Congratulations to those members who competed in the Middle School State Meet today, achieving 3 state titles and 2 meet records, 2 second place finishes, 1 third and 8 top 10 finishes in the process!

Leah Brams started the day off with a win in the 8th grade girls’ race with a meet record and PR of 10:27, improving on her time of 10:44 from last year’s 7th grade win. She was followed by Rebecca Grusby in 2nd with 10:49.  Lindsey Mogan was 40th in 12:48, Rachel Solomon was 55th in 13:34, and Beverly Ortiz was 96th in 15:09. Connor Meaney was 59th in the boys’ race in a PR 11:42 (bettering last year’s 12:03 time) and Philip Batler was 111th with 12:44.

In the 7th grade girls’ race, Gabby Vandendries finished 2nd in a PR 11:04, improving on her 4th place finish from last year’s 11:37. Kate Cronin was 48th in 13:01.  In the boy’s race, Liam O’Callaghan was 81st in 12:23.

In the girls’ 5th & 6th grade race, Einat Gavish won in 11:18, Rose Teszler was 20th in 12:04  and Lillian Joyce was 23rd in 12:16.  In the boys’ race, Calvin Perkins was 1st in a meet record time of 10:33.

In the team championship races, Clare Martin was 5th in 10:33, Courtney Aylaian was 7th in 10:41 and Alex Wolf was 20th in 11:15.  In the boys’ race, which had the largest field of the day with 206 runners, Christian Herlihy was 3rd in a PR 9:40, improving on last year’s time of 10:23, Zach Manikas-Hill was 5th in 9:41 (bettering last year’s 10:11), Daniel O’Donoghue was 8th in 9:52, Michael O’Donoghue was 21st in 10:09, Jacob Jampel was 22nd in 10:09, Thomas O’Donoghue was 26th in a PR 10:16 (last year’s time was 10:20), Will Rhatigan was 28th in a PR 10:18 and Andy Theall was 71st in a PR 10:48 (both Will and Andy ran 11:30 last year), Nick Manikas-Hill was 126th in 11:42.

Complete results may be found here.

Youth XC team practice (for members continuing on into Junior Olympic competition) will be held today (Sunday) at 1:30 at the (Leary Field) track. It will also be held:

• Monday & Wednesday at 6:00 at the track
• Tuesday & Thursday  at 6:00 at the Kennedy Middle School indoor track

Any veteran or new members who still need to address USATF registration matters (including birth certificate issues) need to do so immediately. Online entry for next Sunday’s NE Junior Olympic Championship meet ends this Wednesday.

This week’s (and next week’s) open team practice schedule, and the schedule for the high school preseason conditioning program is as follows:

• Sunday at 3:00 at the track
• Monday & Wednesday at 6:00 at the track
• Tuesday & Thursday at 6:00 at the Kennedy Middle School indoor track