Methacton Athletics

Dear Methacton Families and Community,

We wanted to thank Souderton HS Athletics for hosting us along with many other high schools in the area, for the Student-Athlete Leadership Conference last Wednesday 12/13. We were able to bring 10 Warrior student-athletes to the conference, some really fantastic students and leaders on and off the field! Our students were able to hear the Keynote Speaker - Matt Griffin (Basketball Coach at Bucknell University | Former USA Today HS Coach of the Year) and were able to participate in both small group break out sessions and full group discussions with their peers from surrounding schools. It was an all around great day!

It's a short week this week, we wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holiday as well!! See you again in 2024!!

Go Warriors!

Sincerely,

John M. Smink

Director of Athletics and Activities

The Warriors had a competitive week of basketball. The Warriors played Perk Valley on Friday and won with a score of 59-47. Christian Matos played very hard and competed in the game.

The next game the Boys Basketball team played was Executive Education Academy. After quite the battle, the Warriors lost on a buzzer beater, 74-72. Anthony Daddazio was a key contributor for the team.

We look forward to another competitive week and challenges ahead. Go Warriors!

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday 12/19 - Game vs. Norristown HS (HOME)

Thursday 12/21 - Game vs. Pope John Paul HS (HOME)

The Lady Warriors entered this week with only one game on their schedule. This game was against the league, district, and state favorite, Perkiomen Valley. Because of this tough game, the Lady Warriors lost the game by a score of 78-16, causing them to move to 0-5 overall, and 0-1 in the league. Abby Arnold lead all scores with 11 points.

The Junior Varsity Lady Warriors lost their first game of the season, 41-16, which moved their record to 4-1. Freshmen Adhara Reddy and Arianna Kling had 4 points each.

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday 12/19 - Game vs. Norristown HS (POSTPONED)

Thursday 12/21 - Game vs. Pope John Paul HS (AWAY)

Saturday 12/23 - Game vs. CB South HS (HOME)

In addition to Saturday's game, the annual alumni game will be Saturday morning at 9:45am in the main gym.

It's been a busy week for the Warriors! After a busy week of practices, the team cheered on the Boys' Basketball team to a big win over PV in their home opener. The team had fun cheering to a packed house!

On Saturday, we traveled to East Stroudsburg for the NCA Regional, where the team made their Tribe proud. Third place and Best Use of Stunts overall!

Now, we get back to work to prepare for the District 1 Championships on January 6th! The team will be cheering on both the Boys and Girls basketball games this week to close out 2023!

Upcoming Events:

Saturday 1/6 - District 1 Championships

The Girls Track and Field Team had a busy, but incredibly productive weekend.

On Friday night, they traveled to Lehigh University for a meet with over 80 schools from the Delaware Valley. They placed in the top 10 in 6 different events, The 4x400 Relay of Nicole Walsh, Marlie Klein, Kate Thomas and Kenslee O'Donnell won the event, qualifying for the Meet of Champions. Also qualifying was Molly Thomas in the mile, who placed 5th in the event with a time of 5:34.96.

On Sunday, the Lady Warriors traveled to the Ocean Breeze Sports Complex in Staten Island. With over 200 teams in attendance, they finished the day with 2 school records, 15 top 10 finishes and a 3rd place overall team finish. Molly Thomas started the meet off by crushing the previous 2 mile school record with a time of 11:55.17, placing 4th in the event. Summer Mellow had an incredible day, placing 3rd in the 55m dash, also breaking the school record with a time 7.29 seconds. She was far from done, as she also placed 2nd in the long jump with a leap of 17' 1.75". She then teamed up with Nicole Walsh, Jillian McTamney and Kenslee O'Donnell to place 3rd in the 4x200 relay with a PA #2 time of 1:47.85. The 4x800 Relay of Molly and Kate Thomas, along with Julianna Trigone and Marlie Klein placed 4th in their event with a PA #3 time of 9:50.28. Kate Thomas placed 4th in the Varsity 600m with a time of 1:39.76.

