SHS West's Alex Ladouceur Wins County High Jump Championship

THREE GENERATIONS CELEBRATE COUNTY HIGH JUMP CHAMPIONSHIP

On Sunday, February 2nd, Smithtown High School West track and field star, Alex Ladouceur (center), won the hotly contested Suffolk County schoolboy indoor high jump championship with a leap of six feet - three inches. The meet was conducted in the state-of-the-art Suffolk Community College Brentwood campus field house before an overflow crowd of enthusiasts from throughout Long Island. Flanking Alex moments after his victory are the new champ’s father, Jeb Ladouceur Jr. (left), and grandfather, Jeb Sr. (right). Jeb Jr. is a lifelong resident of Smithtown, president of Encore Advertising in Deer Park, and is himself a graduate of Smithtown West. The elder Ladouceur, an award winning novelist, has lived in Smithtown with his wife Elizabeth for 50 years. For the record, Alex’s proud Mom, Carolyn, snapped this picture of ‘the boys’ on the family’s big day … which happened to be Super Bowl Sunday.