New Balance Nationals
This year 13 of our athletes attended New Balance Nationals Outdoor — an extremely difficult meet to qualify for. Huge congratulations to Grace Love for placing 4th in the middle school 800 and becoming an NBN All-American with a time of 2:13.06.
NBN Qualifiers:
Patricio Pardo – 1 mile, 2 mile
Grace Love – 1 mile, 800
Emma Pham – 1 mile, 2 mile
Zara Williams – 1 mile, 2 mile, 800
Morgan Byford – 2 mile
William Byford – 2 mile
Cavan Kootman – 2 mile
McKenna Coffman – 2 mile
Rafaella Friedman – 2 mile, 800
Ophelia Lindstrom – 2 mile
Xander Vertriest – 800
Clara Aschenbach – 800
Talia Kirsch – 800
USATF JO Qualifier
Patricio Pardo ran at the USATF Region 3 Junior Olympic Championship and qualifed for the USATF National Junior Olympics in all three of his events, winning the 1500m and 3K. He also PRed in the 1500 with an incredible time of 4:24.02!
Qualifiers for AAU JOs
Congratulations to our AAU Junior Olympics qualifiers who placed top 6 in their event at Regionals:
Sawyer Cross (8U girl) – 5th 1500
Augustine Lindstrom (8U boy) – 3rd 1500
Kamari White (11yo boy) – 5th 800, 5th 1500
Ophelia Lindstrom (12yo girl) – 2nd 1500, 1st 3k
Nora McIver (12yo girl) – 3rd 1500
Nina McIver (12yo girl) – 5th 1500
Anay Sood (13yo boy) – 2nd 800, 2nd 1500, 1st 3k
Benjamin Kaplan (13yo boy) – 6th 800
Graham Wilson (13yo boy) – 3rd 1500, 2nd 3k
Patricio Pardo (14yo boy) – 1st 800, 2nd 1500
Rafael Azevedo (14yo boy) – 2nd 800, 3rd 1500
William Byford (14yo boy) – 4th 800
Emiliano Dracoulis (14yo boy) – 6th 1500, 2nd 3k
Jaylen Shah (15-16yo boy) – 4th 1500, 4th 3k
AAU National Club Championships
A few of our athletes traveled to Jacksonville, FL to compete at AAU National Club Championships. The following placed top 8 in their event to receive medals and All-American patches and also qualify for AAU Junior Olympics. Congratulations to all who competed and especially Zara Williams, who medaled in all 3 of her events including taking Gold in the 3k.
Zara Williams (13yo girl) 1st 3k, 3rd 1500, 4th 800
McKenna Coffman (13yo girl) 3rd 3k, 6th 1500
Graham Wilson (13yo boy) 6th 3k
Continuing their Summer Season
A few of our qualifiers have elected to extend their summer season and compete at USATF or AAU Junior Olympics. We wish them the best of luck and will update this post in a couple of weeks.