Many people in the MHS Community have known Mr. Brian Crowley as an excellent teacher in the History department for 18 years. Mr. Crowley teaches World Cultures, U.S. History, and WWII and the Cold War. He has been interested in history since he was 9 years old. At the time, his mother gave him a Time-Life book on the Civil War. That got him hooked on history.
What many people may not know about Mr. Crowley is the level of success and great environment he has helped build within the MHS Track & Field program. Boys and Girls Track & Field annually have the largest teams of all sports at MHS. A large part of the reason for those large teams is based on the environment that Mr. Crowley (along with his long time throwing coach Mr. Spano and other dedicated coaches) builds for the athletes. The Track and Field program has helped develop many high caliber athletes who have achieved great success and in some cases have gone on to succeed at the college level. But just as importantly, many members of his teams have found the experience of being part of his program to be very personally fulfilling.
Mr. Crowley has coached the boys team for 17 years. For five of those, he also coached the girls team in addition. Being around Mr. Crowley, you quickly see the passion and dedication he has for the sport. He views the extra two to three hours per day that he gives to coaching as the highlight of his day. He equally enjoys coaching both the winter and spring teams. He personally participated in track and field as a high school athlete in the sprints, doing the 50 and 300 indoors and the 100 and 200 outdoors. As a result, he really enjoys watching the speed events to this day as a coach.
MHS Track & Field has sustained a very high level of success over those 17 years, both on the boys and girls teams. There have been many championships won over that time. Coach Crowley shared that those championships are great memories, but what he cherishes the most are the relationships he has built with many of the athletes over those years and the good times they have shared.
The current MHS Boys & Girls Track and Field teams are somewhat a victim of their past success in 2018. With the realignment in the NEC, MHS has been placed in a division with the largest and most successful programs, competing with programs like Peabody and Malden. That makes success from a win/loss standpoint much more difficult, but with dedicated athletes and great coaches like Mr. Crowley our student athletes at MHS will be up for the challenge!