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ARCHIVES: 05-06-10;
04-30-10; 04-26-10; 04-19-10;
04-12-10; 04-08-10; Posted: 05/13/10 Towson (5/12/10)—Freshman Molly Miller won her qualifying heat of the 800m dash with the fastest time of the day in her new PR of 2:29.38 during the first day of the IAAM Championships at Calvert Hall Boys School. The 800m final
will be Saturday at 2:30pm and Miller will be joined by sophomore
Emily Chaundy, who ran a lifetime best of 2:31.5 to finish fifth
in her heat with the 9th best qualifying time. The thrid through
tenth qualifiers were only separated by 1.5 seconds. Heacock got out really strong (70.52) and finished with her best time of 2:33.6 (a PR by 3 seconds). She handed off to fellow sophomore Carolyn Zotti who finished in a personal best of 2:36.6, but when she passed to senior Ashley Allen, the team had fallen back to fifth. Allen, dealing with anemia, ran a valiant anchor in 2:43.7 to hang on for sixth overall and one team point for Spalding. The girl's 4x200m relay team placed sixth overall in the final, as Dani Beard ran a huge lead-off leg PR of 26.50. Michelle Boivin (29.58), Adrienne Shoots (28.49), and Allie Kibby (28.90) combined to set a season best time of 1:53.5, just 1.8 seconds off the school record of 1:51.67 set last year. Senior Emily Davis placed sixth in the shot put with a toss of 31 feet 4 inches to give Spalding three team points after day one. But on Saturday big points could come quickly for Spalding in the high jump, triple jump, 1600m run, 800m run and the 4x400m relay, as the Cavaliers are ranked very high in each of those events. In the long jump, Kibby placed 11th with a jump of 14 feet 4 inches, but unfortunately her PR of 15 feet 8.75 inches would have placed her 3rd on Wednesday. Freshman Kat Zotti jumped a PR of 13-5.50 inches. The 4x100m relay of Boivin (13.27), Kibby (13.15), K.Zotti (13.77) and senior Elaine Healy (14.76) ran 54.95 but did not advance to Saturday's final. Beard finished third in her heat and 7th overall in the 400m dash trials in 61.7, but missed the final qualifying spot by a tenth of a second. In the 100m hurdles, junior Courtney Doran finished 8th overall in a personal best 18.70, but only six runners advanced to the finals. Classmate Sam Ballard was on her way to a big PR before crashing hard into the 8th hurdle, moving her from second in the race to third almost immediately and killing her chance to advance. Junior Lauren Dominick finished in a hand timed 19.5 which was a personal best. Saturday's finals get underway with the field events at 9:30am; discus (Davis), triple jump (Boivin, Kelsey Haworth and Catherine Keniston) and the high jump (Doran). The girls 1600m run (Chaundy, Anson, and Heacock) run at 1:15pm, and the 4x400m relay (Megan Laskey, Shoots, Healy and Beard) is slated to start at 3:25pm.
Posted: 05/06/10 Ferndale (5/5/10)—Sophomore Allie Kibby not only set a personal best, she obliterated the previous school record in the long jump, soaring 15 feet 8.75 inches to smash S. Sullivan's 1999 mark of 14 feet 6 inches. Kibby placed 5th in the event and helped the team score an impressive 58 points at North County high school in the 31st annual Bob Golliday Invitational hosted by Old Mill. Had the meet been scored, Chesapeake would have won the meet, followed by Old Mill, and Severna Park. Spalding would have placed fifth of the seven teams competing, followed by North County and Glen Burnie. Kibby also ran the fastest split and her season best (13.32) on the second leg of the 4th place 4x100m relay team (54.57), of junior Michelle Boivin, freshman Kat Zotti, and senior Ashley Allen, which nearly achieved the 2004 record of 53.8 seconds. Kibby's long jump moved her from 16th on the IAAM rankings to #5. In the girl's high jump, junior Courtney Doran placed third with her all-time best of 5 feet 0 inches to tie with three others for the school record. Doran is just in her first year in the event, and now ranks #3 among IAAM competitors heading into the championship meet next week. If she can clear 5-2 next week, she will own the record all to herself. Dani Beard placed 2nd in the 200m dash (27.52), while also taking 5th in the 100m dash in 13.22 seconds despite a steady head-wind. The junior's solid anchor leg of 62.29 seconds in the 4x400m relay (Megan Laskey, Adrienne Shoots, and Elaine Healy) moved the team from sixth to fourth for a team time of 4:23.66 (second best on the year). Laskey earlier had placed fourth in the 400m dash in 61.8 seconds. Molly Miller took 3rd in the 800m dash, becoming the first runner under Coach Funk's leadership to run under 2:30, finishing in 2:29.55. That time moves the freshman from #14 on the IAAM depth chart to #3, and sets up the indoor runner-up for a