A
very long day at the Reggie Lewis Center for some, but well worth the wait as
Sydney Snow shattered her own school record, both Syd and Mike Glazebrook
medaled while joining exclusive clubs (sub-3 and sub-10), and we had four new
state qualifiers!
Emma
Guccione got things rolling with a big PR of over a half second in a
state-qualifying time of 43.88 in the 300, nearly winning her heat. She’s fifth
in the TVL right now!
Eve
Bagley ran an official PR of 1:42.11 in the 600, finishing second in her heat
and moving up the D4 leaderboard.
The
1000 saw another pair of state qualifiers in early heats, as Katie Salley ran
3:15.42 and Alexis Mejia ran 3:14.62 to both easily qualify for states!
Sydney
Snow came into the day ranked second in Division 4 with a best of 3:06, but was
up against a field with a few sub-3 runners. Not only that, she was out in last
in 34.5 (2:53 pace) thanks to the leaders taking it out in 31-32 seconds!
Undeterred, she worked her way up and finished fifth overall in 2:59.76! She not
only shattered her school record, she also became the second girl in TVL
history to break 3 minutes (Taylor Worthy’s 2:57.66 being the only other), and
became the #1 in Division 4 and #7 in the entire state!
Adri
Grinder got stuck with perhaps the most aggressive unseeded 2-mile field I’ve
ever seen, running 13:18. The entire field went out in 12-flat pace, despite only
two of the 20 kids breaking 12:30. Sometimes you can just get a bad draw.
Mike
Glazebrook entered as the 25th overall seed, and was the number 5
seed in the second (middle) of three sections. Eighth at the 800, and fifth at
the mile (4:58), he negative split including a whopping 2:23 last 800 (and 67
last 400) to win his heat in 9:55.64! But the best news had yet to come. His
time beat all but four of the seeded section, so about ten minutes after his
race, he was being paged over the loudspeaker to get his medal. It was a 12
second PR, and technically qualified him for states (not that 10:34 was ever a
worrisome barrier). He’s just seven seconds off the school record, which is
also the oldest record for indoor track (9:48 by Bob Steinbrecher way back in
1981). He’s ranked fourth in Division 4, and 21st in the entire
state. Only 12 guys have run under 9:54.
Madison
Ward tied for 11th in high jump with a clearing of 4’11. To give you
an idea of how long her day was…
10:30
– shows up at meet
11:30
– checkin for high jump
1:30
– first attempt at 4’10. It took NINETY minutes for the field to get through 4’8…Mike
was our last racer at this point, so from about 1:45 on it was just Madison.
4:00
– final attempt at 5’1.
Long
day, indeed.
