Haley Catarius, Marshfield  RUNNER OF THE YEAR
		If there's a runner who knows how to perform under pressure, it is Catarius. She capped off her record career at Marshfield just as many thought she would, winning the New England championship this spring in the 300 hurdles with a time of 45.29 seconds. And just as she did the week before when she won the All-States (44.36), she edged her rival, Old Rochester Regional junior Stephanie Reusch (45.39). In the winter, Catarius was among the nation's top runners in the 600 meters, winning the All-State meet (1 minute 33.30 seconds) and placing second at the New England meet (1:34.35). Ranked fourth in the nation at one time, she holds the school record in the 600 meters at 1:33.30. She will attend the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

Mel Gonsalves, Lincoln-Sudbury  DIVISION 1
		Gonsalves called his team's season ''epic.'' Judging by the team's list of accomplishments, it's impossible to argue. The Warriors never lost a single thing, be it a league meet, league championship meet, relay meet, state division meet, or All-States meet. In his sixth year as head coach, the 1990 Bridgewater State graduate, led L-S to an 8-0 regular season and helped the team breeze through the rest of its league and state competition, culminating with a dramatic 3-point All-States victory over Bromfield (31-28), led by freshman pole vaulter Sophia Romeri's first-place finish.

Bill Piscione, Tewksbury  DIVISION 2
		Piscione, who said he was ''just along for the ride'' this year, made a point of saying he owed much of his success to his boys' counterpart at Tewksbury, Steven Levine, also a Coach of the Year. Each coach has spent 33 years in Tewksbury, and have won a total of 320 meets together and lost only 65. Piscione's girls were the MVC Division 2 champions this year and Class B state champions. Piscione graduated from St. Michael's College and participated in football and track. After finishing a football coaching career two years ago, Piscione has now won Coach of the Year honors two years in a row.

Jerry Bailey, Stoneham  DIVISION 3
		He's not claiming he's Coach Norman Dale from the movie Hoosiers, but Bailey ''loves this team.'' Bailey's Spartans were young, but exceeded expectations in winning the Middlesex League trophy with a 9-0 record. Stoneham continued its magical run, winning the Division 3 state relays, and was the runner-up at the Division 3 states, then placed at the All-States. A graduate of both Malden Catholic and UMass-Lowell, Bailey is a lifelong lover of track and field. He coaches fall and winter middle school track programs and is a proud father of three young children.

Frank Barbuto, Dedham  DIVISION 4
		Barbuto is the picture of success at his high school alma mater, Dedham. The 2005 Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association Coach of the Year, Barbuto was the Globe's Division 4 winter track coach of the year and he returns to these pages again for plenty of reasons. His Marauders had one of the most comfortable divisional wins of the spring, taking the Division 4 meet with 76 points; runner-up North Reading followed at 52. Barbuto is also the school's field hockey coach, and that team has won two of the last three state championships.

Kaitlynne Akroyd, Methuen  JAVELIN
		A school record-breaker as a junior, Akroyd still has another year to improve on her impressive spring season. Her throw of 129 feet was second at the All-States and broke Methuen's old record of 126-1. She and state champion Lauren Stern of Lunenberg (134-8) were above and beyond the rest of the field. Akroyd was the Division 1 state champion as well, asserting her domiance against the rest of the East. An honor roll student, Akroyd also plays basketball and volleyball. She spends her free time cooking and shopping and participates in the North Shore Juniors Volleyball and Hoops for Hope leagues.

Rachel Amaral, B-R  DISCUS
		Amaral has been a familiar sight at Division 1 championships over the years. She should be, considering she's an elite performer in the discus and among the best in the shot put. She was the Division 1 state champion this year in the discus and placed second at the All-States in the discus (118-7) and fourth in the shot put (37-4). Both throws were school records, which made it a total of three for the senior, who already held the indoor shot put record of 37-8. Amaral was also captain of the volleyball team and is a Brown Belt in Kempo Karate. She was a member of the yearbook editorial staff, an AP student, and won the Female Health Award. She is headed to College of the Holy Cross and will continue in track.

Lauren Barber, New Bedford  100 HURDLES
		Barber is undaunted by numbers. She's undaunted by the number of minutes and hours it takes to be a varsity soccer captain. She's undaunted by her New Bedford Class of 2006, 656 students strong, where she ranked third in the class and is a member of the Honor Society. She's also undaunted by the list of competitors in the 100 hurdles at the All-States, where she rose to the top with a time of 14.60 seconds. Just a junior, Barber was also the long jump Division 1 champion. Listed next on her track biography is something even more significant: her status as an All-American in winter track for the 4x55 meters hurdle relay team. She plays in her school's jazz band and she also likes playing tennis.

