Jared improved his indoor long jump PR to 19′ 4.25″ and his 55m dash to 7.08 in Newton North’s final dual meet vs Hergert division champion Milton (results). His long jump was the 2nd longest of his career and moves him to #17 freshman nationally (of 1475). He continues to rank #2 (of 405) in New England. He placed 3rd in the dual meet and 6th out of 34 Bay State conference athletes competing this evening. His #8 league ranking auto-qualifies him for the Bay State conference championships next week.
In the 55m dash Jared improved his PR to 7.08 with a 4th place finish. He placed 14th overall of the 122 athletes competing. He ranks as #2 freshman in league and #8 in the state.
Jared split a personal best 23.8 third leg in the 4x200m as North took 5th in the MSTCA Elite Meet on Sunday (results, video). This is a dress rehersal for state open. His team was missing its 2nd strongest runner costing them 2-3 seconds on the anchor leg.
Kayla jumped to a huge personal best in the triple jump at the Empire 8 championship on Saturday, jumping 36’0.25″ to place 5th (results). Her previous PR was 34’6″ and her high school PR was 33’5.5″.
The mark qualifiers her in a 2nd event at the ECAC championships and moves her to 2nd on the Ithaca College depth chart in the triple jump. She also ran a personal best 8.38 in the 55 meter dash. The triple jump is at 4pm on Friday March 1st while the long jump is at 1:30pm on Saturday March 2nd (schedule).
Photo of Kayla triple jumping in Cornell Relays in December:
Steve won the 100 yard freestyle and the 500 yard freestyle and took 2nd in the 50 yard freestyle in the 40-44 mens age group at the 2nd Annual Wellesley Winter Classic held at Wellesley College on Sunday (results, photos). He swam a 26.61 in the 50 yard freestyle, 1:00.29 in the 100 yard free style, and 6:33.41 in the 500 yard freestyle. He successfully kept his goggles on in 2 of his 3 events. Luckily, he didn’t have to compete against the 40-55yo women :-).
Kayla jumped to an indoor personal best 17′ 2 1/4″ to place 6th at the Cornell Indoor Challenge in Ithaca on Saturday (Ithaca College News Article, results). You wouldn’t guess it from the Ithaca news release, but Kayla was one of only 3 Ithaca athletes to score points in the meet (scored 6 places deep).
The jump qualifies her for the ECAC Division III Championships to be held in the Armory in New York City on Saturday March 2nd at 1:30pm. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference represents 186 division III schools and is the highest level championship short of the NCAA championships (which requires an 18’4″ jump for provisional qualification).
Jared ran to a 55m PR 7.11 for 2nd place and long jumped 18′ 11.25″ for 3rd place, scoring 4 of Newton’s 60 points in is 60-34 win over Needham (results). He finished ahead of all Needham athletes in his events and only 2 athletes from the remaining 10 bay state conference teams competing out jumped him.
Jared sat out the long jump due to hip flexor tendonitis, but helped power Newton North to victory in the 1600m Sprint Medley Relay (800m,200m, 200m, 400m) at the 2013 D1 MSTCA D1 State Relays yesterday at the Reggie Lewis Center (results, video,photos, milesplit article, Newton Tab article, globe article, herald article). Jared split a 23.9 200m on the third leg, holding off a surging Lincoln-Sudbury team, as part of their 3:37.07 overall time, which ranks 6th of 995 performances nationally. At the end of last season it would have ranked 28th of 1800. This may enable them to enter the National meet in NY as last year North placed 14th with a slower time and only had a 3:40 performance in the 2012 D1 meet implying that the organizers allow a relay time to be estimated based on individual performances of the team members. Three of the 4 relay members return next year.
Jared ran only 1/8th of the total race distance (the 800m runner really determines much of the outcome), but his coach characterized him as “saving the race” by having a very fast relay handoff to start his race, and forcing the faster Lincoln-Sudbury runner to stay in lane 2 the entire race and not allowing him to pass him. If Jared had conceded the poll, he’d likely have run 0.5-1s slower and the North anchor runner would have begun with not only the time deficit but the need to run wide as well.
The Newton North boys tied for 2nd place overall with 28 points, with Jared’s relay contributing 10 of those points.
On the girls side, the results now include Kayla’s name for posterity for the 3 meet records she set in this meet last year (LJ, 50m, 50m hurdle relays). All three survived and will likely be around for awhile with Carla graduating. Kayla picked up 9 state relay golds and 4 meet records over the course of her indoor and outdoor career. Jared is off to a pretty good start helping North teams to 2 state meet titles (this and team pentathlon) in his first 4 high school track meets.
Here is a video I found on youtube that someone took of the race:
Here is a High frame-rate slide show I shot from the infield during the race:
