Friday dual meet

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Alumni party at Steven's house

The Newton South HS track and field and cross country alumni potluck dinner will be at Steven's house in Hyde Park on Wednesday evening 27 November between 6:30 pm and 10:30 pm. He sure hopes you can come. Email georgettoad at gmail if you need directions or more info.
Steven usually makes lasagna. Bring something for the table.
Ben '09 and Kel '06 are going. But I can't make it. '67.

All States

Newton South girls team takes 11th place in division 1 all states in Gardner.
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McChesney Report

We have had the most rocky road into the Ea. Ma. Championship that I can remember for a long time.

I counted up 56 days of missed practice among our top 5, mostly with illness.  We also had a non running related concussion and ankle sprain to prolong our time off.

Our kids have been so resolute during so many set backs. I am extremely proud of them.

Our team qualified for the All State meet for the 20th time in my 22 years at Newton South. I have never appreciated a team accomplishing that feat nearly as much as I have this year.  I truly admire this team for what they have faced and how dedicated they have remained to their goals and how positive they stayed.  This team made it in spite of so much adversity simply because they truly and deeply believed in each other.  I am humbled by their efforts and could not be more proud of such a fine group of young athletes.

To go to All States from Eastern Ma. a team must place in the top 4 teams in one of 3 Division Championships.  There is also one wild card spot for the fastest 5th place team among the 3 Divisions. Only the 5th place team in each of the three division can earn the wild card spot based on fastest team time so we edged NN out to take 3rd in D. I.  Plymouth North and Woburn were the other two 5th place teams and we edged them out with a total team time of 1:38:22 , 19:41 average to Woburn 1:38:42, 19:45 average and Plymouth North 1:38:46, 19:46 average.

 Last year we finished 3 points and a few seconds out of the wild card spot after a long wait to find out the results. We were deeply disappointed.  

From the start of this season our team has been on a mission to get back to the All State meet. Along the way we finished our regular season with a record of 7-1 and a share of the DCL regular season championship.  But it has never been easy.  We were only able to field our full top 5 in 2 of our 9 meets leading up to Ea. Ma.  We went to 3 invitationals and the DCL championship missing key members of our top 5 and through it all we kept sight of our goal of making it to All State. A big reason we were able to look ahead was the great contributions of our other kids stepping up.  Our 6th through our 15th girls filled in time after time and kept us moving in the right direction.  We went to so many meets short handed, but we still competed at a high level.  Six of our Seven regular season wins were achieved with kids filling in for our top runners.  That is pretty remarkable.

Going into Ea. Ma. our team knew that they had gone through the worst and finally were a complete team.  We had confidence that we would make it to All State and early in the race it showed as we got a good start.

Then we had one final mishap.  Katie Collins had her shoe torn off by another runner through no fault of her own  (I got to see the shoe after we recovered it and it was still triple knotted and tightly tied) prior to the first mile.  Katie has been with or ahead of Lucrecia and Clare all season and at our big dual against Weston she was our 2nd runner and at DCL she was our 3rd.  She had to run over 2 miles with one shoe and only a sock on the other foot which is not only painful and could cause injury, but also does not allow her to get the traction that the spikes and waffle surfaces that her shoes provide.  It makes the race a lot tougher and more dangerous.  

Katie ran such a brave race and as Lucrecia said prior to knowing the results "If we get to States we all owe it to Katie".  

Rebecca, Lucrecia and Clare ran by far their best races of the season in finishing  3rd, 12th and 16th.  All finished higher than they were ranked going in and the strength of our top 3 seperated us from most teams.  Lucrecia was in 17th place going into the last mile and she passed 5 runners in the last half mile.  That was huge as we made states by 3 points.  But Katie's race was just as big as many kids in her situation would have fallen back more or dropped out. Katie's loss did cost several places, but she kept a bad situation from getting worse with her determination and courage.  She willed herself and our team forward in a way that is so inspiring.  Anna, Matia and Midori held onto their positions in the final in a way that gave us our chance to move on.  This was a total team effort and all of the girls should be extremely proud of their season and this race.

So once again we found ourselvs wondering again if we had made it and that hour or so that it takes meet managment to verify results seemed like a very long time once again.  Had another racer not taken Katie's shoe and she could have run a normal race we would have scored comfortably in the top 4 and the wait would not have been so anxious.

When the results were posted I was nervous to look.  When I saw that we had made the wild card by 22 seconds I had very mixed feeling, but the strongest feeling was pride in our girls.  I knew that we could have taken a top 3 spot, but for a shoe flying off.  But I was also thrilled to be able to tell the girls that they were going to All State and when I did they all jumped up and screamed for joy.  It was a great moment that was so well earned many times over.

19 teams from Central Ma., Western Ma. and Ea. Ma have now qualified for the All State meet.  We earned the only wild card birth in the state, but we still ran a faster race than 3 of the teams from Eastern Ma. and a faster race than 5 out of the 6 teams from Central and the West.  I told our kids that if they can all finish with their shoes at All State we could finish in the top 10.

Results can be found on Milesplit Ma.  There is also a video of the race on Milesplit Ma. and youtube showing much of the race and Katie racing without a shoe.

3. Rebecca Grusby So  18:48  ties season best

12. Lucrecia Aguilar  Sr 19:12  PR (she has a 18:58 PR at Twilight last year, but this is a faster mark based on the course)

16. Clare Martin Fr  19:23  PR

39. Katie Collins Fr 20:11

59. Anna Rhatigan Sr  20:47

69. Matia Whiting Jr  21:08

70. Midori Sangiolo Fr  21:11

1. Lowell  80

2. Weymouth 93

3. Peabody  103

4. Lexington 114

5. Newton South  129

6. Newton North  132

7. Andover  185

8. Brookline  210

9. Haverhill  223

10. Methuen  261

11. Acton-Boxborough  303

12. Westford  325

13. Malden  373  

14. Cambridge R & L  386

15. Taunton  466

16. New Bedford  473

17. Brockton  492

18. Framingham 510

19. Snowden

Best,

Steven

Eastern MA Divisional Championships at Wrentham

Eastern MA Divisional Championships at Wrentham
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Newton South girls team makes All State Championship event as wild card (5th place team)!
Girls team average was 19:41.
The All State meet will be held in Gardner next Saturday.
Rebecca Grusby takes 3rd place in 18:48.
Click here for full Championship info  (PDF)
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Newton South boys team with very good 11th place showing with a team average of 16:57.
Allen Shiu finishes 11th overall in 16:10 to qualify for an individual entry to championship race next week.
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Eastern MA Divisional Championships:
Click here for full results
click here for girls photos by John Sangiolo
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OK, I've posted direct some of the photos but there are so many great ones you just have to click the links and watch the slideshow.
Nice to see that NS boys keep the orange hair tradition going…. and Lowell with the mohawks.