Meaghan Callahan, Apponequet  100
		While she had already becoming a well known name (and a team captain) by her sophomore year, someone could have stopped her. When she was running in the 100 again in her junior year, she could have buckled under pressure. By her senior year, she could have lost a bit of her incredible consistency. But Callahan, who will head to Boston College this fall, never did. She held her own at the All-States this spring, winning the 100 in 12.48 seconds. She had previously been crowned champion at the Division 3 meet. Callahan only added to her legacy with an impressive runner-up finish at the New Englands (12.05).

Brielle Chabot, Wellesley  2-MILE
		Chabot is a proud - as she put it - ''12-season varsity athlete.'' She has the awards and honors to prove it. She was the second-best two-miler in the state this year with a time of 10 minutes 56.28 seconds. She won the Class C meet (11:08) and the Bay State Conference meet (11:01). She went to the Nationals as a junior, placing 12th. She was captain of the cross-country team as a junior, and took over captain duties of both track teams this year. On top of her outdoor second-place finish, she was fourth in both cross-country and indoor track All-States. An honors student and a lover of Cape Cod, Chabot heads to Boston College in the fall, where she will continue her running career.

Ebony Cotterell, Brockton  200
		Cotterell could hardly fit all of her prestigious awards onto one sheet of paper. The long list includes: South Shore Principals Meet champion in the 200 meters, a Big Three All-Star, a Class A champion, a United States Army Reserve National Scholar Athlete, voted ''most athletic'' at Brockton High, the runner-up at the All-States, owner of four school records, and the youngest member of the New England champion 4x100 relay. She had an undefeated regular season for Brockton and served as the team captain, and she is a high honor roll student. It's no wonder she will attend Boston University with a full athletic scholarship. In the Junior Olympics, she was also second in the New England region in the 200 meters.

Hillary Crook, Mansfield  SHOT PUT
		Once a champion, always a champion. If you're looking for consistency in a girls' track performer, Crook is a best bet. A winter and now a spring All-Scholastic, Crook was the All-States champion in the shot put this spring with a throw of 41 feet Æ inch. If that prestigious accomplishment isn't enough, then look at what she did in the winter. She broke the Mansfield school record of 41-7 with a throw of 43-1Æ at the National Scholastic Indoor Championships and won both the Coaches Elite (38-11Œ) and Division 2 (38-6Æ) meets. Most recently, she was fifth at the New Englands (40-11). She will attend Jacksonville University.

Christina Izzicupo, Stoneham  400
		There's a sophomore in the town of Stoneham whose prowess on the track and whose confident talent is overwhelming the rest of the always-competitive Middlesex League. Izzicupo won the 400 meters at the All-States this spring at 57.20 seconds and already has a resume seniors strive for. In the winter, when she was the anchor of the team's 4x400 relay team and an All-Scholastic as well, the high honors student was the key cog in a foursome that won the Division 3 (4:07.84) and All-State (4:03.23) meets. Also a soccer player, Izzicupo was the leader of the relay that set Middlesex (4:10.30) and school (4:03.23) records.

Arantxa King, Medford  TRIPLE JUMP
		Looks like Medford track coach Stephen Mascoll's grand statement from last winter is holding up. Mascoll, who said King was ''by and large the best I've ever seen'' after King's dominating winter season in which she was named the Globe's Co-Runner of the Year, observed even more greatness from his junior this spring. King, a native of Bermuda, was the notable standout at the All-States in the triple jump, where she set a meet record of 42 feet, breaking the previous record of 40-4Æ. King already had the winter records in the long jump at both the state (19-5Æ) and New England (19) meets. The all-around talented King also plays soccer and is ranked sixth in her class.

Meg Looney, Bishop Feehan  800
		If you enter the Bishop Feehan athletic fieldhouse, you'll be overwhelmed by the name ''Looney.'' Looney, who is only a sophomore, already holds school records in the 400 meters, the 600, the 800, the 4x400 relay (indoor and outdoor), the 4x800 relay (outdoor), the sprint medley relay, and the distance medley relay. She was second in the 800 at the All-States this year (2:14.16) and was first at the Class C meet and EAC championship meet. Her accomplishments seem like those of a senior, but she was the Freshman/Sophomore meet state champion in the 800 as well. A member of both the Science and Spanish Honor Societies, Looney plays the cello and is on the peer ministry board.