possible shot at the outdoor title next week. The girl's shot putters had a big day. Senior Emily Davis improved on her season best by tossing 32 feet 5 inches for fourth place, while sophomore Kelsey Haworth had a huge PR of 31 feet 4.50 inches, bettering her previous best by two feet 1.50 inches for fifth place. Boivin placed fifth in the triple jump with a leap of 30 feet 6 inches, for her third best effort all-time. She also ran a personal best (28.55) on the second leg of the fourth place 4x200m relay (1:55.29) joining Healy (29.21), Zotti (29.00) and Shoots (28.34) The IAAM Championships get under way next week on Wednesday May 12th at 2pm at Calvert Hall and conclude on Saturday May 15th at 9:30am at Calvert Hall. Before yesterday's meet, Spalding was only showing 15 points at the championship meet based on the league ranked order list. Now the girls are showing 49 points, and seem to be peaking when it counts the most. League Meet vs. Bryn Mawr, Emily Chaundy won the 1600m run easily for the Cavaliers, bettering St. Mary's Colleen Randolph for the win in 5:46. Also winning an event for Spalding was Lauren Dise in the 300m hurdles (58.8), who also placed second in the 100m hurdles (21.0) running the event for the first time. A number of girls took second or third place, including Tyler Ruff (3200), and Bethany Hayden (triple jump) both second, and third placers Kristen Kibby (100m), Caroline Zotti (1600), Hannah Hershey (400m), and Allie Van Scoyoc (3200).
Posted: 04/30/10 Boivin crushed her previous school record of 30 feet 8 inches, moving to 4th best in the IAAM rankings, and ran a personal best 28.7 on the second leg of the winning 4x200m relay. Finally, she lead-off the 3rd place 4x100m relay with a season best 13.37 seconds. Boivin was the only lady Cavalier to win an event, in a meet where Spalding hammered Saint Mary's 86-to-51, but fell to Maryvale Prep 91-to-55, and host McDonogh, 106-to-39. Sophomore Kelsey Haworth set two personal bests, finishing third overall in the triple jump with a distance of 29 feet 9 inches, smashing her previous best of 28 feet 1.25 inches. In the shot put, Haworth threw 29 feet 3 inches to PR by five inches. Junior Sam Ballard placed 4th overall in the 100m hurdles with an automatic IAAM qualifying mark of 18.5 seconds, bettering her best by .5 seconds. Dani Beard placed second in the 400m dash in 64.2, while senior Elaine Healy placed third overall with her PR of 66.0. Senior Megan Laskey was fifth in 66.7. Sophomore Elisa Heacock took third in the 1600m run (5:49.8), junior Courtney Doran was second in the high jump (4-10), sophomore Cara McNellis placed 4th in the 3200m run (13:27.6), while freshmen Courtney Vecheck (14:03.3) and Tyler Ruff (15:00.8) both set PR's to take 5th and 6th overall. Despite falling to Maryvale Prep, Spalding did hold a 31-20 lead after 7 events, and a 32-28 point lead after 8 events. But Maryvale Prep's strong performances in the pole vault, long jump, shot put, discus, 200m dash, 300m hurdles and 800m dash did in the Cavaliers. Defending IAAM champions, McDonogh, beat all three schools, but Spalding bettered them in four events; 1600m, 3200m, high jump, and the triple jump. Against St. Mary's, Spalding beat the Saints in 13 of the 18 contested events. Next up for the Cavaliers will be a split squad endeavor; with the "A" squad competing at the Bob Golliday Classic hosted by Old Mill, but conducted at North County high school due to stadium construction at Old Mill; and a dual meet with Bryn Mawr at Curley for the remainder of the Spalding team.
Posted: 04/26/10 Philadelphia (4/22/10)—The Spalding girl's 4x400m relay team improved their season best by nine seconds with a clocking of 4:16.43 for 11th place in their heat on Thursday afternoon at the 116th running of the Penn Relays; held annually at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field. All four girls set relay personal best times, as senior Adrienne Shoots led off in 64.1, followed by classmates Ashley Allen (65.2), Elaine Healy (65.6), and junior Dani Beard, who anchored in 61.3, her second sub-62 performance in less than a week. The current school record of 4:12.7 was set in 1999 by A. Fox, K. Pember, S. Sullivan and Kelly Zuknick, but that record may be in serious jeopardy by season's end. Next up for the Spalding girl's track & field team is an extremely challenging quad meet hosted by McDonogh with Maryvale Prep and Saint Mary's. Spalding will score against all three teams this coming Wednesday April 28th. McDonogh and Maryvale Prep finished 1-2 at the indoor championships and are the top two teams this outdoor season. For the first time this season, the Spalding girls will run a full "A" squad in every event and look to achieve major improvements from everyone.
