Freshman Daisy Ogede (WRA '13) had an impressive day for the WUSTL women, racing to all-UAA honors in four different events. Ogede won the 200 with a career-best time of 25.17, which ranks third in Washington University history. Sophomore Emily Warner finished as the runner-up in a time of 25.29, while senior Katie Sandson was fifth in 25.66. Ogede added a third-place finish in the 100 hurdles with a career-best time of 15.38. Freshmen Rebecca Ridderhoff (15.96) and Anna Bailes (16.20) placed fourth and sixth, respectively, in the event. Ogede also finished third in the 100 (12.54), while Sandson was second (12.46) and senior Jasmine Williams (13.09) was eighth. Sandson, Warner, Ridderhoff and Ogede also placed third in the 400 relay with a time of 49.23. Warner also finished as the runner-up in the 400 with a time of 57.17.
See Wash U website for complete recap.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Hornet Relays
On Saturday, Girls’ Track & Field traveled to the Hornet Relays at East Canton High, where we finished in First Place. It was a strong meet for us all around.
Our field events got us started with a 3rd place in the shot, 2nd place in the discus and pole vault, and 1st place in the long jump and high jump, where Annie and Sophie had the best jumps of the meet. Sophie’s 5’ 2” places her 5th on the All-Time list.
We were 3rd in the Distance Medley and the Shuttle Hurdle relays; 2nd in the Sprint Medley, 4 x 100 and 4 x 400. The 4 x 200 quartet closed out the meet with a 1st place.
Great job; Great Season, Ladies.
Remember our team meeting today at 4:00. Bring uniforms and jackets.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Cuyahoga Relays at Cuyahoga Heights High School
On Saturday, Girls’ Track & Field competed in the Cuyahoga Relays at Cuyahoga Heights High School. We finished in 3rd place and again had numerous personal best personal best performances. These were our highlights:
Co-Captain Annie got things off to a record-breaking start by jumping 17 feet, 2 ¼ inches, which not only established a new WRA record but also broke the previous meet record. She was joined by Sophie and Erin in capturing 1st place in the long jump.
The high jump trio of Sophie, Cat and Maya finished in 2nd place with the highest jump total we have had in over 10 years.
Rounding out the field events, we claimed 3rd place in the pole vault and 4th place in both the shot and the discus.
Our top finishes in the running events came with a 3rd place in the 4 x 100; a 1st in the shuttle hurdle relay and in the final event, the 4 x 400, we were edged out right at the tape and finished in 2nd.
Great job, ladies. Our next meet is this coming Saturday at East Canton.
Ladies: Don’t forget our team feed right after practice this afternoon.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
East Palestine Relays 2014
Final Team Standings
Rootstown 90
WRA 63.5
Ursuline 52
Mineral Ridge 49
East Palestine 37
Beaver Local 29
David Anderson 24
MLK, Jr. 24
Wellsville 22.5
Lordstown 19
Discus 150’
7” 5th Shot
44’ 2 ½” 4th
Causey 70’ 11” Causey 26’
Clark-Bruno 79’ 8” Gallegos
28’ 2 ½”
Long Jump 26’ 9 ¾” 3rd
Carter 16’ Best jump
of meet
Henkelmann 10’ 9 ¾”
4 x 1600 25: 42.60 2nd
Kopyeva 87/93/ 96/ 94 6:10.0
Hulver 96/
102.7/ 103/ 93.8 6:35.5
Ballard 95.7/ 101.8/ 102/ 91.1 6:30.6
