Massachusetts All State Meet at Reggie Lewis, 22 Feb.

The All State Meet was held yesterday at the Reggie Lewis track.
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The big news is Ryan Kim winning the shot put in 58' - 2" to be All State Champion. His nearest competitor was at 55' - 6 1/2". I look forward to watching Ryan at outdoor meets going for 60'.

Newton South had three other competitors:
Charlotte Huth ran the 55 meters in 7.59 for 5th in her heat.
Clare Martin ran 5:22.73 in the mile.
Lucrecia Aguilar ran 5:25.20 in the mile.

Division 1 state meet at Reggie Lewis, 17 Feb. 2014

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Click here for relay photos by Dave Fineman

report from Steven for girls team:

9th    19 points      (out of 30 teams entered)

State meet scoring is:  10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

As a coach I felt very satisfied with our team effort.  Every athlete and all three relays all competed at or near their best.  This is a group that we have been able to count on and it showed today.  I am happy with a top 10 finish and we will continue to grow from there.  

I am also pleased to advance three girls to All State as Lucrecia, Clare and Charlotte have all made it All State as individuals for the first time.

Our highlight of the day was a 2nd and 4th place finish in the mile with two season bests.

Lucrecia Aguilar has chopped off 10 seconds in the mile this season and this was her biggest race with a negative split PR of over 6 seconds in 5:12.21.  Clare Martin had a great race just behind her in a season best of 5:17.19.  Both girls followed the race plan exactly as they were patient early and focused late in the race.  I had told them prior to the meet that with great races they could both finish in the top 4 and make it on to All State.  This race is what we had hoped for in the fullest.

We also scored two girls in the 55 dash final as Charlotte Huth took 7th and Lizzie Walkes took 8th in 7.66.  Having two girls make the Division state final in the dash is a big achievement.  Charlotte's time of 7.61 is good enough to advance to the All State on time.

Both Alekhya Chaparala and Matia Whitting set big season bests in the 1000.  Alekhya ran a 4 second season best to take 13th in 3:13.18 and Matia came off of illness to run a PR of 3 seconds to place 15th in 3:15.58.

Rebecca Grusby went home sick on Friday and was ill through the weekend.  She ran a very gutsy effort in the two mile to place 8th in 11:37.36.  I could tell that this race was not easy as she was not 100%, but she gave a great effort.

Esther Cho has had a great season and placed 19th in the 55 Hurdles in 9.92. She worked most of the season to get under 10 seconds and once she did that she has been under every race this month.

Our 4 x 200 ran a super race to win their heat.  Liza Hochberg split under 26.8 to lead off and Katherine Cullen, Yuriko Fukumura and Allie Arruda all ran at their highest level to take 15th in 1:53.17.   This group has grown so much that they are now running faster than we ran early in the year with Charlotte and Lizzie W. on the team.  I work hard to get our kids to be able to work at any position on our relay teams and this group has really gotten the job done in the 4 x 200.

Our 4 x 400 took 9th place in 4:11.79.  That is a very fast time for a 9th place finish and the girls all ran very solid races as we went from Charlotte Huth at lead off and then Lucrecia Aguilar, Lizzie Fineman and Lizzie Walkes.  Our girls just missed qualifying for All State by one place, but this was still a stellar group running a very good race. Each girl really fought for position in a very tough heat.

Alekhya had run so well in the 4 x 800 that she earned the anchor spot on our 4 x 800.  Our other three girls have really grown this season to allow us to score in this event at this level.   I led off with Rachel Boisclair who set a PR of 2:26.4 and she put us in the top 4 on the first leg.  Sonya Nair and Katie Summers did a great job keeping us in scoring position.  Alekhya had her 2nd great effort of the day and we scored 7th place to earn state meet medals with a team season best time of 10:07.33.  I was thrilled watching our girls execute each leg so well in this relay.  This was a huge effort for this team.