Posted: 04/19/10 Ijamsville, MD (4/17/10)—In the first scoring event of the day, freshman Catilin Anson took the lead in the 4x800m relay after lap one and the Spalding girls never trailed again; winning in a team best 10:36.05. On a cool and windy day, the Cavaliers tallied 21 team points for a 11th place finish in the Urbana Invitational hosted by Urbana high school. Anson recorded her PR of 2:33.45 on the lead-off leg, followed by fellow freshman Molly Miller (2:37.7), sophomore Caroline Zotti (2:43.2), and senior Ashley Allen (2:41.5). In the 400m dash, senior Megan Laskey had perhaps the most impressive performance of the day, winning her heat in 61.98 seconds; a PR by seven seconds! Junior Dani Beard won the next heat in 61.90 with her all-time best, as the duo went fifth and sixth overall respectively. Sophomore Hannah Hershey followed Laskey in a PR of 66.27 to take 16th overall. Laskey and Beard's times were automatic IAAM qualifiers and currently rank 3rd and 4th in the league. Miller followed her 4x800m relay team win with a sixth place finish in the open 800m dash, running 2:36.4, followed by Anson in 9th (2:41.84) and Allen 11th (2:44.35). The 4x100m relay team of Kristen Kibby (Sr), Kat Zotti (Fr), Toni Jablonski (Jr) and Michelle Boivin (Jr) received fifth place ribbons with a time of 58.11. Sophomore Cara McNellis placed 16th overall in the 3200m run running a PR of 13:15.63, a personal best by over one minute and 17 seconds. All three 3200-meter runners entered set PR's, with freshman Tyler Ruff running 15:01.86, and senior Catherine Morandin finishing in 16:03.21. In the field events, junior Courtney Doran led the way for Spalding with a second place high jump performance of 4 feet 8 inches. Michelle Boivin placed sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 30 feet 3.25 inches, as both Doran and Boivin earned top-six awards. Senior Emily Davis placed 7th in the shot put (29-5) and 14th in the discus with a PR of 79 feet 4 inches. Allie Kibby jumped 13 feet 10.75 inches along with Beard to tie for 16th place in the long jump, while Boivin set her best of 13 feet 5 inches; all of which were IAAM qualifiers. Kelsey Haworth set her personal best in the triple jump with an IAAM qualifying mark of 28 feet 1.25 inches. All told, 13 PR's were established with four new IAAM qualifying performances. Next up for the Spalding Girls Track & Field team will be the world famous Penn Relay's next Thursday at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field. Seniors Adrienne Shoots, Ashley Allen, and Elaine Healy will join junior Dani Beard to comprise the 4x400m relay which races at 3:05pm.
Later in the day, Heacock ran a season best 13:07.95 in the 3200m run, followed by freshman Caitlin Anson's PR of 13:18.83. Earlier in the over 10-hour invitational, Anson crushed her 1600m PR by four seconds, running 5:42.45 in the seeded 1600m run. Anson would have finished third overall in the freshman/sophomore 1600m run, and was the fourth best freshman of the day. If the freshman/sophomore 1600m run was a cross country race, Spalding would have dominated, as the lady Cavaliers placed five runners within the top 24-runners of an over 80 girl field. Sophomore Caroline Zotti placed 17th with her PR of 6:03.46, followed closely by freshman Caitlyn McGuinness' PR of 6:07.65. Sophomore Cara McNellis, new to track & field, set her PR of 6:13.93 for 23rd, and freshman Courtney Vecheck won her heat in a PR of 6:14.27 for 24th place overall. Freshmen Erin Doley and Laura Doley both ran PR's of 7:13.43 and 7:31.27 respectively. The next highest Spalding finish of the day was the eighth place 4x800m relay team of Ashley Allen, Emily Chaundy, Dani Beard, and Molly Miller, who finished with a season best time of 10:38.99. Allen led off with a PR of 2:36.4 with a very gutsy performance. After not getting a very good start, Allen burst around the pack, and sprinted back into the front of the race. With one lap to go of the two lap race, Allen was now in second place. At 600m into the race, the senior was on pace to run 2:25.4, but her early heroics to get back into the race caught up with her, and she faded to 5th. Chaundy (2:38.9), Beard and Miller went back and forth from 5th to 8th the remainder of the race. In the open 800m dash, Chaundy placed 22nd overall of 60 competitors, with a huge PR of 2:33.89. Since indoor track began in December, Chaundy had been stuck at 2:37 for her personal best, and had a previous outdoor best of only 2:49; until Saturday. Opening up her first lap in 74.65, the sophomore was determined not to give in, and came back in 78.82 seconds to run an IAAM