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Page5 - Indoor 2004-05 News Archive
New England Championships
Hodges, D'Auria, Mitchell and
Harvey Tops at New England Championships...
(Mar 5, 2005) The highlight
reel on any video taken at the 18th Annual New England Interscholastic
Girls' Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track
and Athletic Center on Friday night should include the stellar first
place performances turned in by Monique Hodges of Wethersfield in
the 55m Dash (7.11), Kathy D'Auria of Norwich in the 600m run
(1:34.83), Kristin Mitchell of Glastonbury in the 1-Mile run
(5:12.40) and Natasha Harvey of Career in the 55m Hurdles (8.26).
The entire delegation of Connecticut's best female indoor track athletes
took home 29 of the top honors that included four first places and six
second places. The first place winner's plaque didn't come without a
struggle as each had to come from behind to win their respective races.
Both Hodges and Harvey came out of a tight-knit group in in their 55m
straight-away races while both D'Auria and Mitchell didn't take charge
on the oval until the last lap of their races. Also featured on the
individual champion's podium were second place finishers Sharelle
Green of New London (300m), Kerri Lyons of Wilton (1000m),
Shashauna Stewart of Weaver (55m Hurdles) and Tynisha McMillan of
Stamford (Shot Put). In the relay events, Weaver High School
captured second place twice, their 4x200m team of Renee Thompson,
Shashauna Stewart, Lisa Watson and Christine Jones ran
1:46.18 from the unseeded heat and their 4x400m team of Thompson,
Sheena Gray, Watson and Sherice Hewitt ran 4:02.35 to better
their State Open time.
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to View 2005 Girls NE Championship Results..
Fast and Furious - Bradley, Ray and
Hyde School Best at New England Championships...
(Mar 5, 2005) If you were
distracted for only a short time then you would have missed the fast and
furious performances turned in by Connecticut athletes at the 18th
Annual New England Interscholastic Boys' Indoor Track and Field
Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center on Friday
night. Leading the speedy finishes was the nation's best 55m hurdler,
Myles Bradley of Norwich. After a steady preliminary hurdle race to
qualify, Bradley establish the second-best time in the nation this year
with a 7.31 clocking to easily win the final. The Stamford-bound senior
already owns the fastest time with 7.26 set at the State Open. He also
won the Long Jump with a leap of 22'11.25", well short of his State Open
24'2.25" record jump. In one of the most exciting of the night's oval
races, Remi Ray of Staples used a sustained surge in the last
150m of his 600m race to win in an exciting finish with a time of
1:21.85, only several hundredths slower than the state record of 1:21.1
set by Osborne Shaw in 1993. The night's other excitement in the speed
category was caused by both Hyde School of New Haven and Lyman
Hall of Wallingford in the seeded section of the 4x200m relay race.
In a closely contested race through all the relay legs, Hyde maintained
the lead down the last straight to hold off a hard-charging Lyman Hall
team to win in 1:30.54. The winning time for the Hyde quartet of Don
Morris, James Nixon, Eddie Daniels and Willie Harriott
almost broke the state record of 1:30.45 set by Hillhouse at last year's
national meet. The Lyman Hall team of Andrew Pratt, Brian
McWeeney, Chris Bevins and Chris Hubbard finished second in
1:31.98. Runner-up honors were also earned by James Nixon in the
55m dash, Steve Rochester of Danbury in the 300m and the AI
Prince Tech 4x400m relay team of Damion Noble, Sean Arrango,
Careca Moore and Chad Higley.
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to View 2005 Boys NE Championship Results..
State Sends Best to New England
Championships...
(Mar 1, 2005) Once again Connecticut sends a strong
contingent of athletes to the 18th Annual New England Interscholastic
Boys' and Girls' Indoor Track and Field Championships scheduled for
Friday, March 4th, 2005, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center,
Roxbury Community College, MA.
These top athletes were selected based upon their
placing at the recent State Open meet. Based upon the posted performance
list, several state athletes are seeded as the top contenders to bring
home New England Championship honors.
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more...
News Request for New England Championship
and National Meets...
(Feb 25, 2005)
To Connecticut Indoor Track and Field Coaches: MySportsResults.com would
like to provide you with the opportunity to publicize your indoor track and
field athletes who are competing beyond the CIAC State meets.
Deadline for submitting New England Championship news is 12pm-noon Tuesday
3/1/2005.
