Monomoy Indoor Track Dashes Through First Official Season

HARWICH – The Monomoy indoor track and field team — in its first official season — is making a statement.

Members of the burgeoning program aren't just happy to be operating; they’re in real consideration for a Cape and Islands League title and will be sending multiple athletes to national competitions.

Numbers for both the boys and girls outdoor track teams had already boomed during a transformation of the overall program orchestrated by head coach Adam Syty, who stepped in three years ago. Now that progress has advanced one step further. The newly founded winter team is, on the boys side, vying for a league title after earning a defining win last week against Dennis-Yarmouth.

“Seeing this growth and seeing how far we've come and all the things we're winning, it personally makes me so overjoyed and I'm just loving it, so super thankful,” senior Alexa Ford said.

When Ford started running track for Monomoy in eighth grade, there were seven girls on the team and maybe a dozen boys. The coaching, she said, just wasn’t really there, so much so that when Syty started to lead the program, the intense training he brought was a shock to the athletes. The Sharks quickly became used to it.

“We’ve really just been getting better and better on the track,” Syty said.

In 2025-26, the indoor team rosters more than 50 students. There’s a strength in numbers in track, and Monomoy has reaped the benefits. The program previously sent only a couple or so athletes to states. That figure has shot up many times over in the last few seasons.

“It's all about numbers, and we just keep building and getting stronger,” Ford said. “Our coach has been recruiting more people every single year.”

Last week on Jan. 6, the boys picked up a win against Dennis-Yarmouth that Syty called “the turning of the tide in our program.” The team had never before defeated Dennis-Yarmouth in track.

In that meet, senior Jonathan Sagesse and junior Alique Brown finished second and third in the 55-meter dash with personal records. Sophomore Jakob Conlon finished second in the 300-meter event. Seniors Jude Hutchings MacMahon and Patrick Jordan took third and fourth in the 600-meter. Seniors Chatham Gillis and Samuel Kelley placed second and third in the 1,000-meters run. Junior Quinn Muldoon won the 1-mile event with a personal record. Senior Sean Needham took second in the 55-meter hurdles and won the long jump with personal records.

“We all came together,” Needham said. “Coach was excited. First time in Monomoy history we ever did something like that.”

Also at the meet, Monomoy won the boys 4x200 relay (senior Nirvens Pierre, Sagesse, Needham, Brown) and the 4x400 (Muldoon, Jordan, Gillis, MacMahon). The 4x200 team won again (with a time of 1:32.46) over last weekend at The Nor’Easter, an invitational event among teams and athletes from multiple states.

For the girls at last week’s meet, senior Zay-Dah Thomas finished second in the 55-meter event. Junior Varvara Conley finished second and eighth grader Blessing Parrent finished fourth with personal records in the 300-meters. Eighth grader Lucy Cortese won and Ford took third in the 600-meter run, both with personal records. Freshman Skyler Orsmond finished first in the 2-mile event with a personal record, and the Sharks won the 4x200 relay event (Ford, Thomas, Cortese, Conley).

The boys 4x200 team, Syty said, is the fastest in Division 5, and the girls 4x200 team similarly is second-fastest in the division. Both teams have qualified for national competitions. The girls team put it all together upon adding Cortese (who, for her part, also won a 300-meter dash among freshmen last weekend at The Nor’Easter).

“We definitely had to build up to it,” Ford said. “I'd say all the stars have aligned. We finally have the four fastest girls Monomoy has ever seen running in the same year together.”

Monomoy, Syty said, has never been in consideration for a league title. That’s changed this winter, with the boys team understanding they’re capable of challenging for a win in what will be a competitive, down-to-the-wire league championship meet later in the season. The development of the track and field program at Monomoy, as a whole, has brought them to this point, in the indoor team’s first official season.

“The whole program has just grown,” Syty said.