Sunday, March 13, 2011

New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York

The New Balance Indoor HS Nationals were held at the 168th Street Armory in New York city Friday the 11th through Sunday the 13th.
Click here for day 1 results
Click here for day 2 results
waiting for day 3 official results

Click here for photos by Dave Fineman

The Newton South girls running as the Newton Centre Athletics ran the 1600 sprint medley (heat 5) finishing in 4:09.65 taking 6th place. That is the fastest time in Massachusetts this year. They were 3rd in their timed heat. Kathy ran the 800 meter leg in 2:12.32. The posted youtube is messed up. You can see some of the race in the last half of the video. On the team: Lizzie Fineman, Madeline Frieze, Alekhya Chaparala and Kathy O'Keefe
Click here for girls SMR video
Click here for awards ceremony


The Newton South boys running as the Newton Centre Athletics ran the 1600 sprint medley (heat 3) finishing in 3:38.62 taking 19th place. Who can send me the splits?
Youssef El Korchi
Joe Marini
Andrew O'Hagan
David Melly 1:59.xx
Click here for boys SMR heat 3 video


Allen Shiu ran the freshman mile in 4:44.62 for 23rd place.
Click here for boys freshmen mile heat 2 video


Kathy O'Keefe ran in the mile setting a PR of 4:52:68 finished 9th overall. Andrea Keklak from Lincoln-Sudbury running in the same heat ran 4:49.43 for 3rd overall.
Click here for race video


David Melly ran in the fast heat of the two mile at the indoor nationals on Sunday 13 March. David got to be in the same heat as the US number one HS 2 miler Lucas Verzbicas. Lucas missed setting the all time 2 mile HS indoor record by less than a second. David did not have as good a race as last week.
Click here for a youtube video of the race

From Newton North running for the Waltham Track Club, Sophomore Carla Forbes, is the US HS champion indoors in the the long jump with a leap of 19'-5 1/2".
Click here for awards ceremony video

Newton North boys 1600 meter sprint medley took 6th in 3:32.46
no video.

Newton North's Isaiah Penn won the emerging elite 400 meter run in 49:62

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