Coach's Invitational; 2 November 2013

Photos by John Sangiolo:
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MSTCA season results
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DCL Championships, 25 October 2013

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Any photos, stories?
Sorry, I couldn't be there.
Alum are waiting….. like me.. NSHS '67 (XC '65, '66)

Twilight meet

Twilight meet
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Who can send results?

Double dual meet against Weston and Waltham, 9 Oct. at Weston

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John had an equipment failure and missed some of the races.

Girls scores:
NS 22 Weston 35
NS 15 Waltham 50
Weston 15 Waltham 50

report from Steven McChesney:
We had a wonderful meet to close our regular season today with a record of 7-1 and a share of the Large DLC regular season championship along with AB and LS. We are also currently ranked 5th in All State D. I which means that we survived another DCL season at the top.

Today we competed against Waltham and Weston at Weston. If we beat Waltham we would earn a share of the DCL title and we also faced a stellar Weston team just off of an impressive win against Concord-Carlisle that clinched for them the DCL small school division title.

Going in we knew that we faced a stiff challenge in a Weston team that is also a team that is ranked 6th in the Division II All State ranking by the MSTCA and milesplit.

On paper from previous meets against Lincoln-Sudbury and Concord-Carlisle the Weston team looked like a mirror of our team with excellent front running and really good depth through all of the scoring positions. We ran against a very good team and a very well coached team today and I am thrilled with the outcome. We had our best team race throughout our line up today.

This was a day that a very strong Weston team ran a great team race and we were able to use their efforts to improve to a stellar race and come out on top.

In our race plan meeting yesterday I told our kids that if they were racing Weston's 2nd girl that they would likely also be racing Weston's 4th as they pack in so well. So we had a group of our top kids with the goal to beat their 2nd runner. We then had a goal to place 5 with their top 3 and 7 with their top 5. As I drew it up on the board we could score 22 points if we followed our plans. I also showed them that if they missed by just a little that Weston could also beat us as our teams are so well matched.

This was our beat meet by far in terms of understanding our assignments and following the plan. It was also a very fast race in terms of times on a true measured 5K course. Weston's course has more turns than any other course in the DCL. There is rarely a stretch of more than 600 meters that you don't have your cadence broken up by a sharp turn, rough footing, a hill feature or all of the above. So the course records are not as fast as many other DCL courses.

Going into this meet I knew that there was a very real chance that this Weston team could beat us even if we ran a strong race as this was two 5-1 DCL teams which are both ranked in the top 6 in the state in our respective divisions. The fact that we scored right at our highest hopes against this team is a very big boost for us.

Another great sign for us is how well our young kids are running. Sophomore Rebecca Grusby has been such a valuable front runner for us meet after meet. She sets a great standard for our team. This meet freshman Katie Collins really stepped up and placed 3rd with a huge PR and she was followed by freshman Clare Martin in 4th who also had a great race. These two have really grown and they are racing at a super level. Lucrecia Aguilar was 5th and she is so tough and consistent. She is the cement that binds this team together.

Anna Rhatigan was our 5th today and the clincher as she raced with the 2nd and 3rd Weston girls and was able to displace the 4th of Weston. Her time as a 5th runner is very good and she has more in her.

Matia Whiting and freshman Midori Sangiolo were able to beat a stable of good Weston girls to finish in front of their 5th girl and add to the Weston score.

Sara Wang and Leah Jacobson were able to beat the 7th varsity runner from Weston.

Our JV team set the tone going 1-7 against both teams.

Caraline Pham won the race in 22:25
Freshman Sophia Franco was 2nd in 22:49

Newton South vs Weston and Waltham @ Weston

5K (3.1 miles)   

Varsity

Newton South   22   Weston   35

Newton South   15   Waltham 50

2. Rebecca Grusby  19:23

3. Katie Collins         19:37

4. Clare Martin         19:55

5. Lucrecia Aguilar    19:57

8. Anna Rhatigan   20:24

10. Matia Whiting    21:14

11. Midori Sangiolo  21:24

14. Sara Wang      21:47

15. Leah Jacobson 21:33

JV Race 

Newton South 15   Weston 50

Newton South 15    Waltham  50

1. Caraline Pham  22:25

2. Sophia Franco   2249

3. Noosha Abiabadi  23:08

4. Yasmine Hashemi  23:19

5. Lauren Miller   23:28

6. Leda Olia   24:08

7. Karina Aguilar  24:12

8. Anna Neumann  24:12

10. Samantha Armstrong  24:43

13. Amelia Stern  26:29

14. Isabell Kaplan 27:49

Double dual meet 1 October, Wayland HS and Boston Latin

Double dual meet 1 October, Wayland HS and Boston Latin
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won't anyone send me the scores?
OK, girls varsity scores:
NS 23 BL 36
NS 20 Way 43

Dual meet NSHS v Westford Academy 25 Sept.

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from Steven;  25 September 2013:

AB beat LS today and we are now in a three way tie for first place in the DCL regular season standings which I believe will hold up for all three teams during the regular season.  We beat AB so each team has a loss and a win not in common so it will remain a tie.

2.75 Miles at Cold Springs   Course Record:   Kelsey Karys, Bridget Dahlberg  15:41  2008

NS  19  Westford  45

1. Rebecca Grusby  So NS  16:27

2. C. Widman        WA 17:09

3. Lucrecia Aguilar  SR  NS  17:19

4. Clare Martin FR  NS    17:20

5. Katie Collins  FR  NS 17:20

6. Anna Rhatigan SR NS  17:40

7. Matia Whiting JR NS  17:55

8. C. Dolan WA  17:55.1

9. Midori  FR NS    18:02

10. E. Turcott  WA  18:03

11. Sara Wang NS  18:04

12. B. McCusker WA 18:22

13. J. Graham WA  19:02

14. L. Andrews WA 19:02

15. L. Canha   WA  19:50

16. C. Callon  WA  20:20

JV  NS  18  WA 45

1. Leah Jacobson SR  NS  18:55

2. Caraline Pham  So  NS  19:17

3. Smith  WA    19:47

4. Noosha Aliabadi SO NS  19:47

5. Leda Olia  SR NS   19:48

6. Sophia Franco FR NS  20:02

7. Baggeroer WA 21:21

8. Anna Neumann FR NS 20:31

9. Lauren Miller  FR NS 20:32

10. Chirokas WA 20:42

11. Samantha Armstrong FR NS 20:56

12. West WA 21:04

13. Bishop WA 22:28

14. Sengal WA 22:42

15. Amelia Stern SO NS 22:48

16. Isabel Kaplan FR NS 23:51

17. K. Hall WA  24:03

We have been hit very hard this season by illness.  Today was the first day we ran an almost complete varsity team with only Lizzie Fineman out sick.

What a difference it made having a full varsity line up.   We were able to have our girls key off of each other and that really helped them run stellar times.

This was a very fast team time and our top 5 now is the best we have had the past couple of years by a good amount.  We now have 5 girls that project being under 20:00 minutes for 5K and that puts us back in the hunt of our goals to give a go of it at the DCL championship and to win a trophy at the Ea. Ma Division I championship.  I feel that our execution of our race plan was spot on today and this was a huge confidence builder.  I also love how we showed our depth with our 6th and 7th closing the gap on our top 5.  This is how you hope a team will race each time out.

Rebecca was sensational as she cruised through the first mile in 5:46 and looked very relaxed.  She has had a lot of quality meets already and I wanted her to run a more relaxed effort today.  She was certainly relaxed and she can go so much faster.

Lucrecia missed over 10 days with illness and she did not look like she had missed a beat as she lead our top 5 pack over the course.  Clare Martin ran a very nice race and she was joined by frosh Katie Collins to round out the top 5 places.  Katie has shown this kind of ability and I am thrilled that she was rewarded with this kind of race.  Anna Rhatigan who has been coming back from a concussion and then an illness that kept her out of all of the pre season and part of the start of the season is gaining a lot of strength.  This was her best race of the season by over a minute and she now gives us a stellar top 5.   Matia Whiting had her best race ever today and she was in view of our top 5 the entire race.  Our 3rd frosh on the team today ran her first varsity race and showed exactly why I felt that she belonged.  What a wonderful debut for Midori Sangiolo as she will certainly strengthen our team this season and will gain experience for next year when we graduate a lot of our depth.

Sara Wang rebounded nicely from being ill last week and ran a race that is right at her PR.

We hit on all cylinders today with each of our girls running a season best race. That extended to a great team effort in the JV race.  Our JV is still short handed due to illness, but ran a great team race today.  Leah has just returned from illness and looked very strong as did Caraline.  Noosha, Leda and Sophia ran very intellegent and even races to round out our JV scoring.  

Amherst Invitational, Sat. 21 Sept.

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NSHS v LSHS v CCHS; Wednesday 18 Sept.

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who can send me results to post?

Hartford Invitational, Saturday 14 Sept. 2013

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photos by John Sangiolo

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XC has started!

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from Steve M:

We had AB today in the 92 - 97 heat index heat.

Newton South  24   Acton Boxborough  31

Today it was hot and humid enough that coaches from both teams agreed to shortened the course from 2.86 to one lap of the track beyond the JV distance of 1.92..

2.17 miles on the Newton South campus course.

Acton-Boxborough is a very good program with some qaulity athletes returning and some new kids that look promising.  They have a gifted coach in Lisa Owen and a nice mix of kids that have experience and new kids that are not afraid to mix it up.   I think with a bit more training and experience AB is going to become even more compeititive.  

So this was a good win for us.  Acton-Boxorough was without one of their top returning runners in Sophie Brown who had a break out season on the track last spring.  I pulled freshman Katie Collins from the meet, who is currently running in our top 5 or 6, and Yasmine Hashemi who was very consistent on our state meet team last year because both have had a history of not handling heat well.  Both are fine and healthy, but on such a hot day we just wanted kids to be safe.

Anna Rhatigan is also coming back from a concussion and illness on top of that and really did not get to train during our preseason so she will take a big more time to get back into our top 5.

So I felt good that our depth stepped up and gave us a nice win.

Sophomore Rebecca Grusby looked like she was running with ease. Senior Lucrecia Aguilar went most of the race with Rebecca, but had some issues with the heat and slowed in the middle of the race which was a smart approach.  She had a tremendous kick so her place was never really in doubt.  We got some help from our youth brigade in frosh Clare Martin finishing 4th in her first varsity high school race.  Clare has such a relaxed way about her when she runs and she ran a stellar first race.  

Senior Lizzie Fineman really came alive in the last 700 meters on the track and made up a lot of distance and picked up two places.  Junior Matia Whiting and senior Sara Wang both ran solid races as well.  I was thrilled with the race from senior Leah Jacobson to finish 13th as she has worked hard and now is a varsity contributor.

We won the JV race and I mention that for 2 reasons.  This is a very deep frosh team and they will help a lot next year.  Also many of them show promise to make varstiy at points in the season this fall.

 When you convert sophomore Sasha Winston-Kahn time into the varsity race she would have finished close to the top 10.  She ran a varsity caliber race in wining the JV meet as did many of our other JV runners. Our JV team placed 5 in the top 7 with one sophomore and 4 freshman. All four would make many varsities in the state.

New England Championships 8 June 2013

New England Championships 8 June 2013, New Britain, Connecticut
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All States Championships 1 June 2013

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place, name, grade, time
200 meter dash, girls
13. Elizabeth Walkes, 9, 26.26

4 x 800 meter relay, girls
7. Newton South, 9:32.40

100 meter dash, boys
12. Tyrone Thornton, 11, 11.49

200 meter dash, boys
10. Levon Tiekka, 10, 22.58

400 meter dash, boys
13. Deion Arneaud, 12, 50.56

110 meter high hurdles, boys
1. Jung Park, 12, 14.26

4 x 100 meters relay, boys
5. Newton South, 43.21

4 x 400 meters relay, boys
8. Newton South, 3:24.79

4 x 800 meters relay, boys
23. Newton South, 8:34.30

pole vault, boys
5. Ben Eisenberg, 12, 13'-6"

triple jump, boys
12. Deion Arneaud, 12, 42'-4.50"

shot put, boys
9. Ryan Kim, 11, 52'-11.75"

discuss, boys
2. Ryan Kim, 11, 154'-9"

Teams, boys
1. Newton North 48.75
2. Lincoln-Sudbury 28
3. Newton South 27
77 teams scored points, many schools score none.

