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| Douglas Antaky Running During the Section XI Championship @Herr_Schieck | X |
The Cornell commit was recently named New York State’s Senior Class Runner of the Year by Milesplit New York following his stellar performance this fall.
Antaky, 17, had run the fastest time at the hardest 5000 meter course in New York – and arguably the country – this past season, traversing the course in an impressive time of 16:08 at the Section XI Division Championships where he placed first.
The superstar distance runner was also unbeaten for the majority of the year as he was unbeaten from the season opener all the way up till the State Championship where he would finish runner-up to Fayetteville-Manlius senior Nolan McGinn, who was also unbeaten and remained undefeated until Nike Cross Nationals where he placed 74th.
Despite having an ending to his high school cross country season that he would probably like to forget, Antaky still finished his time at Smithtown as a champion and a record holder. He leaves the program with the Sunken Meadow State Park 5000 meter record, the record for fastest time at the prestigious Van Cortlandt Park 2500 meter course, tied for the best finish at a state meet for any runner in school history, and he became the first Bull to be named State Senior Runner of the Year.
When it’s all said and done, he will be considered the greatest cross country runner in school history. This is no easy achievement too as Smithtown has produced numerous All-State and Division 1 runners that went on to have great fortune at the next level.