There with also individual medalists in the freshman races with bode well for the program in future years. Bhavi Patel won the 55m hurdles in a time of 10.25 seconds. Marlie Klein won the 600m with a time of 1:46.19, while Sadie Fitch finished 3rd in the same race with a time of 1:49.37. Gabi Dwyer also took home a medal, placing 6th in the 300m with a time of 45.88 seconds.

The girls will head back to Lehigh for a meet on Wednesday night.

Upcoming Events:

Wednesday 12/20 - Meet @ Lehigh University (AWAY)

Thursday 12/28 - Meet @ Lehigh University (AWAY)

The Methacton boys had another great week of training before competing for the first time this year at the Bishop Loughlin Games.

The team walked away pleased with the most balanced result they have had in years, seeing success in many different event groups and very impressive performances from the team's underclassmen.

Starting off the day strong were the distance runners. Competing in the 1000m run, Jason Nagle and Colin O'Donnell both placed 2nd overall out of 65 athletes in their respective freshman and sophomore races. In the Varsity 1000, Mitchell Alexander, Charlie Reith and Curtis Alexander all ran to big PRs, all placing in the top 21 out of 75 athletes.

For the sprinters, Roman Brown continued the freshman success with a 3rd place finish. Brody Mellow placed 11th out of 60 athletes in the Sophomore race with a new PR. Avery Smith, Yasser Jarhale and Dylan Weber all ran strong races in their season debut.

Nicholas Feist earned a 2nd place finish in the Freshman shot put, bringing the medal total for the freshman to 3 on the day.

In the relays, the boys 4x200 ran a time of 1:39.41 for a 17th place finish, and the boy's 4x800 ran to a 7th place finish.

Looking forward, the boy's will have their next big invitational at Penn State's Kevin Dare invite on January 6th.

Upcoming Events:

Saturday 1/6 - Kevin Dare Invitational @ Penn State University (AWAY)

12/18

The boy’s season is well underway with meets. They won their meet on Thursday against Phoenixville, 96-80. Many of the boy’s achieved personal best swims at the meet as well as qualifying times to PAC Championships and Districts. Brock Yoder, Christian Lebold, Lucah Petriello, and Eric Zang achieved District Qualifying times in their events. Jake Kallal, Jake Roberts, Jack Dowell, Jason Phan, John Du, Jack DePiano, Brock Yoder, Anderson Chan, and Dante Pineiro secured qualifying times for PAC Championships.

Swimmer of the meet - Phoenixville

Chrisitan Lebold (sr.) - Christian placed first in the 200 IM and 500 Freestyle. He had a personal best performance in the IM event and a seasonal best time in the 500 free. Both events made the qualifying time for District Championships.

The energy and excitement from Thursday carried over into the weekend for our mid-season performance meet, The Cardinal Classic. The boy’s swam incredibly well considering we are still early in the season. There were 19 personal best and 4 seasonal best swims out of 25 total individual events! Many boy’s continued to achieve PAC and District cut times to further their time into the postseason in February. Swimmers of the meet are listed below:

PAC Championship qualifying swims:

Davis Rees (50/100 free), Dante Pineiro (50/100 free), Ryan Phan (50 free/100 breast), Will VanBuskirk (50 free/100 fly), Jack Dowell (100 fly/100 breast), Jason Phan (100 fly), Jack DePiano (100 fly/500 free), Jake Kallal (500 free), and Jake Roberts (100 breast).

District Championship Qualifying swims:

John Du (200 free/100 fly), Jake Kallal (200 free), Marcus Rasmussen (200 free/500 free), Brock Yoder (200 free/500 free), Lucah Petriello (200 IM/100 breast), Jake Roberts (200 IM), Eric Zang (50/100 free), and Christian Lebold (100 free/100 breast)

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday 12/19 - Meet vs. Perkiomen Valley HS (AWAY)

Thursday 12/21 - Meet vs. Boyertown HS (HOME)

Wednesday 1/3 - Meet vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh HS (AWAY)

This past week in girls swimming news we lost to Phoenixville on Thursday by 1 point.

On Saturday we traveled to Upper Dublin for the Cardinal Classic Meet. Great swims by the high school girls!

