Division 1 State Track Championships

Kayla qualified competed in 2 events in the Eastern Division 1 State Championship meet held in Dilboy Stadium in Somerville today. She logged her 2nd best all-time efforts in both the Long Jump (15′ 11 3/4″) and in the 100m hurdles (17.51) for 13th and 18th place respectively. Among freshmen and sophomores, she ranked 6th and 8th in those events.

Newton North finished a somewhat disappointing 3rd overall with 54.5 pts in the meet behind Andover (78.5 pts) and Newton South (62pts) (results, Newton Tab article, Globe article, Herald article). In retrospect Andover’s 78.5 points would have been tough to beat even if all things had gone Newton’s way. See the Newton Track Blog for more coverage.

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Newton piled up 48 of their points with four strong individual wins (PV, LJ, TJ, 4×400) and a 2nd (800m) that should bode well for their outlook in the State Open next week. The 4x100m relay placed 5th today with a 50.59 running with a different alternate and qualified for the open. The current plan is to skip the 4×1 in favor of fully loading the 4×4 team with Carla Forbes.
Here are links to the results of other divisional meets: Div2, Div 4, Div3, Central Mass, and Western Mass.

From 2010-05

Looking back, Kayla has had an exciting sophomore indoor/outdoor track season breaking two Newton North school relay records (indoor 3xLJ, indoor 4x50m), earning two Division 1 state relay titles (indoor 3xLJ, outdoor 4x100m hurdles) and running a state-leading time for frosh/soph level 4x100m relay. She contributed to 26 of the 101 points the team needed to win the indoor and outdoor state relay meets. The team was undefeated indoors and outdoors in dual meets and won all its state-wide competitions until this meet. On Thursday night she picked up her 3rd varsity letter for the year and the 4th of her high school career.