete Gallo, Anthony Guerriero, Dean Hsu, Yousef Janjari,
Tim Koby, Elias Landau, William Lordi, Chris Lui, Kelly Mak, Bobby Mandetta, Alex Necovski, Travis Poole plus Dan
Tarantula. |
| Gershberg’s girls’ roster includes six seniors, three of whom are serving
as quad-captains along with junior Lauren Chun. They are Jennifer Dubois, Lauren Kopecki and Natalie Stabenow.
The other seniors are Melissa Mott, Stephanioe Paltjon and Jessica Wong. |
| "Kopecki had a strong indoor season while Chun made it to the Group
IV championship meet as a sophomore," commented Gershberg. "Several of our runners participated in winter
track and that is a good omen." |
| In addition to Chun, there are 11 other juniors on the team. They are Neha
Agarwal, Jessica Baculis, Julie Bartolomei, Kaitlin Beckert, Danielle Clark, Alex Grodeck, Teresa Mascia, Kristen
Piatkowski, Shanti Prasad, Maria Rodrigues and Vicki Webbe. |
| Sophomore Monica Rodriguez was impressive in the dashes for the Lady Warriors
this winter. She is one a dozen members of the Class of 2006 on the roster including Adele Banks, Jackie Bilancia,
Brittany Ciaszek, Hanrindu Plooy, Laura Fernandes, Liz Gilbert, Sarah Gillis, Caitlin Lashley, Krystina Laucik,
Sung Moon and Danielle Zilg. |
| Supplying a class-high 19 members to the team is the freshmen contingent
of Kristin Beckert, Jessica Cape, Traci Finkel, Kaitlin Fischer, Emily Gatti, Jessica George, Amanda Givens, Sarah
Heath, Nina Horowitz, Jenifer Kampe, Alex Kinney, Ryan Olexson, Sarah O’Meara, Jo Palk, Nicole Reil, Stephanie
Stambaugh, Patricia Tong, Leas Umansky and Jamies Waryn. |
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