Prior family scrap book
The North girls continued to establish themselves as leaders in the sprint relays with a season best 50.7 in the 4x100m against Framingham today. The time currently leads the state rankings (athletic.net, ma.milesplit.com). Running into a head wind, Kayla split a 12.47 (equivalent to 13.17 flat start) to bring the team home. The first three legs split 13.50 (Wong), 12.63 (Larkin), and 12.15 (Forbes).
Video of race on youtube:
Kayla ran a 17.0 personal best and state qualifier in the 100m hurdles for 3rd place in Newton win over Needham (photos). She also anchored the 4x100m relay to a season best 51.8 win and took 2nd in the triple jump. She is now state-qualified in 4 events (LJ, TJ, 100m hurdles, and 4x100m relay). Her 17’1.5″ long jump PR continues to rank 3rd in state of the 272 reported performances.
4x100m relay:
Jared indoor soccer team Newton United won the 2nd session Playoffs on Tuesday evening defeating the leagues other 6 teams. Jared scored 3 goals in their 7-0 win in semi-final and then played fine defense in the 4-3 win over Westwood in the final.
The Newton United U14 soccer team won the Newton Indoor Sports Center indoor championship with a win over Westwood. Photos of the game are available in the 2012 Indoor Soccer Gallery.
Photos from Easter 2012 in Woodbury are posted. Great fun and a surprise near quorum (click here for photo)! I only got 54 keepers even though Ava points out “Uncle Jack, why do you always have a camera?”. They came out pretty good — below are just some highlights.
I can recrop for prints.
Newton United, Jared’s indoor soccer team, went 8-1 for to win the regular season title. On Tuesday night they won 6-4 on against a tough Arlington team in their final regular season game (photos). They play in the play offs on Tuesday evening (they get a bye into a short game 20min semifinal and then play a 40min final if they advance).
yellow card coming…
Kayla had a great meet Wednesday at the Newton North home opener win over Braintree 97-38 (photos). She leaped a personal best and state qualifying 17′ 1.5″ for 2nd in the long jump and had a 16’10” to back it up. That’s a 1/2 foot improvement over her previous outdoor PR of 16’7″. For 10-15 minutes she was the North’s #1 jumper for the season as she had out-distanced 2-time national champion Carla Forbes’ 16’9″ from last week until Carla jumped 19’3″ in 2nd flight. Kayla now ranks 3rd in league. Her mark, which translates to metric 5.22 meters, would have won the Ithaca Invitational last weekend which featured Ithaca, Cornell, Cortland State, and Herkimer College (results) so she should fit in OK next year. State rankings are unclear due to spotty data entry, but her jump would have ranked 19th state-wide at the END of the 2011 season. Dad was shooting high jump on other end of field so no photos of that event!
In the triple jump she also PR-ed with a state-qualifing 33’5.25″ jump for 3rd (10.19meters), improving on the 33’3.25″ PR she set last week against Natick and ranking her 7th in league (jump sequence photos #1, #2, #3)
She also anchored the 4x100m relay to a state qualifying and league-leading 51.9 win (video).
In 100m hurdles, Braintree’s lead hurdler took a header into Kayla’s lane and knocked her off stride, but she still managed an 18.0 for 3rd place and a total of 10 of North’s 93 points.
Last week in a near freezing meet against Natick with her personal photographer off in San Diego, Kayla took 2nd in triple jump with a state-qualifing PR 33’3.25″ and took 3rd in the 100m in 13.9 and anchored the 4x100m relay to a state-qualifying league-leading 52.2 win (newton tab article).
Jared’s spring soccer schedule is available. It will be on ths site sidebar as well.
UPDATED COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Thur – March 29 at Natick at 3:45
Wed – April 4 home vs Braintree at 3:45
Tues – April 10 at Needham at (DeFazio Field, rte 135) at 3:45
Wed – April 18 home vs Walpole at 10:00
Tues – April 24 at Framingham (Bowditch Field) at 3:45
Sat – April 28 – Dvi 1 State Relays at Franklin HS at 9:30
Tues – May 1 at Brookline (Krafts Downes Field) at 3:45
Sat – May 5 – Weston Invitational at Weston HS at 4:30
Tues – May 8 home vs Weymouth at 3:45
Sat – May 12 – State Coaches Invit at Somerville (Dilboy Stadium) at 9:30
Wed – May 16 – Conference Meet at Weymouth at 4:00
Saturday – May 19 – So Shore Meet at Norwell HS at 9:30
Sunday – May 27 – Div 1 State Meet at Durfee at 1:00/1:30/2:00
Saturday – June 2 – State Finals at Fitchburg State College at 1:30/3:00/3:30
Kayla & Co. traveled to the Big Apple last weekend to compete in the New Balance Indoor National Championship at The Armory (results, photos, Newton Tab article, Newton Patch article, Newton High School Paper pre-meet article, milesplit coverage). The girls improved on their 12th place seed with a 10th place 34.00, breaking the New England Record for the event of 34.20 set by North last year.
Kayla concludes her indoor high school career with 4 school relay records (4x50m hurdles, 4x55m hurdles, 4x50m dash, and 3xLJ). Only Carla Forbes and Kayla Wong have more North indoor records to their name than Kayla.
North’s time fell just short of the top-6 finish required to earn All-American honors in a very competitive field, but what a thrill to be in the hunt. If they had competed with their 34.00 time last year they would have been 5th and earned the honor.
Here is the New Balance video of their heat. The girls compete in blue uniforms as Waltham TC due to mass state season limit rules. Kayla is the 3rd leg and visible for last 10 yards:
There is also a NewtonSportsPhotography video of New England highlights that includes Dad’s shots of the girls:
Kayla stayed on overnight to support teammate Carla Forbes who set a new meet record winning the triple jump with a USA #1 42′ 5.25″ jump so good that that it was only 0.25″ off the all-time high school record for a junior and which would have placed 8th in the Division 1 NCAA championships held the same weekend. See the NewtonSportsPhotography.Com slideshow of her jumps. She crushed the field by over a foot. I connected her with my buddy newscaster Nicole Hayes at ESPN for an interview.
Gram and Gampy were a huge help, making the journey to Newton to watch over Jared and the animals. Nanny and Papa made the trip down to the Armory to catch the race.
Outdoor track season (schedule) starts on Thursday March 29th with a dual meet at Natick.
The girls head out on the town on Friday night:
Dad finally catches a “Hurdle Huddle” in progress:
Last minute hair styling:
North had flawless relay starts:
Joe’s two favorite websites are starting to converge.
Check out this video starting 5:22 in (you can jump to it by clicking on progress bar once video is playing).
And don’t miss the photo credits for all the State Open photos :-).
Subsequent to this ESPN hired me to shoot the New England High School Championships:
This picture from the coverage was highlighted on their high school track page:
