New Track at BF

For all of you who follow Track and Field or who once participated while in the Ridgewood School System, there is great news to share about the new track at BF Junior High School. According to Tom Thurston, who was our Track Captain in 1977 along with Andy Drapkin, this is "probably the nicest HS track and field facility in northern NJ."

To take a look click  here

You will be taken to Jacob Brown's web site. Yes, he is still a coach at RHS and is looking pretty good by all accounts and pictures. It must be the exercise and healthy living which he teaches.

When you see a track as fast as the one now at BF, it makes old time runners like me and Tom wonder how much faster we might have run if we hadn't been running on cinders and a 300 something yard track. It's pretty comical to consider what we had to compete on in the 1970s and earlier. This photo of Larry Coyle shows the kind of track we ran on, though I'm not sure if this was taken in Ridgewood.