High School Boys 4×400 Championship
Always one of our loudest and most popular races is the high school 4×400 championship. This year’s edition had arguably the fastest group of seeds of any 4×400 we have ever had – 3:16 didn’t even make the final ! Additionally, we had Cheltenham PA, a local team that ran 3:13 in the trials, qualify [...]
High School Boys 4×800 Championship
We have had a great race in the HSB 4×800. After the first two legs, it was Warwick Valley (NY), Long Beach Poly (CA), and Kingston College (JA) in a great three team race. Warwick Valley made a solid move before the last handoff, taking a small lead on Poly. At the bell, Warwick Valley [...]
Saturday Field Event Highlights
It’s been another busy day for jumpers and throwers. Here are the championship-division winners:
Olympic Development Men
• Jacob Freeman (NYAC) won the hammer throw with a 229′ 11″ (70.08) toss. That’s his second straight win in the event, and he also won the college division twice (2001, 2002) for Manhattan College. Results.
Olympic Development Women
• Toni Smith [...]
High School Boys Individual Athlete of the Meet
Pat Schellberg of Delbarton School has been named the high school boys individual athlete of the meet after breaking the Carinval record in the mile run with his 4:08.07 victory.
High School Boys 4×100 Championship
Wolmer’s Boys (Jamaica) just tore it up in the high school boys 4×100 championship, scorching a Penn Relays record 39.78. The old record: 39.91 by Calabar (Jamaica) last year.
That time would have finished second in the college championship!
Results can be found here.
Intermediate Hurdles
Our early race of the day was the intermediate hurdles . . . . results can be found here (high school) or here (olympic development).
High School Girls Relay Athlete of the Meet
Chris Ann Gordon of Holmwood Tech has been named the High School Girls’ Outstanding Relay Athlete of the 2010 Penn Relays.
Gordon anchored two winning relays on Friday, the 4×400 and the 4×800. In the 4×400 she split 52.8 to finish off a 3:39.66, and in the 4×8 she ran 2:09.95 for Holmwood’s 8:42.49.
High School Girls 4×400 Championship
Jamaica’s Holmwood Tech completes an astonishing day with a 3:39.66 victory. Earlier Holmwood won the 4×100 and 4×800 championships. That’s the third time Holmwood has pulled that triple (2001, 2006) and only the eighth time any school has won three championships in one year. (Vere Tech has the all-time record, with four wins back in [...]
High School Boys Distance Races
Pat Schelleberg (Delbarton School, NJ) took the lead just before the half mile and opened up a margin of 15 meters at the bell (3:05) and finished in 4:08.07, to just get under the Penn Relays record of 4:08.13, run last year by Canadian Jeremy Rae.
Isaac Presson (Asheville, NC) closed fast to take second in [...]
High School Boys’ DMR Championship
Our first boys’ championship of the meet is the High School Distance Medley relay. This is an extraordinarily deep field.
Liverpool (NY) took a 40 yard lead with a 3:02.32 lead off leg. Their 400m leg extended that lead to almost 1/2 a straightaway. Good Counsel (MD) made a valiant effort during the 800m leg to [...]
Friday Field Event Highlights
The men and boys joined the field event action on Friday. Here are the championship-division winners:
College Men
• Stanley Gbagbeke of Middle Tennessee won the long jump at a wind-aided 25′ 11″ (7.90). His best legal jump was 25′ 8-1/4″ (7.83). NCAA Indoor champion Alain Bailey took second at 25′ 9-1/2″ (7.86). Results.
• Kemal Mesic of [...]
High School Girls 4×100 Championship
Holmwood Tech won in 45.41, well clear of second place, fellow Jamaican school Herbert Morrison (45.81).
Five of the eight finalists were from Jamaica. Jamaican teams have now won this event seven straight years and 13 of the past 14.
Noted Jamaican radio personality Ed Barnes called the race, much to the delight of the crowd.
