A belated recap of the awards from the banquet. First, congratulations to Nikki Kerrigan, who was named the Fred W. Miller Award winner for the best female student-athlete! Ranked second in her class and a two-sport All-Star!
BOYS MVP: Ryan Leonard & Jack Boyd
BOYS ROOKIE: Matt Wolfson
BOYS MOST IMPROVED: Ethan Harris
BOYS COACHES: Mike Glazebrook, Ryan Snow
GIRLS MVP: Kylie Lorenzen
GIRLS ROOKIE: Sydney Snow & Madison Ward
GIRLS MOST IMPROVED: Eve Bagley
GIRLS COACHES: Virginia Hanstad, Nikki Kerrigan
SPORTSMANSHIP: Amber Ahronian
Also, I finally found the photo from the heptathlon that the MSTCA has on its photo gallery. It's at the top of the post below.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Lorenzen 2nd, Team 5th - both records - at South Heptathlon!
It took seven events over two days, but it was well worth the wait at the MSTCA South Heptathlon at Notre Dame in Hingham. Kylie Lorenzen had an epic comeback to take 2nd place overall in a new school record, beating the defending champion, while the team scored over 10,000 points, shattering the school record thanks to the depth of our freshmen phenoms, Sydney Snow and Madison Ward!
After Day 1, which had hurdles, high jump, shot put, and 200, Kylie was in third place, over 100 points behind 2nd place. She had a very good first day, with the best jump of the competition (5'1.75), 2nd best 200 (25.99, missing her own school record by 0.01), and running a 17.09 in the hurdles that would normally qualify for states!
After the javelin, Kylie was 200 points behind Weymouth's Jen Kimball, who was the defending champion and also is running track at Holy Cross next year. But Kylie stepped up with a big 16'11.25 mark in the long jump, pulling herself within 40 points entering the last event...the 800.
Knowing she needed to beat Kimball by at least 3 seconds, Kylie tucked in behind Kimball, and with 300m to go, made her move. She ran the last 200 in 35, and her time of 2:27 easily made up the difference, earning her 2nd place with 4123 points, the 12th best score in the entire state since 2001!
Our freshman stars, Sydney Snow and Madison Ward, also climbed the leaderboard on Day 2. Out of 87 total competitors, seemingly 50 of which were league all-stars in some events, they were 33rd (Syd) and 42nd (Madison) after Day 2. But solid performances at long jump (14'6.5 Syd, 14'10.5 Madison) kept them in the running. Syd was still 33rd entering the 800. But after winning her heat by 12 seconds in 2:27 - causing several spectators to wonder "Who is THAT?" she moved all the way up to 24th place with 3097 points!
Madison ran a 2:39, tying her PR, to finish in 38th. As a team we were 5th overall with 10038, a score that normally places you in the top 3. This was the deepest team field they've ever had.
Highlights of the meet...remember, 87 competitors.
Kylie: tied 1st HJ (5'1.75), 2nd best 200 (25.99), 5th best 800 (2:27), 2nd best long jump (16'11.25),
Syd: 5th best 800 (2:27), tied 13th best high jump (4'8, tying her PR!)
Madison: tied 5th best high jump (4'10)
The old school record was held by former New England HJ champ Shawna Rossini, at 3552 points.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
FIFTY SEVEN POINT THREE EIGHT!!!
Unknown Blog Rule #1: Anytime a SPRINTER lowers their own school record by over a full second, I have to type the result in all caps in the post heading.
On to the details...
So entering today's All-State Championship Meet at Westfield State University, Kylie Lorenzen was seeded 7th in the 400 at 58.54, last week's time. Despite temperatures that peaked at 95 degrees - it was most likely still over 90 when she ran around 5:30 PM, and being in lane 1 of the fast heat, Kylie was on a mission.
At 150m in, she was tied for fifth, a decent amount behind the leaders. But she started moving up, made up a ton of ground on the final turn, and actually pulled into a tie for the lead with 70m to go. Although three girls did pull a bit ahead, consider that the girls that beat her included two All-New England 600m runners from indoors (Sierra Irvin of Hingham and All-American Amy Piccolo of Ursuline), as well as the fastest girl in Central Mass.
As good as she was last year, Kylie's 57.38 is nearly three full seconds faster than her freshman time of 60.3. In the past 15 years, only two Holliston athletes have placed higher than fourth at All-States; Emmaline Berg (shot put, 2009 - went on to be 2nd place at the Ivy League championship this year), and Shawna Rossini (2003 New England champ in HJ, All-Ivy at Cornell).
Rare company indeed.
Heptathlon Monday/Tuesday for Lorenzen as well as Madison and Sydney.
On to the details...
So entering today's All-State Championship Meet at Westfield State University, Kylie Lorenzen was seeded 7th in the 400 at 58.54, last week's time. Despite temperatures that peaked at 95 degrees - it was most likely still over 90 when she ran around 5:30 PM, and being in lane 1 of the fast heat, Kylie was on a mission.
At 150m in, she was tied for fifth, a decent amount behind the leaders. But she started moving up, made up a ton of ground on the final turn, and actually pulled into a tie for the lead with 70m to go. Although three girls did pull a bit ahead, consider that the girls that beat her included two All-New England 600m runners from indoors (Sierra Irvin of Hingham and All-American Amy Piccolo of Ursuline), as well as the fastest girl in Central Mass.
As good as she was last year, Kylie's 57.38 is nearly three full seconds faster than her freshman time of 60.3. In the past 15 years, only two Holliston athletes have placed higher than fourth at All-States; Emmaline Berg (shot put, 2009 - went on to be 2nd place at the Ivy League championship this year), and Shawna Rossini (2003 New England champ in HJ, All-Ivy at Cornell).
Rare company indeed.
Heptathlon Monday/Tuesday for Lorenzen as well as Madison and Sydney.
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