Jared ran his 1st open 400m at the New Balance Twilight Meet Saturday night at Bentley College (results, photos). He placed 6th in a state-qualifying PR 51.85 that ranks #4 in New England behind Abu Ceesay from Gambia (see Nothing can stop Ceesay) and 2nd in MA. Nationally it ranks him 157th out of 24,000 freshman runners. He currently ranks #1 in New England in frosh long jump and 200m. His long jump national frosh rank is at 19th of 21,000.
It also gave him an official and faster qualifier for the New Balance Freshman 400m on Friday, as they had flagged the relay split submitted (entries). The twilight meets have a range of high school, college, and post grad runners shooting for qualifying times.
Lisa and I were at Special Olympics all day. Jared decided to run meet at 4pm and we got over to Bentley just under the wire at 4:30pm for race-day entry. In other news, Jared’s two Massachusetts Middle School Championship records in long jump and 4x100m survived the 3rd annual middle school meet yesterday. I think the 4x100m has a shot at lasting as two event limits will often lead strong runners to run individual events instead. Jared took team approach with 4×1 team.
See New Balance Video from FloTrack below (Jared in Purple shirt in lane 4) with race commentators:
Spectacular rankings!
Impressive race and super rankings! Keep on doing whatever you’re doing – it works.
Great running, Jared!
You keep going and enjoy your accomplishments your Freshman year.
Pleased and proud.
Great job. Good luck on Friday.