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.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Banquet / Uniform Reminder
If you haven't already done so, please return your uniform to Coach Moreau.
The Spring Track Banquet is coming up on Tuesday, June 11th at 6:30 p.m. in the HHS Cafeteria and we hope that you will be able to join us.
As is the tradition for the track teams, we will be having a potluck for the end of the year banquet and the assignments are based on grade.
Seniors Girls - please bring two 2-liter bottles of soda/soft drink
Senior Boys - please bring a case of water
Juniors (boys and girls)- please bring a salad or side dish
Sophomores & Freshman (boys & girls) - please bring a main dish of your choice that will feed a large family (approx 6-7 people)
Out of consideration for those in attendance with food allergies we ask that all food beNut and Peanut FREE.
For those of you with other dietary restrictions, we ask that you bring something that is appropriate for you/your child to eat.
Disposable pans and dishes are preferred. Please clearly label any containers you want returned to you. Please understand that we will not be able to wash or rinse them.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Lorenzen medals in 3 events, girls medal in 2 relays!
Here's the updated post with full results.
2nd - 400, Kylie Lorenzen broke her own school record in a time of 58.57, trailing only the defending meet champion!
5th - High Jump, Kylie Lorenzen, 5'1
5th - Long Jump, Kylie Lorenzen, 16'11.75.
7th - 4x400 (4:15.86) Virginia Hanstad, Eve Bagley, Nikki Kerrigan, Sydney Snow
7th - 4x800 (10:25.70) Sydney Snow, Maggie Naughton, Kiara Hanlon, Katie Salley
8th - 400 hurdles, Ryan Leonard, 60.06.
Other finishers
Girls Long Jump - Morgann McKunes, 15'2 (18th)
Girls Mile - Katie Salley, 5:36.50 (PR, 14th)
Girls Javelin - Amber Ahronian, 65'7 (23rd)
Girls 4x100 - Morgann McKunes, Lily Stering, Virginia Hanstad, Nikki Kerrigan, 53.71 (20th)
Girls Triple Jump - Madison Ward, 33'7.75 (9th)
Girls Triple Jump - Sydney Snow, 31'6.5 (23rd)
Girls High Jump - Madison Ward, 4'11 (tied 9th)
Boys Mile - Jack Boyd, 4:48.38 (25th)
Boys 2 Mile - Mike Glazebrook, 10:18.57 (PR, 16th)
Boys 110 hurdles - Logan Cotto, 16.75 (11th)
Boys Triple Jump - Logan Cotto, 39'2.25 (16th)
Boys 4x800 - Ryan Leonard, Jack Boyd, Ryan Snow, Ethan Harris, 8:36.48 (10th)
The girls finished with 19.5 points as a team, 14th overall.
Kylie automatically qualifies for the 400 at All-States. Although she's outside the top four, if her long jump or high jump mark is among the top 15 in the entire state (last divisional meets are Monday), she'll advance as a wild card.
2nd - 400, Kylie Lorenzen broke her own school record in a time of 58.57, trailing only the defending meet champion!
5th - High Jump, Kylie Lorenzen, 5'1
5th - Long Jump, Kylie Lorenzen, 16'11.75.
7th - 4x400 (4:15.86) Virginia Hanstad, Eve Bagley, Nikki Kerrigan, Sydney Snow
7th - 4x800 (10:25.70) Sydney Snow, Maggie Naughton, Kiara Hanlon, Katie Salley
8th - 400 hurdles, Ryan Leonard, 60.06.
Other finishers
Girls Long Jump - Morgann McKunes, 15'2 (18th)
Girls Mile - Katie Salley, 5:36.50 (PR, 14th)
Girls Javelin - Amber Ahronian, 65'7 (23rd)
Girls 4x100 - Morgann McKunes, Lily Stering, Virginia Hanstad, Nikki Kerrigan, 53.71 (20th)
Girls Triple Jump - Madison Ward, 33'7.75 (9th)
Girls Triple Jump - Sydney Snow, 31'6.5 (23rd)
Girls High Jump - Madison Ward, 4'11 (tied 9th)
Boys Mile - Jack Boyd, 4:48.38 (25th)
Boys 2 Mile - Mike Glazebrook, 10:18.57 (PR, 16th)
Boys 110 hurdles - Logan Cotto, 16.75 (11th)
Boys Triple Jump - Logan Cotto, 39'2.25 (16th)
Boys 4x800 - Ryan Leonard, Jack Boyd, Ryan Snow, Ethan Harris, 8:36.48 (10th)
The girls finished with 19.5 points as a team, 14th overall.