Each event scores 8 places; 10,8,6,5,4,3,2,1

div 1 state meet at Andover

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Newton North won both boys, 82 points, and girls, 65 points, championships. Way to go!
Newton South boys were 2nd with 76 points and NS girls were 12th with 26 points.
34 boys teams scored at least 1 point and 31 girls teams.
Newton South division 1 state champions:
- discus boys:
1 Kim, Ryan 11 Newton South 161-00
- pole vault, boys:
1 Eisenberg, Ben 12 Newton South 13-06.00
- 110 meter high hurdles, boys:
1 Park, Jung 12 Newton South 14.47

Juliet Ryan-Davis moves to finals

8:12pm; Juliet Ryan-Davis, Middlebury College,  just finished 2nd in the prelim. heat of the 800m at the NCAA DIII national T&F championships to move on to the finals tomorrow.

Division I championship has been postponed until Monday

from Steven:

The Division I championship has been postponed until Monday.

Still at Andover.  12:00 Field Events, 12:30 Running Events.

Newton South grad, Juliet Ryan-Davis, to run in NCAA div III championships

Juliet Ryan-Davis, NSHS 2009, runs for Middlebury College. She qualified for the nationals NCAA division III championships in the 800 meters. She is seeded 3rd in  2:07.73.  WOW!

The live video page to watch Juliet run tonight is 
Find the live link at http://www.ncaa.com/sports/trackfield-outdoor-women/d3

The preliminary race is today at 8:10 pm Eastern time (Central time: 7:10 p.m. Women's 800 Meters Prelims)

Tomorrow's 800 meters final is at 5:20 pm Eastern time. (Central 4:20 p.m. Women's 800 Meters Finals) (assuming she qualifies for the finals tomorrow!)

Link to stream: http://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule/2013/05/23

Order of events (times in Central Time on this document):http://i.turner.ncaa.com/dr/ncaa/ncaa/release/sites/default/files/files/Schedule_Events_DIII_OUT_TF_13.pdf

Results: http://results.deltatiming.com/track/2013-ncaa-d3-outdoor-championships

(one or the other of these links should work.) 

Division 1 Championship postponed until Monday

from Steven:

The Division I championship has been postponed until Monday.

Still at Andover.  12:00 Field Events, 12:30 Running Events.

DCL Championships 15 May 2013

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Women - Team Rankings - 18 Events Scored

1) Acton-Boxborough 153 

2) Lincoln-Sudbury 101 

2) Newton South 101 

4) Concord-Carlisle 88 

5) Waltham 77.50 

6) Westford Academy 69 

7) Weston 47 

8) Bedford 35.50 

 9) Wayland 20 

10) Boston Latin School 7 

Men - Team Rankings - 18 Events Scored 

1) Newton South 162 

2) Acton-Boxborough 126 

3) Lincoln-Sudbury 103.50 

4) Westford Academy 90 

5) Weston 65 

6) Concord-Carlisle 54 

7) Bedford 44 

8) Waltham 39.50 

9) Wayland 12 

10) Boston Latin School 6

DCL Championships Wed. 15 May at Regis College

Wed. 15th DCL CHAMPIONSHIP Regis College 3:00PV 3:30run

Andover Invitational 11 May 2013

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Note from Steven:

We went to Andover Boosters on Saturday.  The meet included Andover, AB, Billerica, BL, Brookline, Cent Cath, Chelm, Dracut, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lex, Meth, NS, Need, N. Andover, N. Reading, Peabody, Reading, Tewks, Westford, Weston, Weymouth and Whit-H.

We had a really good day. We had some very positive races on the track and we have improved greatly.  Now we all feel both ready and excited for the post season. 

Our high light race was the 800 in which all three girls ran PRs.

Kayla Burton finish 2nd in the 800 in a PR of 2:17.03.  This time now ranks her 2nd in the entire state. Lizzie Fineman finished 8th in a PR of 2:21.62 while freshman Catharine Pierce ran a PR of 2:27.80 which qualifies her for the State Division I.

Kyra Visnick won the Pole Vault in a season best 10' which ranks her tied for 1st in Ea. Ma. Division I.  Kyra is getting comfortable on her bigger pole and was jumping very well.

Frosh Lizzy Walkes continues to impress as she finished 3rd in 26.30. Ashley Nhek ran 28.78.

Rebecca Grusby had a very strong kick to finish 3rd in the mile in 5:13.47 a season best. Lucrecia Aguilar ran a season best mile in 5:34.74.  In the frosh/soph mile Matia Whiting set a PR in 5:48.12.

Our 4 x 800 of Lizzie Fineman, Alkehya Chaparala, Lucrecia Aguilar and Kayla Burton finished 4th in a season best time of 9:50.68.  Alekhya split 2:24.  

I like the direction that our 4 x 800 is going.  When we field our best line up and if we run close to our PR splits we can run with any team in the state.

Our 4 x 100 of Lizzie Walkes, Kyra Visnick, Yuriko Furumura, Charlotte Huth ran 52.64.

Sonya Nair, Caroline Delheim, Sophia Cen and Liza Hochberg ran 4:24.24 in the 4 x 400.

Jonee Harrison put the shot 30'0" and threw the discus 86'11".  Anna Alsop put the shot 25'9" while Jina An threw the discus 65'3"

Karina Alfisher threw the javelin  86'7 while Julia Hurwitz threw 75'6"

Michaela Wong long jumped  13'2" and Lizzie Walkes went 30'5" in the triple jump.

Frosh Liza Hochberg ran a PR in the 400 in 64.80 and Sophia Cen ran 65.64.

Margalit Glasgow ran a season best 12:39.91 for 2 miles

Charlott Huth and Yuriko Fukumura ran the 100 in 13.40 and 13.95.

