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".
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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

New England Indoor Championships @ Reggie Lewis

The New England Indoor 1 mile girls champion is Kathy O'Keefe.
1 Kathy O'Keefe SR Newton So. - MA 4:54.82

sets a new meet record. 

The Newton South Running Tradition

A note from Coach Steven McChesney about the Newton South Running Tradition

I would like to give the new parents and kids on our team a brief history of our cross country and track and field programs. We have so many new kids in our program that a few words about where we have been could lead to where we can go together.
Prior to my 20 years as coach at Newton South a rich tradition had already been started with a state championship team and many national caliber athletes. I feel that we simply carry on that tradition and being aware of it can instill pride and confidence in our current teams.
I have started a more detailed history that will be sent in soon and plan a complete history after that.
This is a daunting task and a visit to our school trophy case will back this up as we have won so many state level trophies that they are also stored in the athletic department office and also in Scott's (our athletic director) office.
Until then this will do.
We have enjoyed over 20 undefeated seasons, 40 plus DCL Championships, produced over 20 Division Championships and have placed 1st or 2nd in All State over 15 times. We have had 18 All State individual and relay champions.
We had teams ranked in the top 25 in the country with a team finishing 6th at the national cross country championship in Oregon. We have set 6 All New England Records and even more state records while having 48 kids earn All American honors in all event groups.

Two years ago Sports Illustrated named Newton South the top athletic program in the state largely on the top 6 placing at nationals of our cross country team, two national titles from our 4 x Mile team in both indoor and spring nationals, a 4 x 800 team that placed 2nd in the nation with the all time 3rd fastest time ever run in the US and also a 4th place at nationals in the DMR. That year both boys and girls won DCL championships and an All State Championship as well.
Currently David Melly is ranked 13th in the nation in the 2 Mile and Kathy O' Keefe is ranked 11th in the nation in the 1000 meters and 13th in the nation in the mile.