NEW YORK — The left hamstring wasn’t right even when Brian Moran started his senior football season last August.
And even though he played running back in six games for Group 1 playoff-qualifying Hasbrouck Heights, he was able to finish only two games because the injury wasn’t healed.
“I was really scared it would last all year and ruin my track season, too,” said Moran, a talented sprinter/pole vaulter for the small-school powerhouse. “But after my last game, I rested and did everything my physical therapist told me to do.”
Apparently the rest and therapy worked, because Wednesday night, Moran beat a solid field and set a hand-timed school record of 6.4 seconds in the 55 meters during the Metropolitan Invitational at the Armory Track Center.
“I’m drinking water and stretching all the time to stay warm,” said Moran, one of six North Jersey athletes to win events in the first of two major late-season invitationals. “Coach [Rob] Brady keeps pushing me and he knows when I’m ready to go and when to ease off. It feels great to be healthy again.”
Moran, who ran a leg on the medal-winning 4-x-200 team Wednesday, didn’t pole vault. But he already had become the third Aviators vaulter to clear 13 feet, surpassing the height last week at the Bergen County Relays.
