Author: Dad

Newton North Soccer

Jared was one of the few Newton freshman to make the Junior Varsity team and he’s been playing well with the stepped up level of competition. The team is doing well with roughly a .500 record after ~11 games. Apologies for delay in posting on the season. There are six photo galleries available in the photo galleries from various games from the season thus far.

Newton had a close 1-2 loss to league rival Weymouth today in Newton. I took the sequences of shots from the 2nd half and made a slide show:

Here is a slide show of him in the opening Jamboree:

Highlight photos:

Here is some youtube footage from the opening jamboree back in September.

Priors take 57th and 95th in Ocean Community YMCA Triathlon

Steve and Jack traveled to neutral Rhode Island to face off in the Ocean Community YMCA Triathlon at misquamicut Beach on September 23rd (results, news). The race consisted of a 1/2 mile ocean swim, a 16 mile bike ride, and a 3 mile run. Steve had the 8th fastest swim leg of the 188 person field while Jack was 52nd. Steve’s total time was 1:28:05 for 5th in his age group while Jack came in at 1:33:25. Jack out-biked Steve and trailed by only 1:45 at the end of the bike leg, but Steve’s lightning transition into his low budget boat socks and sub 8min/mi pace in the run put the race away. Jack still wins after the agreed 1 min/year adjustment :-).

Priors 6th in Dave Parcells Madison Sprint Triathlon Relay

Jack and Steve competed as “Team Pain and Suffering” in the Dave Parcells Madison Sprint Triathlon in Madison, CT on Saturday September 8th (relay results, individual results). After getting up at 4am to travel and check in for the 7am start, we learned the ocean swim portion of the triathlon was canceled due to chop, so the race became a 1.25mi run — 13mi bike – 3mi run biathlon.

Jack covered the runs at 7:21/mile and 8:22/mile pace respectively and Steve covered the bike at 20.6 mph pace for a total team time of 1:15:29 and 6th out of 19 teams. We won the “same last name” division, with Jack surging past the “The O’Connor Boys” on in the last mile of the run to win by 23 seconds. We also got 1st in the 2-man relay division although 80 1-man teams did manage to beat us :-). Steve also won awards for oldest bike on the course, oldest helmet, and oldest bike glasses.

Originally Steve was to to do the swim and the bike. Jack was a last minute sub for Steve’s co-worker who had his gall-bladder taken out last week.

Jared takes 3 Events at Bay State Games — Breaks Meet Record

Jared wrapped up his 2012 Outdoor track season by winning the long jump, triple jump, and 100m in the age 10-14 Junior Division of the 2012 Bay State Games (photos, results, Newton Sports Photography coverage, Waltham paper).

He was the only athlete to win 3 events in any division. His long jump mark of 18′ 9.5″ broke the 18′ 7.25″ meet record for the event set in 2005.

The junior division of the meet dates back to at least 1999, while the games themselves date back to 1984 and represent competitors from across Massachusetts. Due to the “limited” number of competitors who showed up to face him, Jared completed his 4 long jumps in the span of 5 minutes.

He won the 100m by a margin of 0.40 (12.08 final, 12.03 in trials) — see photo sequence.

He ends his outdoor season undefeated against 14yo/8th graders in all of his events (except 100m loss to Arthur Baygboe in NE JO) and with 3 state meet records to his credit (this record along with Middle school state meet LJ and 4×1 relay).

Junior division event winners are summarized below. See baystategames.org for full results).

Event Name Town Mark Name Town Mark
100m Allison Arruda Newton 13.90 Jared Prior Newton 12.08
200m Kate Gobi Princeton 27.05 Davis Cusack Holden 24.85
400m Kate Gobi Princeton 1:01.84 Zachary O’Leary Ashland 57.78
800m Alexandra Wolf Lexington 2:33.70 Owen Wright Amherst 2:19.53
1 mile Michaela Jones North Andover 5:28.56 Michael Durkin Cohasset 5:13.22
Long jump Mackenzie Gray Andover 16-03.5 Jared Prior Newton 18-09.5
Triple jump Mackenzie Gray Andover 37-06.75 Jared Prior Newton 36-4.75
Turbo Jav Jackie Fitzgerald Wayland 60-10 Devin Morrill Mendon 115-05

 

The updated Bay State Games Junior Records are summarized below with links where available to their ma.milesplit.com profiles where available (see full record list on baystategames.org).

Event Year Name Mark Year Name Mark
100m 2009 Thaisa Alphonse 12.92 2001 Michael Haakenstad 11.77
200m 2009 Sydney Fisher 26.34 2009 Joel Hubbard 24.17
400m 2010 Rhyana Freeman 01:00.3 2007 Jared Kadich 53.35
800m 2000 Alanna Poretta 02:24.4 2000 Chadd Steinhauser 02:09.6
1 mile 2005 Emily Lanois 04:47.6 2009 Colin Bennie 5:27.61
long jump 2009 Carla Forbes 18-05 2012 Jared Prior 18-09.5
triple jump 2009 Carla Forbes 39-03 2001 Michael Haakenstad 38-3
Turbo Jav 2010 Emma Fitzgerald 109-11 2012 Devin Morrill 115-05

Jared jumps to 5th in LJ and TJ at USATF Region 1 Junior Olympics

Jared improved on his seeding in both the long jump and triple jump with 5th place medal-stand finishes in the USATF Region 1 Junior Olympics held on Long Island on Sunday (photos, results, Waltham paper). This meet included the top athletes from New York and New England. Likely the youngest athlete in the competition, Jared was the #1 15yo in the long jump and #2 in the triple jump (in his 4th triple jump competition).

These finishes gave him the option to advance to the National Junior Olympic Championships in Baltimore later in the month with the top 5 finishers from each of the 16 regions around the country qualifing to advance.