Ott Track and Field Center, University of Pennsylvania
This section will be divided into a number of pages as the Winter/Indoor Track season progresses:
I. Page I marks the beginning of the Winter Season and includes comments on and (when practical)
pictures from the Early Winter Season, December, 2024 through early January, 2025, with the first, SJTCA Winter Meet # 1 at the Bennett Center
in Toms River, NJ on December 13th. 2024, a rust-buster for Sprinters, Jumpers and Throwers; the second, Olympic Conference # 1 at the
Bennett Center on December 20, 2024; the third, a distance practice on a cold winter morning at Cherokee, December 21. 2024; the fourth,
SJTCA Winter Meet # 3 at the Bennett Center on December 30th, 2023; and the fourth, SJTCA Winter Meet # 9 at the new
Ott Center on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania on January 4th, 2025! GO CHIEFS!
II. Page II marks the continuation of the Winter Season and includes comments on and (when practical)
pictures from the Mid-Winter Season, January , 2025, with the first, SJTCA Winter Meet # 10 at the newly-named
Rothman Orthopaedics Sports Complex (previously the Bennett Center or The Bubble) in Toms River on January 8th; the second, Cherokee Throw Down # 1,
a Shot Put meet at Cherokee High School, on January 9th; then the SJTCA Winter Meet #12 on January 13th at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Center
on Staten Island, NY.; followed by the NJSIAA SJ Group 4 Relay Championships on January 19th at the Rothman Center in Toms River; and the
SJTCA Winter Meet #13 on January 22nd at the Ott Center on the Penn campus in Philadelphia. GO CHIEFS!
III. Page III marks the near-end of the Winter Season and includes comments on and (when practical) pictures from
the Late Winter Season, late January, 2025, with the first, the Cherokee Throw Down # 2, a Shot Put meet at Cherokee High School, on
January 23rd; then SJTCA Winter Meet # 15 at The Bubble on January 25th; followed by the Olympic/Tri-County Conference Championships on
January 31st again at The Bubble; and the SJTCA Winter Meet # 17 on February 3rd at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Center on Staten Island, NY.
Finally, on February 5th, the team returns to the Ott Track and Field Center at Penn for a part of the highly competitive LaSalle Relay
Series! GO CHIEFS!
IV. Page IV marks the final weeks of the Winter Season and includes comments on and (when practical) pictures from
the Winter Season's End, Mid-February, 2025 until Late-February, 2025. It begins on February 10th with the SJTCA Winter Meet # 18 at the Ocean
Breeze Track and Field Center on Staten Island; followed on February 14th by the NJSIAA South Jersey Sectional Championships at The Bubble in
Toms River. Locally, on February 18th, there's the Cherokee Throw Down # 3, a Shot Put meet at Cherokee High School. After that, on February 23rd,
those who qualified previously at Sectionals will return to The Bubble for the NJSIAA Group IV State Championships! GO CHIEFS!
V. Page V marks the end of the Winter Season and the beginning of the Spring Season, and includes comments on and
(when practical) pictures from the Winter Season's End, the Indoor Meet of Champions, at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Center on Staten
Island, on March 2nd 2025! Further details on Spring Track, 2025 will be posted soon! GO CHIEFS!
