By Matthew Sanchez – Social Media Editor

The Jonathan Law boys cross country team is off and running.

With so many promising underclassmen, along with the leadership of the newly appointed captains, cross country is set to have a great season. The boys already had their first meet at Wesleyan, where many runners set personal records and goals for the future. 

“The team is a close group of athletes who support each other to improve,” Head Coach Mr. Beler said. “We have a great combination of new or returning athletes. We have great leaders such as David Lickteig, Matthew Montini, Carter Rosiak, and Pierce Marini. Our main goal is to bring home the Milford Road Runners Championship.”

Beler has great confidence in his runners and has many goals set for this season. 

“My senior PR goals have slightly changed due to my hamstring injury last track season,” Senior Captain David Lickteig said. “During our first meet this year at Wesleyan University, I ran a 21-minute 5K. I’m hoping to keep my times under 20 minutes and to hopefully get lower 19-minute 5k runs this season.”

Junior Captain Matthew Montini said the team will do its best to replace last year’s seniors.

“We did have a lot of seniors leave last year; in fact our varsity team was composed of almost entirely seniors last year,” Montini said. “However, with so much new talent coming to the team whether that be freshmen or older guys coming to track or even current guys getting better than what they were last year. Considering that we already beat Branford in our first meet, we can expect a great season this year.” 

Junior Carter Rosiak said he enjoys the process of try to get better. 

“My favorite part is definitely the improvement,” said Rosiak. “It gets harder the more you improve, but that feeling when you persevere through it and getting to that new PR makes you feel stronger each time. My goal this season is to break 20 minutes on the 5K.”

Freshman Jaishan Siva said the team is very close and always pulls for one another.

“I like how we improve and get better as a team,” Siva said. “We all like to help and motivate each other on our workouts.”