Wyman 88/ 97/ 102/ 112.8 6:29.8
4 x 100 55.9 5th
Cunningham 13.9
Dockery 14.7
Cremer 14.2
Kamara 12.8
Shuttles 1:15.1
3rd DMR 15:10.3 3rd
Sovich 18.7 800 – Kopyeva 40/ 43/ 43.8/ 46.4 2:53.2
Arzberger 19.0 400 – Arzberger 33.7/
38.9 1:12.6
Henkelmann 19.4 1200-Wyman 87.1/
95/ 91.6 4:33.7
Carter 17.7 1600-Tekelenburg 87.6/ 101.7/ 105/ 96.5 6:30.8
4 x 200 1:56.8 4th 4 x 800 11:40.89 2nd
Cunningham 29.9 Ballard 41.3/ 46.8/ 48.2/ 43 2:59.3
Cremer 29.7 Nichols 39.4/
44/ 44.2/ 48.1 2:55.7
Carter 29.4 Arzberger 37/ 42.6/ 44.5/ 45.4 2:49.5
Kamara 26.6 Wyman 41/
44/ 45.3/ 45 2:55.3
Sprint Medley 2:09.3 7th 4 x 400 4:30.48 1st
100 – Dockery 15.2 Carter 30.5/
37.7 1:08.2
100 - Sullinger 15.1 Arzberger 32.6/ 36.4 1:09.0
200 – Sovich 30.1 Cremer 31.6/ 36.1 1:07.7
400 – Saucier 30.6/
38.1 1:08.7 Kamara 28.6/ 36.1 1:04.7
East Palestine Relays
This past
Friday, Girls’ Track & Field competed in the East Palestine Relays, where
we came away with 2nd place out of 10 teams. We scored in all of the events contested,
finishing with 63.5 points and the following highlights:
The girls
earned 3rd place in the long jump, shuttle hurdles, and the distance
medley.
2nd
place honors went to our 4 x 1600 team of Irina, Molly, Anna, and Abby and the
4 x 800 group of Anna, the two Sophies and Abby. The 4 x 400 quartet of Annie, Sophie, Emily
and Wade-Watta closed out the meet with a 1st place finish.
The Iron
Ladies of the meet were Sophie A and Annie, both of whom quadrupled in the
meet.
Nicely
done, Ladies.
Our next
meet is this coming Saturday at the Cuyahoga Relays.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Laurel Open - April 22
Laurel Open
22/April
Shot Discus
Causey 24’
6” Causey 69’
11”
Clark-Bruno 25’ 6” Clark-Bruno 79’ 6”
Gallegos 26’ 3” Gallegos 68’ 10”
Knothe 18’ 10” Hearin 47’ 7”
Knothe 60’ 11”
Long Jump High
Jump
Carter 16’
11” PR Arzberger 4’ 6”
Henkelmann 12’
9 ¼” Berry 4’ 6”
McCuskey 12’ 7 ½” Gallegos NH
Platt 11’ 10” Nazarova 4’
0”
100m
Babbin 16.25 Platt 15.49
Henkelmann 15.26 Suh 15.95
McCuskey 14.7
4 x 200m___2:01.9 4 x 100m 57.11
Dockery 31.8
Dockery 15.0
Saucier 30.1 Henkelmann 14.7
Sovich 29.9 Sullinger 14.3
Cremer 29.1
Cremer 13.1
400m 300mLH
Arzberger 34.3/
33.7 68.02 Sovich 53.2
Nazarova 36.5/
42.1 78.6
Saucier 35.5/ 35.6 71.1
800m
Nichols 39/ 42/ 41/ 51.4 2:52.4
Rhodes 43/ 44/ 48/ 48.8 3:03.8
Yang 44/
45/ 47/ 51.4 3:07.4
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Perry Relays
This past Saturday, the girls traveled to Perry High School to compete in the Perry Relays, where we finished in 4th place overall. While we scored in 13 of the 14 events and had over a dozen Season Best performances, these were our highlights:
Earning 3rd place finishes were the 4 x 1600 team of Irina, Sophie N., Molly and Abby; the Shuttles foursome of Halle, Sophie A., Jelly, and Annie; the 4 x 200 relay of Erin, Emily, Catherine and Wade-Watta; and finally the 4 x Iron ladies with Ainsley, Victoria, Madison and Maya.
The high jump duo of Sophie and Catherine were second, with Sophie tying for the best jump in our division. In fact, her 5 – foot clearance was the highest jump of a WRA girl in 7 years. Finally, our 4 x 400 quartet of Catherine, Emily, Annie and Wade-Watta capped off the meet for us with a 1st place finish.
Congratulations, Ladies!
