By Kellie Gerbers
Graphics Editor ’04

After the girls’ first place finish and boys’ second place finish at the Cobb County track meet, the future looks very bright for Lassiter’s track and field team. With the final weeks of the season at hand, both teams have high hopes for success at the region meets.

With strong individual performances by junior Stacy Doornbos (long jump), senior Michelle Pollitt (high jump), sophomore Emily Bernhardt (discuss), senior Christy Carr (pole vault), and senior Elena Linn (distance races), Lassiter’s girls’ team appears to have depth in every aspect of the sport. Similarly, Alex McWalters and Michael Jansen of the boys’ team will provide crucial points in the distance races.

Unfortunately for the boys’ team, the number of participating athletes has dropped over the past few weeks due to unfortunate circumstances as well as injuries. Junior Carson Cutrone is faced with damage to his ACL while senior James Steinburger took a nasty fall during the 110 hurdles at the Track Coaches’ Invitational at Georgia Tech last month. If the boys are to continue the 3-year region champion streak, they need to be very cautious in the weeks preceding the competition. Subsequently, both the boys’ and the girls’ teams will suffer losses at the end of the season due to the proportion of seniors graduating at the end of the year. Both coaches and students have voiced the importance of recruiting early for next cross country and track seasons in order to maintain their successful record. Despite these recent hurdles that Lassiter track has had to overcome, both teams did take home the region trophy last year and intend to do it once again at the end of this month. With hard work and dedication, Lassiter track and field will surely end their season on a high note.