Small-Town Track Team, Big-Time History

On winter afternoons, the Mifflin County track team often runs past the same places, the same bends in the road, the same quiet hills that have watched generations of kids grow up and move on.

Nothing about the setting suggests history.

And yet this winter, history kept happening anyway.

At the Pennsylvania indoor state championships at Penn State, the Huskies produced the most decorated performance the school’s boys indoor track program has ever seen. A meet record. Multiple medals. A relay podium finish. And a fourth-place team finish against the best programs in the state.

Four athletes stood in the middle of it all. Carter Smith. Reese Cubbison. Wyatt Kauffman. Connor Lynch.