Deadline for submitting National Championship news is 12pm-noon Tuesday
3/8/2005.
Please click this link to use the special form to submit your news: Pre-Meet Participation News Request
New England Championship Meet
Information...
(Feb 24, 2005) The
18th Annual New England Interscholastic Boys' and Girls' Indoor Track
and Field Championships are scheduled for Friday, March 4th, 2005, at
the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center, Roxbury Community College,
MA. More information about
the 2005 Indoor Championship is available from the
website of the
Council of New England Secondary Schools Principals' Associations.
CIAC State Championship Week
Start of a New Indoor Open
Ceremony...
(Feb 20, 2005) Thanks to
the efforts of site director Gary Moore, his facility staff and Conard
Head Coach Barbara Sykes, Connecticut Indoor Track and Field was able to
start a new State Open ceremony where the top six medal winners for all
events were introduced by meet announcer John Barresi on podiums in the
center of the track. To help promote the new ceremony honoring the top
performers, MySportsResults.com is proud to provide online photographs
of the podium ceremony for all the events, including the top two teams.
Congratulations to all the 2005 CIAC State Indoor Track and Field
athletes for your hard work and dedication this season that resulted in
a great meet!
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to View 2005 Girls CIAC Indoor Open Champions..
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to View 2005 Boys CIAC Indoor Open Champions..
Weaver Girls Return to Top Spot to
Win Open Title...
(Feb 19, 2005) At the CIAC
State Open Meet Girls held on Saturday, February 19, 2005 at the New Haven Track &
Field Center at Hillhouse High School the Weaver-Hartford Girls Team
were declared the 2005 State Open Champions, a title they hadn't won
since 1993. For the first time this century, the winner of the CIAC
Girls State Open Championship scored less than fifty points. Of the
forty-two teams that scored in the meet, eight scored more than 21
points, a possible indication that the level of competition has reached
a new level of parity.
Weaver totaled 44 points by scoring in six events to outpoint runner-up
Middletown with 36, third place Ridgefield with 29 and Hillhouse with 28
points. Weaver earned two first places, both in relays, with a win in
the 1600m Sprint Medley and a record time in the 4x400m relay.
Their time of 4:03.94 eclipsed the old mark of 4:05.11 set by New Canaan
in 1998. Weaver was led by junior Sashauna Stewart in the 55m
(3rd) and the 55m Hurdles (2nd) while Renee Thompson provided a
fifth in the 300m. Their 4x200m relay team also earned valuable points
with a second place finish behind Career.
Other meet highlights include a quick finish by senior Monique Hodges
of Wethersfield who captured the 55m dash in 7.11, only
two-hundredths of a second slower than the open record. The 1000m race
saw the top four runners under 3:02 with winner Kerri Lyons (Wilton)
winning in 2:57.96 over Elisabeth Fitter (Branford),
Heather Bemis (Conard) and Kelsey LeBuffe (Hall). The 600m
run produced a record time as Kathy D'Auria of Norwich ran
1:35.74.
The youth corps was on the march as both the 1600m and 3200m runs
featured freshman winners and sophomores in three of the top four
places. The 1600m was won by Kristin Mitchell (Glastonbury), who
also anchored the winning 4x800m relay. Mitchell was followed by
sophomore Emma Perron (Conard), senior Sonia Haerizadeh
(Amity) and sophomore Kelly Sorrell (Lyman Memorial). Later
in the meet, the 3200m run was won by Heather Stephens of Ridgefield
who ran 11:07 for the second consecutive week. She was followed to the
tape by sophomore Kelly Sorrell (Lyman Memorial), senior Anja
Kreiger-Redwood (Greenwich) and sophomore Caitlin Cannon (Conard).
More notable meet performances were recorded by Nora Miller of
Middletown as she won the 55m Hurdles and was second in the Long
Jump. Natasha Harvey of Career secured two wins; in the Long Jump
at 19'1.25" and as anchor on the 4x200m relay. Daniela Ponte
(Torrington) defended her Pole title while Tynisha McMillan of
Stamford won the Shot Put.
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Results of CIAC Girls Open Meet...
Hyde Wins First Open Title Over
Bradley of NFA ...
