The Newton South girls continued their remarkable post-season with two extraordinary performances in the long relays. On saturday, Kelsey Karys, Kathy O'Keefe, Melanie Fineman, and Bridget Dahlberg won the national championship in the 4x1 Mile, running 20:25.90 (#7 all-time). On Sunday, with Juliet Ryan-Davis taking Karys' place on the 4x800, the Lions ran a mind-boggling 8:58.63 (a New england record and #3 all-time) to place second behind Southern Regional of NJ.
(Sub 9:00!! Newton South's NE record-setting 4x800 team. Photo - Dave Fineman)
Also on Sunday, Karys competed in the 2-Mile and ran a personal indoor best of 10:52 to place 8th.
The Newton North girls were also busy, as their sprint medley relay team (Carolyn Ranti, Michelle Kaufman, Ari Sanchez, and Margo Gillis) placed third in 4:07.90 to earn All-American status. The NN girls also fielded a shuttle hurdle relay team (Kaufman, Amy Ren, Jen Liu, and Emily Denn), which placed 7th in 36.35.
Other Bay Staters placing in the top six included Rebecca White (5th in the 5000) Framingham's Camille Murphy (a five-second PR 4:52.90 to take 4th in the mile).
NIN Complete Results - Girls
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8 comments:
The Weymouth girls DMR also placed 12th, running 12:23.88 out of the unseeded heat.
Do you know the splits for the North SMR team? Because they cut about 10 seconds off from the last time they ran, I believe.
How do you reach All-American status?
Murphy took the lead at 600 to go or so and pushed it for a while before the top 3 separated. Very impressive. Girl's mile outdoors will be great.
you have you claim the head of a previous All-American and drink his/her blood OR get 8th place or better in your respective event
Actually, it's 6th or better. You're confusing NCAA with NIN/NSIC.
This is a little late, but sub 9:00 is definitely "we should go to the Penn Relays" territory.
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