800 meters into the seeded heat of the girls 4 x 1 Mile relay at Nike Outdoor Nationals Saturday morning, Kelsey Karys got tired of holding back. She had run the first two laps cautiously, staying in the middle of things, trying not to trip or be tripped, eventually moving up to second on the outside shoulder of the leader. With two laps to go in the final race of her high school career, Karys made her move.
And what a move! One moment, she was with the pack, and one hundred meters later she was gone, pulling away from the pack on her way to a 2:27 final 800, and a 5:00 split (it was announced as 4:59.99!) that gave Newton South, a.k.a Newton Centre Athletics, a lead that would stand up through the final three legs.
Karys passed the baton to Melanie Fineman, who split 5:11. Kathy O'Keefe ran the third leg in 5:06.9, lengthening the lead to nearly 100 meters, and Bridget Dahlberg ran 5:06.3 to bring the team home in a New England record 20:23.20, fourteen seconds ahead of runner-up Burnt Hills.
Video of the Girls 4 x 1 Mile
The 4 x 1M was early Saturday morning. In the evening, O'Keefe and Dahlberg would return, along with teammates Danielle Pensack and Juliet Ryan-Davis to place 4th in the distance medley in 11:53.35.
The NS boys 4 x 1M team (John Beck, Andrew Wortham, Igal Bubar, and Alex Long) placed 11th out of 28 teams, running 18:10.59.
Lincoln-Sudbury's girls 4x800 team (Claire Arthur, Marika Crowe, Ellie Hylton, Andrea Keklak) earned All-American status, running 9:06.83 to place 6th.
Weymouth's 4x800 team (Carolyn Connolly, Jill Corcoran, Sam Bennett, and Bridget Jaklitsch) ran a school record 9:18.02 to place 13th.
Bromfield's Emily Jones ran a personal best 10:20.62 (is that a Mass. State record?) to finish 3rd in the 2-Mile.
Bedford senior Jon Gault ran 15:11.16 to place 6th in the 5000m, getting the last All-American spot, two places ahead of Nashoba junior Brendon Aylaian (15:13.74).
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In addition to South's DMR, Weymouth was 11th in 12:16 and LS finished in 12:31.
according to splits provided it looks like O'Keefe was the fastest 1200 split of the day in 3:34 if I remember right
DMR NSHS
4 Newton Centre Athletics 11:53.35
3:34.38(3:34.38) Kathy O'Keefe
4:33.18(58.80) Dani Pensack
6:53.02(2:19.85) Melanie Fineman
11:53.35(5:00.33) Bridget Dahlberg
Utilizing Larry Newman's New England "All-Time" HS Records (updated 2006), the record is still, after 31 years:
Lynn Jennings, Bromfield School, 10:10.5h, New England AAU Championships, 3/4/78
(Outdoors Ari Lambie 10:11)
Actually, utilizing Steve Vaitones' collection of Yankee Runner Magazines here at the USATF Office, there is even a picture of Jennings as she zooms around the track. According to the article, Lynn had already run a 61 second 440 as part of a Liberty AC 4x440 relay before the 2 mile.
Liberty AC did well that day, as Charlotte Lettis won the mile in 4:44 and Darlene Beckford won the 880 in 2:12.
Emily Jones doesnt hold a single BROMFIELD school record. You've got to be kidding me!
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