For Amherst track’s Taj-Amir Torres, the outdoor track season did not have to mean anything. The senior had already committed to Boston College to play football, and he had already accomplished just about everything he needed to accomplish in hig...

After hours of debate, the MassLive high school staff produced the male and female Athletes of the Year for each school in Western Massachusetts. Check out the boys list here, and the girls list here.
Along the way, we ran into several players who were...

Travon Godette was the first thrower in the first flight of the javelin at the 2015 NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships Saturday.
The Westfield State junior came in as the top seed, and he threw a season-best 67.5 meters to start off the ev...

Several Western Mass. athletes made the trip down to Greensboro, N.C. from Friday to Sunday to compete at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor meet.
Frontier high jumper Kat Miner had the best result on the weekend for Western Mass. athletes, finishing se...

Frontier high jumper Kat Miner just keeps winning, as she took first in the high jump at the New England Championships Saturday in Saco, Maine. Miner, who won with a jump of 5’ 9’’ at the All-State Championships, won with a jump of th...

Southwick’s Jon Collins broke his own meet record Wednesday when he won the second annual Western Mass. Decathlon at Northampton High School with a total of 5921 points. His performance, plus the third-place finish of teammate Nick Peterson (5361...