PE Teacher, Head Boys T&F Coach Shrewsbury HS, MA. Indoor Pent. Meet Director- @MSTCA1

Shrewsbury High School, MA
Joined March 2013
Coach Ian Butterfield retweeted
SHS Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2026 Induction Ceremony, Saturday, October 10, 2026 11am-2pm. Cyprian Keyes Golf Course. Tickets can be purchased at gofan.co/app/school/MA14723_…. Tickets must be purchased by 9/25/26.
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What if we threw away the dozens of over-engineered objectives in a K-12 PE program? What if we rejected the gobbledygook and replaced it with a single mission? *SPEED* One mission. One priority… the most extreme movement in the human experience! Would PE programs ONLY SPRINT? Hell no. They would sprint, lift, jump high, jump far, bounce, and throw. Any exercise that might improve speed is fair game. Everything is gamified… record, rank, publish. πŸ’₯ Competition is FUNDAMENTAL. Kids learn to win, lose, and celebrate improvement. Kids are exposed to sports that are speed and power-based (not walking/standing/jogging sports). ⚑️ Wouldn’t the fastest schools be the most fit? ⚑️ Wouldn’t the fastest schools be the most athletic? ⚑️ Wouldn’t the fastest schools be the most HEALTHY?
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Coach Ian Butterfield retweeted
Had another school inquire about Feed the Cats PE yesterday. This is the curriculum developed by Alec & Tanya Holler at Lincoln Middle School in Edwardsville. The FTC track is the ORANGE. In the beginning, there was concern that most students would choose the BLUE. Now most students choose the gamified athletic training of the ORANGE. Check out the SPEED results from the past 2 school years (remember this is middle school, not a varsity 🏈 team): 2024-25 ➑️ 2025-26 Over 20 mph 4 ➑️ 9 Over 19 mph 8 ➑️ 20 Over 18 mph 21 ➑️ 44 Over 17 mph 49 ➑️ 89
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Congratulations to Dan Mortimer for being promoted to Head Girls Cross Country Coach. Go Colonials!
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Hawa (Sumayyah) Fofana with a PR and overall great performance at Meet of Champions (38’8.5”) @ColonialsPE @nationalthrows @tgsports @evanjrwalsh New Englands πŸ”œ ‼️
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The District E Weight Pent will be at Shrewsbury HS this year! Still time to enter your MIAA athletes (6/6 deadline), reach out to have your @MIAA033 team added to the invited schools list! @nationalthrows athletic.net/TrackAndField/m…
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Lucy McNeil (5th) and Olivia Ferguson (7th) both place in the girls jav at Division 1 state championship. Lucy threw a PR of 101’2” and Olivia threw a PR of 98’7” @ColonialsPE @ColonialsAD @tgsports
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Hawa (Sumayyah) Fofana is the Division 1 Shotput runner up with a throw of 37’2.75”…great way to SHOW UP at states! Meet of champs πŸ”œ @ColonialsPE @ColonialsAD @tgsports
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🚨SCHOOL RECORD ALERT🚨 Havish Thotakura ’27 runs a 1:55.55πŸ”₯ 800m at the @MIAA033 D1 State Meet. Passing Niko Manolakos’s old record of 1:58.13 set in 2023. @ColonialsAD
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Coach Ian Butterfield retweeted
Got this today from @hollerhurdles What if there was a way for 96% of your middle school PE students to PR in the vertical jump? #GauntletVertical Feed the Cats PE is going to become a movement.
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Coach Ian Butterfield retweeted
Mid Wach Fr/So meet Purav Patel 34’0.5” Zach Bissonette big PR 32’1.5” Good for πŸ₯ˆ and πŸ₯‰in the shot put Future is bright @ColonialsPE @ShrewsburyFB
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Makhy Washington β€˜26 (HJ/LJ), Havish Thotakura β€˜27 (800m) and Kelvon Sango β€˜16 (100m) all emerged or improved their spot on the Program Top 10 Lists at the @MSTCA1 InVacational @ColonialsAD
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Congratulations to Jay Costa on being the recipient of the NIAAA State of Merit award! @ColonialsAD
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Havish Thotakura β€˜27 climbs to #2 in SHS Indoor All-Time in the 600m! πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ» 1:23.52 good for 4th at @MIAA033 D1 Championships. πŸƒπŸΌβš‘οΈπŸ’¨ @ColonialsAD
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Guoyu Lin β€˜27 runs 6.61 in the 55m DashπŸƒπŸΌβš‘οΈπŸ’¨ Good for 6th at the @MIAA033 D1 Championship and #2 Program All-time πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ» @ColonialsAD @Joey_OB10
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MEET DAY!!! 🏁 @MIAA033 D1 State Championship 🚌 11am πŸ“ @thetrackatnb ⏰ 12:30pm πŸ“Š lancertiming.com/ @ColonialsAD
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Chadwick, Thotakura, Lin, Sango, Rajwani and Redmon compete against some of the best in Massachusetts! @ColonialsAD
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Feed theπŸ† PE Revolutionary Common Sense @ColonialsAD @ShrewsWellness @SHSadventurePE
Unique podcast here. What if a school gamified the training of athleticism in PE for all ages? πŸ€” What if a school took a FTC approach across all sports? πŸ€” The First School to Go ALL IN on Feed The Cats (K–12 Athletic Department... youtu.be/JDinZtTmhgI?si=PfB4… via @YouTube
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Congrats to our Athletic Trainer Walter Hildebrand for all he does for our student-athletes. Walter was named the Athletic Trainer of the Year by the Athletic Trainers of MA. We are very happy he is a Colonial!
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