It’s been that kind of spring for the Southwestern Central School boys track & field coach.

There’s no other word for it.

In fact, “impressive” might be too tame an adjective.

Because when Sirianni boarded the bus Thursday that transported him and his six Trojan athletes — Trenton Shutters, Michael Butterfield, Dontae Hoose, Nate Lewis, Ethan Luce and Donavin Brown — to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Track & Field Championships that begin today at Cicero-North Syracuse High School, he already knew it was an historic trip.

Falconer/Cassadaga Valley’s Devin Austin. P-J file photo by Tim Frank

“It’s the most we’ve ever had going to one state meet,” Sirianni said.

Later on, he added: “I look at track and field as a team sport throughout the year, but this is the time it becomes individual. I’m excited for these kids for what they’ve done. That’s on them. I’m just along for the ride.”

Shutters will compete in the 800 meters and anchor the school’s record-setting 3,200-meter relay that also includes Lewis, Luce and Brown; Butterfield will run the 200 meters; and Hoose will throw the shot. All were first-place winners at last weekend’s Section VI State Qualifier.

“All of them work extremely hard and all of them are really good student-athletes,” Sirianni said.

Those Trojans had plenty of company from the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association on that bus ride to central New York yesterday.

Plenty of it.

Other Section VI state Division 2 qualifiers among the boys are Falconer/Cassadaga Valley’s Devin Austin, who won two events last weekend — the high jump and the triple jump — and claimed second in the long jump with a distance that was good enough to advance him to Cicero-North Syracuse as well; Randolph’s Roan Kelly (1,600 meters) and Clayton Crouse (pole vault); Clymer/Sherman/Panama’s Gerald Carris (pentathlon); Fredonia’s Ledreth Velez-Olmo (400 meters), who is also a member of the school record-setting 1,600-meter relay with Alex Field, Jayden Yerico and Matt Linder; and Jacob Brink of Allegany-Limestone (1,600 meters).

Austin is seeded third in the triple jump, 10th in the high jump and 11th in the long jump; Fredonia’s 4×400-meter relay is seeded fifth; Kelly is seeded seventh in the 1,600 meters and Carris is seeded seventh in the pentathlon; Shutters is seeded ninth in the 800 meters and Butterfield is seeded ninth in the 200 meters; Hoose is seeded 11th in the shot and Velez-Olmo is seeded 11th in the 400 meters; Southwestern’s 3,200-meter relay is seeded 15th; Brink is seeded 16th in the 1,600 meters; and Crouse is seeded 18th in the pole vault.

State qualifiers among area girls are Clymer/Sherman/Panama’s Jenna Fisher in the 200 meters; Franklinville/Ellicottville’s Tyyetta Herman in the 400 meters; and Allegany-Limestone’s Angelina Napoleon in the 800 meters and 2,000-meter steeplechase.

Fisher is seeded 17th in the 200 meters; Herman is seeded ninth in the 400 meters; and Napoleon, the national high school record holder in the steeplechase, is seeded first in both of her events.