| After getting the football, basketball and wrestling program underway the school board added track to the new school's sports program. |
| In the fall of 1960 Dick Sherwood was hired to be the school's first wrestling year coach. Although his experience and interest were in track and basketball the school needed someone to fill in for the first year as they had hired someone to coach wrestling for the next year. The school board hired Dick Sherwood as the first track coach at a salary of $100. With wrestling season over Sherwood started to work on setting up the Track program. |
| Sherwood, one of the original teaching staff at Reynolds High School was hired as a Health and PE teacher. He had graduated from Youngsville High School where his dad was superintendent. He played football, basketball, ran track and in the summer played baseball. After high school he attended Slippery Rock University where he was involved with track and gymnastics. As part of gymnastics he was a member of the show team which did a clown act on the trampoline. |
| Track was not a familiar sport among the students. Of the 35 that came out for track only two had any experience with track. One was Chris Musgrove who came from Fredonia High School had ran the quarter mile in the Mercer County Meet as a sophomore even though Fredonia didn't have a track team. Students at that time who attended schools that didn't have a track team could compete in the Mercer County Meet. |
| The other person that had some track experience was Gus Reimold. During Gus' eighth grade year his grandmother in Florida died and his parents sent him down to be with his grandfather. While there he participated in the high jump and the pole vault. |
| Where students were familiar with the sports of football, basketball and wrestling to a degree track was pretty much an unknown. |
| When practice started Coach Sherwood would show the kids one or 2 events. He would explain what they were and the basics techniques for those events and then have everyone try them. He continued each night until he had shown all the events. With so many running and field events he told them that there was something for everybody. |
| Reynolds did not have a track the first two years and they used the parking lot for the gymasium for their running. A few times they went to Slippery Rock University to practice on their indoor track. |
| The uniforms the first year were gray sleeveless tops with a blue diagonal across the front with R. H. S. in it and blue trunks. They had to buy their own track shoes. Later they also had blue sweatpants and a blue hooded sweatshirt with Reynolds across the front. The school provided one shot put, one discus, one javelin, one pole vault pole, and the other equipment needed. |
| After he had completed showing all the events then he would have the kids try out for the events and the winners would be the ones to complete in the meets. There was three event maximum that one person could complete in which included relays. |
| Due to track being relatively unknown at Reynolds a full schedule was not undertaken the first year. Practice meets were run against Commodore Perry, Mercer and Grove City. Real competition came with the Mercer County and District Meet where the Raiders competed. Chris Musgrove placed fourth in the 880 yard run at Districts. No Raiders advanced to the State Meet. |
| Notes: |
| Reynolds got their first track in 1963. It was a cider track that wasn't replaced until 2003 when an all-weather track was put in. |
| Early track assistants were; Fred Shoemaker, Chris Musgrove (started the Cross Country program at Reynolds), Frank Amato, and Jerry Wise. |
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The 1964 team was the first track team to be undefeated and also the school's first undefeated team in any sport. |
| The first two guys to qualify for states for Sherwood was Don Bee in the hurdles and Bob Cadman in the javelin. |
| For years sawdust was used for the high jump, pole vaulting, long jump and triple jump pits. |
| In the early 70's there was a switched to metrics as opposed to yards. There are retired records which are records that were set when yards were used before the switch to metrics. |
