Indoor 3200m Record Goes Down!!

Proviso West Invite

A bigger, faster, stronger, congratulations to the boys track and field team on their performances at the Proviso West Invite this weekend!

Varsity

Some of the outstanding performances at the varsity level were highlighted by Ryan Zemel’s 3^rd place finish in the 600 meter, Tony Zea’s 2^nd place finish in the 800 meter, Ben Eaton’s 3^rd place finish in the 2 mile and Zack Smith’s 1^st place finish in the 2 mile.  Ben Eaton covered the 2 mile distance in 9 minutes and 23 seconds, while Zack Smith finished in 9 minutes and 19 seconds, both times broke the previous indoor school record and are currently national elite times that place Zack #28 and Ben #43 among 3200 meter times in the nation.   

F/S

Some of the highlight performances at the F/S level included the 4x200m relay composed of Brendan Dingle, Sean Economou, Romeo Jones, and Jack McGinnis that placed 5^th with a time of 1:43.44.  In addition, the 4x800m relay team had a 4^th place finish with a time of 9:07.29.  Zac Christensen lead of this relay with  a very solid 2:10 and Ryan Clevenger, Dillon Murphy, and Jack McGinnis were able to get the baton around to complete a F/S seasonal PR.  Another scorer at the F/S level included Alex Graika in Shot Put, he putted 38-10.

Great job this weekend men, keep up the hard work!