Week of March 13th This week brought the end of the indoor season and our 5th track meet. After riding off the excitement from Saturday’s win at the Morton Invite, the goal was to keep that motivation going. The girls had a great week of practice, and everything came together perfectly.
Saturday morning, on a very cold March day we headed to Proviso West high school. These girls were getting to experience a 200m track for the first time. After the excitement of being in that very large fieldhouse, warm ups started, field events got underway, and then the National Anthem signaled the start of the Running Finals. Everyone ran, jumped, and threw amazing and all their hard work paid off.
On the Varsity level we placed 2nd behind Downers Grove South and our F/S team placed 6th. With most of our freshman and sophomore runners running up on the varsity level, and only 7 athletes competing in 8 events our F/S scored 25 points to place 6th. This was AMAZING. On the Varsity level we had 20 athletes competing in 16 events. Many of our girls doubled and even tripled events, some ran or jumped events they haven’t done all season long, and MANY season bests were achieved on Saturday. We are so very proud of all the hard work these girls did over the past 9 weeks. Now our bodies get a little break and then we hope Mother Nature is on our side as we start to compete in our outdoor season.
Week of March 6th Things came together perfectly this week. Our team has a lot to celebrate this week. Practices and workouts were great. The girls had a much needed week off from competing last week due to unforeseen circumstances, and it worked out great for their legs. Workouts went great, more PR’s were set and the entire coaching staff was excited about competing at the Morton Invite on Saturday. We had a strong feeling that if everything came together on Saturday, we could win the 8 team invitational. The encouragement and motivation worked. The girls trusted the process and competed tough and we WON the meet on the Varsity level and placed 3rd on the JV level.
We have a very young team and most of our Freshman and Sophomores ran up a level on Varsity which meant we had many openings on the JV level, taking 3rd on JV was amazing.
Our Varsity athletes had an amazing day too. We opened the day with Amerie Flowers placing 1st in the shot put, Anya Patel placing 2nd in the pole vault, Emilija S. placing 1st in LJ / 3rd in TJ / and 4th in HJ. And that momentum carried us forward with our many personal bests and top 3 places in our running events. Many of our top places on Saturday were from girls who were competing for the first time this year in those events.. That just goes to show you how strong and competitive these young ladies are. All of us coaches are so very proud.
When we returned to school, we checked the awards from years past and noticed that the last time Hinsdale South won the meet at Morton was in 2017, and the last time Hinsdale South won an invite was in 2019 at York Indoors. So today is special!!! Congratulations goes to everyone, all our athletes, my assistant coaches, and to you our parents. You come to cheer us on through thick and thin, you take care of them each night when they are tired, cranky, and sore. Keep it up!! We need today's momentum to carry us into the conference meet next week Saturday at Proviso.
Week of February 20th This week brought us to week #5 and our 3rd meet of the indoor season. The girls are feeling comfortable with our routines and working hard each and every day. On Friday night we traveled to Glenbard South in the cold and snow, luckily the fieldhouse was perfect. The team placed 2nd behind host Glenbard South. Due to the order of events, we had to get creative on the distance side of things because most of our distance events were all jumbled together since running events began with the 55m dash and the 55m hurdles, but the team persevered. Some top finishers for the night were:
●Pole Vault - Zoe Funk - 2nd place - 6’0” ●Shot Put - Heather Stephens -4th (7.96m) and Faith Conard - 6th (7.36m) ●Triple Jump (1st) / Long Jump (3rd) - Emilijia Sinkevicius (8.87m / 4.03m) ●High Jump - Zoe Funk - 2nd Place - 4’4” ●Freshman Kennedy Ruff - 2nd place 55m HH - 9.66 ●55m Dash - 1st K. Petrovic (7.79) and 3rd S. Drynan (8.06) ●4x800m - 1st (11:27) Drabchuck / Old / Esposito / Garcia ●4x160m - 1st (1:31) Drynan / Noblin / Lewen / Petrovic ●1600m Dash - All season bests by ●Charlotte Old - 6:40 - 2nd ●Annabella Ramirez - 6:45 - 3rd ●Andy Esposito - 6:54 - 5th ●4X400m Relays ●1st Place - 4:46 - Amor Shanklin / Emilijia S. / K. Joseph / K. Ruff ●2nd Place - 4:56 - Noblin / Lewis / Drynan / Lewen
Week of February 13th This week was a great week for our girls. We competed in the two level Willowbrook Invitational with eight schools total competing. The Varsity girls finished tied for 3rd out of 8 teams. Highlights from the meet are listed below:
●We had 12 individual bests accomplished and all 3 of our relays had personal bests. It was a great meet for our young team. ●3rd place in our 4x800 (Petersen, Old, Schulte, Garcia) ●Our freshman had a stellar meet. Fr. S. Drynan -2nd 55m Dash 7.67 and a member of our 1st place 4x160 relay (1.33.3) ●Fr. Janelle Lewis placed 1st in the JV 300 (48.65) and 1st in the 400 (1:11.2) and took 2nd in the long jump (4.52m) ●Senior Abby Petersen placed 2nd dropping 12 seconds from last week to run a 5:57 in the 1600m
Week of February 6th The week started as our 3rd official week of practice and our —first meet in the books. We headed to Addison Trail for a Quad meet against Addison Trail, Fenton, and Trinity. We have a very young team, and still have athletes that have not been able to join yet due to finishing up their winter seasons. With injuries, illness, and the ACT keeping us from running our full team it was a great day. Many things to be proud of and even more good things to come. Highlights are below: ●4x800m relay - 1st Place - Petersen, Schulte, Ramirez, Garcia) 11:31.9 ●55mHH - Z. Funk 3rd (11.45) and E. Koelling - 6th (11.99) ●55m Dash 1st place Petrovic - 7.81 2nd place Drynan- 7.83 Tie for 4th- Linkowski-Leadingham and Palmer 8.25 6th Lewen 8.27 ●1600m Run - 3rd Place Petersen 6:09 7th- Schulte 6:40 ●Shot Put H. Stephens 3rd place - 8.58m ●High Jump Z. Funk 4th - 1.30 ●Triple Jump Z. Funk - 3rd 8.15m