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About the Granite State Flash

The Flash began as a youth running club in 2001 with just two teams and twenty one runners. The program has grown to include runners from towns and cities throughout New Hampshire, Vermont and northern Massachusetts. Over the next 20 years more than 1,500 youth runners participated in the program with multiple teams each year advancing to the New England, Regional, and National Junior Olympic Cross Country competitions. After the 2019 season the club went on pause for a couple of seasons, first due to Covid and then schedule limitations with the former (amazing) coaches Justin and Jan Platt. In 2002 the club is came back under the guidance of Upper Valley coaches Tiffany Currier, Rick Currier, and PJ Lovely, with Sophia Reynolds joining for Track & Field in 2024.

While the focus of the GSF program is Junior Olympic Cross Country, Flash runners also compete in various competitions throughout the year including area road races and the summer Junior Olympic Track & Field competition. The primary focus of the Flash as a youth running club is running as a life long pursuit, team competition, sportsmanship, and increasing personal fitness levels.

Flash runners have also gone on to success at the high school and collegiate levels, capturing over 60 State of New Hampshire high school titles (cross country, indoor and outdoor track). Setting 11 Class and/or State records as well as winning 9 individual New England High School Championships.

More than 80 Flash runners have gone on to compete at the collegiate level including such schools as Hartford, Assumption, Naval Academy, Dartmouth, Keene State, UNH, SNHU, Penn, Columbia, Yale, Quinnipiac, Brown, Tufts, Villanova, West Point, Norwich, UMASS Lowell, Franklin Pierce, William & Mary, MIT, Bentley, Bucknell, Franklin & Marshall, NC State, Vassar, UMASS Amherst, Plymouth State, Highpoint, and Dickinson College, Notre Dame, Maine, WPI, Rhode Island, SUNY Stony Brook, and the University of New England.

Flash teams have won National Gold, Silver and Bronze medal team championships, as well as numerous Regional and New England Junior Olympic Cross Country and Track & Field Team and Individual titles. Dozens of Flash runners have earned individual All-American honors (top 25 individually in the U.S.).