Olga Ponomarenko, C-C  HIGH JUMP, LONG JUMP
		Ponomarenko was one of the finest and most versatile performers at All-States, placing second in both the high jump (5 feet 4 inches) and long jump (18-4 1/2). She was the Dual County League champion in both events and most impressively, placed sixth in the high jump at the All-American indoor national championships. At last week's New Englands, she won the long jump (18-10) and placed second in the high jump (5-4). The 5-foot-7-inch Ponomarenko enjoys skiing, is an honor roll student, and was awarded the biology department award.

Sophia Romeri, Lincoln-Sudbury  POLE VAULT
		Night had fallen, the crowd was gone, and many meet officials had begun to sit down and stretch, their jobs completed at All-States in Fitchburg June 5. There was an event still to be decided. Over an hour after the rest of the meet had concluded, Romeri, a freshman, vaulted a meet and personal best of 10 feet 6 inches. Romeri's victory gave coach Mel Gonsalves and the Warriors the state championship title. Romeri uses her pole vaulting skills in other areas, as she is a Level 9 regional competitor in gymnastics and participates in the circus in flying trapeze and trampoline. She plays in the Bay State Games and Junior Olympics.

Colleen Wetherbee, D-Y  MILE
		With every track season, it's becoming more and more apparent just how dominant Wetherbee is in the mile. At this spring's All-States, it was never been more obvious. The meet champion had an impeccable stretch run in the race and was the only runner to break the five-minute barrier on her way to a time of 4:54.33. The next runner didn't come in until 5:01.25. Wetherbee, who was the Globe's winter Co-Runner of the Year, won the Division 2 meet (5:13.37) and All-States (4:54.88) in the winter as well. At the National Indoor meet in the winter, she finished second and broke her school's record in the process at 4:51.22. She is an Amnesty International member.

North Attleboro  4x100

North Attleboro’s Fab Four had a shining day at the All-States for two reasons: a record and a first-place trophy. The team (left to right, Atinuke Adeyemi, Kristen McLoughlin, Kathleen Hennessey, Adrienne Goldberg) broke a school record with their winning time of 49.10 seconds. Goldberg, a senior, has been a member of three state relay 4x100 teams. Goldberg is a three-time New England 100-meter runner; Hennessey is a two-time New England 4x100 runner, and McLoughlin broke the school record in the 300 (42.6) in the winter. The race itself was a close one, as both Cambridge R&L and Wellesley came close to North Attleboro.

Lincoln Sudbury  4x400

There seemed to be no doubt as to the most crowd-pleasing event at All-States. In the 4x400 relay, Lincoln-Sudbury (left to right: Emily Mepham, Molly Binder,Oliva Reed, and Dana Jamieson) took first place in 4 minutes .02 seconds. Second place Bridgewater-Raynham came in at 4:00.06. Third place Stoneham, 4:00.66. With the finish so close, there was a delay in the official announcement of the winner, a review of the video being necessary. The all-sophomore quartet provided Lincoln-Sudbury with one of its most crucial and exciting victories on its way to the team championship.

Newton South  4x800

(Left to right) Front row: Anne Norris, Bridget Dahlberg, and Kelsey Karys. Back row: Molly Gardner, Diana Braver, and Julia Frieze. Bridget Dahlberg wanted to make it clear. Everyone — and she means all six — who aided the pursuit of a state championship this year for the Newton South 4x800 team enjoys eating. She’s right, as all six wrote it down, in a tribute to team unity. They all enjoy doing something else — winning. Dahlberg, who ran the anchor leg at the All-States in Fitchburg, raced with Diana Braver, Julia Frieze and Ann Norris as the team held off a very competitive Bromfield squad with a winning time of 9:28.75. Only a freshman, Dahlberg is in a position to lead this talented relay team in years to come.

BAY STATE: Nora Barnicle, Jess Barton, Julie Blanchard, Lily Brown, Hester Breen, Kat Chiong, Emma Kornetsky, Carolyn Ranti, Haleigh Smith, Newton North; Karri Flaherty, Kristen Mahoney, Weymouth; Maxine Paul, Sabrina Parise, Brookline; Amy Caldwell, Adrienne Lutz, Braintree; Violet King, Needham; Jess Johnson, Framingham; Brielle Chabot, Alex DeAmicis, Abby King, Luci Laffitte, Mekah MacIntosh, Lindsay Marcil, Najuana Mushette, Wellesley; Alex Fandel, Madison Farrell, Nicole Murphy, Katie Richmond, Emily Stefans, Carolyn Tannetta, Dedham; Anya Price, Julie Reiters, Becca White, Natick; Sam Cunninham, Olivia Lattanzi, Kelli Madigan, Milton; Tayla Ryan, Norwood; Kate Bethoney, Mary McAvoy, Jess Papirio, Walpole.

