Girls' indoor track team shines at
state meets
By Mike Berger
Citizen Staff
The CHS girls’
indoor track team continues to make its presence felt in state
competition. Several girls made it to the top 25 in several
events at the Boys’ and Girls’ Invitational on Saturday, January
30, and at the Coaches Elite Invitational (top 24 performers in
each event in the state) on Sunday, January 31.
Both meets are
precursors to state Class Meet competition. All runners and
throwers who participated had to achieve certain times and
throws to qualify.
On Saturday,
junior Anna Amico ran a 7.67 in the 55-meter dash and finished
ninth. Freshman Keishorea Armstrong ran the event with a time of
7.76 seconds and placed 15th. Both girls made it to
the semis and placed in the top 24 out of 93 girls competing.
Senior Colleen
Healey ran the 55-meter hurdles and also placed in the top 24
with a time of 9.58 seconds, finishing 18th out of 64
runners. Sophomore Vicky Tondre competed in the long jump and
placed seventh with a jump of 15 feet, seven inches, and junior
Kate D’Orazio qualified for states with a time of 1:47.45 in the
600 meter (37th place).
On Sunday,
senior Samantha Smith placed fourth in the state in the 55-meter
dash with a time of 7.41. She was also a vital member of the
4x200 team — with Amico, Tondre and Armstrong — that also placed
fourth with a time of 1:47.66.
In addition to
her seventh-place finish of five feet, three inches in the high
jump, junior Chidimma Nwankwo placed third in the shot put (35
feet, 11 and one quarter inches).
“Overall it
was a great weekend with some amazing performances,” coach Kerri
Oldmixon said. “And this is just where I want the girls to be as
we head off into our postseason.”
On Sunday,
February 7, the 4x200, 4x400, 4x50 and shot put teams will be
heading to the state McIntyre relays, an all-divisions state
meet. Saturday, February 13, the team will compete in the
Hockomock Championship Meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Reggie Lewis
Center.
Boys’ team
Boys’ indoor
track coach Chris Elgar said it was a challenging weekend for
his team.
Matt Sidney
just missed qualifying with his seventh-place, six-foot,
three-inch jump. Elgar said Sidney had two great attempts at six
feet, five inches, which would have moved him into top-four
contention. “That is a height we are really confident he will
achieve before season’s end,” Elgar said.
Elgar reported
that Christian Bates and Jon Vaughn both struggled this weekend
in the mile and 55-meter hurdles, respectfully.
“On the bright
side,” he said, “if there is a time to get a ‘bad one’ out of
the system, this is that time. For Jon, he was dealing with some
lightheadedness and it was his first 55-meter effort this
winter. You’d be surprised what kind of difference going from 50
yards with four hurdles at Franklin field house to 55 meters and
five hurdles at the Reggie Lewis Center can do to your
performance. We look to rebound and peak for championship
season.”
This weekend
the boys’ team will be represented at the McIntyre Relays as the
4x200, high jump and sprint medley relays all qualified in the
earlier State Coaches Relay Competition. The 4x200 relay team
finished second overall behind Vaughn, Jordan Guyton, Tyler
Briggs and Marty Fauche. Also finishing second was the high jump
relay of Sidney, Vaughn and Fauche. Finishing fifth was the
sprint medley relay of Bates, Guyton, Fauche and Vaughn.
February 4, 2010
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