Category: Jared Track

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).

 

The MSTCA Elite Meet acts as a preview of the state open competition (results, photos, Boston Globe article).    Jared took 3rd in the long jump,  4th in the 4x200m (video), and 2nd in the 4x400m (video).

 

Jared improved his seasons best by 7″ and his indoor PR by 2.5″ jumping 22′ 0″ against Braintree this evening to move into the lead in the Massachusetts state rankings by a half a foot and to move up in the National Rankings from #98  to #50 (less complete but accessible athletic.net has him 41st of of over 5,200 jumpers (top 0.8%)..   This qualifies him for the emerging elite level at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York on March 11-13th.   He also won the 55m and ran on winning 4x200m relay.

 

We credit it to finally understanding the physics of long jump (run fast and jump). And yes, this was a flat pit…

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Official pointed out a week later that this jump broke the Bay State Conference Indoor Long Jump record. This record list is kept for performances in dual meets and the league championship.

Jared gave a speech at the Newton North Spring Athletic Awards Night:

He also picked up his 7th varsity letter and was recognized for his sportsmanship, not only by his team and coach, but athletes and coaches from across the league.

Kayla was quoted by Newton North Principal Jen Price in announcing the two new Joe Tranchita Scholarships (jump to 1:06):

Jared finished his dual meet season last week accumulating 97 points (#2 in the league) and a career total of over 260 points (#1 in league, exceed 4 year totals). He pulled his “good” hamstring in the final dual meet against Needham on May 20th. After taking 10 days off, he managed to return for Eastern D1 championships Saturday and improve upon his 5th place seed with a 4th place opening jump and a berth to the State Open this Sunday. He also qualified to compete in 100m, 200m, 400m, and both relays but injury prevented this.

Jared also wrote the milesplit article for the championship meet; interviewing the winning coach for 30min on Sunday: Andover Teams Sweep D1 Championships

Jared gave his first speech as co-captain at the Newton North Varsity Awards night, where he picked up his 7th varsity letter. This evening he was also voted onto the Bay State Conference All-Star team for the 2nd time, earning unanimous votes from all 11 league coaches. He concluded his indoor season Saturday with a 10th place finish in the State Open behind 9 seniors. His 21′ 9 3/4″ D1 jump ranked him 4th in the state overall for the season.

Jared overcame his hamstring injury to hit one of his key goals for the year; winning the MIAA Division 1 State Championship with an indoor personal best jump of 21′ 9 3/4″ on his 6th and final attempt (Photos, results, globe results, milesplit coverage). This was Jared first high school championship title.

He was in 4th pace going into finals with a 20’8″ 2nd jump and then 2nd after 4 jumps with a 21’1″ which put him 1″ behind the leader. The win advances him to the state open on Saturday February 21st. He also ran a leg of the 4x200m for 7th and that team will likely advance to the open with a wildcard slot (last divisional meet is Tuesday).

This jump puts Jared at 4rd in the Massachusetts state rankings, 4.5″ out of 1st and likely seeds him 2nd or 3rd in the State Open.

This is Jared’s winning jump:

Metal!

Jump 2, 3, and 5 and the 400m relay:

Jared improved his indoor long jump personal best by half a foot to 21’5″ and won the 55m dash in 6.74 in an 80-20 win over Walpole to conclude Newton North’s 18th undefeated season (results). The long jump mark ranks him 3rd overall in Massachusetts and 35th nationwide among juniors. Given the flat landing pit and lack of tail winds, this was also intrinsically better than his outdoor 21’11” PR.

He concluded the dual meet season undefeated in long jump and 55m and scoring a league-leading 67 points in 5 meets despite missing a meet due to injury.

He got some ink in last week’s Newton Tab for performances against Framingham and in the weekend’s State Coaches Elite meet where he got top 8 finishes in LJ, 55m, and 4x200m against the top competitors in the state (photos, 4x200m video).