Both 100 Hurdlers ran big PRs.  Esther Cho ran a .6 PR to qualify for Ea. ma. D. I in 17.18 and Anna Mason ran a PR of 18.10.

Alumni results

This has to be a smattering of results. Email me with more results to post and to correct typos.

I decide to check out:2013 New England DIII Outdoor TF Championship
5/2/2013 to 5/4/2013 Colby College. Waterville, Maine

NSHS 2009 grad Juliet Ryan-Davis wins the 800 meters in NCAA Div III record
Event 33 Women 800 Meter Run
1 Ryan-Davis, Juliet; Middlebury; 2:07.73

NSHS 2009 Andrew Wortham took 6th in the 3000 meter steeplechase
Event 26 Men 3000 Meter Steeplechase
6 Wortham, Andrew; Bates; 9:14.54
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At the Penn Relays on 29 April 2013;

NSHS 2009 grad Bridget Dahlberg took 2nd in the 3000 meters

2. Dahlberg, Bridget JR-3 Boston College 9:20.86

NSHS 2010 grad Katherine O'Keefe was on the winning DMR relay team
(DMR distance medley relay) college division
1. Boston College A Katherine O'Keefe, Carly Daniel, Erin McKenna, Jillian King 11:24.37

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At the Big Red Outdoor Invitational - 4/28/2013 (Cornell U)

NSHS 2011 grad David Melly won the 3000 meter steeplechase 

1. David Melly SO Cornell 9:14.97

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At the Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Championships
 Princeton University - 5/4/2013 to 5/5/2013
NSHS 2011 grad David Melly ran the 3000 meter steeplechase
10. Melly, David SO Cornell 9:15.44

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7th Annual Gator Invitational - 5/10/2013 at Allegheny College PA
NSHS 20xx grad Maddy Outman ran
100 meter hurdles
1. Maddy Outman KKR 14.09
100 meter dash
3. Maddy Outman KKR 12.52
and many other field events

DCL JV meet

I don't have results but here are a few photos by John Keklak
Click here for photos

DCL JV meet TUESDAY

Steven reports:
The DCL JV meet has been moved to tomorrow instead of Wed.  It will be at 4:00 at Waltham.
The meet is at the J. Lee Gould Track and Field Facility on Bacon Street in Waltham (adjacent to Harvey Building Products at 19 Athletic Field Road)

NSHS v Acton-Boxboro and Concord-Carlisle, today

Newton South runs against Acton-Boxboro and Concord-Carlisle today, 24 April, at 4pm at Newton South.
ALL ARE WELCOME TO CHEER THE TEAM ON.
Acton-Boxboro has had an especially good team the last few years and CC is no pushover with many very good runners.

NSHS v Weston & Westford double dual meet

Today was a beautiful clear cool day for a track meet. I bet a number of PRs were set but I have no results. Please let me know.
Click here for photos by Dave Fineman
There will be more photos put up this weekend by George.
photo below by Steve Cooper:

NSHS v Weston & Westford @ Weston 3pm

The schedule calls for a meet at Weston HS versus Weston HS and Westford Academy Wednesday 17 April at 3pm. I hope to be there.

Frosh soph meet @ Notre Dame Academy 13 April 2013

click here for results

NSHS v Waltham 10 April 2013

Click here for photos by Dave Fineman
waiting for results

NSHS v LSHS report from Steven

NSHS v Lincoln-Sudbury HS dual meet.
see earlier post for photos
Report: girl's team by Steven McChesney

Going into the meet against Lincoln-Sudbury today I felt that our kids had an honest chance to win if things went well for us. We issued brand new varsity uniforms yesterday and you could feel the excitement.  I guess our kids wanted to give the new uniforms a great debut as we exceeded all of my expectations as a team today.

Lincoln-Sudbury is a team that has dominated in the DC and we have had some super dual meets against them in the past with some of our great teams, but it has been a few seasons since we have been able to get past them.

We have 34 9th graders out for the spring and 82 girls on our team which is the largest team that I can remember.  With those enlarged numbers also comes some talent that really adds to our depth and the enthusiasm of the entire team is uplifting. There is also a new level of team confidence which is a real boost.  I felt coming into this season that our team is a much deeper and better balanced team than in the recent past.

We had a virtual explosion of great efforts to secure a 81- 55 lead with pole vault to be contested tomorrow.  Kyra Visnick, who placed 3rd in All State last year in the vault, will jump and there are no LS girls entered so the likely score will settle at 86 - 55.

This is a very significant win for our team as a reward for our older kids and a pathway to success for a lot of younger kids with talent.  LS is traditionally one of the very top teams in the state and this does a great deal for team confidence.

We dominated on the track scoring 56 points to 26 for LS and with the vault could win in the field events as well.

This team really is having fun with growing into a pretty good team. 

We placed 1, 2 in the 400 hurdles, 2 mile, 100 hurdles and discus and won 9 of the 16 events contested so far. What I was pleased with is that we stayed close in the events that they won.  They outscored us only by 1 point (5-4) in 4 of the six events that they won and that was huge.  We did not allow them to dominate events while we scored big in others.

Highlights:

We went 1, 2 in both hurdle races, the 2 mile and discus giving us a 32-4 lead in those events.

We won both relays with  Lizzie Walkes 9, Kyra Visnick 12, Anna Mason 10 and Charlotte Huth in the 4 x 100 with a time of 54.1. Alekhya Chaparala 11, Lizzie Fineman 11, Catharine Pierce 9 and Kayla Burton won the 4 x 400 in a time of 4:17.9.   

We had freshmen score in 7 events which is very promising.  Lizzie Walkes took 2nd in the 200 in 28.4 and was lead off on the winning 4 x 100.  Rebecca won the 2 mile and placed 2nd in the mile.  Catharine Pierce took 3rd in the 800 and ran the 3rd leg on our winning 4 x 400.  Liza Hochberg took 3rd in the 400 in 67.3.  This is a promising group of 9th graders and there are others not far behind them that will be scoring at the varsity level soon.

Kayla Burton 12 rejoined us to finish her senior year after being an All American as a freshman.  She gave us a boost with a dominate win in the 800 in 2:24.2 and anchored our 4 x 400 with a stellar 61.7 split.

