Episcopal shot-putter Alphonso Koukou appreciates the push he gets from teammates

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Episcopal shot-putter Alphonso Koukou appreciates the push he gets from teammates

UPPER DARBY — Alphonso Koukou was a little surprised at first when he started competing in track and field. He expected that, as a shot putter, he wouldn’t interact much with the sprinters or the distance guys at Episcopal Academy. Yeah, they’d all compete in the same jerseys, but wasn’t it an individual sport, after all? “It really amazed me,” Koukou was saying in the rain Saturday at Upper Darby. “When I came to EA, I really found out what a t…