High School Girls 4×400 Championship
After two straight victories by Eleanor Roosevelt of Maryland, we have a new champion. Holmwood Tech and Manchester dueled the whole way, but they forgot about Edwin Allen, whose anchor, Ristanna Tracey came on strong and passed her fellow Jamaicans less than 50 meters from the line for a 3:41.25 victory. Edwin Allen wins the [...]
2009 High School Individual Distance
We have two individual events tonight before out high school girls 4×400 championship, the mile and the 3000m. Jeremy Rae of Lakeshore (Ontario Canada) has opened up a very large lead at one lap, with an approximate half-mile split of 2:04. At three laps, Rae still leads, but the field is definitely stalking the leader. [...]
High School Boys Distance Medley Championship
Joe Rosa of West Windsor Plainsboro North leads after the first exchange (3:07.4), with Cardinal O’Hara and Don Bosco close behind. WWPN held the lead after the 400, but Upper Dublin’s Paul Reilly moved to the front with a little less than a lap to go on the 800 leg. WWPN’s Tyler Corkedale was having [...]
Boys High School Shot Put: Vena Sets Penn Record
Nicholas Vena of Morristown, NJ, absolutely destroyed the Penn Relays record in the boys high school shot put. Vena got the ball out 72 feet, 2-1/2 inches (22.01 meters), almost five feet better than the old mark, set in 1985 by J.J. Grant of Liverpool, NY (67-3/20.50). Full results are here.
High School Girls Championship 4×100
It is time for our championship heat, with 7 Jamaican schools and 2 schools from the US. However, Eleanor Roosevelt (MD) does have the fastest qualifying time. We had a fantastic finish, with Vere Tech (JAM) on the outside winning in 45.10, Eleanor Roosevelt (MD) in 2nd place in 45.24. It was a very close [...]
2009 High School 4×100, Large & Small School Heats
As a preliminary to our High School Championship 4×100 for girls, we have two other heats for fast 4×100 teams. These heats are the next fastest teams beyond the Top 8, divided into size of school. Our large school winner is Rancho Verde from California in 46.72, with Withrow (OH) in 46.86 for 2nd place. [...]
Qualifer Alert: High School Boys 4×100 Championship
The qualifers for the high school boys 4×100 championship are posted here. Calabar had the fastest time in Friday’s heats, 41.18. The race is scheduled for Saturday at 1:35 pm.
High School 4×800 Girls Championship
Our first championship of the day, the High School Girls 4×800, is on the track. There are a number of Jamaican teams that have run very fast times in this race, even if the qualifying times from yesterday’s cold start do not reflect it. Manchester (JA) leads after one exchange in 2:14, with Edwin Allen [...]
High School Girls Discus: Halvorson Sets Record
Aslynn Halvorson of Butler HS (Matthews, NC) broke the Penn Relays record in the high school girls discus this morning. Halvorson threw 161 feet, 8 inches (49.28 meters) to break the 160-5 (48.90) mark of Linda Grigoriev (Atholton HS, Columbia, MD), set in 2003. Halvorson finished second at last year’s Relays. Event results are here.
High School Boys 4×100 Heats
For the next two hours we’ve got heats of the high school boys 4×100. Top 8 times advance to Saturday’s championship. Jamaica’s Camperdown clocks 42.18 in the seventh heat to set the early standard. William Knibb — Usain Bolt’s alma mater — clocks in at 42.02 to win heat 12. And now we have our [...]
High School Boys 4×800 Splits
Our top splits of the day from the 4×800 this morning . . . this lists all of the boys under 1:56. 1 – T. Livingston, Great Neck South (NY) 1:53.4, 2 – L. Tansey, Morris Hills (NJ) 1:53.7, 3 – M. Gonzalez, Lawrenceville (NJ) 1:54.4, 4 – X. Fraction, Washington Township (NJ) 1:54.5, 5 [...]
Qualifier Alert: High School Boys 4×800 Championship
The qualifiers for the high school boys 4×800 championship are now posted here. Morris Hills HS (NJ) had the fastest time in this morning’s heats: 7:47.13. The championship final is scheduled for 3:50 pm Saturday.
High School Boys 4×800 Heats
Our first relay of the day is the high school boys 4×800. We’ll have 4 heats, taking the Top 12 to the finals tomorrow. Heat 1: 2nd exchange, Bellefield Comprehensive (JA) followed by Lawrenceville (NJ). Bellefield leads by about 40 meters. Great Neck South (NY) makes a great move to take the lead at the [...]
High School Girls Mile Run
Chelsey Sveinsson of Greenhill School (Addison, Texas) blew the field away, opening up a huge lead early and never looking back. She clocked 4:46.85, good for #5 all-time at Penn. (Sveinsson’s own 4:43.51, which she ran for third place last year, is the #4 time.) That’s the fastest time by a high school girl this [...]
High School Girls DMR Championship
Our first high school relay championship on the track is the girls’ DMR. The record, 11:40 by Vere Tech of Jamaica, is from 1992. At the first exchange, we have two teams – Monroe-Woodbury (NY) and Tatnall (DE), unofficially in 3:31. Tatnall opens up a lead on the 400 with a 57.5 split. Shenendehowa (NY) [...]
Qualifier Alert: High School Girls 4×400 Championship
Qualifiers for the high school girls 4×400 Championship are now posted here. The race will be held Friday at 6:15 pm.
High School Girls 4×400 Heats
For the next 4 hours leading up to our first college championship, we have high school 4×400′s. As the times drift under 4:00 and the 3:55, we’ll post them here. Update at 3:15 . . . we’ve had 20 heats, but none under 4:00 yet . . . . faster times are ahead. The temps [...]
Qualifier Alert: HS Girls 4×100 Championship
The qualifiers for the high school girls championship, plus the large schools, small schools and tri-state finals, can be found here. The championship is scheduled for Friday at 2:42 pm.
Qualifier Alert: HS Girls 4×800 Championship
The qualifiers for Friday’s High School Girls 4×800 Championship are now available. Click here for the start list. The race goes off at 1 pm Friday.
High School Girls 4×100 heats
And we’re off for the next 2 hours with high school girls 4×100 qualifying races. Edwin Allen (JAM) wins first heat in 47.00. They won the last two Penn titles, both sub-45.00. That’s how you know it’s cold! Deep Creek of Chesapeake, VA, and Camperdown of Jamaica came in sub-49 to win the next two [...]
High School Girls 4×800 Trials
Our first relay of the day, as always, is the HS girls 4×800. We will have four heats – two for small schools and two for large schools. The top times will go to tomorrow’s final. Heat 1 – Kimberly Brown of Manchester JA has opened up a lead after one leg in about 2:19. [...]
High School 400 Hurdles
We have a very strong field today in the high school hurdles, including the US leader and the Jamaican leader. Nikita Tracey of Edwin Allen (Jamaica) has won in 57.44 – she was the Jamaican national HS champion earlier this year. For the cold weather, that is an excellent time — equaling the No. 2 [...]
High School Boys' Athlete of the Meet
Alwayne Green of Manchester (Jam.) has been named as the High School Boys’ Athlete of the Meet in Relay Events after leading his team to victory in the 4x800m relay with a come-from-behind final carry. His 1:53.0 split capped Manchester’s time of 7:43.22.
High School Boys 4×400 Championship
After the two Philadelphia Area heats, we have perhaps the acoustic climax of the meet, the always raucous High School Boys 4×400. Last year, as Long Beach Poly (CA) broke 3:10 while holding off St. Jago of Jamaica, the stadium literally started to shake. We have a number of excellent teams for the event this [...]