Frontier Regional School Track Vs Mahar Senior Night and Track Dedication
Channel: FCATMedia
Date: 2022-05-10

Dedication to Bob Smith and Walt Flynn on May 9, 2022

On May 9, 2022, Frontier honors the seniors of both teams in this season’s final home event here at Frontier Regional School.

We are so very pleased to be here on our newly renovated track. Thank you to the Frontier community and the towns of Conway, Deerfield, Sunderland, and Whately for your support to complete this project and continued support of our schools. 

On this day we recognize two very special people in our track and field program. Walt Flynn and Bob Smith presented by Frontier Athletic Director Carl Cyr, Megan Dredge (from the class of ‘97), Andrew Futter (from the class of 2011), and Superintendent Darius Modestow.

These two teachers, coaches and mentors have been coaching track and field together for 32 years, and share a combined 75 years of coaching for Frontier Regional School.

Walt Flynn has been coaching boys track and field for 32 years at Frontier, beginning in 1990 and X-country in 1995. Under his leadership, the boys have won 3 league championships, have had 23 individual western mass champions, and 2 individual state champions.  Away from the field, Walt taught English at Frontier middle school for 28 years, mentoring hundreds of students along the way.  

Walt’s colleague and friend Bob Smith has led the Frontier Girls track and field and X- country teams since 1978.  For the past 43 years, Bob has coached track and field for a record of 262 wins and 16 losses,  coached 30 individual western mass champions, and 6 individual state champions, with an impressive 9 western Mass titles.   Bob Smith was inducted into the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014.  Like Walt, Bob taught English at Frontier middle school for 37 years and has also mentored hundreds of students.

The plaques read as follows:
 
The Coach Bob Smith and Walt Flynn Track
In recognition of your commitment, dedication, hard work and countless hours
of service to the students of Frontier Regional School as teacher, coach and mentor, we honor you by dedicating the track in your names.

A marking stone with brass plate, commemorating this dedication will be installed here within the coming months.

Thank you Walt and Bob for your commitment to our school community and creating a program that has positively impacted hundreds of students for decades. Frontier officially welcomes all in attendance tonight to the Coach Bob Smith and Walt Flynn Track!