Cheney boy's track and field success is a matter of time

Patience.

It's the key word when it comes to the 2015 Cheney High School boys' track and field team. For second-year head coach Bobby Byrd, patience is what's needed for a team that is stronger than last year's squad, contains a mixture of experience and youth but is still overall pretty young with the potential for growth, particularly later on in the season.

Eleven seniors and four juniors lead the Blackhawks contingent of 43 athletes this spring, the rest a roughly equal mixture of sophomores and freshmen. Of those 15 upper classmen, senior Steaven Zachman is the lone returnee with state ex...