Track Teams to Compete Twice This Week

Westfield High School may have the week off for holiday vacation, but the track teams are competing.

On Monday at 9 a.m. the girls track team will be headed up to Drew University in Madison for the Drew Invitational meet. Teams from around northern New Jersey will be competing in the annual relay meet.

On Wednesday at 9 a.m., both the boys and girls track teams will be headed up to Drew for the Polar Bear Invitational. Both teams will compete against other high school track teams from around the region in the relay meet.

The winter track season is dotted with the large scale relay competitions at indoor arenas across the state. Drew University, with a large gym named after former Treasury Secretary William Simon, is a popular venue for indoor track meets annually. The track teams have competed at Drew twice this month. Other meets are held at the Armory in Jersey City, an Armory in Upper Manhattan and other colleges. Westfield no longer competes at meets in the indoor track on the Fairleigh Dickinson University campus in Teaneck nor at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

The relay meets typically feature multiple heats in each of the typical track relays ranging from sprints to distance races, along with medleys of several races in one relay. Field events including the high jump are also part of the events for the day.