B-standard mark, and all but assure a spot in the 800m dash at championships. The automatic mark she will now look to obtain is 2:28.0. The mid-distance and distance runners have now produced nine (9) IAAM qualifying marks, but will all still need to improve drastically to secure places in the championship meet on May 12 & 15th. Allen joined with Adrienne Shoots, Hannah Hershey and Dani Beard to finish 15th overall in the 4x400m relay with a season best of 4:26.41. Allen led off in 65.2, while Beard anchored in a PR of 64.3. Earlier in the day, Beard finished 27th of 69 runners in the 200m dash in 27.83, while Shoots and Hershey both set personal bests in the open 400m dash, with Shoots finishing 22nd of 50 competitors in 65.97, followed by Hershey in 68.53. Lauren Dominick ran 56.99 in the 300m hurdles to set her best time in just the second time she has run the event. In the field events, junior Courtney Doran tied for 9th overall in the high jump with a leap of 4 feet 8 inches. This week the Spalding Girls Track & Field team will be at Curley High School on Wednesday 4/14 in a dual meet with Notre Dame Prep, and will compete in the Urbana Invitational at Urbana high school on Saturday, April 17th.
Posted: 04/08/10 Beard teamed with senior Ashley Allen, freshman Adri MnKande and junior Lauren Dominick to win the 4x200m relay, and then Allen teamed with senior Elaine Healy, and freshmen Caitlin Anson and Caitlyn McGuinness to win the 4x400m relay. Senior Emily Davis won both the shot put (30-2) and the discus (74-10), as sophomore Kelsey Haworth (28-9) finished second overall to Davis in the shot for the second consecutive week. Junior Courtney Doran finished second in the high jump (4-8) with an automatic qualifying mark, and ran a PR of 19.6 in the 100m hurdles despite a sore knee that kept her out of the first meet last week. Beard ran 12.9 in the 100m dash, 27.3 in the 200m dash, leapt 14-2.5 in the long jump, and anchored the 4x200 relay in 28.1 to score 11.5 team points. Last week the girls had 16 IAAM qualifying performances. Yesterday the team produced 14, with 8 new marks and two updated marks from previous qualifiers. The Cavaliers get right back on the track this Saturday at the Pikesville Classic at Pikesville high school beginning at 9:00am.
Spalding, not
running a full squad or its best runners in every event, finished
second to Seton Keough; 57-to-80, and second to Mt. DeSales; 63-to-74
in double dual scoring. St. Mary's was also in attendance but scores
were not kept against the Saints. Anson, who bettered her 800m best by six-seconds, was joined by junior Dani Beard (2:38.7), freshman Cailtyn McGuinness (2:43.6) and senior Ashley Allen (2:46.5) to combine for 10:43.7 for the win. Other overall winners for the Cavaliers were freshman Molly Miller who won the 800m dash in 2:38.6 and senior Emily Davis, who won the shot put with an automatic qualifying toss of 30 feet 3 inches. Sophomore Emily Chaundy ran a huge PR of 5:41.5 in the 1600m run, finishing second by a mere .3 tenths of a second to St. Mary's senior Colleen Randolph; the 2009 IAAM outdoor runner-up for 1600m and the B-Conference runner-up for cross country this past fall. Junior Michelle Boivin established the new school record in the triple jump, leaping a PR of 30 feet 3 inches for second place. Boivin bettered Sara Backof's 2009 mark of 29 feet 10 inches. Boivin now owns both indoor and outdoor records. Sophomore Kelsey Haworth placed second in the shot put with an automatic qualifying throw of 28 feet 9 inches, and the 4x400m relay team of Megan Laskey (SR), Elaine Healy (SR), Chaundy, and Allen took second in 4:37.9. Third place finishers for Spalding included freshman Courtney Vecheck in the 3200m run (14:26.0), Davis in the discus (72-10), sophomore Caroline Zotti in the 800m dash (2:42.6), Beard in the 400m dash (66.5), and Miller in the 1600m run (6:02.5). Advancement to the IAAM championships comes via automatic (A standards) and provisional (B standards) marks in each event. The top 24 athletes in each event that have achieved either an A or B standard qualify for the championship meet. Spalding achieved 16 qualifying standards yesterday. B standard qualifiers were: Sam Ballard and Lauren Dominick (100m hurdles), Emily Chaundy and Molly Miller (1600), Dani Beard , Adrienne Shoots and Caitlyn McGuinness (400m ), Miller and Caroline Zotti (800m), Shoots (200m), Emily Feege (high jump), Kat Zotti (long jump), Michelle Boivin (triple jump), and Emily Davis (discus). The Spalding girls track & field team gets back under way on Wednesday April 7th at Calvert Hall against Mercy and John Carroll.
