Amnesty Welch, nickname “Misty,” says her inner spirit is to “do
your best, try your hardest!”
As a freshman on the Columbia girls track team, Misty knows
she will have to “up her game” to compete with the
upperclassmen.
Misty’s races are the sprints -- 100m, 200m and the 4x100m
relay. She has previously run a 13.6 second 100m dash. She wants to
lower her time to help Columbia.
Ephrata star long distance runner Kyle Reidenbaugh remembers how he got started running.
"It was during Covid. I wanted to get healthy and it was something I could do alone. It was accessible and I kept going," Reidenbaugh said. He also credits his sister for inspiriing him to run track and cross country.
The junior runs the 3200 and 1600 meter races. While he is competitive, Reindenbaugh says it's not cutthroat.
Lancaster-Lebanon League Track & Field Champions for 2025. (Pictured is Manheim Central's 2-event champion Kylie Mattiace.)
4×800 m Relay: Warwick
100 m/110 m Hurdles: Kylie Mattiace, Manheim Central
100 m Dash: Ella Petrosky, McCaskey
1600 m Run: Ali Fink, Elizabethtown
4×100 m Relay: McCaskey
400 m Dash: Kaddel Howard, Cedar Crest
300 m Hurdles: Kylie Mattiace, Manheim Central
Lancaster-Lebanon League Track & Field Champions for 2024. (Pictured is Jayden Johnson, two-event champion for Conestoga Valley.)
4×800 m Relay: Annville-Cleona
100 m/110 m Hurdles: Jordan Sensenig, Conestoga Valley
100 m Dash: Jayden Johnson, Conestoga Valley
1600 m Run: Piper Fogleman, Manheim Township
4×100 m: Conestoga Valley
400 m Dash: Nick Keller, Ephrata
Lancaster-Lebanon League Track & Field Champions for 2023. (Pictured are McCaskey's 4x800 state gold medalists, from left, top, Lucie De Syon, Isabella Shertzer, Kamiah Wright and Milana Breuninger; and the 4x400 state gold medalists, bottom, Isabella Shertzer, Kamiah Wright, Lucie De Syon and Kamyah Wright.)
Lancaster-Lebanon Boys Individual Champions
4×800 m Relay: Ephrata
110 m hurdles: William Scott, Lancaster Catholic
Arielle Breuninger is a senior at Lancaster Country Day School, but she keeps putting her name in the McCaskey Track & Field record book.
Running for the McCaskey team under a school co-op, she became its first girl to run under 5 minutes in the 1,600 meters at the 60th annual Cedar Cliff Relays in Camp Hill. Her time of 4:59.98 was the ninth fastest time ever for a Lancaster-Lebanon League girl, according to local sportswriter Pete Kauffman.
Art Morris, former mayor of Lancaster, won the J. Freeland Chryst Award in 2005.
My favorite sports memory is winning the Pennsylvania Class A state mile championship in 1963 as part of the great J.P. McCaskey track teams in the 1960s.
I had failed to qualify for states in 1962 and was bitterly disappointed. I was very focused the next year, trained hard and qualified.