Senior Madison Wimmer broke her own 200 free record from her sophomore year with a time of 1:50.80, Madison also had a personal best time in the 500 free.

Junior Izzy Ketterer made district times in the 100 butterfly and 100 breaststroke, both personal best times.

Junior Truly Sommer made district times in the 200 IM and 500 free.

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday 12/19 - Meet vs. Perkiomen Valley HS (AWAY)

Thursday 12/21 - Meet vs. Boyertown HS (HOME)

Wednesday 1/3 - Meet vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh HS (AWAY)

On Wednesday the Warriors hosted Wissahickon Trojans. The Warriors overcame a 24 -0 deficit by winning nine straight bouts en route to a 51-24 victory. The highlight of the night came compliments of Warrior 215 pounder Dylan Pachik, who pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory of Wissahickon standout Tyler Prince.

On Saturday the Warrior matmen competed in the eight-team field at Colley Classic Duals at West Chester East High School.

In the quarterfinal round the Warriors defeated host West Chester East by a score of 58-18 victory. Registering falls for the Warriors were Brayden Giovinco, Ryan Hayes, Jack Hayes, Joey Simko, Joe Civitello, Matty Shumaker, Collin O'Neill and George Dyer.

In the semi-final round the Warriors pulled out an exciting win over Ridley. Trailing 30-8 after the first seven bouts were contested, the Warriors reeled off six straight wins to prevail by a score of 38-30. Gavin Rose and Collin O'Neill both mounted come from behind last second wins to spark the Warriors comeback.

In the championship match the Warriors fell 45-21 to Perkiomen Valley.

Ryan Hayes, Matty Shumaker, Gavin Rose and Dylan Pachik all went a perfect 3-0 on the day.

The Warrior grapplers are off until December 29-30, when they will compete in 32 team Neil Turner Invitational at Conestoga Valley High School.

Upcoming Events:

Friday 12/29 - Neil Turner Invitational @ Conestoga Valley HS (AWAY)

Saturday 12/30 - Neil Turner Invitational @ Conestoga Valley HS (AWAY)

Unified Bocce and Track Spirit Wear Store - CLOSES TONIGHT (estimated delivery should be around 1/8/24).

https://methacton-unified-unified-bocce-track-winter-2023.itemorder.com/shop/category/399215/

• There is Methacton gear that says Methacton Warriors, Methacton Unified Track/Field and Unified Bocce
• Please note there are two pages ("embroidery items" like hats & jogger sweatpants and "apparel" like shirts and sweatshirts).
• This is a fundraiser for our team so your support is greatly appreciated!

The Unified Bocce team continues to prepare for their season with their first match on January 9th. The team is looking forward to hosting Upper Merion in the main gym at 3:00. January 9th will also be Methacton Unified Alumni Day. Any Methacton alumni that was a member of the Unified Bocce team last year or ANY of Unified Track teams are encouraged to attend to be recognized. Please come out and support the Warriors Bocce Team!

Competition Team:

Allie Conrad - Sr

Taylor Lee - Sr

Catherine DeMontaigne - Sr

Steven Kent - Sr

Joycelyn Tjoe - Sr

Ryan McCann - Sr

Gus Mandracchia - Sr

Alex Greenawalt - Sr

Eva Doulgerakis - Jr

Madison Roeger - Jr

Mianna Ly - Jr

Lukas Reger - Jr

Ryan Alzamora - So

Arden Hartranft - so

JJ Mascaro - Fr

Julia Policastro - Fr

Team Members (not competing this year)

Charlie Wolf - So

Avinh Ly - So

Caitlin Cipriano - So

Varun Bhat - So

Sam Bone - So

Kyle Kim - So

Josh Kim - So

Hatcher Avelar - Fr

Aiden Ludwig - Fr

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday 1/9 - Match vs. Upper Merion HS (HOME)

Email: jsmink@methacton.org
Website: www.methactonwarriors.org
Location: 1005 Kriebel Mill Road, Eagleville, PA, USA
Phone: 610-489-5000
Twitter: @methactonsports