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High School Girls 4×800 Championship
Holmwood Tech of Jamaica put on a dominating performance, winning this event for an event-record eighth time. Their time of 8:42.49 is the third fastest ever at the Relays. Edwin Allen, also of Jamaica was second in 8:47.73.
Holmwood, Randolph (NJ), Edwin Allen and Columbia (NJ) were ahead of the pack at the first exchange. On [...]
High School Girls Individual Athlete of the Meet
With our high school girls’ individual events complete, the Penn Relays has selected Akela Jones of Springer Memorial High School (St. Michael, Barbados) as the high school girls individual athlete of the meet. Ms. Jones won the girls high jump in a height of 5′11 1/4″ / 1.81m. This performance, in the over 30 years [...]
HSB 4×100 Trials
We’re in the middle of our 4×100 High School Boys trials, which are from 10:40-12:30. There are approximately 70 heats or so, maybe a few more. A ranked list can be found here.
HSB 4×800 Is Complete
We have completed the high school boys 4×800, with Long Beach Poly (CA) running a sizzling 7:43. You can view the ranked list here.
High School Girls Distance Races
Angel Piccirillo (Homer Center, PA) and Emily Lipari (Roslyn Heights, NY) won the HSG Mile and 3K respectively. Lipari’s time of 9:34 moved her into the Top 10.
High School Girls DMR
Blacksburg (VA) smashed the Penn Relays record in the girls DMR with a spectacular 11:38.69 clocking. That erases the 11:40.51 run by Vere Tech (Jamaica) all the way back in 1992 and is the ninth fastest time ever by an U.S. high school team.
Joanna Stevens (4:48.43) ran the decisive anchor leg for Blacksburg, coming from [...]
Philadelphia Public Championship 4×400
To finish our afternoon session of 4×400’s, we have the traditional Philadelphia Public school heat. The winner this year was Swenson High in 3:59. William Penn of Philadelphia has won the HSG Championship many times.
Thursday Field Event Highlights
It’s been a busy day for jumpers and throwers. Here are some of the championship-division winners:
College Women
• Shara Proctor (Florida) won the long jump with a wind-aided leap 21 feet, 2 1/2 inches (6.46 meters). She also had a legal jump of 21-0 1/2 (6.41), the 10th best ever at the Relays. Results.
• NCAA Indoor [...]
High School Girls 4×400 Heats
The high school girls’ 4×400 heats went off 5 minutes ahead of schedule.
The ranked list of results can be found here. We’ll check back with top times later.
UPDATE (4:04pm): Nine teams just broke 4:00 in Heat 44, led by Benjamin Cardozo (Oakland Gardens, NY) in 3:41.62.
UPDATE (4:58pm): Columbia of Maplewood NJ ran 3:43.72 in its [...]
High School Girls 4×100 Heats
We are in the midst of two hours of heats of the high school girls’ 4×100-meter relay. This is where the Penn Relays really shows off its efficiency. Races go off like clockwork, and the athletes are carefully shuffled from check in to paddock to the track. It’s a wonder to watch.
You can track the [...]
High School Girls 4×800 Heats
The four sections of the high school girls’ 4×800 are over and Jamaica’s Edwin Allen flirted with running sub-nine, before settling in at 9:01.
Official qualifiers are here. Magnifcat of Ohio was the final qualifier with a 9:17. Many of these teams have run under nine minutes, including Edwin Allen.
Kim Mackay of Kellenberg Memorial (Uniondale, NY) [...]
HS Individual Events – Wars at 3K: Campbell-Hatz-Hurysz in boys, Sveinsson-Lipari-Cuffe in girls
The high school 3,000-meter runs promise to be great duels at Penn Relays this year, for both boys and girls.
In the boys’ race, two U.S.-leading American runners, Alex Hatz of New York and Jake Hurysz of North Carolina, will face Kemoy Campbell of Jamaica, the winner of numerous titles at the Jamaican Champs at various [...]