DCL Championships 7 Feb. 2014 at Reggie Lewis Track

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The boys took 1st place and the girls a close 4th.

29 January meet; dual meet

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click here for photos by Dave Fineman, set 1
I don't have any results to post.

MSTCA meets at Reggie Lewis Track, 25th and 26th Jan.

The MSTCA Coach's Invitational Meet on Saturday:
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The MSTCA Coach's Elite Meet on Sunday:
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Steven M's report:

The state coaches Invitation weekend is in two parts.  Saturday was the MSTCA Coaches Invitational which is open to athletes that have met state meet standards.  The Coaches Elite meet on Sunday is limited to the top 24 seeds in the state and is a tune up for the All State Championship.

Our girls had a great weekend with person records and a school record.  I was very happy that all of our kids handled meets of this caliber going against the best in the state.  We have improved a lot as a team in performance and I feel we have improved even more in how we handle competition and meet preparation.   As a team we are in a good place moving into the championship part of the season.  The kids were excited about their achievements and I feel that we have gained a lot of team confidence.

MSTCA Coaches Elite meet on Sunday.

Our performer of the month has to be our 300 meters girls.  Lizzie Walkes only started running the 300 two weeks ago and she set a school record of 42.05 placing 11th.  She went in seeded in the 20s and knocked off 7/10s of second which is a lot for a race of that duration when her time was already stellar.  She then split low 26 on the opening leg of our 4 x 200. My feeling is that Lizzie is just getting started.

Lizzie is very special in that she has a true sprinters range and can blast a 55 meter and give us a great 400 meter leg on relays.

Our milers had a wonderful day setting two mile personal bests.  From the slower heat Lucrecia Aguilar went in with a best of 5:21 and she looked very strong with a great finishing kick placing 15th in 5:18.85.  Freshman Clare Martin ran in the seeded heat and they went out extremely fast as Clare passed the half mile in under 5:00 minute pace.  She did a great job of holding on and finished 14th in 5:18.51. While that early pace may not be ideal for the best time it is a very positive sign in that Clare knows that she can now run a very successful race that way.  Both milers looked very tough and both had great races.

Rebecca Grusby got stuck leading the 2nd pack for much of her two mile and ran a very solid 11:39.86.  This race went out very fast and then the pack split up and Rebecca did most of the work for the 2nd pack.

Our 4 x 200 of Lizzie Walkes, Allie Arruda, Yuriko Fukumura and Charlotte Huth placed 16th with a near person best of 1:50.91.  

Yuriko had a personal best split of 28.57 and Charlotte ran a brilliant anchor leg in 26.25.

MSTCA Coaches Invitational on Saturday.

Charlotte Huth and Liza Hochberg got us off to a great start in the 300 meters.

Charlotte Huth ran a text book race and had a huge 7/10s of second PR to take 4th in 42.56.   Charlotte got out fast and beat everyone to the break, but there was a girl to her outside that tried to cut her off.  Charlotte did a quick step pick up and held her off to keep position and run clear.  Liza Hochberg followed with another PR of 45.25. 

Lizzie Fineman went out blazing in her 600 heat to run a PR of 1:44.31.  Lizzie went through the first 200 in 30 seconds and had a straight away lead on the field.  She hung on and looked good finishing doing the event the hard way.
Alekhya Chaparala looked very good running a season best of 1:47.19.

Our 55 meter crew had a stellar day.  Yuriko Fukumura and Allie Arruda both broke 8 seconds for the first time.
Yuriko ran 7.96 and Allie ran 7.97.  Katherine Cullen ran a solid 8.26.

Anna Alsop put the shot 27'6.  Anna has been solid all season long.

Dual meet NSHS v Waltham; 15 January 2014 at BU

Dual meet NSHS v Waltham; 15 January 2014 at BU
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story by Steven McChesney:

The DCL score shows us winning 61-34, but there was a mistake in the 2 Mile and the Waltham girls did not get credit for those points.  The adjusted real score is

Newton South  59   Waltham  40

The meet was much closer than the score indicates.  Both teams were short handed.