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03/08/10 Over a cold, cloudy, rainy, and windy two days; Sophomore Allie Kibby ran away with the in-team competition, which also serves as a testing ground to place athletes in their respective event groups. With the lowest score determining the winner, Kibby tallied just 12 points over five events, winning the 5-bounds (33-5) and shot put (20-8) while placing second in the 50-meter dash (7.47), 200m dash (33.41), and a sixth place finish for 800-meters (3:10.0). Sophomore Elisa Heacock, one of the top cross-country runners during the fall, finished second with only 19-points, winning the final event (800m) by two seconds over senior Megan Laskey. Heacock finished third for 200m and 5-bounds, fifth for the 50m dash, and eighth for the shot put. Laskey finished third with 31 points, winning the 50m dash (7.36), 200m dash (32.93), placed second for 5-bounds (32-2), as well as 800m, but a 25th place shot put toss sealed her overall Iron-Woman fate. Sophomore Catherine Keniston placed fourth with 32 points and senior Kristen Kibby rounded out the top five with 42 points. Among the top 10 finishers, five of those were sophomores. With much of the indoor team scorers returning-many freshmen or sophomores- the team certainly looks to be building for huge success. The team will start the season on Wednesday March 31st with an IAAM league meet at Curley H.S. against Mt. DeSales, Seton Keough and St. Mary's.
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02/15/10 Chaundy, who was not overly confident about how to run the race, moved up steadily throughout, finishing in 3:25.51 for a new school record. Had she kept going, her current pace would have set her up to run the 1600-meter equivalent of a 5:32.7, which would have been #2 all-time in school history. Earlier, Chaundy led off the third place 4x800m relay team with an opening split of 2:37.88, just off her relay personal best set two weeks ago of 2:37.54. Senior Elaine Healy (2:48.54), sophomore Ally Logan (2:45.26) and freshman Kelly Harner (2:50.54) combined with Chaundy for a time of 11:02.57. Harner and Logan set personal bests, with Harner outkicking Georgetown Day for third place. Team points were kept with awards to the top three teams, and medals were awarded to top three event finishers. Chaundy's 9.5 points led Spalding to a sixth place finish with 39 points, despite missing several key team-members. Also earning a medal was third place sophomore Kelsey Haworth, who threw a personal best 28 feet 10 inches in the shot put. Haworth improved on her fifth place ranking in school history by four inches. Senior Ashley Allen just missed her PR in the 500m dash of 1:26.5, placing fifth with a time of 1:26.93, followed closely by heat winner and seventh place freshman Caitlyn McGuinness (1:29.00). Allen teamed with Dani Beard (64.16), Healy (68.2) and McGuinness (69.31), to anchor the 4x400m relay in 66.24 seconds for fourth place in 4:28.35. That time is the third fastest in school history, and the second fastest team time this season. Junior Courtney Doran placed fourth in the high jump, equaling her personal best of 4 feet 10 inches, just missing a new best at 5-feet even. Sophomore Emily Feege cleared 4 feet 2 inches for fifth place and her first clearance in a meet. Beard who set her personal best in the 4x400m relay also placed fifth in the long jump, just off her all-time best with a leap of 14 feet 3.75 inches. All told, 17 personal records were established despite the two week layoff from training due to the two severe snow storms to hit our region. Complete results can be found at www.mocorunning.com Next up will be the Kentucky High School Invitational in Lexington Kentucky on Feb. 20th where a few of the girls will try to qualify for elite invites in late February and mid-March.
