Meet 8 Wrap-Up

Thanks to all who came to the meet yesterday--given our combined Odyssey and Athena forces (and bus), we needed all hands on deck, and in the end it work out swimmingly! Once again, quite a few highlights, the most prominent of them however was not reflected on the track--the hushed whispers about how much our student-athletes (and program) has grown in a positive direction in the past few years. It is great to see the student-athletes rising to the occasion and putting forth Athena's best face with positive and supportive behavior.

Some key performances were:

• The Boys 4x200m relay winning the day--and even more impressively, it was the B relay! Julio Santos, Treyvond Jones, Tommy Love II and Sean Porrata ran string legs to pull away and win with an impressive time of 1:39.67! Though unreflected on the Section V leaderboard (because our "A" relay is #2), in Section V class A our "B" Relay would be seeded fifth in Sectionals--IMPRESSIVE!
• Junior Keith Pease WON the 1000m by running up from the second heat with a blistering 2:37.69, only hundredths of a second off the school record! Senior Mintesinot Kassu also came to play running a strong 2:41.10! Both Keith now finds himself seeded in the top five of both this and the 1600m in Section V Class A!
• Senior Brittany Ward PR'd in the 1500m run, further solidifying her provisional qualifications for a possible Sectional championship slot.
• The Athena Sprint Boys had 8 members run PRs in the 300m dash: John Hampton, Treyvond Jones, Julio Santos, Chris Bond, Alex Weigand, Ryan Camera, Mike Kephart, and Cameron Gross! Hard work paying off! Athena currently has five boys who have at least met the provisional qualifying time for this event!
• Sophomores Ryan Camera and Mike Kephart also PR'd in the 55m dash!
• Junior Casey Pollack unleashed a monster 29' 4 3/4" triple jump performance, placing ninth overall in her first competition in this event of the season!
• D&C Athlete of the Week, junior Brian Smith ran the 600m run in an electrifying 1:25.48! Brian is now seeded THIRD IN ALL OF SECTION V in this event in addition to being #1 in the 55 and 300 meter dashes! (...and his time was two thousandths off the school record.)

Another tremendous week for our team across the board with even more examples of energy and effort to be seen on our team leaderboad (attached). Full results from the meet can be viewed at http://www.yentiming.com/results/2012/indoor/1-14-12-hws.htm.