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.
