When the track and field season concludes next month, Westhill High School will close the book on one of its most successful periods in recent history.
The Vikings went 13-5 in dual meets this year, coming off a season in which they went 14-4. The Vikings have also won five consecutive city titles, and they swept the individual awards at last week’s meet against Stamford.
There will be a lot of people shedding tears during Westhill commencement exercises, and Vikings’ coach Todd Page will be one of them. He’s losing 15 seniors that have been the backbone of his team’s success.
“This core group of kids has been together since they were freshman,” Page said. “I taught a lot of them in world history, and I’ve watched them grow and get better each year. I remember watching a freshman meet and I remember thinking four years from now, we could be in a position to do something special. To be honest, I was hoping for better.”
It is difficult for any team to break through in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which has state power Danbury and Staples, a model of consistency that is always among the best teams in its Class S.
The best part for Page is that his Vikings still have an opportunity to do some outstanding things in the next few weeks. The postseason begins tomorrow with the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference championship meet at Danbury. The team then turns its attention to the Class championships on June 2 at Manchester
High School, and the State Open on June 9 at Willow Brook Park. Page is also hopeful he will have some athletes qualify for the New England Championships, scheduled for June 14 at Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine.
Westhill’s best opportunity to get to the New England meet might be with its 4 x 800 relay team of Pete Jankovsky, James Grebey, Andrew Erskine and Wildens Fils. The team set the freshmen record at Westhill and was eighth in the Class LL meet last year in 8:21.4.

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