South Brunswick Boys Earn Three Medals in Opening Track Meet

The South Brunswick High School boys winter track team got its season off to a good start by winning three medals in the Winter Opener meet in Toms River this past weekend.

Ishaan Goel had the best finish for South Brunswick, placing third in the 1000 in a time of 2:41.53.

"Ishaan is finally healthy after some significant injuries last year, so it was nice to see him start his season on a high note," South Brunswick Coach Stefan Moorhead said.

Chris Barrood, a senior, placed fifth in the 600 in a time of 1:30.41.

"We are also expecting a breakout season from Chris Barrood, so his medal in the 600 should be a confidence booster for him," Moorhead said.

Adam Dickert, a senior, placed fifth in the shot put with a distance of 46' 1 3/4".

"In general we were rusty, so we are looking forward to our next few meets to get us in better position to perform well in January's championship meets," Moorhead said.

South Brunswick has two meets left in 2011.  It will be at the Jersey City Armory on Dec. 27 to compete in the Holiday Relay Classic. South Brunswick will also take part in the Track Universe Invitational on Dec. 30 at the New York City Armory.

In addition to the three boys that already earned medals, Moorhead is expecting to see some outstanding performances from seniors Kaseem Davis (sprints and high jump), Hitem Doshi (distance) and Tre Tisdale (sprints). Jaleel Alston, a junior, is another outstanding returning athlete on the team.
 
The other seniors on the team are Tre Tisdale, Brandon Widemuth, Ali Azam, Michael Biancamano, Davian Jackson, Daniel Boley, Kaseem Davis, Joshua Carden, Brendan Dempsey, Alex Veglia, Mike Peguero, Keshav Varadachar, Mohammad Ziab, Selom Kotey, Shawn Kilcoyne, Ashwin
Kommajesula, Adam Dickert, Hiten Doshi and Hassan Funchess.

The other juniors are Rahul Yatham, Nick Veglia, Scott Cannon, Sriharsha
Bodapati, Jose Baxter, Abdullah Al-Shujairi, Ishaan Goel, Oliver Kaczor, Kennedy Hart, Phil De Froscia, Gourab Das, Nikhil Gandhi, Atharv Khatu, Christian Larbie, Srihari Chekuri, Aaron Laserna, Chris Lim, Griffin O'Neill, Joseph Malkiewicz, Jonathan Pitt, Robert Puzio, Shardul Rathod, Maxwell Rowe, Harpreet Sing, Subramhanya Shankarprasad, Alexander Wu, Derek Young and Richard Zhou.
 
The sophomores on the team are Nick Carbone, Dhanish Abrar, Alec Trapani, Kevin Wainczak, Jon Thomas, Nathan Smith, Siddharth Thamara, Matt Tamasi, Arvinth Thangavelan, Siddharth Thamara, Rohan Sinha, Matt Peletier, Jared Man, Rohit Nalmada, Rohan Sinha, Shazhaib Safi, Akash Patel, Chetan Kini, Larry Liu, Rajiv Mukundan, Milan Patel, Riddish Pandya, Rajiv Mukundan, Vishal Konchada, Jehanzeb Nadeem, Jake Britton, Juan Baxter, Ryan Aug, Steven Haupt, Alex Kainer, Alec Cerminaro, Arjun Chopra, Bryan Colhoun, Logan Connolly, Joe Cosgrove, Steven Haupt, Ben Gibbard, Christian Garrido, Akash Kathiari, Suraj Khasnavees, Varun Khurana, Suraj Khasnavees and Jehanzeb Nadeem.

The freshmen on the team  Aravind Ramakrishnan, Ritish Raje, Akash Reddy, Shiva Alladi, Adam Booker, Farris Ahmed, Himanshu Arora, Dhruv Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee, Joseph Chang, Nikar Khare, Kyle McCann, Youssef Ben Cheik, Manidhar Dasoju, Manaj Kandiakounder, Bharat Kanwar, Darshan Patel, Bhavesh Narala, Nicholas Neville, Troy LeHan, Stephen Sandoli, Irfan Shaik, Eliha Suggs, John Thau, Lucus Tse, Joe Weber, Matt Zamorski and Gautham Yatham.

South Brunswick certainly has the depth. It also had several outstanding athletes that have already proven they can match up favorable against the opposition. All that's left now is to go out and perform in the meets.

"The boys had a bit of a down year last year, finishing third at the County Relays and fifth at the GMC Championships," Moorhead said. "We graduated several of our best athletes, but we have a number of good returners and some new athletes who we think can contribute right away. We hope to contend for both of the county titles this winter."