We were missing a lot in the distance events and our top 300 girl.  Missing from our line up was Lucrecia Aguilar (illness, although I let her run the 4 x 200), Rebecca Grusby  (illness), Matia Whiting (illness) and Charlotte Huth (slight quad strain). 

I noticed that Waltham was missing 2 long jumpers a high jumper which is strong events for them and maybe more.

We had our best meet of the season by far.   I had told our team that we were missing a lot of help in terms of having a positive meet outcome and that we needed to have kids step up.  The outcome of meets is important to kids if they can contribute and our kids contributed in a way that was inspirational.  I did not see the full results until I could sit down at dinner to take the time to look them over and I was wowed with how well our kids stepped up.  The look on our kids faces today was of focus and they delivered a great meet to be a part of.  I am very pleased for our kids and very proud of their efforts.

Lizzie Walkes had a huge week.  On Monday she ran her first race over 200 meters winning the 300 in the DCL open meet at BU in a stellar time of 42.7.   That is a great debut.  Today against Waltham she finished 2nd to Jenny Sexton in a very good 7.69 in the 55 Dash.  That is a good week for anybody.  But because we were short handed in the 4 x 400 missing two legs we asked her to run her first 400 leg.  She took the lead early and posted a 61 split in her first 400 and handed off in the lead among all DCL relays.  

55

2. Lizzie Walkes  7.69

4. Yuriko Fukumura  8.00  PR

5. Esther Cho  8.19  PR

Anna Alsop had a PR of over 3 feet to lead the sweep in the shot put and qualify for states.  Sabrina Stacks also set a PR took take second and Jina An took 3rd and provided a 2nd place finish in the high jump.

1. Anna Alsop   31'7"  SQ  PR

2. Sabrina Stacks  29'10"  PR

3. Jina An  27'10"

4. Lina Dammann  22'09"  PR

Clare Martin had a great race winning the 1000 meters with Lizzie Fineman placing 2nd against Waltham.

After a slow first 400 Clare took the lead and made the race.  3:09.46 for a frosh is a stellar time.

1. Clare Martin   3:09.46  PR SQ

2. Lizzie Fineman  3:26.22

4. Yasmine Hashemi  3:40.29

Esther Cho also had a huge day for us.  She broke 10 in the hurdles for the first time placing 2nd in 9.83 and just a few minutes later set a PR in the 55 in 8.19.  Anna Mason set a PR to take 3rd in the hurdles.  Ruja Kambli and Sena An also set bests in the hurdles.

55 Hurdles

2. Esther Cho  9.83 PR

3. Anna Mason 10.23 PR

4. Ruja Kambli  10.79 PR

Sena An  11.13  PR

Rachel Boisclair got her first DCL win in the 600.   Katie summers was 2nd and Liza Hochberg took 3rd.

1. Rachel Boisclair  1:49.11

2. Katie Summers  1:49.24  PR

3. Liza Hochberg  1:50.97

Allison Arruda ran a stellar freshman time in the 300 (45.79) to lead all three girls to big season bests.

2. Allison Arruda  45.79  PR

3. Caroline Delheim  47.07  PR

4. Ashley Nhek  47.43  Season best

Alekhya Chaparala and Anna Rhatigan went 1- 2 in the mile.  

1. Alekhya Chaparala  5:50.11

2. Anna Rhatigan  5:54.18

Caraline Pham ran a great race to take 2nd in the Two Mile.  The results were not correct due to a lap counting error by the official.

Caraline took 2nd in a PR, but was told by the officials to run a lap short.  Caraline ran a DCL qualifying time and took 2nd place.

4. Ava Shaevel   14:12.55

We have a tradition of letting our best distance kids run the 4 x 100 in the spring and the 4 x 200 indoors and for four years straight they have met the state qualifying standard in the short relay.  The team of Ashley Nhek, Lucrecia Aguilar, Alekhya Chaparala and Liza Hochberg qaulified for states in a time of 1:56.55.  The standard is  1:57.24.

