Category: Kayla Track

Newton North won the Dartmouth Relays (results, article), defeating 48 other scoring teams. Kayla ran a personal best 9.91 in the 55m Hurdles for 31st place.

Newton north entered two teams in the MSTCA Team Pentathlon on the 29th. It was scored like a regular pentathlon but with different individuals in each event (results). Ten team were entered. Kayla long jumped for the B team.

Kayla placed 8th in the long jump (15’2.75″) in the Boston Holiday Challenge Invitational meet at the Reggie Lewis Center on Tuesday after a 4 day layoff due to the holiday and snow (photos, results, espn news). This was a high level meet with competitors from multiple states.

Kayla opened her 2010-2011 indoor track season at the Winter Festival at the Reggie Lewis Center Saturday (results, article) attended by 41 Massachusetts schools. She long jumped to a 15’11″ indoor PR (and 3rd best all-time) for 4th place out of 41 competitors. She came in seeded 16th. This jump qualifies her for the states and ranks her 11th in the state at the moment (rankings) and 3rd in the league. Her 2nd best jump in the meet was 15’5″.

She also ran a PR 10.08 in 55m hurdles to win her preliminary heat by a half second but just missed out of the semifinals. The dominant Newton hurdle crew (including two newcomers) sent 4 of 16 to the semis and 3 of 8 to the finals. See full set of photos on smugmug.

The Newton Tab newspaper put photos I submitted on their home page.

One of my favorite shots of the day of Kayla’s teammate Amy:

Slide show of meet photos:

Kayla took home the bronze medal in the long jump and got 4th in the hurdles in the Bay State Games held today at UMass Lowell and also earned a snazzy Bay State Games jacket (results). She had some good looking jumps that were 1/4″ fouls. Her only legal jump is the one with the rake being pulled out of the way just in time. She also competed in the vault but opened at an agressive height. See slide shows below of all three events!

Kayla and the 13 other girls that represented Newton North in the Outdoor State Championships were honored this evening in a ceremony at city hall. Mayor Setti Warren presented the girls with certificates of commendation from the town. Newton South athletes also attended for their 2nd place in the state open.

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Kayla qualified competed in 2 events in the Eastern Division 1 State Championship meet held in Dilboy Stadium in Somerville today. She logged her 2nd best all-time efforts in both the Long Jump (15′ 11 3/4″) and in the 100m hurdles (17.51) for 13th and 18th place respectively. Among freshmen and sophomores, she ranked 6th and 8th in those events.

Newton North finished a somewhat disappointing 3rd overall with 54.5 pts in the meet behind Andover (78.5 pts) and Newton South (62pts) (results, Newton Tab article, Globe article, Herald article). In retrospect Andover’s 78.5 points would have been tough to beat even if all things had gone Newton’s way. See the Newton Track Blog for more coverage.

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Newton piled up 48 of their points with four strong individual wins (PV, LJ, TJ, 4×400) and a 2nd (800m) that should bode well for their outlook in the State Open next week. The 4x100m relay placed 5th today with a 50.59 running with a different alternate and qualified for the open. The current plan is to skip the 4×1 in favor of fully loading the 4×4 team with Carla Forbes.
Here are links to the results of other divisional meets: Div2, Div 4, Div3, Central Mass, and Western Mass.

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Looking back, Kayla has had an exciting sophomore indoor/outdoor track season breaking two Newton North school relay records (indoor 3xLJ, indoor 4x50m), earning two Division 1 state relay titles (indoor 3xLJ, outdoor 4x100m hurdles) and running a state-leading time for frosh/soph level 4x100m relay. She contributed to 26 of the 101 points the team needed to win the indoor and outdoor state relay meets. The team was undefeated indoors and outdoors in dual meets and won all its state-wide competitions until this meet. On Thursday night she picked up her 3rd varsity letter for the year and the 4th of her high school career.