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02/01/10 With snow piling up outside at a much greater rate than forecast, Emily Davis and the rest of the Spalding girls couldn't care less. An undistracted Davis finished 3rd in the Shot Put with a toss of 32 feet 4.50 inches. Four times the senior threw over 30-feet; an accomplishment she had never done before until she did it two weeks ago at the IAAM Championships. Freshman Courtney Vecheck led the Spalding Track youth movement with the biggest improvement of the meet, lowering her time in the 1600-meter run by 1 minute and 30 seconds, running 6:25.2 for the fourth best time this year by a Spalding girl. Fellow classmate Caitlin Anson easily won her section of the mile run by dropping her time by 11 seconds and moved into 4th all-time, running 5:46.15 placing ninth overall in the B section. It was Anson's first win of her young running career. Freshman Adri MnKande improved her mark in the long jump by over 1 foot, moving into 2nd all-time in school history with a leap of 13 feet 10.25 inches; also placing ninth overall. MnKande had tried earlier in the season to qualify for the IAAM championships by obtaining the qualifying mark of 13 feet 0 inches, but was unsuccessful. Saturday the freshman achieved well over that mark four times! Junior Michelle Boivin improved upon her own school record in the triple jump, by hop, step and jumping 10 inches further with a mark of 28 feet 10 inches. And finally, junior Dani Beard anchored the 4x400 relay team with the season's best split with a time of 64.49 seconds. Fellow seniors Elaine Healy (68.93) and Kelly Roden (69.14) also set personal bests. Unfortunately it was not all good news. Freshman Caitlyn McGuinness was well on her way to running one of the fastest 400m legs of the year in her indoor track debut. McGuinness had been sidelined due to a stress fracture suffered during the cross country season. Finally able to run, she led off the Sprint Medley Relay and 375-meters into her 400m leg she caught the shoe of the second place runner in front and went down hard, suffering scrapes and bruises as well as losing the baton across the track; virtually ending a chance for team success in the race. Her 32 second opening lap had her on pace to run around 66-67 seconds, instead, she handed off at 76.34 seconds. The team will be back in action at Georgetown Prep next week for the Private Schools Invitational and hope for much better weather; although it didn't really seem to matter.
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01/16/10 Miller finished second in the 800m dash in a school record time of 2-minutes 33.23 seconds, equaling Sam Dennis' record earlier this season. Miller used a furious kick over the final 200-meters to grab the silver medal. The freshman also anchored the 4x800m relay team of senior Ashley Allen, sophomore Emily Chaundy, and fellow freshman Caitlin Anson to a fourth place finish of 10:32.50; good for third all-time in school history. Miller finished her day joining the third place 4x400m relay of seniors Adrienne Shoots (65.67), Allen and sophomore Kelsey Bonner (67.62). Their time of 4:27.36 ranks #2 all-time, just 2.02 seconds off the mark established in 1999. Also winning a silver medal and setting a new school record was senior Emily Davis, who crushed Keri Lounge's shot put mark of 31 feet 7 inches set in 1999 with her throw of 33 feet 8.75 inches. Davis and Miller combined to score 39.1% of the team's 48 points, however, every girl that competed scored at least .75 points. Allen not only led off the third place 4x400 relay with a PR split of 64.53 seconds, and the 4x800 relay with another PR of 2:35.46, she also finished fifth in the 500m dash (1:26.50) with another PR and the #3 time in school history. Junior Dani Beard scored 4.75 points, finishing seventh in the 55m dash (7.79), eighth in the 300m dash (45.10), eighth in the long jump (14-5.25), while also anchoring the sixth place 4x200m relay in a new PR of 27.41 seconds with a team time of 1:56.88; third all-time. Junior Courtney Doran established another personal best in the high jump (4 feet 10 inches), her third in the last three meets, with the third best Spading leap all-time indoors. Her PR was good enough for fifth place even though it was the third best jump. Doran finished fifth based on total misses throughout the competition. Sophomore Kelsey Haworth finished fifth in the shot put with a PR of 28 feet 6 inches, good for fifth all-time. The Cavaliers fourth place finish with 48 points was quite an improvement from the 2009 team that scored just six points at last year's championship meet. On paper, the Spalding girls were only slated to score 31 points, but managed +17 points better when in counted. Only one team (2nd place Maryvale Prep; +27pts) scored more positive points than Spalding, followed by Notre Dame Prep (+11.5) and McDonogh (+8.5); whereas teams like Mt. DeSales (-12), John Carroll (-5.5) and Bryn Mawr (-4.5) scored less than what they were ranked. There was also a few events contested as "open" or "JV" races, and the Spalding girls also did very well. Leading the way was junior Sam Ballard and sophomore Caroline Zotti. Ballard won the 55m hurdles in 10.72 seconds, which is #2 in school history, just .08 seconds behind Sarah Backof's school record. Ballard's time would have finished ninth in the varsity field. Zotti was also victorious, taking the 800m dash in a huge PR of 2:39.68, a personal best by 9.89 seconds. That time would have finished tenth in the varsity championships. Fellow sophomore Ally Logan, coming off an injury and running in her first meet of the year, finish third in 2:46.63 despite leading for most of the race before she ran out of gas. Freshman Kelly Harner placed second in the 500m dash, moving her best time down by 3.6 seconds to 1:36.39. Complete results from the meet can be found at www.runningmaryland.com The girls track team gets back underway on Saturday January 30th at Georgetown Prep's Last Track to Philly Invitational beginning at 9am.
