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Jared triple winner in Newton All-City Meet — Leaps to USA #3 20′ 4.25″

Jared won the long jump, 100m, and 4x100m relay at the Newton All-City Track Championship on Wednesday (photos). He was runner up in these events as a 7th grader.

The big highlight was upping his personal best by almost a foot with a 20′ 4.25″ leap that ranks 3rd in the USA for middle schoolers. He defeated 2nd place by well over 2 feet.

Take-off on his 20′ 4.25″ jump:

Jared’s coach congratulates him:

Landing his 3rd jump:

The Newton South pit is a bit recessed, which adds several inches to the jump, but for an apples-to-apples comparison, the Massachusetts large-school freshman/sophmore meet was held at South as well and in that competition of the 45 best underclassmen in the state, Jared would have placed 4th as an 8th grader.

Jared also won the 100m in a time of 11.8 and the 4x100m relay in 49.?.

Gampy was able to catch the first 2 events before we headed over to Kayla’s graduation ceremony.

Jared runs personal best 11.6 in 100m vs. Watertown

Jared continued his undefeated middle school season winning the 100m, long jump and 4x100m against Watertown. He has previous won these events in meets against all the Newton middle schools (Bigelow, Oak Hill, Brown) as well in earlier meets on the Day grass track. His time of 11.6 in the 100m (11.84c) ranks 82 of 16,000 nationwide results posted on athletic.net. He also had his 2nd best long jump of his career jumping 17’11 3/4″ and anchored the 4x100m relay team to a 50.5(?) win.

Jared soares to personal best 18’6″ in long jump

While Kayla was busy taking home long jump silver and 4x100m gold at the Bay State Conference Championships, Jared was competing in an intersquad track meet back in Waltham with the Waltham Track club. As Kayla made her way into the finals, Lisa texted me the news that Jared has improved his personal best by 9″, hitting 18’6″ on the 1st attempt. This mark ranks him 69th in the nation among over 13,500 reported middle school results on athletic.net.

He also set a personal bests of 11.8 in the 100m dash and of 25.2 in the 200m dash.

File Photo:

Jared undefeated in middle school track competitions

Jared has completed dual meets against the three Newton middle schools (Brown, Oak Hill, and Day) and is undefeated in his events (100m, long jump, and 4x200m relay) and had led his team to an undefeated season thus far. He jumped 17’2″ in the uphill Day pit and ran 11.3 for 100 yards over grass.

Here is a photo gallery of their Oak Hill meet.

Here is a photo gallery of their meet against Brown.

He will compete in the All-city track meet on May 31st.

Newton United wins Indoor Soccer Championship

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.

Easter 2012

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 win indoor regular season title

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…

Jared competes in 2012 Northeast Indoor Classic

Jared entered 3 events yesterday in the Northeast indoor classic (photos, results). The meet included athletes from around the Northeast and Canada. Jared competed in the long jump, 200m, and 55m dash.

The 200m dash was run in unseeded heats, with place among the 36 entrants determined by electronic timing. Jared won his heat and placed 5th overall, just missing out on 2nd by 0.32 (see youtube video below).

In the 55m dash, Jared won his trial heat to qualify 3rd in the field of 21 with a time of 7.32. He then improved his speed in the final (thee hours later) with a 7.18 3rd place, holding off 4th place by a photo finish 0.001 margin. Ahead of him was the Junior Olympic Northeast 100m champ (1st) and the New England 100m champ (2nd) (results).

In the long jump he faced a strong field of 26 jumpers, and bested all but the Northeast Junior Olympic champ from New York with a personal best jump of 17′ 9.25″ for 2nd (results). He nipped the 3rd place jumper by 1″. Check out (photos of competitors in long jump).

Jared has competed in this meet twice before. Three years ago, at age 11, he ran the 55m dash in 8.78 and the 200m in 32.34 (results). Five years ago in 2007, at age 9, he ran his first ever meet at this meet at MIT, running the 55m in 9.06 (13th of 24) and the 400m in 1:23 for 9th of 15 (results).

For calibration, Jared’s marks would place him 6th in the long jump and 10th in the 55m in the NVL championships. Among the 470 freshman boys competing this year in New England, he would rank 28th in the long jump. Among 1561 freshman competing in 55m dash, he would rank 35th. Among the 155 freshman in the Bay State league, he’s 0.01 out of 1st in the 55m.

personal best long jump: