Shoreham-Wading River's Leyton Mangiamele set a new school record in the Long Jump this week.
Mangiamele had a distance of 22’ 8½”. With that distance and his performance, he earned an automatic qualification for the Section XI state team. This marks Leighton’s third straight spring season on the state team.
Earlier this year he became the boys long jump champion at the Suffolk County high school small school indoor track and field championships. That day he improved his mark by almost two feet from the beginning of the season with a jump of 21 ft 8 ¾ in to win the long jump by nearly a full foot.
Mangiamele has showed massive improvements in his performance since last season, and that year was already impressive enough.