The Wings Like Eagles Track Club, better known as Wings Track Club, is unique; 80 percent of the children enrolled with the club are home schooled and lack the organized sports opportunities that most public schools provide for their enrolled students.
Named after a sequence of songs and verses in the Bible, the Wings Like Eagles Track Club was started by Stepinac Head Track and Field Coach Nick Mitchell.
"We started with our local Pentecostal Church where there were a large amount of home schooling families," Mitchell said. "Our first year, in 1998, we started with 25 children; 10 were home schooled at that time. And then there began networking. It simply just caught on from there."
It has caught on with young athletes like 14-year-old Calvin Ocheltree, who won multiple events Tuesday, Aug. 3. Ocheltree crossed the line first in the 12- to 14-year age bracket with a time of 7.0 in the 55-meter dash and 13.3 in the 100-meter dash.
The Club allows home schooling families the capability to fulfill all New York state Physical Education Requirements. For more information on the Wings Track Club send an e-mail to 4theneed@gmail.com.
Team Mosley
The dynamic brother tandem from Middletown, Mel and Manny Mosley, competed Tuesday, Aug. 3. Both are New York state champions in at least one event: Mel is the 600-meter state champ and Manny is the 400-meter hurdles state champ.
Mel ran the 200-meter dash in 22.7, and the 400-meter dash in 49.3. Brother Manny competed in the 400 hurdles, finishing with a time of 58.5. The Mosley brothers finished the night running together in the 4x400 meter relay, where the anchor leg flew across the finish line with a compiled time of 3:30.6.
No slowing down
Younger athletes can strive to one day be as resolute as 78-year-old Tom Talbott, of Connecticut. With two broken ribs, he ran the 400-meter dash in a time of 2:31.28.
"I just love it," said Talbott, who runs for Sprint Force America. "I will never quit."
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