BIG THREE: Alex Hilliard, Ebony Cotterell, Theresa Alphonse, Casey DiMestico, Melanie Harris, Raymonde Samy, Jermai Harrison, Stephanie St. Paul, Juli Blanchette, Eve Hyppolite, Brockton; Ashley Gelinas, Lauren Barber, Kelsey Medeiros, Chelsea Metivier, Shelly DePina, Annafreed Sinjour, Sherri Sa, Jen Gomes, Linee Mello-Frost, New Bedford; Jess Oliviera, Vicky Reis, Durfee.

BOSTON CITY LEAGUE: Nerlande Mintor, Valerie Echevarria, Brittany Taylor, Delicia Williams, Charlestown; Sarah Cadet, Brittany Taylor, Nicoloe Baziile, Linda Tran, Dina Jean-Claude, Nakeisha Jones, Monete Johnson, Shaina Aubourg, O’Bryant; Kelsie Norman, Dorchester. Greater Boston: Danielle Hamlett, Katyla Mayhew, Sarah Trotman, Teyahnie Boone, Laura Asherman, Nia Jarvis, Maya Chase, Cambridge; Peggy Enayo, Cara Woodward, Everett; Aranxta King, Medford; Ketura Moise, Kaylan Melville, Erin Allen, Katrina Gravel, Jen Levitt, Peabody; Tanisha Dutchalillier, Vanessa Beckford, Abbey Murray, Antoinette Toussaint, Meghan Connolly, Somerville; Trisha Vasquezi, Jasmin Washington, Jen Nicoloro, Krista Gladman, Shawna Fagon, Waltham.

MAYFLOWER: Hilary Dreyer, Alice Hopkins, Morgan Ibarrando, Emma Lee Iverson, Ashley Medeiros, Katrina Nevin, Ashley Rebello, Martha’s Vineyard; Julianna Hassett-Salley, Victoria Kessinger, Joann O’Brien, Haley Reddington, Greta Wicklund, Sacred Heart; Crista Rolfe, Kristin Texeira, West Bridgewater.

MERRIMACK VALLEY: Nikki Cunha, Katalin Soni, Tewksbury; Andrea Govastos, Colleen Sorenson, Danielle Diodatti, Hayley O’Sullivan, Ashley Evangelista, Marelle Elie, Central Catholic; Tiffany Robicheau, Eunice Delice, Methuen; Colleen McNaughton, Samantha Stabile, Katherine O’Dowd, Jennifer Racine, Erin Garvey, Haverhill; Sydney Fitzpatrick, Billerica; Courtney Burgess, Dracut; Colleen Shannon, Kaylee Petterutto, Sara York, Jen Merinder, Andover.

MIDDLESEX: Molly Hurkett, Brianna Tobin, Jackie Barrett, Woburn; Meg Cadden, Tara Greichen, Julia Perry, Ilana Clopper, Madeline Nally, Julia Feltus, Mary Silvia, Reading; Lindsay Manfra, Elaina Zizza, Chelsey Canavan, Christina Izzicupo, Emily Nardone, Ali Simeone, Kristina Conary, Kim Trant, Rachel Mondello, Lindsey Kennedy, Stoneham; Katherine Eidmann, Emma Spencer, Julia Marder, Krista Woodward, Eliza Tadley, Caleigh Moran, Winchester; Menemsha McBain, Jessica Batty, Sharikka Finley-Moise, Jackie Harvell, Lilly Fesler, Lexington; Stephanie Colantonio, Emily DeBaie, Laura Orloff, Watertown; McKaleigh Murphy, Jenessa Refern, Michelle Langone, Michelle Flynn, Heather McCarthy, Grace Watson, Emma Finestone, Lindsey Tigges, Burlington; Ella Merullo, Hannah Merullo, Wakefield; Rene lento, Dylane Bannister, Lauren Bonta, Melrose.

PATRIOT: Lauren Tenaglia, Ashley Buckley, Duxbury; Priscilla Tanger, Hanover; Jocelyn Traina, Christina Lumbert, Caitlyn Marquis, Abby Glenzel, Anna Wretsley, Christina Meade, Shauna McNiff, Brigid Keohan, Samantha Lussier, Stephanie Boss, Hingham; Barbara Murphy, Alicia Farrell, Ashley Kelly, Kelly Muirhead, Middleboro; Amanda Claflin, Jennye McRae, Pembroke; Liz Carr, Cachet Chesson, Randolph; Britt MacDonald, Marissa Bonita, Amanda Panero, Rockland; Bailey Fairbanks, Kristen Devine, Silver Lake; Kate Carr, Scituate.