The Spalding girls indoor track team was busy during the holiday break, competing in three meets since December 18th. A recap of each meet can be read below. Indoor records have been updated, as well as our travel schedule.
Doran Leads Spalding Girls at PG Invite Doran had no misses after her 4-8 clearance and was tied for first place as she attempted 4 feet 10 inches. However, she was unable to clear the height despite three near makes. The competition was won by Kiersten LaRoche of Bishop McNamara with a leap of 5 feet 2 inches. The top six finishers in each event received awards, and Doran was the only Spalding athlete to claim a top finish in the large invitational. Sophomore Kelsey Bonner placed 11th with a jump of 4 feet 2 inches. Senior Emily Davis established her PR in the shot put, throwing 29 feet 10 inches for 8th place overall. Sophomore Kelsey Haworth placed 15th with a 26 feet 7 inch toss. In the girls 800m dash, three of the four participants set PR's as senior Sam Dennis placed 11th overall with a time of 2:35.75, just off her best of 2:33.23. Just behind in 12th place was freshman Molly Miller's PR of 2:36.10, followed in 16th and 17th by senior Ashley Allen (2:36.74) and sophomore Emily Chaundy (2:37.40). For Allen it was the first time she had raced 800 meters, and in her first try qualified for the IAAM Championships by bettering the qualifying standard of 2:42.0. Chaundy also advanced to championships by moving her PR down by a whopping eight seconds! Those four will comprise the 4x800m relay at the championship meet and attempt to break the school record of 10:22.17 set in 1999. The girls combined PR's would equal 10:23.47. Also setting personal best's for Spalding were freshman Jessica Nahmias in the 55m hurdles with a time of 11.24 seconds. Senior Elaine Healy lowered her PR by four seconds, but narrowly missed the qualifying standard in the 500m dash of 1:32.0, running 1:32.96. Also setting a PR but just missing a qualifying mark was Bonner, who ran 47.69 in the 300m dash, missing the standard by .69 seconds.
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Qualifies for IAAM Champs Manhattan, NY—Sophomore Kelsey Bonner equaled the IAAM long jump standard of 13 feet 0 inches at the Marine Corps Classic at the New York Armory on December 28th to advance to the championship meet on January 15th. Bonner's jump was the fifth best in school history; not bad for the first time she had tried the event. She also set her PR in the 200m; twice running sub-30 seconds on the 4x200m relay (29.96) and the Sprint Medley Relay (29.95). In her fourth event of the day, Bonner had cleared a PR of 4-6 inches in practice jumps, but coming straight from the long jump pit to compete in the high jump, was unable to duplicate her warm-up clearance at the opening height of 4-6. Junior Courtney Doran cleared her best height in the high jump (4-6) inches, while freshman Adri MnKande also established a new mark of 12 feet 8 inches in the long jump. Senior Emily Davis has improved in each meet in the shot put, setting her new PR of 29 feet 7.75 inches. Sophomore Kelsey Haworth went 25 feet 7 inches in the triple jump to set her all-time best.
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Personal Records Established Landover—Freshman Molly Miller placed fourth overall in the 800m dash, qualified for the IAAM championships, and established the third fastest time in school history; all in her first meet of the year. Miller's time of 2:36.65 was well below the 2:42.0 qualifying standard. She came back to join Ashley Allen, Sam Dennis and Adrienne Shoots to place 2nd in the 4x400m relay in 4:29.44 which was the number two performance in school history. Miller scored 7 team points to help Spalding finish fourth overall for the second straight meet; this time compiling 37.5 points. Junior Dani Beard established the school record in the 55m dash with her time of 7.77 seconds, tying for 6th overall. She came back to anchor the 5th place 4x200m relay time with a new best of 27.52 seconds, while also jumping 13 feet 8 inches in the long jump for 11th place and the second best leap in school history. Beard had also placed 5th in the 300m dash in 45.12 seconds (#2 all-time) scoring 7.5 team points. Another school record went down at the legs of junior Michelle Boivin, who leapt 28 feet 0.75 inches to in the Triple Jump, placing 8th overall and qualifying for the IAAM championships. Senior Emily Davis placed third in the shot put with a 29 feet 4.5 inch effort. Sophomore Kelsey Haworth was not far behind in fifth place with her all-time best of 27 feet 3.5 inches. Also qualifying for championships was freshman Caitlin Anson, who set a personal best in the 1600 (5:57.35) which was good enough for 9th place overall.
