Monomoy Boys Indoor Track Wins League In First Official Season

HARWICH – A Monomoy varsity team that didn’t even exist one year ago has captured a league championship in its inaugural season.

The boys indoor track team, operating as a varsity program for the first time in 2025-26, won the Cape and Islands League championship last Saturday, scoring nearly 50 more points than the next closest school. The win was the high point so far for a group that, despite the infancy of the team as an official program, knew early on that competing for a league title was a real possibility. Now, they’ve made that a reality and brought a first-ever Cape and Islands indoor track championship to Monomoy.

“We were an unknown school, and now we're on top,” senior Jonathan Sagesse said. “People are getting to know us. We’ve just got to continue.”

Sagesse won two individual events (the 55-meter and the 300-meter) and ran with Monomoy’s dominant 4x200 relay team to help power the Sharks to the convincing win at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston.

Last season, Sagesse wasn’t even running track. He played basketball that winter, then decided to join the outdoor track team in the spring. Soon after, Sagesse was already one of the faster runners on the team.

“I saw my potential,” he said. “I could kind of outrun some other people that I ran, and I was like, ‘I'm going to just stick to track.’ I trained the whole summer, got better and came out here. Now I'm here just dominating.”

Sagesse’s story encapsulates the quick buildup and rise to the top for the indoor track team. He came in not really knowing much about the sport and worked out over the summer and fall to truly become a track athlete. At the Cape and Islands League championship, his time of 6.63 seconds in the 55-meter was a personal record. So too was his finish of 36.31 seconds in the 300-meter.

“I think he's a guy who always works hard, is confident in himself, and those kinds of things really matter when you're in events that you know there's not a lot of room for error,” head coach Adam Syty said.

Also at the meet, senior Sean Needham set a personal record by reaching 21 feet and 3 inches to win the long jump, and Monomoy (junior Quinn Muldoon, senior Patrick Jordan, senior Chatham Gillis, senior Nirvens Pierre) won the 4x400 in 3:44.91.

Monomoy additionally swept the top three in the 300-meter. After Sagesse’s first place finish, junior Alique Brown and Pierre took second and third. For those three, playing it safe wasn’t an option. They approached the event, according to Syty, ready to run as fast as they could in what was Monomoy’s critical race for pursuing the league title as a whole.

“These kids have 100 percent believed since the start of the season, and we saw what we were really capable of, that we could walk into this meet and do it,” Syty said.

Other top finishes included Needham taking third in the 55-meter and second in the 55-meter hurdles, Muldoon and senior Jude Hutchings MacMahon taking second and third in the 600-meter, Gillis finishing second in the 1,000-meter, and Monomoy (senior Samuel Kelley, freshman Kaleb Meyer, sophomore Jackson Craig and Gillis) placing second in the 4x800.

“Our mindset was, we're going to come win the Cape League championship for the first time,” Needham said. “We knew what to do.”

Needham, like Sagesse, wasn’t a track athlete prior to joining the team at Monomoy. Syty found him in the weight room one day and asked if he wanted to do some drills to get faster. Anecdotes like that are the foundation for the program that would eventually earn a league title in its first-ever season.

“It's a story I'm super proud of, because many of my programs that I've been a part of have always sort of started down and out and risen up,” Syty said. “But this program didn't even exist when I walked into it.”

When Syty added up all the expected scores before the league meet, just six points separated Monomoy and Dennis-Yarmouth, their primary competition, according to his projection. The Sharks proceeded to score more than they thought they would. In the end, they earned 114 to Dennis-Yarmouth’s 65. Nobody was stopping Monomoy on Saturday.

“I think it says that these kids were ready,” Syty said. “They believed in what they were capable of doing, and they showed up and they were prepared to do it, and they executed exactly as we talked about.”

Monomoy’s 4x200 relay team, which has been winning all year, continued that trend at the league championship meet even as they ran a different lineup (sophomore Jakob Conlon, junior Marco-Dean Hart, Sagesse, Brown) than usual (some of the main group’s athletes were spread out to other events as they tried to earn points wherever possible). Earlier in the season, a team of Pierre, Sagesse, Needham and Brown finished first at a Division 5 event in January.

“We all have a great trust in each other, and we know whatever happens, get it to the next person and take care of business,” Brown said.

The underdog Sharks have performed so well that in cases like the 4x200, they’ve quickly gone from the ones chasing other teams to the ones with the targets on their backs. It’s a new feeling for a team storming through its first official season. They want to run even faster.

“We want to hit that national caliber time for this group, and for a school of our size to chase sort of big things like that — where schools [with] like 1,500, 2,000 kids are hitting those kind of times — that's a huge sort of dream for us,” Syty said, “And I think all those guys 100 percent believe that they can do it.”

Up next for the Sharks in their inaugural year is states, where they’ll try to win a Division 5 title. It would be unexpected and things would have to go perfectly, Syty said, but the team is dialed in and believes in that kind of possibility. Given the meteoric rise, it’s easy to see how Monomoy would adopt the “anything is possible” approach, what with stories like that of Sagesse’s and Needham’s at their origin.

“It's just cool to have found kids like that just sort of walking around who otherwise wouldn't have been doing anything right now, and all of a sudden now they're winning league championships, winning MVPs, putting us in a position to win state meets and maybe even move on to Meet of Champions and beyond,” Syty said.