Kylie automatically qualifies for the 400 at All-States. Although she's outside the top four, if her long jump or high jump mark is among the top 15 in the entire state (last divisional meets are Monday), she'll advance as a wild card.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
State Meet Order of Events/Schedule
10:45 - Bus departure for Pembroke
12:00 - Implement check in for throwing events
1:00 - First field events...Girls HJ (Lorenzen/Ward), LJ (Lorenzen/McKunes)...Boys TJ (Cotto)
1:30 - Running events (Boys run first)
1:30 - 2 Mile (M. Glazebrook)
2:10 - 400m Hurdles (Leonard)
2:30 - 200m trials
2:40 - Mile (Boyd, Salley)
3:00 - ESTIMATE, WILL VARY BASED ON EVENT - 2nd field events
Boys HJ (Snow), Girls TJ (Ward, Snow), Girls Jav (Ahronian)
3:10 - 110 hurdle trials (Cotto)
3:20 - 100 trials
3:30 - 400 (Lorenzen)
3:50 - 200 final
4:00 - 800
4:05 - 110 hurdle finals (Cotto)
4:15 - 100 final
4:20 - 4x100 (Girls)
4:50 - 4x800 (Boys, Girls)
5:15 - 4x400 Relay (Girls)
12:00 - Implement check in for throwing events
1:00 - First field events...Girls HJ (Lorenzen/Ward), LJ (Lorenzen/McKunes)...Boys TJ (Cotto)
1:30 - Running events (Boys run first)
1:30 - 2 Mile (M. Glazebrook)
2:10 - 400m Hurdles (Leonard)
2:30 - 200m trials
2:40 - Mile (Boyd, Salley)
3:00 - ESTIMATE, WILL VARY BASED ON EVENT - 2nd field events
Boys HJ (Snow), Girls TJ (Ward, Snow), Girls Jav (Ahronian)
3:10 - 110 hurdle trials (Cotto)
3:20 - 100 trials
3:30 - 400 (Lorenzen)
3:50 - 200 final
4:00 - 800
4:05 - 110 hurdle finals (Cotto)
4:15 - 100 final
4:20 - 4x100 (Girls)
4:50 - 4x800 (Boys, Girls)
5:15 - 4x400 Relay (Girls)
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Girls Take 2nd At TVL Meet, Lorenzen breaks school record!
For the second straight year, the girls team finished 2nd at the TVL Championship, avenging regular season defeats to Dover-Sherborn and Westwood. Leading the way was Kylie Lorenzen, who scored 28 points, beating three teams by herself, and breaking the school record in the long jump along the way!
Reilly Conroy started the day for us in the 400 hurdles, taking 11th overall in a time of 81.87, and ranking as the second fastest freshman in the race! Up next was Eve Bagley, who entered as the sixth overall seed but lowered her PR by two seconds to finish third in 71.73, nearly qualifying for states and scoring six huge points for us!
In the mile, Kiara Hanlon (5:59.90) and Abby Meltzer (6:11.85) were 18th and 19th overall, running in the unseeded heat. In the seeded heat, Katie Salley entered as the 10th seed, but worked her way through the pack and stormed through the final straightaway to claim 5th in 5:37.83!
In the 100, Lily Stering finished 11th with a time of 15.05.
At this time, the first field events started to finish up. Kylie Lorenzen entered the finals of the long jump with a commanding lead, having cleared 16'11, over a foot ahead of the #2 jumper. She had a PR of 17'3, which was a mere half-inch off of the school record of 17'3.5, set by Chrissy Sereno in 2003. On her last jump of the finals, Kylie leaped 17'4, into the record books. She now has the school record in the 100, 200, 400, and long jump. Madison Ward (15'4.75) and Morgann McKunes (15'3) finished fourth and fifth, giving us 16 points from one event!
Over at high jump, Kylie and Phoebe Fitzgibbon of Westwood each cleared 4'10, 5'0, and 5'2 on their first attempt. After both nearly cleared 5'4, they had a "jumpoff", where they lowered the bar back down to 5'3. Kylie took 2nd after Fitzgibbon cleared 5'3 on her second attempt, but the two stand as the co-favorites for the state meet.
Over at the girls discus, Rachel Kriegsman (59'9) and Amber Ahronian (61'1) overcame the lack of grip from all the rain to finish 13th and 14th, respectively.
