Senior Spotlight: Harrison Track & Field

The Raiders featured 40 seniors on one of their largest rosters in program history.

The harrison track and field program is large in terms of numbers ..

The raiders had 200 total athletes this year ..

One of their largest rosters in school history.

20 percent of that group graduated this spring.

Those 40 senior raiders are next up on our senior spotlight.

The 19 girls and 21 boys that made up the class of 2020 were no strangers to bringing home the hardware.

The harrison girls track program won four straight n-c-c titles ..

While the guys earned back to back sectional championships.

In 2019, both squads were conference champions.

But all that success didn't come easy.

Coach chris crum chalks it all up to maturity.

Chris crum: i just think this group of seniors were olderiser.

Most of them, you know, i had as a freshman.

And uh- they just were older souls.

And-and they had fun.

We played around, we joked around but they really got down to business.

And i think that's what the freshmen...they missed out on.

We can have fun.

We're gonna work our tails off and then hopefully we're successful at the end.

But i miss just seeing them fight and and be competitive.

I mean that was the....i guess that's why i coach.

The coronavirus canceled the high school spring sports season ..

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