2.   Newton South    Nhek, Aguilar, Chaparala, Hochberg  1:56.55

Our 4 x 400 ran our fastest time of the season with a very different line up.  Lizzie Walkes gave us a huge boost as our lead off.  Sonya Nair ran a great 2nd leg as did Katie Summers as our 3rd leg.  Caroline Delheim ran a nice anchor.

Three of our legs were sophomores running their first 4 x 400 of the season replacing kids like Alekhya, Lizzie Fineman and Lucrceica Aguilar.  The fact that this group ran faster is promising.

1. Newton South   Walkes,  Nair,  Summers,  Delheim   4:21.29

Jina An had a nice meet as she placed 2nd in the high jump and 3rd in the shot put.

High Jump

2. Jina An  4'5"

4. Allison Arruda  4'1"

Yuriko Fukumura took 2nd in the long jump

2. Yuriko Fukumura   13'2.5"

Dual County League meet 2 at Reggie Lewis, 8 Jan. 2014

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notes from Steven:

Auerbach Large School Frosh / Soph Championship

Lizzie Walkes finished 3rd place in the 55 meters with a PR of 7.66

Rebecca Grusby  3rd   5:26.52   Clare Martin  5th  5:29.72

Liza Hochberg  12th  1:49.16

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We had our first scoring meet today and because of the snow out last week we went with invitaional format where  kids were grouped by times rather than by meet.

So even though we had two scored meets today against LS and Westford we often did not get to match up in the same heats so it was not really dual meet competiton.  In fact many times our kids were split up among many heats so it was hard to compete against LS and Westford as we often did not get to see them.

This was two bad to some cases.  For example Lizzie Walkes has run 7.66 in her last two meets in the 55 dash.

The LS girl won today in 7.67, but was not in the same heat as Lizzie.  Head to head would have been better.

This made it realy hard to keep track of scoring.

LS 57   NS  43

NS 72  Westford  27

I was very pleased with our team effort today especially coming off of the break.  We went against a very deep LS team and stayed with them the entire meet.  The meet was decided by very small margins and many of the events were very closely contested.  What I liked most about today is that our girls believed that they could compete with LS and gave a very strong team effort.  I was very proud of the girls today.

We had wins in the 300, 1000, 2 Mile, Shot Put and 4 x 200 and we had a lot of kids fighting for places.

Charlotte Huth was our highlight of the meet today and she had a great head to head dual with Katherine Malone from LS in the 300. Charlotte decided to train with our cross country team this fall to increase her strength and it has paid off as she has chopped her PR from 44.50 from last year to 43.26 to run the fastest time today in the entire DCL field with Malone finishing 2nd among all of the DCL.  It was a very exciting race with Charlotte winning the battle to the cut and leading the entire way and Malone putting on a late charge.

Liza Hochberg ran a very strong race as well in the 300 to take 3rd in both meets in her first race at this distance in a time of 45.52.

Charlotte also ran a brilliant 2nd leg on our 4 x 200 that won both meets and set a team PR by 2 second.

Lucrecia Aguilar ran a very strong 1000 and used a strong kick to win with the fastest time in the DCL today in

3:12.37.

Sabrina Stacks led a Newton South sweep of the shot put with a winning toss and a PR of 28'9.25".  Jina An was  2nd in 28'1" and Anna Alsop completed the sweep with 27'2".  All  three placed in the top 6 among all DCL putters.  

Rebecca Grusby lowered her season best in the two mile with a win by over 30 seconds racing to 11:22.63.

Anna was 2nd against Westford and 3rd vs LS in 12:36.64.

Our 4 x 200 relay of Lizzie Walkes, Charlotte Huth, Yuriko Fukumura and Allison Arruda won both meets in 1:50.34.

