Vol. CXXXII · July 10, 2026
Milton Academy’s 2026 Track and Field season hit the finish line, bringing success to the Mustangs once again. Athletes dominated in meets all across the season, hit new PRs, set school records, and won the ISLs for the first time in 25 years.
Across Milton, underclassmen struggle with learning the curriculum itself and how to work and balance that work throughout the school year. The strain only intensifies with a varsity sport, pressuring younger students to hold their own and maintain a massive commitment throughout the season, exam weeks, large assignments, and their daily homework load. In response, the Academic Skills Center has recently broadened its horizons, implementing a new mentorship program into the Athletics Department. Lainey Sloman and Kelsey Mumford from the Academic Skills Center quickly recognized the strain’s effects on underclassmen through patterns reflected in grades and feedback. “One pattern we observe for class four students over the past couple of years is that Class IV students who play a varsity sport tend to experience more academic struggles,” Sloman reports, explaining how the Skills Center “thought that it could be helpful to support those students in navigating that experience, and the best support would be people who would have gone through it.”
The Mustangs are already rolling—or in the case of the Milton Varsity Baseball team, swinging—into the spring season. The team kicked off their season with four games and a very successful spring break trip to Florida, where they had a 5-0 record.