JOHNS CREEK, Ga. - The Mount Vernon Varsity Track and Field teams were in action on Wednesday afternoon, April 6, competing at the Mount Pisgah Meet at the Patriot Athletic Campus.
Below is quick recap of the events.
The Boys 4x100m relay consisting of Ben Spitz, Nagari Tophia, Christopher Kartsonas & Aidan Ray made their season debut and opened with a 1A-D1 leading time of 43.16, placing them as current favorites for the State Title.
Tophia blazed to a no.1 ranking in 1A-D1 in both the 100m and 200m with a Georgia Top 25 time of 10.78 in the 100m and 22.34 in the 200m.
Kartsonas had a personal best Long Jump mark of over 21 feet that puts him up to no. 3 in 1A-D1
Colin Maher excited the crowd with a phenomenal race in the boys 1600m to sprint to a first place overall finish.
Maher defeated the current no. 2 ranked 1600m runner in the classification.
Haris Flynn also turned in a personal best in the boys 800m, finishing first overall.
Flynn is now the fourth ranked 800m runner in 1A-D1.
Kennedy Reynolds again showed why she is a Champion by placing first overall in the Girls 100m hurdles and first in the Girls 400m with a new personal best time of 59.39.
Reynolds also powered the Girls 4x400m relay to a Top 3 finish overall.
"There were so many PRs achieved," Head Coach Syemour Adlam said. "This was a fantastic meet which served notice that we will be one of the teams to beat when the Championship series begins later this month."
Other PR's and Ranks include:
-Frankie Whelan - Girls 3200m
-Tess Freyaldenhoven - Girls 3200m, Girls 1600m
-Boys 4x100m Relay-(Spitz, Tophia, Kartsonas, Ray) - 1st overall (#1 Ranking 1A-D1)
-Colin Maher - Boys 1600m - 1st overall
-Curran Jolly - Boys 1600m
-Josh Cagwin - Boys 1600m
-Brayden Ebert - Boys 1600m
-Burak Inel - Boys 1600m
-Kennedy Reynolds - Girls 400m - 1st overall
-Gracie Urban - Girls 400m
-Elle Crawford- Girls 400m, Girls 100m
-Christopher Kartsonas - Boys 400m - 2nd overall; Boys Long Jump - 2nd overall (#3 Ranked 1A-D1)
-Aidan Ray - Boys Long Jump - 4th overall
-Haris Flynn - Boys 400m - 3rd overall; Boys 800m - 1st overall (#4 Ranked 1A-D1) ) GA Top 50
-Benjamin Spitz - Boys 400m
-Julia Escobar Gonzalez - Girls 100m
-Eliza Dunalp - Girls 100m
-Nagari Tophia - Boys 100m 1st overall (#1 ranked 1A-D1) GA Top 25; Boys 200m - 1st overall (#1 ranked 1A-D1)
-Lawson Neff - Boys 100m, Boys Long Jump
-Meredith Dunlap - Girls 200m
-Eliza Dunlap - Girls 200m
-Lauren Dove-Girls Discus, Girls Shot Put - 2nd overall
-Retta Duckett - Girls Discus, Girls Shot Put - 3rd overall
-Annabelle Goodson - Girls Discus, Girls Shot Put
-Mary Morgan Walker - Girls Discus, Girls Shot Put - 4th overall
-Max Moore - Boys Discus - 5th overall
-Jack Blitch - Boys Discus
-Connor Ziegler - Boys Discus, Boys Shot Put
Sebe Calvo - Boys Discus, Boys Shot Put
-Gibbs Pope - Boys Discus
-Alex Greco - Boys Shot Put
The Mustangs are back in action after a couple of weeks off at the Region 6-1A DI Meet hosted by Atlanta International School.
A time will be announced in the coming weeks.
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