Rebecca Grusby 9 ran a very nice double placing 2nd in the mile in 5:24.6 and winning the two mile in 11:23.9.

Charlotte Huth 11 was a double winner in the 100 and she also ran a blazing anchor on our 4 x 100.  She also took 2nd in the long jump in 14'-1"

Kyra Visnick won the triple jump and pulled away from LS in the 2nd leg on our 4 x 100.

Jonee Harrison won the discus with 80'-11.5" and took 2nd in the shot put in 29'-11". 

400 hurdles  1. Alekhya Chaparala 11  70.7   2. Ester Cho 11 73.6

100 hurdles  1. Ester Cho  11  17.8   2. Anna Mason 10  18.7

2 Mile  1. Rebecca Grusby  9  11:23.9  2. Anna Rhatigan 11  12:25.0

Discus  1. Jonee Harrison 12 80'11.5"  2. Jina An  11  78'4.5"

800  1. Kayla Burton 12  2:24.3  3. Catharine Pierce  9 2:30.7

100 M.  1. Charlotte Huth  11  13.7  3. Yuriko Fukumura 10  14.5

400 M  2. Lizzie Fineman 11  64.6   3. Liza Hochberg 9  67.3  

200  2. Lizzie Walkes 9  28.4    Ashley Nhek 10 29.4  Sophia Cen 11 29.6

Mile  2. Rebecca Grusby 9 5:24.6

4 x 100 1.   Lizzie Walkes 9, Kyra Visnick 12, Anna Mason 10, Charlotte Huth 11 54.1

4 x 400 1. Alekhya Chaparala 11, Lizzie Fineman 11, Catharine Pierce 9, Kayla Burton 12, 4:17.9

Javelin  2. Leah Nathanson 10 72'-9"  3. Karina Alfisher 12  72'-2"

Discus  1. Jonee Harrison 12  80'-11.5"  2. Jina An 11  78'-4.5"

Shot Put  2. Jonee Harrison 12 29'-11"  3. Jina An  25'-10.5"

Triple Jump  1. Kyra Visnick 33'-6.5"  4. Lizzie Walkes  28'-1"

Long Jump  2. Charlotte Huth  14'-1"  Caraline Pham  13'-8"

NSHS v LSHS 1st outdoor meet

The 1st outdoor meet of the season was in cold conditions.
Please report results.
Click here for photos by Dave Fineman

 

The outdoor season begins

The first meet of the season is at Lincoln-Sudbury High School on Wednesday 3 April. The meet starts at 4 pm. (It was previously listed to be at NS).

Newton South Outdoor Track & Field Schedule - 2013

Day / Date     Meet/ Level                                    Location               Time     Dismissal     Bus 
APRIL
Wed. 3rd       Lincoln-Sudbury                            LSHS                     4:00       1:45           2:00 2
Wed. 10th    Waltham                                           Waltham               4:00       1:45           2:00 2 
Sat. 13th      128 9th/10th Invite Notre Dame   Hingham;   9:00 Field 9:30 Track;    7:00 1
         Make up date: Sat, 20th
Wed. 17th    Weston, Westford                            Weston                 3:00                           1:00 2 
       Weston, Westford meet is during APRIL VACATION 
Wed. 24th     Con-Carlisle, Acton-Box               Newton South    4:00                          No Bus
Sun. 28th      Div I Relays                                    Andover              10:00 T F after Boys  7:30 1
MAY
Wed. 1st       Bedford, Wayland                           Newton ‘South    4:00                         No Bus
Sat. 4th         Weston Twilight                             Weston                  4:00                            2:00 1
Sat. 4th         MSTCA 9th/10th Championship @Newton South 9:30F,  10:00T         No Bus
Wed. 8th      DCL JV CHAMPIONSHIP             Waltham              4:00         1:45            2:00 1
Thu. 9th       Rain Date for JV DCL Championship
Sat. 11th      Andover Invitational                       Andover             10:00                            7:30 1
Wed. 15th    DCL CHAMPIONSHIP         Reggis College 3:00PV 3:30     12:30        12:45 1
Thu. 16th     Rain Date for DCL Championship
Sat. 18th       Notre Dame Last Chance Meet     Notre Dame         9:00F,  9:30T             7:15 1
         Hingham - check
Sat. 25th       DIVISION I STATE CHAMPIONSHIP ANDOVER TBA TBA
JUNE
Sat. 1st         ALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP WESTERN MA. TBA   TBA   TBA
Sat. 8th         New England Championship   TBA

New Balance Indoor Nationals in NY

The New Balance Indoor Nationals were held over the weekend at the Armory in New York, NY.

Rebecca Grusby from Newton South ran in the Freshman mile and was 8th in 5:08.83
Click here for results and video of race
Click here for video

Senior Jung Park was 5th in the 60 meter hurdles in 7.99!
He qualified in the preliminaries on Saturday in 8.20 and moved on in the semifinals in 7.98.
Click here for semis and final results
Click here for video of final
Click here for video of semi-final
Click here for video of preliminary

Senior Ryan Kim was 19th in the shot put with a distance of 55' - 2.25"

Batler, Philip entered in freshman 60 meter dash

From Newton North:
- Ryan Lucken; 200 meter, 22nd in 22.25, prelim.

- Gabe Montague; 800 meters; 26th in 2:01.21
- David Oluwadara; 30th in boys triple jump with 43' - 10.75"

- Carl Whitham in boys shot put; 22nd with 54' - 11.25"
- Jared Prior in freshman 60 meter dash
- Nick Fofano in boys high jump emerging elite, tied 6th in 6' - 3.25"
- Boys 4x200 Meter Relay Emerging Elite
10 Newton Tiger-MA 'A' 1:32.46 6
1) Ryan Lucken 13
2) Ben Porter 15
3) Jared Prior 16
4) Daniel Swain 13
40.88 (40.88) 1:05.68 (24.80) 1:32.46 (26.78)
(above splits can't be right, are runners correct?)
- Boys 1600 Sprint Medley
6 Newton Tiger-MA 'A' 3:31.55
All-American performance!
1) Ben Porter 15
2) Daniel Swain 13
3) Ryan Lucken 13
4) Gabe Montague
45.77 (45.77) 1:36.27 (50.50) 3:31.55 (1:55.28)
(corrected order, who knows the correct splits?)

