Teshika Rivers takes the baton in first for Eleanor Roosevelt in the 4x1600.
(Photo by Ted Plunkett)
The Eleanor Roosevelt girls of Greenbelt, Maryland put on quite a show at the Carolyn Legard Relays held at Westfield High School. They nearly won every relay event possible and did so by wide margins of victory posting impressive early season times on a cold late March day. The ER girls took the 4x100 (48.54), 4x200 (1:41.36), 4x400 (3:54.56), 4x1600 (21:36.69), and DMR (12:37.39) to help them win the team title at Legard Relays quite easily with 80 points.
A sweep of the team titles by Eleanor Roosevelt was denied by the Battlefield boys as the school from Haymarket finished the meet with 78 points. A first place in the 4x800 meter relay (8:22.16) and Nike All-American Rex Parker finishing as the top individual performer in both the long jump (20'8.50") and triple jump (43'9") were the top events for the Battlefield team.
South Lakes boys out in front in the 4x200.
(Photo by Ted Plunkett)
South Lakes had another great weekend led by Nicholas Vaughn as the Seahawks swept the varsity sprint relay races with winning times of 43.50 in the 4x100, 1:31.14 in the 4x200, and a state leading performance of 3:22.14 in the 4x400. South Lakes also had a 1-2 finish in the high jump from AJ Price (6'2") and Mike Harrell (5'10") as the team just came up short of moving ahead of the Eleanor Roosevelt boys (53 points) in the final team standings with 52 points for second place overall.
Not an ideal weather day for the jumps, but NSIC national long jump runner-up Tynita Butts was still able to put out a mark over 18 feet in the long jump at 18'1.50", while also leaping to a meet best mark in the triple jump as well at 33'9". Her teammate Frank Afriyie had just as good of a day in the boys' throwing events with the best marks in both the shot put (47'5.75") and discus (140'9").
West Potomac sophomore Kelsey Rosenberg won the 9th/10th grade girls 1600 meter race in 5:24.10. The West Potomac girls had another first place finish earlier in the meet in the 4x800 meter relay to win one of the few relays without a first placing team from Eleanor Roosevelt in a time of 10:15.79.