Hillsborough athletes excel at state track finals
Jenika Freeman and Jubilee Gonzalez
May 8, 2017
Filed under Spring Sports, Track & Field
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Track & Field triumphs at regionals
April 29, 2017
Filed under Sports, Spring Sports, Top Stories, Track & Field
Hillsborough's Track & Field, both boys and girls' teams, took home first place overall at Friday's Class 3A, Region 3 meet. Hillsborough beat runner-up Fort Myers 105.5-77 for the boys and 102-69 for the girls. This year's regional meet was held at Clearwater High. They had 10 athletes that qualified...
Terriers run away with the gold at Manuel-Griffin track meet
March 29, 2017
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Hillsborough takes home gold at Nash Higgins Relay
March 7, 2017
Filed under Spring Sports, Track & Field
At the 47th Annual Nash Higgins Relays on Saturday, Hillsborough track terriers placed among the top three in multiple events. Events participated in included the high jump, triple jump, discus, and multiple individual and relay team races, with and without hurdles. Male relay teams placed first in...
Updated: Hillsborough athletes sign college scholarships
February 2, 2017
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Fall Sports, Spring Sports, Swim & Dive, Track & Field, Winter Sports
UPDATED: Additional students signed letters on a spring signing day held April 12. Eight Hillsborough students signed Letters of Intent on National Signing Day (Wednesday, Feb. 1 ). They're headed to play football, run track, swim and play baseball at schools throughout the country.
UPDATED: Eight athletes commit to colleges
January 31, 2017
Filed under Baseball, Fall Sports, Football, Sports, Spring Sports, Swim & Dive, Track & Field
Across the country, senior athletes will sign National Letters of Intent today, on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Each letter serves as a binding, written agreement to play a sport for each university and is the final step in the recruitment process. UPDATED: Eight Terriers signed this year, up from just last year. Signees are ...
Two silvers at track states
May 25, 2016
Filed under Sports, Spring Sports, Track & Field
Junior Duran Bell and senior Chloe Jones both placed second in the state track and field meet earlier this month. Bell was runner-up in the boys 400 meter dash and Jones came in second in the girls shot put. He ran a time of 48.76 seconds in the preliminaries, in which he placed fourth and an even...
Girls track team wins district title
April 26, 2016
Filed under Sports, Spring Sports, Track & Field
For the second year in a row, the girls track team is a District 9 champion. And much like last year, many of the points needed came out of the infield. The team dominated the throwing and jumping events, earning nine total top-four finishes in field events. Senior Chloe Jones won both the shot-put...
On the right track
February 22, 2016
Filed under r&b Magazine, Sports, Track & Field
There’s running. There’s jumping. On a particularly exciting day, there’s throwing. This is what track and field seems like from the stands. But behind every throw and every soaring jump, months of training and precise technique are at play.
Two Terriers take track title
Matt Lutton, Sports Editor
May 27, 2015
Filed under Sports, Spring Sports, Track & Field
Two Terriers took first place at the state meet — Dwayne Lawson in triple jump and Chloe Jones in shot put. For Lawson, winning at the state level is nothing new, as he won the same event last year. “I was pretty confident going in,” Lawson said. “I knew I had a good chance to do something special.” This...