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LEVERETT — In late February, Logan Alfandari discovered a set of DVDs he hadn’t seen in a long time while organizing his attic.

He put “Avatar: The Last Airbender” on his brother’s PlayStation disc and began to watch. Alfandari had recently finished a challenging indoor track season. He was angry with himself since he hadn’t made the development he had hoped for. He discovered a message on the DVD. He aspired to be more like Uncle Iroh, who served as a mentor to a major character in the series.

“I’ve been so self-centered,” Alfandari remarked. And I was such an a****** to my teammates, pent up and letting my fury out in unhelpful ways—my rage was directed towards things I couldn’t control.”

He concluded that he had to improve. He was overanalyzing his form, overanalyzing his position in the state among throwers. Following several months of self-isolation and concentrating solely on his personal achievements, he decided to become more involved with the squad, particularly with the young throwers. Alfandari stated, “The more I assisted with coaching, the more it helped visualize what I was trying to fix in my own technique.” The best approach, as Iroh once stated,

Alfandari’s perspective on the game shifted, and during his junior year, he had an incredible outdoor campaign. In the shot put, he captured his first-ever state championship in the MIAA Division 4 division, while in the discus, he took silver. His grades increased gradually, he felt more in charge, and most importantly, he was content. Alfandari was chosen as the Daily Hampshire Gazette Boys Outdoor Track & Field Player of the Year for 2024 for the second consecutive year.

In March 2020, Alfandari began experimenting with shot put and discus as a seventh-grader. He bombarded his coach with unsolicited emails seeking guidance during the outbreak and consumed a lot of shot put videos on YouTube.