By: Amanda Percarpio
On Friday December 19th, the Girls Varsity Indoor
Track team competed at the New Haven Varsity Invitational at Hillhouse High
School in New Haven, Connecticut. Darien had eight people compete overall.
Seniors
Anna Sulger and Lindsey Holek both ran the open 800 m race. Sulger came in
first with a time of 2:24 and Holek came in first in the second heat and 8th
overall with a time of 2:32. Another outstanding performance was led by Maddie
Schneider, who came in first in the pole vault with a height of 11 feet and 7th
in the 55 meter hurdles with a time of 9.54. Junior distance runners Grace
Harmon, Kristen Mayhew, and Sarah Lehan also had great races. Mayhew and Harmon
ran the 1600, with times of 5:35 and 5:44. Lehan ran the 3200 and ran it with a
time of 12:29, a 27 second PR. Junior Laine Blummer competed in the shot put
with a throw of 29 feet and 6 inches.
“It was a great way to start off the season,” Sulger said. “A lot of our runners have shown promising times to build off of and the jumpers and throwers are already competitive in their events so early off. We are looking to be even more successful in the upcoming meets in January!”
The next meet that the team will compete in is on Saturday January 3rd at Wilton.
Photo Caption: Seniors Kate Halabi (left) and Samantha
Savage (right) ran at the New Haven Junior Varsity Invitational at Hillhouse
High School the next day. They both qualified for States in the 1600.
No comments:
Post a Comment