Congratulations to all my Mirabelli Trainees at yesterday’s NJ Meet of Champions!
Isabella Frattura threw an incredible 150’3” bomb on her final throw in the finals! Isabella is now a 2-time MOC Champion and will compete at Nationals in two weeks before heading off to Liberty University.
Another standout: Edison HS Junior Landen Cruz threw a personal best of 198’8” on his first throw, earning the Gold! Landen trained with me for just 3 sessions, improving from 163’0” to 198’8” — an amazing accomplishment.
Also placing in the javelin finals were Burlington Twp.’s Anthony Barber (175’7”) and Dylan Fitzpatrick (175’5”). Earlier, Dylan won the Group championship with a throw of 188’10”.
In the discus, Henry Struble captured the Group 1 title with a winning throw of 165’5”!
I’ll be posting many more highlights from the Mark Mirabelli Throwing School this week. Hard work always prevails!
Marlon Mattis
Hey Mark,
I hope all is well with you and the family. How is Chris doing this season. I’m sure this will be a great year for him.
I wanted to keep you up-to-date with one of your former students. A couple of weeks ago Sam won the Ivy League Championships at Princeton.
He not only took home the top prize but broke the Ivy League Heps record as well. He threw 191″5′. Incidentally, a few months earlier, he set the University of Pennsylvania school record on his very first toss in his very first meet for the school.
Anyway, the reason I’m writing is to tell you that as I watched him accomplish all these great things for himself, and as he continues to get great coaching, one thing remains absolutely true; everything that he does technically after all these years still come back the Mirabelli training approach.
I went back to his videos from 2009 and compared them to current videos and I can see him applying the exact same fundamental technical elements that he learned from you. All he’s doing now is fine tuning the positions and developing greater speed and strength around those core fundamentals. I can almost hear you telling him to “don’t rush it, get the hips up and slap the discus out there.”
It’s like you laid the foundation properly to a great building and the structure around the strong foundation may change and grow but the foundation is still the thing that keeps it all strong and standing. I have to say, I am still thankful that we connected with you and that you continue to play such a key role in the success that Sam has seen. Anyway, he is currently ranked the #1 Freshman in the country and is the top 20 throwers nationally. He goes off to the NCCA regionals next week and hopefully moves on to Eugene in June for the Division 1 national Championships.
You may not always hear back from your students and parents; however, each time one of your former students picks up an implement and tosses it further than they had before, you laid the ground work for making that happen and that has to be quite gratifying to you. Take care Mark and thanks for all that you have done. I’ll continue to keep you posted as the post season wraps up.
Regards,
Marlon Mattis
Congratulations to former Mirabelli trainee and two-time Meet of Champions gold medalist Niki Woods on winning the gold medal at last week’s prestigious Penn Relays!
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Top Mirabelli Trainee Finishers at the 2024 Meet of Champions
– Miles Acchione Javelin 2nd Place 195’-10” Scholarship to University of Massachusetts
– Braden Paulmenn Javelin 4th Place 182’-0”
– Braden Paulmenn Shot PB 55’-3”
– Braden Paulmenn Discus 149′
– Zoe Goldberg Javelin 2nd Place 137’-10” PB 144’-6” Scholarship to Boston College
– Dylan Fitzpatrick Javelin PB 177’-4”
– Anthony Barber Javelin PB 162’-0”
Success for the Mirabelli Throwing School at Don Danser Invitational Meet
Congratulations to Miles Acchione (Lenape), Dylan Fitzpatrick (Burlington) and Anthony Barber (Burlington) for placing 1,2,4 in the javelin at the Don Danser Invitational Meet at RV High School. Miles exploded twice with a 180′ and 182′-6″ toss in the cold and windy conditions. Dylan and Anthony threw personal bests. Dylan hit a 172′-6″ bomb and Anthony had a 145′ toss. Great job today from the Mirabelli Throwing School. More to come!
Chuck Hafer
My son Pete is fifteen years old and clearly needed some personal training in all three throws events. I read testimonials portion of Mark’s website and was impressed, but skeptical-could anybody really be that good? Well, I’m here to tell you this guy’s for real! After only two sessions my son increased his personal best in the javelin from 126′ to 141′ and the shot from 33′ to 39′. It’s a two hour trip for us but that won’t stop us from continuing to train with Coach Mark. We love his energy, passion for the sport, and the fact that he genuinely wants his students to succeed.
Chuck Hafer