Outdoor track and field is back, the wind is out of the northwest at fifteen miles per hour, somebody's shorts are inside out, and Drew Gervais just ran a 10.94 in the 100 meters in April. In April. Twenty meets are already in the book and the Old Town home meet alone produced six hundred and fifty three results in a single afternoon, which is roughly the entire population of Limerick standing in line for the long jump pit.
There is a lot to unpack. Let's go event by event, because that is how track works whether you like it or not.
Boys 100 meters: somebody check the timer.
Drew Gervais of Bonny Eagle ran 10.94 at his home meet. That is, in technical track terms, very fast. That is, in non technical track terms, an absurd time to put up before the second week of April in the state of Maine. Full sprint leaderboards are over here.
Bossay Ditanduka of South Portland was right behind at 10.96. Ali Carter of Falmouth went 10.98. Three guys under 11 seconds in the first ten days of the season. Last spring at this same point on the calendar, Maine had zero. The cold weather has apparently been replaced by some kind of springs underneath the track. We do not have a methodology note for this. We just have the times.
Girls 100 meters: Seneca Haney is back.
Seneca Haney of Mount Desert Island opened with a 12.29 at the MDI home meet. That is the fastest girls 100 meter time in the state through Week 1, by half a second. Half a second in the 100 meters is roughly the difference between first place and the picture they take of the trophy.
Haley Rose of Bucksport went 12.69. Hayden Aines of Yarmouth ran 12.71 at the Bob Morse Invitational. The girls sprint scene was strong last year and is starting strong this year. The relays are going to be loud.
Boys mile: William Morris of Dirigo says hello.
4:28.09 at MVC at Maranacook. April 20th. In the rain. We watched the splits and the kid ran a 65 second last 400. Whoever Dirigo's distance coach is, they are doing something right and they should send the recipe to the rest of us. The full Distance Desk has every 800 through 3200 mark in the state.
Alex Gilbert of Freeport went 4:29.46. Atticus Merriam of Scarborough opened at 4:30.31. Three boys under 4:31 already. The mile race at the state meet in June is going to be a knife fight.
Field events, where weird things are already happening.
Jaiden Hebert of Lawrence threw the discus 157 feet, 9 inches at the home meet. That is a state ranked throw in the first weekend of the season. Joseph Bennett of MDI went 149-10. The discus circle is loud right now. Throws and jumps live on the Field Report page.
On the girls side, Angelina Boisvert of Nokomis jumped 17 feet 6 and a half inches in the long jump at Messalonskee Meet number one. That is leading the state by five inches. Hayden Aines of Yarmouth went 17-4.5. Grace Mayo of Skowhegan jumped 17-1.5. Three girls past seventeen feet in the first ten days. Did we mention it is April.
Team scoreboard: Skowhegan and Old Town are showing up.
Looking across all twenty outdoor meets so far, Skowhegan leads the state in first place finishes with eleven. Old Town is right behind with eight. Lawrence and Hampden Academy each have seven. South Portland and Bangor both have nineteen and eighteen first place finishes respectively when you add up across multiple meets, because those programs are just enormous and put a lot of athletes in a lot of finals. Team strength shows up cleanly on PIR once meet entries fill in.
The Old Town meet on April 25th was a monster. Six hundred and fifty three results from one venue in one day. The throwers only meet at York the same day produced eighty one results that did not exist anywhere else. The Lawrence home meet was 268 results. There is more outdoor track happening per Saturday in Maine right now than at any point in the calendar except the state qualifiers. Enjoy that.
Indoor and outdoor are filed separately. Please stop emailing us.
A quick reminder, because we get the same question every spring. Indoor times and outdoor times do not get mixed in the rankings. They are different seasons, different track surfaces, different starting blocks, and frankly different sports inside the same sport. Indoor 200 meter times look fast because the track is smaller. Outdoor 200 meter times are run on a full curve. Comparing them is like comparing a free throw to a corner three. We filter by season AND year, every time, on every page.
Your kid's indoor PR is still on their athlete page. It is in the indoor section. The outdoor section is starting fresh. That is by design and we will die on this hill.
Still missing from the leaderboard.
A few of the bigger early season meets have not posted complete results yet. KVAC, EM Aroostook conference dual meets, and the Mountain Valley Conference league openers are partially in. As more results show up on the board, the school by school first place tally is going to shift fast. Hampden Academy in particular has 114 results entered and only seven first place finishes right now, which means a lot of their stars are still loading.
Predictions for individual events are not coming any time soon, by the way. Track and field is too noisy in any given race for us to honestly project, and we are not going to fake it. What you will see expand is athlete progression charts, school depth charts by event, and conference score projections once meet entries start filling in. Plain English definitions of every metric live in the glossary.