2008 Woodie Awards
Indoor track up and running
Liana Boghosian
Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: Sports
It is a team with little identity and even less recognition. In fact, the indoor track team is not even listed on the Athletics Department Web site. But what the team lacks in publicity, they make up for in work ethic.
Just like anything else in its early stages, the indoor track team is a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of hard work, according to the team's coach, Andrew Barron.
This is the first year Emerson is recognizing the indoor track team as a varsity sport.
Before this year, the team was considered a club at Emerson. With only a small amount of success and interest, Jamie Clouthier, a junior broadcast journalism major, "thought the whole thing had died."
Last season, the team only participated in one of six scheduled meets. Clouthier, one of the eight athletes on the team, was disappointed until he got an e-mail from the athletic department saying the team was back on.
"I'm really glad the program is starting up," Clouthier said.
Clouthier, who is also on the baseball team, sprints both the 55-meter and the 200-meter events, and he runs both of them fast. His best time in the 55-meter is 7.18 seconds and in the 200-meter, 25.07 seconds. Clouthier said he is enjoying taking advantage of the new facilities at Emerson College.
Barron describes the sport as demanding, with four practices a week and meets that run all day on Saturdays.
"You have to put in a lot of hours," Barron said.
The meets can last up to eight hours when the athletes are participating in multiple events. The events include relays, track and field, and sprinting.
The team practices twice a week in Boston Common and twice a week at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury.
Clouthier describes the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center as "one of the best gyms on the East Coast, if not in the country."
He takes advantage of the facility by taking his "time [there] very seriously," he said.
Just like anything else in its early stages, the indoor track team is a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of hard work, according to the team's coach, Andrew Barron.
This is the first year Emerson is recognizing the indoor track team as a varsity sport.
Before this year, the team was considered a club at Emerson. With only a small amount of success and interest, Jamie Clouthier, a junior broadcast journalism major, "thought the whole thing had died."
Last season, the team only participated in one of six scheduled meets. Clouthier, one of the eight athletes on the team, was disappointed until he got an e-mail from the athletic department saying the team was back on.
"I'm really glad the program is starting up," Clouthier said.
Clouthier, who is also on the baseball team, sprints both the 55-meter and the 200-meter events, and he runs both of them fast. His best time in the 55-meter is 7.18 seconds and in the 200-meter, 25.07 seconds. Clouthier said he is enjoying taking advantage of the new facilities at Emerson College.
Barron describes the sport as demanding, with four practices a week and meets that run all day on Saturdays.
"You have to put in a lot of hours," Barron said.
The meets can last up to eight hours when the athletes are participating in multiple events. The events include relays, track and field, and sprinting.
The team practices twice a week in Boston Common and twice a week at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury.
Clouthier describes the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center as "one of the best gyms on the East Coast, if not in the country."
He takes advantage of the facility by taking his "time [there] very seriously," he said.
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