Back on the track, Kylie had a rematch with Carly Muscaro of Ashland in the 400. Last year, in the second meet of the year, Muscaro had defeated Kylie in the 400, one of only two losses on the track in the league she had all season. Muscaro had a slight lead on the final turn, but Kylie caught her on the straightaway and absolutely blasted the last 100m, finishing in 59.63, over a second ahead of her rival - a girl who was 8th at All-States last year, by the way. Right behind Muscaro for most of the race was a Hopkinton girl, but our own Sydney Snow made up a staggering amount of room in the last 100m to finish third in 62.99, giving us 16 points in the event. Madison Ward finished 8th overall in 65.48, taking second in the second heat.
In the 800, Maggie Naughton finished 16th in 2:40.25, besting several competitors in her heat. Next up was the 100 hurdles, where Diana Waterman (20.11) and Bridget Ghelli (20.25) each beat half the field to take 11th and 12th in conditions that were quickly deteriorating for everyone, particularly people in the sprints dealing with the headwind.
In the 200, Nikki Kerrigan took fourth overall in 27.70, after nearly qualifying in (slightly better) conditions in the prelims in 27.39 when the temperature was still hospitable!
In the second set of field events, Madison Ward took 2nd in the triple jump at 33'2.5, while Sydney Snow claimed fourth at 31'0, giving us 12 points, all from freshmen!
In the javelin, Rachel threw 67'3 and Amber 66'5, as the last event before the 4x400 finished up.
In the relay, Virginia got us off to a strong first leg, splitting 65 and change as we were in the lead pack. Eve Bagley followed up with a 67, then handed off to Sydney, who split a 64 and pulled us back into third place. Anchoring was Nikki Kerrigan, who ran down Hopkinton's girl from a considerable deficit to take second place behind Bellingham - who stacked the event - in 4:21!
On the boys side, we started off with Cole Osten in the 400 hurdles, as he finished second in his heat to claim 12th overall in a big PR of 65.67 despite the driving rain. Ryan Leonard followed that up by earning fourth overall in 59.47!
In the mile, Tanner Datz PR'd with a 4:55.30, 12th overall, then Jack Boyd also PR'd in a 4:42.83, taking 10th!
After finishing sixth in the trials, Logan Cotto roared back in the finals of the 110 hurdles, finishing third in 16.89.
For the early boys field events, Cotto also finished fifth in the triple jump (39'8.5), while Mike Donovan was 12th (35'6). In javelin, Reuben Jacobson threw 79'10, bettering his seed position, and Matt Wolfson was 13th at 101'8. Over at shot put, Matt threw 33'0 while Jake PR'd at 29'5.
Back on the track, in the 100, Ed Bennie and Troy Waddell finished 14th and 15th in 12.61 and 12.65, respectively. Ben Clapper was 13th and Isaac Fadden 14th in 25.36 and 25.42. The 4x100 team of Fadden, Clapper, Donovan, and Losanno was eighth in 49.33.
Ethan Harris was seeded sixth in the 800, but a late charge vaulted him up to fourth overall in 2:07.34, as places 3-6 were separated by 0.7 seconds!
Ryan Snow was similarly seeded sixth, last man in the fast heat. His trademark move down the final 100m paid off, as he took fourth in 53.60, qualifying for states! He also cleared 5'4 in high jump, just missing the medals.
The Glazebrook duo shined in the two mile as well, seeded 8th and 9th but finishing 4th and 7th in 10:28 and 10:59, respectively.
In the other late field events, Ryan threw 80'3 and Jake 73'2 in the discus, while in the long jump, Logan was ninth at 17'9.75 and Mike 16th at 15'4.25.
Finally, despite being put in the unseeded heat for the 4x400, the boys knocked off some of the fast heat participants, as they finished sixth in 3:46.64!
Reilly Conroy started the day for us in the 400 hurdles, taking 11th overall in a time of 81.87, and ranking as the second fastest freshman in the race! Up next was Eve Bagley, who entered as the sixth overall seed but lowered her PR by two seconds to finish third in 71.73, nearly qualifying for states and scoring six huge points for us!
In the mile, Kiara Hanlon (5:59.90) and Abby Meltzer (6:11.85) were 18th and 19th overall, running in the unseeded heat. In the seeded heat, Katie Salley entered as the 10th seed, but worked her way through the pack and stormed through the final straightaway to claim 5th in 5:37.83!
In the 100, Lily Stering finished 11th with a time of 15.05.
At this time, the first field events started to finish up. Kylie Lorenzen entered the finals of the long jump with a commanding lead, having cleared 16'11, over a foot ahead of the #2 jumper. She had a PR of 17'3, which was a mere half-inch off of the school record of 17'3.5, set by Chrissy Sereno in 2003. On her last jump of the finals, Kylie leaped 17'4, into the record books. She now has the school record in the 100, 200, 400, and long jump. Madison Ward (15'4.75) and Morgann McKunes (15'3) finished fourth and fifth, giving us 16 points from one event!