Also,
- Anika Gompers from Newton, 23rd in 2 mile; 10:55.02
and 23rd in 1 mile EE; 5:06.00
I think she runs for a private school

N.E. Championships

The New England Championships were held today at Reggie Lewis Track in Boston.

Jung Park is the New England champion in the 55 meter high hurdles in 7.40 seconds. This is a fantastic time.
finals video here
another video here

Newton South girls 4 x 800 meters team:
12th  Newton South HS - MA 9:47.18

1) Fineman, Elizabeth 11 

2) Chaparala, Alekhya 11 

3) Aguilar, Lucrecia 11 

4) Rhatigan, Anna 11

Click here for results
Click here for photos by Dave Fineman

Also, from Newton North:
Ryan Lucken was 2nd in the 300 meters in 34.81.
Michaela Smith was 2nd in the shot put with 41' - 3.25"
Carl Whitham was 1st in the shot put with 56' - 10"

All State Report from Steven & College News

From Steven:

We had an All State meet that the kids could be proud of.  Freshman Rebecca Grusby ran a sensational mile to place 4th in a personal record by 5 seconds in 5:04.48.  That is an outstanding time and place for a high school girl of any age and according to Milesplit leads the nation among 9th graders.  What makes this race so special was how much poise she showed in the face of a very fast early pace.  This was the fasest girls mile race in the history of the All State meet with Catirina Rocha of Peabody besting her own meet record in 4:49.14 and two more girls under 4:59.  Those three went out well below 5:00 pace and Rebecca ran a well measured race and was able to kick into 4th with about 500 meters to go. She ran a 35 last 200 which is a tremendous finish.  Rebecca came back to run a PR split on our 4 x 800 in 2:23.65 and that was our fastest leg.  She had 7 seconds worth of PRs in those two races.  What I love about this girl is that she takes big meets in stride and preforms well on the big stage.  She has a great attitude about what races are about that allows her to relax enough to follow her plan.

Our 4 x 800 of Alekhya Chaparala, Rebecca Grusby, Lucrecia Aguilar and Lizzy Fineman ran a very solid race to place 8th in 9:48.01. I am proud of this group as all of them have had to make a come back this season.  Had we run this time last week the girls would have been very satisfied.  This is our 2nd fastest time of the year and it has earned the girls a trip to the New England championship as two teams ahead of us did not declare and teams can advance if they finish in the top 8 of the All State meet.  We plan to allow Anna Rhatigan who has been one of our fastest legs a chance to race at New Englands as she has come back from illness and was our alternate at All State.

On the college front here are some efforts very worthy of reporting.

Newton South Alumni:

Middlebury senior Juliet Ryan-Davis won the 800 at the New England Division III Championship held at Southern Maine on Feb. 16th.  Her time of 2:11.36 breaks her own school indoor 800 record.  Found on Middlebury site.

Boston College junior  (redshirted an indoor season)  Bridget Dalhberg ran a fantastic 5000 and 3000 meter double at the ACC championship this past weekend at Virginia Tech.  On Friday Bridget ran a PR of 16:20.64 to place 4th.  That time puts her 3rd on the Boston College all time list in the 5000.  She doubled back and placed 4th again with a 3000 meter PR of 9:26.69. Her 10 points from those two events was a team high in the meet.

Boston College sophomore Kathy O' Keefe ran the lead off 1200 meter leg of the distance medley team that placed 3rd and earned All ACC honors in a team time of 11:31.13. Kathy is very familar with that leg of the DMR as she twice was an All American while at Newton South running the same 1200 lead off leg.

Both can be found on the B.C. college website along with Bridget's 4:47 mile PR.

MA All State Meet, 23 Feb. 2013

The All State Meet was held today at Reggie Lewis Track in Boston.
Senior Jung Park is the All State champion in the high hurdles!
Freshman Rebecca Grusby 4th in the mile!
Girls 4 x 800 meter team is 8th!

click here for full results
click here for photos by Dave Fineman

boys 55 meter high hurdles

1 Jung Park, 12 Newton South, 7.57

girls 1 mile
4 Rebecca Grusby, 09 Newton South, 5:04.48

girls 4 x 800 meters
8 Newton South, 9:48.01

boys 4 x 200 meters team competed but was DQ'd - out of pass zone.
This is a very difficult event.
Congratulation for making All States.

MA All State meet time change

Steven has asked me to post that the All State meet will start at 9:30 am.
Saturday 23 Feb. 2013

from the MIAA website:

INDOOR TRACK***IMPORTANT UPDATE 2/21/13

Due to the pending snow storm on late Saturday afternoon we are moving the start time of the All-State Indoor Track Championship from 11:00 am to 9:30 am.

Report from Steven on MA div 1 championships

report from Steven:

Newton South @ Division I State  2/16/2013  (this is a true Division "State" championship as it includes West, Central and Ea. Ma.)  

We have had so many kids sick during the past month that it was hard to cobble together line ups and that was most true in trying to fill our relays.

This is the most adversity in terms of illness that I can remember our girls having to face in a season.  Not only has illness altered lines a great deal it has also taken away technical event practice and conditioning.  It has been a very trying season in that regard.

The remarkable thing is that this team kept believing and kept striving.  Our rough times were made better by the courage and great attitude that our girls showed all season long.  I could not be more proud of this team.  In many ways this has been an outstanding and remarkable season.

At Disivion I States we got a bit more healthy and we had a day to be proud of.

Jonee Harrison 12 (team captain) started putting the shot over 30 feet for the first time about mid season.  She has never looked back and has thrown over 31 feet meet after meet since.  She has been very steady for us at a state level.  She put 31'2" and that is a solid day.  Her leadership has also helped our girls get to the state meet looking forward.

Our 4 x 200 came within .05 or 5/100th of a second of our season best that we ran in the DCL.  The DCL race was a break through race for them and it was nice to see them do it again at Division I State.  That team was Ashley Nhek 10, Katherine Cullen 10, Esther Cho 11 and Jina An 11 and they ran 1:56.25.  This group has worked hard during every workout and really worked to get their hand offs down.  I was so happy to get these girls to states and have them compete so well.

Our 4 x 400 has been an event of constant line up changes, but the group of girls that ran this have come through for us all season long, many times as alternates.