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12/08/09 Dennis won the 800-meter dash in 2:33.23, and evened the score with Bryn Mawr's Melissa Hexter (2:33.90). Dennis broke her previous school record of 2:35 with the win. Earlier she had finished second in the 1600-meter run to Hexter (5:38.25), setting a personal best (5:39.89) and established the #2 all-time Spalding performance.The senior closed out her day as the third leg of the second place 4x400m relay which also posted a #2 performance. Eight girls combined to score 44-team points, trailing third place Seton Keough (50) by just six-points. McDonogh won the meet with 186.5 points, followed by runner-up Maryvale Prep with 70.5 points. Also setting school records for the Cavaliers were Senior Adrienne Shoots and Junior Danielle Beard. Shoots established the new 500m mark by placing fifth overall in 1:28.89 and ran the fastest 4x400m relay leg by anchoring the second place team in 66.22 seconds. Beard set the new 55m dash record by running 7.89 seconds for 7th place overall, while also posting the second fastest time in school history in the 300m dash (45.12) with her 5th place finish. Beard was a busy girl, running two other events, the 4x200m relay (7th) and the second place 4x400m relay. Senior Emily Davis placed third in the Shot Put with a toss of 29-3.75 inches, just .5 inches behind her personal best (#2 all-time). The first meet of the year provided the opportunity for a J.V. meet to run in conjunction with the varsity meet, and Spalding took advantage. The Cavalier girls placed third overall with 69 points behind winner McDonogh (105) and runner-up Maryvale Prep (78). Senior Ashley Allen led the way with her victory in the 500m dash in 1:30.76 over classmate Megan Laskey (1:32.01). Allen's winning time is the second fastest in school history. Later, Allen teamed with Laskey, senior Kelly Roden and freshman Kelly Harner to win the 4x400m relay in a time that would have finished sixth overall in the varsity meet. Freshman Adri MnKande and Jessica Nahmias scored six-points each in their first track & field meet experience. MnKande placed fourth in the triple jump and eighth in the 55m dash, while Nahmias placed fifth in the 55m hurdles and helped the 4x200m relay to a second place finish. The Spalding Girls Track & Field team gets under way again in two weeks in the second IAAM League meet at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Center at 3:45pm.
2009-10 Iron-woman Title Goes To Dennis The 2009-10 Girls Indoor Track & Field season has begun, and Sam Dennis got things started for Spalding by winning the Iron-Woman Championship. New Spalding head coach Brian Funk has installed a three-day testing system at the beginning of each season which challenges the Spalding girls track team over 6 events (55m dash, 5 bounds, Standing Long Jump, Shot Put Toss, 200m dash, and 800m dash), in an effort to properly place each athlete in their appropriate discipline (sprints, jumps, throws or distance). The winner of each event is awarded one point, second place earns two points, etc. with the lowest score over six events being named the Iron-Woman of Spalding T&F. That title went to Dennis, who barely nipped fellow senior Caitlin Yackus, 35-to-36. Dennis won the final event (800m dash) and finished second in the 55m dash and Standing Long Jump, third in the 5 bounds, fourth in the 200m dash, and 23rd in the Shot Put to total her winning 35 points. After 3 events, Yackus had complied just four points by winning the 5 bounds, and standing long jump, and finishing 2nd in the 55m dash. Her third place in the 200m dash and seventh place toss in the shot was not enough however to overcome her 22nd place finish in the 800m dash. Sophomore Kelsey Bonner and Junior Adrienne Shoots tied for third with 44 points, followed by sophomore Danielle Beard (58), senior Ashley Allen (67), sophomore Kaye Phil bin (79), senior Bethany Hayden (85), sophomore Kelsey Haworth (88), and senior Elaine Healy with 95 points to conclude the top 10. Over the next several weeks the team will focus on developing base strength, form and endurance while also beginning fundamental work in the specialty events such as hurdles, jumps and throws. The first official meet for Spalding will be an IAAM League Meet on Friday December 4th at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Center at 4pm. The full meet schedule can be viewed above.
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