Cross country season is starting
Train with dedicated athletes and experienced coaches as we prepare for the cross country season. Metropolis Long Island Track Club has been competing and training champions since 2004 — with a record of AAU and USATF championship success, and a culture built on helping athletes reach their potential on and off the track.
22+
Years developing Long Island athletes
100+
Athletes competing at the D1, D2 and D3 levels
AAU + USATF
Sanctioned competition, regional through national
This season
2026 season · National qualifier
Qualified for and competed at the AAU National Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.
Qualifying for a national championship is the end of a long chain — a fall building the engine, a winter rebuilding mechanics, and a spring peaking for one date. This is what the three seasons are for.
2026 season · National qualifier
Qualified for the AAU National Championships two years running — and competed in 2025 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Qualifying for a national championship is the end of a long chain — a fall building the engine, a winter rebuilding mechanics, and a spring peaking for one date. This is what the three seasons are for.
This year’s squad
The athletes who raced the 2026 outdoor season for Metropolis, from the district qualifier through to the AAU Junior Olympic Games.
AAU Junior Olympic Games, 2026
AAU Junior Olympic Games qualifier, 2025 & 2026
AAU National Club Championships, 2025
AAU Junior Olympic Games, 2023 & 2025
AAU Junior Olympic Games, 2025
Every mark above is a personal best. The full squad and complete results are on our athletic.net page.
Programs
Personal Training
One-on-one sessions with Coach Church — an All-American sprinter and a New Mexico State record holder — built around a single athlete's events, training age and goals. This is where technique, strength and race craft get built: the work that earns a place on a national start list.
Start trainingAAU + USATF
Our competitive program trains and races the full calendar — indoor, outdoor and cross country — against the best clubs in the region and at AAU and USATF national championships.
Join MetropolisThe competitive year
Cross country in the fall, indoor through the winter, outdoor in the spring and summer. Each season builds something the next one spends — and athletes who train all three arrive at championship season with a base the one-season athlete hasn’t had time to build.
Fall
Builds: The engine
Distance over varied terrain, in packs, in all weather. Cross country builds the aerobic base every other season draws down on — and it builds the part of an athlete that keeps going when a race stops being comfortable.
Local parks across Long Island
Winter
Builds: The mechanics
Winter moves indoors. Out of the weather and into a controlled space, this becomes the technical season — the months for rebuilding how an athlete moves, adding strength, and doing the unglamorous work nobody sees until spring.
Indoor facility — announced before the season
Spring & Summer
Builds: The result
The championship season. A full event menu, an outdoor track, and the meets that decide who travels — this is where the base from the fall and the mechanics from the winter turn into marks that qualify for AAU and USATF nationals.
Outdoor track — Long Island
Where our athletes go
Over the last two decades Metropolis has developed more than 100 athletes who went on to compete at the Division 1, 2 and 3 levels. A few of them:
Alabama State
Class of 2017 · 800m Young Women's AAU National Champion
University of South Carolina
Class of 2008 · Pictured with Reese Hoffa, 2006 World Champion shot putter
Notre Dame
Class of 2009 · New York State Champion · AAU National Champion · broke the AAU National Team Championships discus record
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