Month: February 2016

The @BostonGlobe's Boys' Indoor Track All-Scholastics for this season. https://t.co/zcCZLWehMo pic.twitter.com/Ool1KqVUdL

— Boston Globe Schools (@GlobeSchools) April 3, 2016

Jared finished off the New England portion of his indoor high school track career yesterday with an 8th place finish in the New England Championship, moving up 3 slots from his 11th place seed.   He was in a 3-way tie for 6th with his 2nd round 21′ 3.5″ jump,  but moved to 8th on 2nd jump tie-breakers (photos, results, Boston Globe article, Newton Tab article).  He finished ahead of all but the one jumper from western Massachusetts who had previously beaten him in the elite meet and state open.     The leading jumpers were a foot off their PRs (lumpy non-deep pit?)

With him being the only Mass jumper advancing to New Balance Nationals, his 22′ 0″ jump from the Braintree dual meet will stand as the state leading jump of the 2016 season.

On the basis of these performances and primarily on his 2nd place in state open (1st in eastern mass), the athletic department notified Jared this morning that the Boston Globe has named him along with 9 other Eastern Massachusetts athletes to the Boston Globe 2016 Indoor Track All-Scholastic Team. This is a most broadly visible honor that can be achieved in Massachusetts high school sports, with his photo/bio to be featured in the sports section of the Sunday Globe on April 3rd.

 

Proud that he had the courage to put the honor at risk by competing in New England’s yesterday, as losing to any eastern mass athlete there would have put the selection at risk. Sitting out would have locked it based on more important state open result.     Here are links to the 2014 and 2015 teams and to the home page for the teams.   Yeah Jared!

He will compete in Armory Friday 12 noon 3/10 at Armory in NYC in the emerging elite division.  216 Fort Washington Avenue, New York

 

 

Jared capped off his Massachusetts state high school indoor track career today with a 2nd place 21′ 5.5″ long jump in the State Open Championships (performance list, milesplit preview, results, photos, articles from milsplit1, milesplit2, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Newton Tab, Newtonite, Daily Hampshire Gazette, . It was his 2nd best jump of the season and 3rd best of his indoor career. He also posted indoor 200m (video) and 400m (video) relay split personal bests of 22.34 and 51.45 respectively, with the North 4x200m relay taking home 4th place. The 4x400m relay was hampered by a fall on the 1st leg.

His 22’0″ personal best jump earlier this season broke the Bay State Conference record and is the #1 mark in Massachusetts (out of 836 competitors) as is the Newton 4x400m team’s 3:26.09 from last week’s D1 Championship win (video). 

Newton North earned 2nd place honors at the 2016 MIAA Division 1 Indoor Track Championships (results, photos, Newton Tab, Boston Globe, ).    Although the meet ran for over 4 hours,  Jared events came in the last 46 minutes.   At 1:06pm Jared took his first long jump, earning a mark that would advance him to finals and state open, and then ran to the 4x200m start line, splitting a PR 22.42 to help North to a 2nd for 8 points (video).

He returned to long jump pit to post a 20′ 10″ jump that would be good for 4th place and 6 points.   He headed to gym to sign in for 4x400m.  At 1:50 he returned to the track to take the 1st jump of the long jump finals and then sprinted to starting line where the gun fired for the 4x400m 90 seconds later.  The North team raced Andover to a photo-finish MA#1 win in 3:26.09 (video) besting 210 other schools in state this season, for another 10 points.

In all Jared contributed to 22 of Newton North’s 44 points (team scores).

Great to have Luca and family in the stands along with Nanny and Papa!

Above 2 photos courtesy of fellow photographer John Keklak — I was filming.

Newton North won the Bay State Conference Championship meet, with Jared taking 2nd in long jump(video),   5th in 55m dash, and 2nd in 4x200m relay (video).    His 5th in 55m was achieved despite a hurdle crew member inexplicably moving a hurdle into his lane during the final.  Newton scored 104 points with Jared contributing to 20 (results, photos).