Lancaster-Lebanon League Track & Field Champions for 2024. (Pictured is Jayden Johnson, two-event champion for Conestoga Valley.)
4×800 m Relay: Annville-Cleona
100 m/110 m Hurdles: Jordan Sensenig, Conestoga Valley
100 m Dash: Jayden Johnson, Conestoga Valley
1600 m Run: Piper Fogleman, Manheim Township
4×100 m: Conestoga Valley
400 m Dash: Nick Keller, Ephrata
Lancaster-Lebanon League Track & Field Champions for 2023. (Pictured are McCaskey's 4x800 state gold medalists, from left, top, Lucie De Syon, Isabella Shertzer, Kamiah Wright and Milana Breuninger; and the 4x400 state gold medalists, bottom, Isabella Shertzer, Kamiah Wright, Lucie De Syon and Kamyah Wright.)
Lancaster-Lebanon Boys Individual Champions
4×800 m Relay: Ephrata
110 m hurdles: William Scott, Lancaster Catholic
100 m Dash: Nick Keller, Ephrata
Arielle Breuninger is a senior at Lancaster Country Day School, but she keeps putting her name in the McCaskey Track & Field record book.
Running for the McCaskey team under a school co-op, she became its first girl to run under 5 minutes in the 1,600 meters at the 60th annual Cedar Cliff Relays in Camp Hill. Her time of 4:59.98 was the ninth fastest time ever for a Lancaster-Lebanon League girl, according to local sportswriter Pete Kauffman.
Art Morris, former mayor of Lancaster, won the J. Freeland Chryst Award in 2005.
My favorite sports memory is winning the Pennsylvania Class A state mile championship in 1963 as part of the great J.P. McCaskey track teams in the 1960s.
I had failed to qualify for states in 1962 and was bitterly disappointed. I was very focused the next year, trained hard and qualified.