Newton North sophomore Carla Forbes leaped 5.93m (19-5.5) at the New Balance Indoor Nationals on Saturday to defeat a deep field and win the national title. Forbes will be out to defend her 2010 triple jump title on Sunday.
Forbes also combined with Amy Ren, Kayla Wong, and Steph Brown to take 8th in the shuttle hurdles.
Newton North's boys sprint medley relay team of Isaiah Penn, Ryan Lucken, Ben Clark, and Ezra Lichtman set a new school record of 3:32.46 for sixth place. If anyone has splits, please post them!
The race featured a 1-6-7 finish from Massachusetts teams. Running in the seeded heat, Mansfield won the national title with a time of 3:28.99. Also in the final heat, Andover finished with the 7th-fastest time overall.
Addendum:
Penn also won the "Emerging Elite" 400m, running 49.62. That might just be an indoor school record. Josh Seeherman will know...
Results of the meet are here.
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For the boys SMR, Lucken's split was 22.7, we're unsure of Chief and Isaiah's splits, and mine (Ezra's) was 1:57.23.
Congratulations to Carla!!!
congrats to carla of course on an outstanding jump
also to the boys smr especially ezra on a great split in the 800 didnt realize you could drop the hammer like that!
NE Record for NN girls shuttle, from mansfieldtrack.com site.
The Newton North [MA] girls also entered into the record books as they finished eighth in the 4 x 55-Meter Shuttle Hurdles Relay. Their time of 34.20 bettered the existing New England record of 34.99 by Weaver High [Hartford, CT] set in 2006. Running for Newton North was Kayla Wong, Steph Brown, Amy Ren and sophomore Carla Forbes, who also won the national title in the long jump.
Job well done to the Newton North SMR, that is a solid although not surprising result. What did Penn Split?
I'd like to see what Penn could do in the 800. I'm sure Blackburn has tried, but I think he has a lot of potential there. Though, are those events back to back outdoors?
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