This past weekend in New York at the Armory Track and Field Center, the Poly Trackrabbits (as well as the Fieldrabbits) proved they’re going to be a force to be reckoned with not just on the local level, but on the national stage as well, with several great showing in the National Scholastic Indoor Championships. Also showing strong was Millikan’s Paisley Pettway, who earned All-American status in the 800-meter.
Poly took home national champion honors in an astounding three events (all three by the defending two-time state champion girls’ team), and All-American Honors in another seven events, with five of those finishes by the girls’ team.
Here are the full results, compiled by Poly girls’ distance coach Nate Bershtel.
Girls:
60 meter dash prelims (top 24 qualify for semis):
9th place – Carisma Lyday 7.67
28th place – Traci Hicks 7.94
43rd place – Sharona Johnson 8.04
60 meter dash semi-finals (top 8 qualify for the finals):
11th place – Carisma Lyday 7.76
400 meter dash prelims (top 12 qualify for the finals):
5th place – Akawkaw Ndipagbor 55.83
14th place – Azia Walker 56.90
400 meter dash finals
6th place – Akawkaw Ndipagbor 55.54 (All-American Honors)
800 meter dash
6th place – Paisley Pettway 2:14.11 (All-American Honors for the UCLA-signed Ram)
20th place – Arielle Stevenson 2:19.41 (won her heat)
30th place – Dynasty Gammage 2:21.80 (got stepped on and stumbled…ran 2:12 in the 4×800 relay the night before, which would have finished in 4th)
60 meter hurdles prelims (top 16 qualify for the semis):
10th place – Melia Cox 8.92
60 meter hurdles semi-finals (top 8 qualify for the finals):
12th place – Melia Cox 9.01
4 x 1 mile relay:
14th place – Rebekah Oragwu, Rachel Pavey, China Howard, Vanessa Flores 23:07.70 (about 5:45 average per runner for 1600 meters…Oragwu ran 5:29 on the lead-off leg)
4 x 200 meter relay:
1st Place, NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: Carisma Lyday, Traci Hicks, Melia Cox, Akawkaw Ndipagbor 1:40.45
4 x 400 meter relay:
3rd place (All-American Honors) – Azia Walker, Ne’Ausha Logan, Erika Winston, Akawkaw Ndipagbor 3:49.49
4 x 800 meter relay:
1st Place NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: -Arielle Stevenson, Ne’Ausha Logan, Erika Winston, Dynasty Gammage (with Gammage splitting 2:12 for her leg of the race) 9:08.77
1600 meter Sprint Medley Relay (200-200-400-800):
2nd place (All-American Honors) – Carisma Lyday, Melia Cox, Akawkaw Ndipagbor, Arielle Stevenson (with Arielle splitting 2:16 for her leg of the race) 4:04.25
Distance Medley Relay (1200-400-800-1600):
8th place – Rebekah Oragwu (running 3:52 for the 1200), Azia Walker, Ne’Ausha Logan, Dynasty Gammage (running 5:09 for the 1600) 12:24.34
High Jump:
1st Place, NATIONAL CHAMPION: Tara Richmond (5 feet 9.75 inches)
Triple Jump:
2nd place (All-American Honors) – Tara Richmond (40 feet 9.50 inches…2 inches away from the winner)
3rd place (All-American Honors) – Melia Cox (39 feet 9.25 inches)
31st place – Traci Hicks (34 feet 11.75 inches)
Boys:
60 meter dash prelims (top 24 qualify for the semis):
1st place – Kaelin Clay 6.95
24th place – Kameron White 7.12
37th place – Kyle Byrdsong 7.31
40th place – Dabness Atkins 7.34
41st place – Justin Peters 7.35
42nd place – Richard Smith 7.35
45th place – Kameron Jackson 7.41
60 meter dash semi-finals (top 8 qualify for the finals):
17th place – Kameron White 7.12 (Clay did not compete)
200 meter dash prelims (top 12 qualify for the finals):
20th place – Kaelin Clay 22.44
26th place – Kameron White 22.53
33rd place – Kiree Jabril 22.61
35th place – Richard Smith 22.76
67th place – Justin Peters 24.07
68th place – Kyle Byrdsong 24.13
69th place – Dabness Atkins 24.18
72nd place – Kameron Jackson 24.33
400 meter dash prelims (top 12 qualify for the finals):
31st place – Shaquille Howard 50.82
800 meter dash
16th place – Myles Andrews 1:56.85
72nd place – Veth Seng 2:13.34
60 meter hurdles prelims (top 16 advance to semis):
32nd place – Demontay High 9.30
4 x 1 mile relay:
8th place – Christian Penn (split 4:26), Eric Riehl (split 4:35), Sean Price (split 4:39), Ruben Baerga (split 4:38) 18:10.79 (about a 4:32 average per runner for 1600 meters)
4 x 200 meter relay:
2nd place (All-American Honors) – 1:28.79 (a mere 4 hundredths of a second off of 1st place)
4 x 400 meter relay:
17th place – 3:26.17
4 x 800 meter relay:
5th place (All-American Honors) – Aaron Harris (split 1:55), Chris Hall (split 1:57), Veth Seng (split 2:07: was tripped and fell with 50 meters to go, was in the lead. Had to get up and find the baton and then finish…was on pace for 1:58-1:59 split), Myles Andrews (split 1:56) 7:57.65
Distance Medley Relay (1200-400-800-1600):
12th place – Ruben Baerga, Myles Andrews, Aaron Harris (split 1:55 for the 800), Christian Penn (split 4:34 for the 1600) 10:49.24
High Jump:
9th place – Corey Winston (6 feet 5 inches)
Long Jump:
10th place – Kiree Jabril (21 feet 11 inches)
24th place – Blake Gray (20 feet 7.75 inches)
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