Over at high jump, Kylie and Phoebe Fitzgibbon of Westwood each cleared 4'10, 5'0, and 5'2 on their first attempt. After both nearly cleared 5'4, they had a "jumpoff", where they lowered the bar back down to 5'3. Kylie took 2nd after Fitzgibbon cleared 5'3 on her second attempt, but the two stand as the co-favorites for the state meet.
Over at the girls discus, Rachel Kriegsman (59'9) and Amber Ahronian (61'1) overcame the lack of grip from all the rain to finish 13th and 14th, respectively.
Back on the track, Kylie had a rematch with Carly Muscaro of Ashland in the 400. Last year, in the second meet of the year, Muscaro had defeated Kylie in the 400, one of only two losses on the track in the league she had all season. Muscaro had a slight lead on the final turn, but Kylie caught her on the straightaway and absolutely blasted the last 100m, finishing in 59.63, over a second ahead of her rival - a girl who was 8th at All-States last year, by the way. Right behind Muscaro for most of the race was a Hopkinton girl, but our own Sydney Snow made up a staggering amount of room in the last 100m to finish third in 62.99, giving us 16 points in the event. Madison Ward finished 8th overall in 65.48, taking second in the second heat.
In the 800, Maggie Naughton finished 16th in 2:40.25, besting several competitors in her heat. Next up was the 100 hurdles, where Diana Waterman (20.11) and Bridget Ghelli (20.25) each beat half the field to take 11th and 12th in conditions that were quickly deteriorating for everyone, particularly people in the sprints dealing with the headwind.
In the 200, Nikki Kerrigan took fourth overall in 27.70, after nearly qualifying in (slightly better) conditions in the prelims in 27.39 when the temperature was still hospitable!
In the second set of field events, Madison Ward took 2nd in the triple jump at 33'2.5, while Sydney Snow claimed fourth at 31'0, giving us 12 points, all from freshmen!
In the javelin, Rachel threw 67'3 and Amber 66'5, as the last event before the 4x400 finished up.
In the relay, Virginia got us off to a strong first leg, splitting 65 and change as we were in the lead pack. Eve Bagley followed up with a 67, then handed off to Sydney, who split a 64 and pulled us back into third place. Anchoring was Nikki Kerrigan, who ran down Hopkinton's girl from a considerable deficit to take second place behind Bellingham - who stacked the event - in 4:21!
On the boys side, we started off with Cole Osten in the 400 hurdles, as he finished second in his heat to claim 12th overall in a big PR of 65.67 despite the driving rain. Ryan Leonard followed that up by earning fourth overall in 59.47!
In the mile, Tanner Datz PR'd with a 4:55.30, 12th overall, then Jack Boyd also PR'd in a 4:42.83, taking 10th!
After finishing sixth in the trials, Logan Cotto roared back in the finals of the 110 hurdles, finishing third in 16.89.
For the early boys field events, Cotto also finished fifth in the triple jump (39'8.5), while Mike Donovan was 12th (35'6). In javelin, Reuben Jacobson threw 79'10, bettering his seed position, and Matt Wolfson was 13th at 101'8. Over at shot put, Matt threw 33'0 while Jake PR'd at 29'5.
Back on the track, in the 100, Ed Bennie and Troy Waddell finished 14th and 15th in 12.61 and 12.65, respectively. Ben Clapper was 13th and Isaac Fadden 14th in 25.36 and 25.42. The 4x100 team of Fadden, Clapper, Donovan, and Losanno was eighth in 49.33.
Ethan Harris was seeded sixth in the 800, but a late charge vaulted him up to fourth overall in 2:07.34, as places 3-6 were separated by 0.7 seconds!
Ryan Snow was similarly seeded sixth, last man in the fast heat. His trademark move down the final 100m paid off, as he took fourth in 53.60, qualifying for states! He also cleared 5'4 in high jump, just missing the medals.
The Glazebrook duo shined in the two mile as well, seeded 8th and 9th but finishing 4th and 7th in 10:28 and 10:59, respectively.
In the other late field events, Ryan threw 80'3 and Jake 73'2 in the discus, while in the long jump, Logan was ninth at 17'9.75 and Mike 16th at 15'4.25.
Finally, despite being put in the unseeded heat for the 4x400, the boys knocked off some of the fast heat participants, as they finished sixth in 3:46.64!
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