The outdoor track and field team will begin its regular season tomorrow at AHS in its only home meet of the season against Robert E. Lee, Lake Braddock and West Potomac. The meet will also be the team’s Senior Night and will honor all of the graduating seniors this year.

“In order to prepare for the meet we have been training hard at practice,” Head Coach Sean Miller said.

The recent history of the AHS boys and girls track teams has been filled with many great individual and team accomplishments and the members of this year’s team hope to repeat history in their upcoming spring season.

“On the boys side we expect nothing less then a district and regional championship,” Miller said. “For the girls we are hoping to send as many individuals to regionals as possible and score well at districts as a team.”

“I think the upcoming season is going to be a great one,” junior Ahmed Bile said. “We have a lot of new guys that could become really good with practice. I think most of the guys will go pretty far, at least to regionals, and we should send a couple guys to states.”

Coming off an indoor track district title and a district win from last year’s outdoor track season, the boys track team is expected to do well this season. Some key members of the boys track and field team include Bile and seniors JP Jenkins, Josh Jean Jacques, Joel Hoisington and Nick Doumbia.

“As a team we are looking to get another district title and a regional one as well, and even a top five finish at states,” Bile said. Bile hopes to win another state title, earn another All-American finish, and win the 800-meter race at Nationals this spring.

“I think the girls will do great this season,” senior Carrie Vergel de Dios said. “We have a lot of good new underclassmen as well as juniors and seniors who have the experience. I believe some girls have a really good chance of getting to regionals, such as senior Victoria Ko and junior Sabrina Romano.”

“We will go far because we have outstanding individuals in just about every event,” Miller said. “Very few teams have the depth that we have.”