Hannah DeBalsi Wins 3200 At Louck Games
National indoor mile champion and multiple state titlist Henry Wynne is not the only distance runner making some noise for Staples High. Freshman Hannah DeBalsi has been doing her part this year to occasionally steal the headlines. The fleet-footed ninth-grader won the indoor mile title at the CIAC State Open Championship and followed that effort with a surprising victory in the two mile at the New England Championship. On Friday, DeBalsi turned in one of her best performances to date on the track oval by beating a strong field in the 3,200-meter run at the 46th annual Glenn D. Loucks Games in White Plains, N.Y. DeBalsi won with a time of 10:20.7, a personal best by nearly 25 seconds and a clocking that ranks No. 10 nationally. Finishing second in the race was Bishop Feehan (Mass.) junior Abby McNulty with a PB of 10:28.05. Newburgh (N.Y.) junior Gianna Frontera placed third at 10:28.83.
Track Community Mourns loss of Cherraine Davis, 18
Track and field coach Matt Shea can still see the looks of disappointment on the competition when he accompanied Southington shot-putter Cherraine Davis to the New England Open last spring. Davis threw over 45 feet on her first attempt. The rest of the girls knew right then and there they were playing for second place. As a Southington High School junior and again as a senior, Davis won every Connecticut shot-put championship she could win, indoor in the winter and outdoor in the spring.
Middletown & Irv Black Recap
MileSplit weekend recap of Irv Black and Middletown Invitationals
Penn Relays Day Two Distance Recap: McGorty Mile Record; LaSalle, Norris save it for the end
PHILADELPHIA – Officials of the Penn Relays Carnival couldn’t have asked for a better closing to its high school Distance Night. (Photo by Don Rich) (via MileSplit)
Emily Savage has Record Setting Day at Penn Relays
Weston High School Senior Emily Savage had a day to remember at Franklin Field at the historic Penn Relays. The Oklahoma bound Pole vaulter captured the Pole Vault with a jump of 13 Ft 1 1/2 inches. In the process Savage set a Connecticut State and as well as a Penn Relays record. Her vault was a personal best by 6 inches. Watch the Milesplit interview below.
UNH Senior Ends Track career to Make Bone Marrow Donation
Cameron Lyle, a University of New Hampshire track and field athlete from Plaistow, looked forward to wrapping up his competitive career with his best results ever in the America East championships early next month. No longer. Instead, Lyle is scheduled to be at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Wednesday morning, intent on giving an ill young man he does not know a better chance to live. Lyle was due at the hospital at 6 a.m. for a procedure that will begin the process of donating his bone marrow.
Boston Will Survive !
From Hopkinton to Boston more than a half a million people line the streets the third Monday in April, beginning their holiday by cheering the never-ending stream of runners that pass by. The women of Wellesley College know their place at the halfway mark. Their youthful enthusiasm provides the runners some mental fuel to make it to Boylston Street and the finish line at Copley Square that’s still 13-miles away. The bars and restaurants are crowded with people, most glued to this storied race pictured on the flat screens. The city is buzzing. Everyone is happy in Beantown. It’s Patriots Day, the date designated for the oldest and most-fabled 26.2-mile footrace in the world, the Boston Marathon.
Alumni Report: March 22- April 9, 2013
Ct Alumni are off and running throughout the country and milesplit is keeping track of them as they are strive to reach another level.
Holmes, Wynne a Record-Breaking Duo
NEW HAVEN — Staples senior Henry Wynne and Hillhouse senior Precious Holmes met for the first time on a rainy March afternoon inside the Floyd Little Athletic Center. A few courtesy exchanges took place before they found common ground. “I was cheering for you,” Holmes said. “Somebody asked me if I knew you, and I said no.” Wynne gave a laugh. Holmes was referring to March 10, when the two ran at the historic Armory Track and Field Center in New York at the New Balance High School Indoor Nationals. Each won a pair of national titles; Wynne in the mile and as the anchor of the distance medley relay, Holmes in the 400 and as the third leg of the 1,600 sprint medley relay.
NBNI Coverage Central: Southerland #2 AT 2:03.59! Elise Cranny #4 AT 4:40.62 Mile! Columbia 3:42.04
The New Balance National Indoor Championships begin tomorrow with the Emerging Elite races and continue through Sunday with excitement and drama at every bank of the track. Keep your browser right here all weekend long for up-to-date ONSITE coverage! (via MileSplit)
Staples, Hillhouse Take Home National Titles
Staples Ct. boys distance medley relay took home top honors today at the New Balance Indoor National Track and Field Championships at Manhattan's Armory Track and Field Center. Running the second fastest all-time New England indoor performance in the Distance Medley Relay, Staples covered the 4000-meter distance in 10:07.01. Their winning performance falls just shy of the national and New England record of 9:59.94, set by Gloucester, MA in 2000.
NBNI 2013 Coverage Central: Frazier bests Finn in NR! Staples, Cardozo DMR champs!
The New Balance National Indoor Championships begin tomorrow with the Emerging Elite races and continue through Sunday with excitement and drama at every bank of the track. Keep your browser right here all weekend long for up-to-date ONSITE coverage! (via MileSplit)
New Balance Nationals Indoor 2013 Coverage Central Staples, Cardozo DMR champs!
The New Balance National Indoor Championships begin tomorrow with the Emerging Elite races and continue through Sunday with excitement and drama at every bank of the track. Keep your browser right here all weekend long for up-to-date ONSITE coverage! (via MileSplit)
NBNI 2013 National Girls Preview
NEW YORK - Last year the storylines swirled fast and furious around Erin Finn, Dior Hall, and the girls of Grosse Pointe South (Michigan). Can they rekindle the magic this year? (Photo by Don Rich)
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