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Nordonia Relays
The Western Reserve Academy track and field teams competed at the Nordonia Relays April 12 in Macedonia.
The girls finished 10th out of 12 teams with 17 points. Mentor won with 100 points and Stow-Munroe Falls (82) and Brunswick (78) took second and third, respectively.
Highlights from Nordonia!
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Longstreth Relays Recap
On Saturday, the Girls (also)
hosted our Longstreth Relays,
finishing in 7th place out
of the 13 teams that that competed.
We scored points in 7 of the
total 13 events, with the following highlights:
Finishing in 6th,
was the pole vault relay of Lisie, Daniela and Ana. We
had four 4th places with
the 4 x 100, the shuttle hurdles, the 4 x 200, and the 4 x 400.
The high jump trio of Sophie, Catherine and Annie captured 3rd, while the sprint medley quartet of Dockery, Cremer, Halle and Wade-Watta
were 2nd.
Special recognition goes to Sophie
Arzberger, Anna Ballard, Emily Cremer, Erin Dockery, Wade-Watta Kamara,
Meredith McCuskey, and Kristina Nazarova, all of whom had
impressive debuts in the meet.
The Iron Ladies of the meet were Tricia, Sophie Arzberger, and Abby,
who tripled, and Catherine, Annie,
and Wade-Watta who quadrupled.
Nicely done, Ladies!!!
And Thanks to all of those who came out to support both boys' and girls' teams.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
22 Year Old Record Broken
On March 22, the Roanoke Maroons Distance Medley Relay team broke a 22 year old record at the Roanoke Track and Field Invitational with a time of 13:15.96.
Congratulations WRA T&F Alum and former Iron Lady, Margot Warner '13!
Preseason Pool Workout
Monday, March 24, 2014
PreSeason includes a clinic for shot and discus
Last Saturday,
sophomore Madison Clark-Bruno (extreme left in photo) accompanied Coach Khalila and Geno to a clinic for throws (shot and discus) held at Licking Valley High School, some two hours away. The clinic,
which lasted from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm, was attended by some 40 throwers and 8 coaches from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York focused on the glide shot put and the rotational discus. Though long and a lot of work, "it was a lot of fun," commented Madison on the ride back to Hudson.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
Indoor High School meet hosted by KSU
This
past Sunday, four members of the WRA Girls' Track & Field team did something
that no other girls' track group had done before: they competed in the Indoor
High School meet hosted by Kent State University. Hoping to test the training
they have endured with Geno since just before the holiday Break in December and
simply to get some competition under their belts before our competitive season
begins, these girls -- co-captain Tricia Cunningham in the 200m, Wade-Watta
Kamara in the 400m, Nina Tekelenburg in the mile (a completely new distance for
her), and Sophie Arzberger in the high jump -- joined for a 7:45 team breakfast
before their 8:15 departure to brave the elements en route to the KSU Field
House. It was the last of three such meets and it turned out to be the final
opportunity for most of the high schoolers competing there to notch a
performance that might qualify them for the State Indoor Championships, which
occur next weekend. As a result, there were literally hundreds of entries in
numerous events -- 60m dash; 60m hurdles; 200m; 400m. Just counting the girls'
events, there were 18 heats of the 60m dash; 20 heats of the hurdles, 21 of the
200m and 14 of the 400m. This made for an incredibly long wait for each of
their events. Thankfully, each girl was entered in an event that did not
require prelims or semi-finals; otherwise, this story would actually encompass
an even longer day. In fact, this meet in previous years was a two-day affair;
however, since KSU had to host the MAC indoor championship meet on this same
weekend this year, the high school meet was condensed to a single very long
day. What is more, with so many heats – that were not known until just before
the event, it was quite difficult to execute a proper warm-up strategy with
regard to the progression of the finals in each event.
Despite
it all, it was a tremendous experience for the Lady Pioneers, and for all
except Wade-Watta, it was their first indoor meet ever; for all, it would be
the first time running on such an odd-sized track -- 292 meters instead of the
usual 200m ovals that predominate the indoor facilities around the country.
