The next day, on Friday, relatives of the boy tracked Luis Palomino down.
Just last weekend, the Willingboro boys track team won the Burlington County Open meet.
The boys' track teams have routinely won borough championships in recent years, and during the 2011 cross-country season their runners were first in New York City.
Boys and Girls High School of Brooklyn easily captured its sixth straight boys' track and field title yesterday at the Public Schools Athletic League indoor championships in Manhattan.
There have been some good things at Winslow High recently, most notably the boys' track team winning the Bridgeton Relays by a wide margin.
The longtime principal of the Bronx High School of Science has decided to retire at the end of summer, even as the public school, one of New York City's most prestigious, is mired in an investigation into allegations of hazing on the boys' track team.
Marcia Bailey, the coach of the boys' track and field team at Henrick Hudson High School in Montrose, looked around her school's sports complex during the county track championships recently and saw other women also coaching male athletes.
Matt Boshart of St. Anthony's of South Huntington, N.Y., was the outstanding boys' track athlete, winning the 800 in 1 minute 52.36 seconds and anchoring the winning 4x800 relay with a 1 55.9 split.
She grew up in Indiana, worked at a fast-food restaurant, ran on the boys' track team and regularly wrote to Mother Teresa asking about the meaning of life.
"I'm sad that this is happening, but I am in complete agreement that we shouldn't be running on this," said the boys' track coach, Gerald Richardson, as he bent down and pointed out a two-inch-wide crack that ran across six lanes.