Sonya Nair 10, ran a PR 65.1 leg followed by Caroline Delheim 10 with a PR of 65.0.  Caroline did a great job of getting out fast and chasing and her strength allowed her to finish strong.  Sophia Cen 11 has really come on at the end of the season and she gave a great effort on the 3rd leg.  Our anchor was slated to run anchor on our 4 x 800 at the start of the week, but Anna Rhatigan has been ill for over a week.  She really wanted to race and we felt she deserved to have a place on our Division team so I put her on anchor on the 4 x 400 and she looked great finishing for us with a 64.2 split.  That is our 2nd fastest time of the season with a different line up.  This group raced really well to run 4:22.39.

It was not long ago that Rebecca Grusby was sick and she had to work to get back to form.   Placing 3rd in the Division I championship with a 5:11.05 mile is a huge accomplishment for a 9th grader.  The thing I liked best about her race is that she showed a great deal of poise in doing it.  Catarina Rocha won the race by blasting to a 4:52.34 mile and Rebecca showed patience and ran a very smart early pace.  Mid race she took over the pace of the pack running for 2nd and worked to lose most of the field. In the last 600 she had lost all but Sydney Clary of LS and the two of them battled back and forth to pull away to secure 2nd and 3rd.  They really helped each other clear the field and keep the pace fast.  With 300 to go Rebecca picked up the pace and got a slight gap on Clary.  Sydney stayed close enought to kick into 2nd place over Rebecca with 100 meters to go, but Rebecca generated her kick earlier than normal and put a lot of pressure on. I felt this was the best and most compete race that Rebecca has run this season and she did it all from pacing to kicking well.

Rebecca is seeded 11th in All State and her season best of 5:09.41 would rank her 6th in the field.  She has a chance to place at All State as a frosh and that is tremendous.

Our 4 x 800 placed 4th with a 21 second PR in 9:41.29 and was in the lead late in the race.  We went into Division I ranked 7th in the meet and 21st among teams entered in all four division.  We are now going into All States ranked 6th and only 2 seconds out of the top 3.

That is one of the most amazing efforts that I have been part of because of what these kids have had to fight through and also missing one of our strongest legs.  This group went in confident and made me feel good about our chances by sheer force of will.  These kids were so happy and I have to say that I was super excited watching them.  This is a group with a real spark deep inside.

Alekhya stayed with lead pack the entire first leg.  At times she was boxed and bumped, but she kept focus and handed off only about a second back from the lead with a split of 2:24.7,  Rebecca ran a great 2nd leg keeping pace the entire way and kept us within a about a second of the lead as well in a PR split of 2:25.8.  Lucrecia had asked me to yell a lot of instructions from the sidelines because she had missed so much time and wasn't sure how she would feel. It turns out that she did not need my help at all because of the great job Alekhya and Rebecca had done in setting up her position. Lucrecia was up with the leaders by 300 meters into her race and she looked strong.  By the 400 mark of her leg the pace had slowed and Lucrecia took the lead and picked up the pace.  She kept the lead until about 150 meter to go in her leg and never faltered as she kept us close and handed off in 3rd less than two seconds from the lead with a 2:27.9 split.  Lizzie went from being our alternate to our anchor in one short week and she went out to win the event.  She came through her first 600 right at her 600 race PR and then kicked the last 200 to a huge PR split in 2:22.9.  She ran like an anchor who has been at the state level in this role before and fought every step of the way.  She has earned the anchor spot for the future.

I have wanted to run our best 4 x 800 in the Ea. Ma. relays,  Coaches Elite, DCLs and Division I states.  We have had so much illness on this relay that I have had to replace at least two legs every meet.  So when we ran 10:02 at DCL without Lucrecia and Anna I felt like we were starting to race well in what I believed would be our strongest event.  Yasmine Hashemi and Lizzie Fineman did a great job filling in at DCL to give our best race to date and solid state seed time.  We have had 4 girls run 3:10 or faster in the 1000 and that predicts a very good 4 x 800 team.  Our problem has been that we could not get them all together in one race.

Anna Rhatigan has run very well for us this season, but was sick prior to DCL and missed most of the week going into the Division meet as well.  She was not feeling 100% and she had not done a workout in about 2 weeks so we felt it best to hold her out of the 4 x 800.  She did show great courage and ran a stellar 4 x 400 leg.

So our 4 x 800 went into the state meet without one of our strongest legs.  Having to adjust thoughout the season and ask different kids to step up gave us some comfort in making changes the week of the state meet with this relay. Each girl went in believing that we are one of the best teams in the state in this event without having the comfort of a collective relay time to support that idea.  

We were able to survive this because of the improvement of the other 4 girls in Alkehya Chaparala, Rebecca Grusby, Lucrecia Aguilar and Lizzie Fineman.  Getting Lizzie up to speed is such a hurry and also getting Lucrecia well in such a short time was huge for us. This group of girls ran so well in face of so much adversity that I feel this was one of the best relay efforts in our history.  These girls ran so well in the kinds of conditions that truly tested each one of them and came up with a team PR of 21 seconds.  That is relay teamwork at it's best.  I am beyond proud of these kids including Yasmine, Emily and Anna who all got us here.

Lizzie was injured for a good part of the early season, but worked hard to come back and finished the season qualifying for states in the 600 and looking very strong. So she became our first alternate for the 4 x 800 and split a 2:28 at DCL.  From watching her I knew from her cross country season and her 62 high 400 PR that she could run an even better split.  I felt at DCL we found another state level 4 x 800 leg outside of the girls that had already run 3:10 or faster.  In fact I ran her in that relay at DCL hoping to see just what she showed.

Lucrecia was sick prior to the DCL for many weeks and was only back for 2 days so I ran her in the 400 at DCL as I felt that would be easier on her than an 800 leg.

9 days later I trusted that she would be able to give us a strong leg on our 4 x 800 working to place at States and to advance to All State.

Alekhya had also spent time with sickness and was just starting to get back into the swing by DCL.

So faith carried each girl into the state meet and when I asked them to write their goals for the meet I asked them to each really mean what they put down.

Their individual goals on paper were almost exactly what each kid ran in the meet.  That is focus and follow through with the big exception being Lizzie running 3 seconds faster than her goal.

Thanks,

Steven