(Feb 19, 2005) In the CIAC
State Open Meet Boys held on Saturday, February 19, 2005 at the New Haven Track &
Field Center at Hillhouse High School, Hyde Leadership School of New
Haven won its first Open title. Pretty impressive for a school that
first opened its doors in 1993. As in the Girls meet, it seems that
there is enough good talent spread around the Connecticut schools as 42
teams scored and the top six scored more than 20 points.
Hyde scored in only four events but with three first places and a second
place for a total of 38 points it was enough to outpoint the Herculean
effort by Myles Bradley of Norwich who won all three of his
events for 30 points. Prince Tech followed in third with 28 points and
Manchester was fourth with 24 points.
Hyde's dynamic duo of James Nixon and Willie Harriott
helped account for all of the points as then sprinted to a 1-2 finish in
the 55m dash, Nixon a 300m dash first and then teamed with Don Morris
and Eddie Daniels for a victory in the 4x200m Relay. Their
relay time of 1:31.54 was good enough for a new meet record as well.
To say that Myles Bradley of Norwich Free Academy did all he
could to win the meet for his team would qualify as the understatement
of the year. His record time of 7.26 in winning the 55m Hurdles
places him first in the national rankings this year. His record jump
of 24'2.25" now ranks him third on the nation best indoor list. And
oh, by the way, he also found enough strength and energy to win the High
Jump at 6'4".
The other hot events included the 600m where Remi Ray (Staples)
out-leaned Careca Moore (AI Prince Tech) to win in a record
1:22.43 to Moore's 1:22.54. The other record setting performance
featured junior Jay Koloseus of Guilford in the 3200m run with a
time of 9:18.80. Koloseus ran a 4:35 first mile to distance himself from
the field on his way to breaking the year-old record held by
All-American Gavin Coombs. In the 1600m run, junior Tradelle Ward of
Griswold used a last lap spurt to pass runner-up Phil Mitchell
(Glastonbury) to win in 4:18. 97. The Ridgefield 4x800m relay
team won in a quick 8:06.35, a second off record pace. Chris
Martens of Branford cleared 14' to win the Pole Vault.
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Results of CIAC Boys Open Meet...
if...Small
Word Weighs Heavily on Coaches
(Feb 17, 2005) As the CIAC
State Open Meet approaches this weekend, one small word usually weighs
heavily on the minds of many of the head track and field coaches who
will challenge for the title of State Open Team Champion.
if we only run 1 second faster per relay leg then....
if he jumps like he did two weeks ago then...
if she gets a good start then...
if they don't score in this event then...
if we are lucky then...
If the meet were run on paper from
existing performances then results favor these top five Girls teams:
Weaver, Hillhouse, Amity, Career, and Middletown but Ridgefield, Conard,
East Lyme, Glastonbury, Brookfield and Danbury will challenge the top
schools. Similarly, in the race for the Boys Championship title there
are five schools, Hyde School, Staples, Hamden, Griswold, and Wilbur
Cross who will vie for the top spot. There are several more schools that
could figure in determining the State Open Team Champion including A.I.
PrinceTech, Guilford, Norwich Free, Fitch, Danbury, East Lyme,
Glastonbury, Manchester and Shelton.
On an individual basis there are several
races that have the potential to become instant classics as the
match-ups between class competitors are introduced. In the Boys Open
meet, the first race of the day is the 4x800m relay where Ridgefield
will be tested by Fitch, Shelton and Manchester. The Girls 4x800 race
will also featured a top rated Ridgefield squad but they won't be tested
like the Class L race since Conard is not fielding a relay team.
The Boys 55m Hurdles is a race for first
between Myles Bradley (NFA), McNeil Johnson (EHart) and Iren Williams
(Weaver) - look for a 4-way race in the Girls 55m Hurdles between
Natasha Harvey (Career), Nora Miller (Middletown), Sashauna Stewart
(Weaver) and Tiffany Bromfield (Hillhouse). The Boys 55m Dash is no less
exciting as the top six, led by James Nixon (Hyde), can all run 6.60 and
better. The Girls 55m dash features senior Monique Hodges (Wethersfield)
who will be challenged by Leandra Miller and Nora Miller of Middletown.
The Boys 1000m run is a step down from the
longer distances for top seeded David Macklem (Tolland), Jay Koloseus
(Guilford), Matt Ottulich (Fairfield) and Chris Croff (Griswold). The
Girls 1000m looks to be a showcase event as closely ranked Kim Bartlett
(Fairfield), Kerri Lyons (Wilton), Heather Bemis (Conard,) Maureen
Dooley (Coginchaug) and Kelsey LeBuffe (Hall) figure to push each other
for the grueling five laps.
