2013 Penfield-RIT Tiger Invite Results!

This afternoon, the Greece Athena Indoor Track and Field team travelled to RIT to participate in the 2013 Penfield-RIT Tiger Invite. This event offered the opportunity for student-athlete's to compete against talent from outside Section V for the first time this indoor season. With the season's JV/Varsity combined meets at an end, this was also the first chance many as Varsity competitor's against more highly trained student-athletes.


Highlights from RIT included:

• Senior Keith Pease, fresh off being named to the Democrat & Chronicle's 2012-13 All-Greater Rochester Cross-Country team, took another huge step toward a possible state Championship by winning the 2013 McMullen Mile in a blistering 4:18.44. This time converts into a 1600 meter time for purposes of Sectional and New York State Championship seeding into an Athena School record 4:16.94 placing him among the elite milers in THE COUNTRY! 
• Senior Katie Fisher (High Jump) matched her Athena School record jump of 5' 02", establishing a season best and placing first overall! Katie also long jumped 14-01.00, automatically qualifying in the event for the Class B Sectional Championships.
• The Boys 4x200m Relay (Terrance Harley, Julio Santos, John Hampton and Brian Smith) placed first overall in a competitive race. Their time of 1:34.82 is the best performance in  Section V thus far this season.
• Senior Gaby Hernandez continued an impressive season, running a season best 600m time of 1:45.86, in addition to anchoring the Girls 4 x 800m Relay (with Janelle Handley, Faith Gruver and Sarah Sotack) to a season best 11:11.29 finish.
• Junior Faith Gruver (5:37.75) and sophomore Janelle Handley (5:41.29) both hit personal records in the 1500m run!
• Sophomore sprinter Susan Doan PR'd in both the 55 and 300 meters dashes for the second consecutive week! 
• Complete meet results are available online at here courtesy of Yen Timing.

Congratulations, team!