By Shane Ball
The Alvirne Broncos Boys’ and Girls’ Track and Field teams traveled to Portsmouth High School on Friday night, May 30 for the 2025 NHIAA Division I Track & Field Championships.
The Alvirne Arm, senior Shawn Boudreau, did what he does best in Boys Discus with a throw of 173-foot 11-inch, breaking the previous Division I record by two feet and four inches.
The record was previously held by Matt McHugh of Exeter since 2006. Boudreau also placed fourth in Boys Shot Put with a 47-foot 8.5-inch throw, and seventh in Boys Javelin with a 131-foot, 8-inch throw.
Alvirne junior Shane Plumley placed fourth in the Boys 400-Meter Run with a 50.5-second run, with Winnacunnet’s Owen Janetos taking first with a 49.07-second run.
Alvirne senior Brent Dunning ran a 2-minute, 3.1-second 800-Meter Run, which was good enough for 10th among the boys. Dunning also finished ninth in the Boys 1,600-Meter Run with a 4-minute 36.35-second mile time. Carson Fitzgerald of Londonderry took first place with a mile time of four minutes and 22.88 seconds.
Alvirne junior Ava Martin placed 11th in the Girls 800-Meter Run with a 2-minute 28-second run.
Senior Anna Simpson placed sixth in the Girls 3200-Meter run with a time of 11 minutes and 44 seconds.
Joey Marcotte placed second in the Boys 300-Meter Hurdles with a time of 38.93 seconds, just a half-second behind first-place Ryan Jamison of Winnacunnet.
Victoria Oliveira, Olivia Cartagena, Sophia Berube, and Ava Martin made up the Girls 4×800 Meter Relay. The group ran in 10 minutes and 1.17 seconds, finishing fifth.
The Boys 4×100 Relay squad of Sam Oquist, Joey Marcotte, Jaden Taylor, and Shane Plumley placed sixth with a 43.99-second run. Joining Marcotte and Taylor for the Boys 4×400-Meter Relay were Jeremiah Caraballo-Sophos and Brent Dunning. The boys placed fifth with a run time of three minutes and 29.29 seconds.
Caraballo-Sophos also placed eighth in Boys High Jump with a 5-foot 10-inch jump. Mustafa Salman placed sixth in the Boys Long Jump for Alvirne with a 19-foot 7.5-inch jump.
The girls tied for 16th place with Bishop Guertin, scoring three points through 18 events.
Concord’s girls won the day with an incredible 110 points, 16 ahead of second-place Nashua North. The boys finished eighth among the 18 teams with 30 points. Pinkerton dominated the boys events with 101 points, 37 points ahead of second-place Nashua North’s 64.