February 10, 1999
THE "FEKEDETORIAL"
ISSUE #9
by Chris Fekete
Wagner heading to Florida for the Florida State Relays:
As reported in a previous issue of the Fekeditorial, it is now final.....Wagner
College will be going down to Tallahassee, Florida the week of March 11th-19th
for the Florida State Invitational. This is a 3 day meet during Wagner's
Spring Break. The team fund raised and obtained donations from various businesses
and alumni as well as people in the road running community. I would personally
like to thank the women's assistant coach Jennifer Rice and financial consultant
Mr. Auer.....Doug's dad.... for doing all the booking and paperwork for the
meet and as well as airfare and accommodations. Without them, this trip would
not have been a success. I would also like to thank Alma Ramos for her generous
donation and her wonderful letter. We appreciate the support and will try
to all run our best for Staten Island! Thanks to all that donated to our
cause!! Just so you know, we are still taking donations just in case anyone
would still like to give a little, every little bit helps our program get
stronger. You can make checks payable to: Wagner College Track and Field,
One Campus Road, Staten Island, NY 10301.
Attn.: Joe Stasi. Once again the Wagner College Track & Field team thanks
you all very much.
Train hard, run fast!
Alfano "storming" into the college running
scene:
Pete Alfano, former Monsignor Farrell High School standout
and a current member of St. John's University's Red Storm is certainly
running up a storm. As of the past few weeks of racing he has set personal
best in 3 events. He ran a 15:56 for 5000 meters and a 9:12 for 3000 meters
in the same day at the 168th St. Armory Track and Field center. A few weeks
later, Pete ran a personal best in the 800 meters, running a leg on St. John's
4x800 meter relay with a 1:59 clocking, also at the Armory. Thinks are certainly
looking up for the Red Storm Freshman, who is finally coming into his own
on the track.
Healy getting on his "heels" as of late:
Brendan Healy, formerly of Monsignor Farrell High School, currently
in his 5th year at New York University doing graduate work, is making
significant strides on the track. After having some real good summer training
and a nice Cross Country season, Brendan has been excelling on the track
as of late. He has posted impressive times of 8:56 for the 3000 meters, a
very big personal best for him. He looks do to himself one better by Pr'ing
in that event again before his indoor campaign ends. He also has run some
nice legs on the teams DMR and run some fast miles on the track. Keep up
the good work Brendan!
Canova coming into his own:
Anthony Canova, formerly of St. Joseph by the Sea High School,
currently at Wagner College, is back into rare form. He has been running
some real good workouts and has been doing the little things to fine tune
his running, certainly it is starting to pay off. He has been mainly running
the 400, 800 and 1000 events, in which he is trying to qualify for IC4A's.
In his main event, the 1000 meters, he has recorded personal bests of 2:32
and recently 2:31. He is very happy with his progress and looks to dip under
2:30 soon. Anthony has run 1:57 on a 4x800 meter relay and run 52 on a 4x400
meter relay. Things are looking up for Anthony, as championships begin in
a little over a week. He is looking to pop that big race, as are all the
Seahawks.
Other College Track and Field News:
In other college track and field news......Not much has been heard from former
Monsignor Farrell runners Jeff McDonnell(Rider University)
and Ryan Maxwell(Notre Dame University), these guys have to get back
to me with some information about themselves so that we can all see how they
are doing.
Recently, Chris Fekete, another former Monsignor Farrell runner
and Matteo Rosselli, former St. Joseph by the Sea runner have
been running well for Wagner College. Fekete has posted a personal
best at 3000 meters this past weekend of 9:08.6 at the 168th St. Armory Track
and Field Center. A week earlier he ran the mile leg of the Wagner DMR in
4:31. Happy about his progression, Fekete looks to break 9 minutes in the
3000 meters and 4:30 in the mile at the conference meet. Rosselli has gotten
back to the racing scene by running some competitive 800's. He came back
to racing competitively by running the 800 leg of the Seahawks DMR in a clocking
of 1:59, and just recently ran a leg on the 4x800 in the same time of 1:59.
Other notables are Ryan McDermott, former Monsignor Farrell
runner, currently at Catholic University, Doug Auer former
McKee/S.I. Tech runner, now at Wagner College and Tom
Hopkins, formerly of Xavarien High School, also at Wagner
College. McDermott has been doing some really good training as of late
and he looks to run fast in the 5000 meters outdoors. He is basically training
through indoors on his way to a stellar outdoor season. He says that training
has been tough due to the weather that we have been experiencing as of late.
In order to get track workouts in, Ryan and the team had to shovel 2 lanes
of the CUA's outdoor track.
Doug Auer has been doing some really good things on the track as well.
Workouts for him have been top notch as he has been running many of the intervals
with Fekete his teammate. The tough workouts that Coach Joe Stasi
and Coach Joe Tuttle have been creating have been handled well by
Doug as he took this hard work and set a personal best at 3000 meters 2 weeks
ago. A time of 9:37 was more than 20 seconds faster than his previous best
as he looks to dip under 9:30 at Northeast Conference Champs. Tom has been
consistently making strides in the 3000 meters as well as the 5000 meters.
He recently ran the 3000 in a personal best time of 9:24, and 16:56 for 5000
meters. Workouts have been going exceptional for the Wagner junior as he
looks to run close to 9 minutes in the 3000 and break 16 in the 5000. Keep
up the Good work Ryan, Doug and Tom!!!
"Man on the Street".......maybe we should call him "Man on the
road":
John Kane, our "Man on the street," has been working very hard with
his new job at Arthur Andersen. So hard that he has been a traveling man.
As of the past few months John has had to go to such places as Pennsylvania
and Connecticut. He would venture there everyday and by the time he'd get
home he'd be very tired. I think this is the reason why he hasn't come out
with a column in a while. But, John tells me via phone conversations that
things are looking up for him as his workload should be lighter in the near
future. John I hope things work out for you, Good Luck!
"Thursday Night at the Races"-168th St. Armory Track and Field Center:
Several Wagner College male runners will travel to the Armory tonight to
run the "Thursday Night at the Races." Wagner is off from competition this
weekend, and only a few runners will be getting in a race. There are limited
events to choose from, with a 400, 800 and 1600 as the highlight events.
Chris Fekete, Mike Poole, Tom Hopkins, Matteo Rosselli, Anthony Canova and
Mike Brady will be competing in tonight's events. Results to follow......
Questions, comments....email:
Chris Fekete at-cfekete@aol.com