Incidentally, there are even several 300 meter indoor tracks; however, 292
meters is an odd configuration, indeed. And while that made it all the more
interesting, it also rendered a coach's task of getting interval split times
that were anywhere near accurate nearly impossible. Let that fact serve as a
quasi-disclaimer for the "guesstimated" splits for Nina's mile.
Sophie
actually got it all started for us with her performance in the high jump, which
began over an hour later than the program had originally indicated. Entering at
4' 7" (instead of 4' 3", where the competition began), she cleared
the first two heights (4' 7" and 4' 9") cleanly on her first
attempts. As the bar moved up to 4' 11", she needed all three jumps to make
the clearance. And though she had three close attempts at 5' 1", she had
to bow out at that height, finishing in 10th place among 25 jumpers
(actually in a 6-way tie for 5th). Interestingly enough, Sophie had
a goal to clear 5' today, and given the nice clearances she had at the previous
heights and the closeness of her attempts at 5' 1", it is almost safe to
assume that she might have made 5', had the bar been placed there after 4'
11". Nonetheless, her jump of 4'11" is the highest jump we have had
among the girls in well over 7 years, and signs are that she will jump even
higher once our outdoor season is underway.
Next
was Nina in the third of 5 heats in the mile.
Let’s bear in mind that this is Nina’s first foray into track itself,
and although she has worked with the mile before in cross country (the mile is
not an event in the track season for us), she, too, had never dealt with a 292
meter oval. At any rate, she handled the novelty (all aspects of it) of the
race quite well. In fact, her time of 6:07.2 at a distance that is a bit longer
than the 1600m was three seconds faster than the time trial she had posted in
the 1600 a week ago. This was a revealing performance for her, to say the
least, especially as it points toward even faster times this spring.
Wade-Watta,
after multiple warm-ups and sessions of stretching, finally lined up for her
heat of the 400. I actually do not recall which heat or how many heats there
were in total; there were over 100 participants in all with a max of 6 per
heat. Starting in a weird spot on the track (to account for the 292m oval), she
powered away to a strong 1st 200m and held on to post a finishing
time of 62.3, which was 1.5 seconds faster than her time trial last week. This,
too, is promising, for once we return to the standard 400m track where she will
be able to execute the different phases of the run, Wade-Watta will be looking
at this time through her rear-view mirror.
Lastly,
our co-captain Tricia, who had the longest time to wait for the shortest race,
took to the track at well after 5pm in heat 10 of 21 in the 200 meter dash.
Suffering through the same warm-up frustrations as Wade-Watta, Tricia was
actually ecstatic to run and have at it.
In fact, I would venture a wager that her relief at finally being at the
start line far exceeded the nervousness that accompanies most sprinters,
especially when they have had to watch and hear the blistering times of so many
others in the previous nine heats. Fortunately, the 200m is a race that
involves very simple strategy: run fast;
then keep on running fast until you have to stop. Being out in the last lane,
however, is a bit daunting for even the elite runners in our sport. You are the target for everyone else, while
you, on the other hand, have no one to use as a gauge of where you are in the
race. That aside, Tricia pushed herself around what was an inordinately long
turn to finish in 30.1, slightly faster than her opening 200 in our season
opener (Longstreth) last year. Once
again, her performance affords an optimistic lens through which to prepare for
the competitive outdoor season this year.
In
sum, I could not be prouder of these ladies – surely for the great sacrifice of
time and the eagerness to enter this meet, but most importantly for their
overall sacrifice of time this winter to put in the sweat and work in hopes of
entering our season with a sharper edge. Their results at this meet give ample
validation to their hard work, and I hope that it fills them with as much
excitement and optimism for our season that it does me. They, in particular, and we, as a team, are
all the better for their efforts; and for that, they deserve a very hearty
Thank-you from all of us.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Vaulters!
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| Pole Vaulting Squad |
Juniors Daniela Sullinger and Ana White hope to bring to their debut with the track team all the new knowledge and experience they earned at the recent Slippery Rock University camp for beginning vaulters. They were joined by senior Alex Balli, new vault coach, Mr. Adam Yankay, and WRA alum, Anthony Boerio.
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