The highlight race of the Boys meets is
the 600m where the 12-year old Boys 600m State record of 1:21.1 set by
Osborne Shaw and the Open Record of 1:22.77 set by Tiemarcie Ramos are
in jeopardy since Class-L winner Remi Ray of Staples will be pushed hard
by teammate Rob Stewart, Careca Moore (AI Prince Tech), Ken Yearwood
(Fitch), Steve Rochester (Danbury) and Adam McLean (Wilbur Cross).
In the Field events, defending Boys
Long Jump champion Myles Bradley (NFA) returns to defend his title against Joe
Ardito (Naugatuck), Sean Ware (Bristol Central) and Tomme-Rene Coleman
(Hall). The Girls Long Jump features leader Natasha Harrvey (Career),
Nora Miller (Middletown) and Whitney Tagliavini (Suffield). The Boys
Pole Vault will also offer excitement as three vaulters are seeded at
13' - Chris Martens (Brnaford), Jordan Thull (East Lyme) and Rob Dalto
(Darien). The relatively new Girls Pole Vault has two vaulters who have
cleared 10' this year - Dara Samuel (Brookfield) and Daniela Ponte
(Torrington). The Boys Shot Put field is led by Bryce Buffaloe (Berlin)
and Marcus Lucas (Manchester). The Girls Shot Put features the state
leaders Tynisha McMillan (Stamford) and Garynn Jackson (East Lyme). The
Boys High Jump has the potential to influence the meet outcome as leader
Anthony Roberson (Hamden) will be challenged by three AI Prince Tech
jumpers including Jayme Ross as well as Sean Ware (Bristol Central).
The two distance events, the 1600m and
3200m, will showcase runners trying to double their way to state titles.
In the Boys 1600m, top seed Phil Mitchell (Glastonbury) will be pushed
by Tradelle Ward (Griswold), Matt Warren (East Lyme) and Nick Rezendes
(Ledyard). The 3200m run later in the meet brings back both Ward and
Mitchell to challenge top seed Jay Kolseus (Guilford) and Chris Croff
(Griswold) who will have run the 1000m. The Girls events may even be
more exciting as top seed Allison Barner (East Lyme) has to contend with
an equally talented field of Emma Perron (Conard), Kristin Mitchell
(Glastonbury), Sonia Haerizadeh (Amity), Leah Rosenfeld (Ridgefield) and
Kerri Lyons (Wilton). The 3200m run may prove to be a highlight race
where two freshmen, Heather Stephens (Ridgefield) who ran an 11:07 last
week and Mitchell will vie for first place against Kelly Sorrel (Lyman
Memorial), Haerizadeh and Anja Kreiger-Redwood (Greenwich).
Make sure to stay for the entire meet
because there promises to be an exciting finale when the last two
relays; the 4x400m and 4x200m will display the best sprint-till-you-drop
performances. In the Boys 4x400m, any of the top six teams can win the
event and may come down to who needs it more to win the meet. The Girls
4x400m may also determine the meet outcome as Weaver leads a pack of 5
teams that could also run under 4:10. The Boys 4x200m Open record may
also be history as four teams try to win the race. The Girls 4x200m will
feature a classic match-up between Career, Weaver and Hillhouse.
If we had only scored one more point
then...
CIAC State Open Meet
Program Available...
(Feb 17, 2005) Fans,
athletes and coaches can print their own updated meet program that contains the
corrected order of events, performance list with seeded
sections and Open/State records for the CIAC
State Open Meet for Boys and
Girls scheduled for 12:00 noon Saturday, February 19, 2005 at the New Haven Track &
Field Center at Hillhouse High School.
Click to View/Print the 2005
State Open Meet Program book. (In
Adobe PDF format)
Coming later tonight a special preview of the State Open meet
including featured events.
CIAC Announces State Open Meet Start
List...
(Feb 14, 2005) The CIAC
released the Start Listings for the State Open meet scheduled
for 12:00 noon Saturday, February 19 at the New Haven Track & Field Center
at Hillhouse High School (click
to view directions to facility). Please note that the link below
redirects you to the CIAC website.
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