Lizzie Walkes won the 55 vs Westford and placed 2nd vs LS in 7.78.  Yuriko Fukumura ran a season best to place 3rd against LS.

Clare Martin ran a very fast 5:25.82 mile to take 3rd against Ariel Keklak and Sidney Clary from LS in the mile. Allen Read of Weston, Taylor Kennedy of Notre Dame and Lee Al-Atraqchi of AB were also in the heat.  All of these girls are state level placers.  This was the most loaded event in the meet and Clare handled the race with a lot of poise.  For a frosh to face that kind of competition and to hang in there that well is remarkable.

Lizzie Fineman won her heat in the 600 and Alekhya Chaparala looked strong in another heat.  Two bad these girls could not have raced together.  They combined to place 2nd and 3rd vs LS and went 1-2 vs Westford.  

All NS marks.

55 M.

1. Wfd   2. LS  Lizzie Walkes   7.78

3. LS  Yuriko Fukumura  8.03 PR

Allison Arruda   8.18

JV

Zoe Nicozsin   8.30 

Michaela Wong 8.60 

Samantha Chin  9.14

Kelly Pappas  9.19 

Hannah Cai  9.49

Malea Gorin  9.69

300

1., 1. 1 in DCL Charlotte Huth  43.26 PR   State Qualify

3,3 Liza Hochberg  45.52  PR

Ashley Nhek  49.00

JV  

Kaavya Chaparala  50.2

Sitara Pal  51.8

Aureanna Miller  51.9

Maya Dennis  54.7

600

2nd LS, 1st Wfd  Alekhya Chaparala  1:48.43

3rd LS, 2nd Wfd Lizzie Fineman 1:48.77

3rd Wfd  Caroline Delheim  1:51.72

JV

Sophia Fulara  2:02.9

Ava Shaevel  2:04.1

Monika Nedeljkovic  2:08.7

Hannah Lynch  2:10.1

Madison Holland  2:11.9

Isabel Kaplan    2:19.0

1000

1, 1  Lucrecia Aguilar   3:12.37   State Qualify

2. Wfd  Rachel Boisclair  3:29.56  PR

3. Wfd  Katie Summers  3:30.19  PR

Sonya Nair   3:31.61

Mile

3. LS  1. Wfd  Clare Martin  5:25.82  State Qualify

2nd Wfd.  Matia Whiting  5:51.58

3rd Wfd  Yasmine Hashemi  6:17.36

JV 

Lauren Miller    6:37.0

Zoe Gelch       6:51.0

Samantha Armstrong  6:52.0

Louisa Kimmell  6:55.0

Two Mile

1.  1.  Rebecca Grusby  11:22.63  State Qualify

3. LS  2. Wfd  Anna Rhatigan  12:36.64

55 Hurdles

3. LS  2 Wfd  Esther Cho   10.42

3. Wfd  Anna Mason  10.64

Ruja Kambli  11.03

4 x 200

Lizzie Walkes, Charlotte Huth, Yuriko Fukumura, Allison Arruda  1:50.34  PR  State Qualify

JV  

Sabrina Stacks,  Zoe Nicozsin, Sena An, Samantha Chin  2:00.9

4 x 400

Lizzie Fineman, Liza Hochberg, Lucrecia Aguilar, Alekhya Chaparala  4:26.27 PR State Qualify

Shot Put

1.1. 2nd among all DCL  Sabrina Stacks  28'9.25"  PR

2, 2  4th DCL  Jina An  28'1.25

2,3  6th DCL  Anna Alsop  27'2"

Zoe Nicozsin   21'9

Long Jump

3 LS, 2nd Wfd Caraline Pham   13'1.25

3rd Wfd Sabrina Stacks  12'9.25

High Jump

3rd LS  2nd Wfd  Jina An  4'5"

2nd Wfd  Allison Arruda  4'3"

Alekhya Chaparala  4'0"

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
click here for boys photos by John Sangiolo
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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DCL Championships, 25 October 2013

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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