This was a busy week for the Hornets. On Wednesday we hosted our final indoor track meet of the season and hosted Andrew, Marist and Oak Forest. It was a good meet for us to allow us to run some more girls in events that we normally do not get a chance to, especially with a two level meet coming up and Conference in a week. Since our home meets are hand timed - it is hard to identify PR’s at our meets - but the season results document has everything listed.
Then on Saturday we traveled to Morton West for the seven team Varsity/JV Invite. The team did great. We ended the day with 21 individual PR’s and 3 Relay PR’s AND both levels (Varsity and JV) were CHAMPIONS! In the six years that I have been coaching and attending this meet we have never brought home TWO plaques - it was a very exciting day for the team. The most exciting part for us coaches was seeing the team come together as a family - cheering and motivating each other, getting each other together at the right moment to warm up and prepare for their events. Their hard work and dedication paid off. It was a great day! Some highlights are listed below:
Field Events: (* = PR) ●High Jump ○A. Hardy - 1st Place Varsity - 1.52 ○K. Spruill - 1st Place JV - 1.37* ●Long Jump ○J. Pokusa - 1st JV - 4.06 / S Pahomovs - 2nd JV - 3.70 ○R. Tolentino - 4.65* - 4th Varsity / S. Herbert - 4.53 - 5th ●Pole Vault - Emma Glashin - 2nd - Varsity - 2.59*
Running Events: (* = PR) ●4x800m Relay - 3rd - 11:20* (Frankel - Pendon - Herbert - Koehler) ●300m Dash ○Varsity - K. Ruff - 1st - 41.66* ○JV - J. Pokusa - 51.09* ●3200m Run - A. Koepfle - 13:31 - 1st Place ●55mH ○Varsity - K. Ruff - 8.65* - 1st / E. Glashin - 9.71* - 3rd ○JV - S. Aydoner - 11.15* - 2nd ●55mDash ○Varsity - J. Lewis - 7.52* - 1st / M. Womack - 7.73* - 3rd ○JV - J. Johnson - 8.24* - 1st / Te. Jones - 8.49 - 2nd ●4x160m Relays Both Levels 1st Place ○V - 1:31.06 (Lewis-Womack-Hardy-Satterfield) ○JV- 1:37.26 (Jones-Johnson-Spruill-Fnu) ●400m Dash ○Varsity - K. Ruff - 1:01 - 1st / S. Herbert - 1:05* - 4th ●1600m Run ○Varsity - E. Koehler 6:27* - 5th ○JV - R. Wirth - 7:29 - 5th ●200m Dash ○Varsity - J. Lewis - 27.40* - 1st / Womack - 28.54 - 2nd ○JV - Johnson - 31.09* - 2nd / Te. Jones - 31.42 - 3rd ●1600m Relay Teams - Both Levels 3rd Place ○Varsity - 4:58* (Frankel -Pendon-Hilsen-Glashin)
Week of March 2nd
This week was a busy week for our team, Wednesday night was a small triangular meet - this gave us the opportunity to run / jump athletes in multiple events and get FAT times on girls. Which also allowed girls to see how they have been improving since January. All their hard work is paying off. During our invites we are usually limited to the number of entries, so a meet like this is really nice for everyone. The team placed first out of the three teams. Thursday night was great - a new meet for us, a 200 meter track, and new competition. A 200m track means 60m dash and 60mH and our girls adjusted well. The highlight of the night was our winning 4x400m relay team. It was an exciting end to the meet.The team placed 3rd and missed 2nd place by one point. Some other highlights are listed below:
Reavis Invite - 5 Individual PR’s ● Senior Kennedy Ruff - 1st Place 60m Hurdles - 9.17 ○ 1st Place - 400m Dash - 58.8 ● Senior Janelle Lewis - 2nd Place 60m Dash - 8.24 ● Freshman - April Hardy - 3rd - 200m Dash - 29.04 ○ 3rd - High Jump - 1.42m ● Freshman - Sky Herbert - 4th 60m Dash - 8.39 ● Sophomore Alysia Lu - 5th Shot Put - 9.60m
Week of February 16th
Our trip to Willowbrook turned out to be a very great day. As I said to the team before we got off the bus on our return to Hinsdale South, I am so very proud of our small and mighty team. We were definitely one of the smaller schools in the 11 team invitational and due to illnesses and some athletes still not able to return from injury, we did not have a full line up on either level. This team never let that slow them down and it showed in the final result. On the varsity side we tied for 2nd place and on JV we placed 7th. Overall we had 11 PR's for the day as well. On the Varsity side we had 2 first place finishes, 3 second place finishes, 2 third place finishes, and 1 fourth place finish.
On the JV side we had 1 second place finish, and 2 fourth place finishes.
Some individual highlights are below:
● Senior Kennedy Ruff - 2nd place in 55mH with an 8.84 and new Illinois #3 ○Also 1st in 300m Dash - 42.02 ○1st in 400m Dash - 1:01.07 ● Senior Janelle Lewis - 2nd in 55m Dash - 7.67 ○5th in 200m Dash - 28.29 ● Freshman Sky Herbert - 3rd in 55m Dash - 7.79 ○4th in 400m Dash - 1;06.2 ○2nd in LJ - 4.78m ● 4x160m Relay Team Placed 3rd ○(J. Lewis - M. Womack - A. Hardy - K. Spruill) ● Freshman Safia Aydoner placed 4th in JV 55mH - 11.58 ● Sophomore Jessica Pokusa placed 2nd in LJ - with a PR jump of 4.03m
Week of February 9th
This week the team traveled to Addison Trail to compete against Addison Trail, Fenton, and Trinity. The Hornets placed 1st over Fenton 68 to 64. We saw some really nice improvements over our home meet from Saturday and it was our first chance at FAT timing and learning how to "check in" with hip numbers. Overall, it was a great day. Some highlights are below: The Hornets had: 6 - 1st place finishers 4 - 2nd place finishers 3 - 3rd place finishers 6 - Field event PR's 2 - Running Event PR's (which is hard to do when our first meet was hand timed)
Some outstanding achievements were: ● Senior Kennedy Ruff - 1st place in 55m Hurdles, 300m Dash, and 200m Dash ● Senior Audrey Koepfle 1st in 3200m Run and 2nd in 1600m Run ● Senior Janelle Lewis 1st in 55m Dash and 3rd in 200m Dash ● Hinsdale South 1st, 2nd, 3rd in 55m Dash ○Janelle Lewis, Fr. Mimi Womack, Fr. Rachel Tolentino ● Shot Put (1st and 2nd Place) ○Abi Rios-Tejeda and Zaga Golubovic
Week of February 2nd
We had a great week of practice which ended with our first home meet on Saturday, February 7th. It was a GREAT day. We began our season on January 20th with our largest group of freshmen - 18 athletes. Which means that our first home meet was a learning experience. We competed against Andrew, Benet, and St. Francis, and the Hornets placed 2nd overall. There were some nice surprises especially from our very young group of athletes. We are really looking forward to seeing how this team improves in the coming weeks. Some highlights are listed below:
● 4x800m Relay - 2nd Place (Frankel/Wirth/Wang/Herbert) - 12:14 ● 55mH - K. Ruff (1st Place) - 8.63 ○S. Aydoner - (3rd Place) - 11:00 ● 55m Dash ○J. Lewis - (2nd) - 7.47 ○M. Womack (3rd) - 7.53 ○S Herbert / R. Tolentino - (4th) 7.80 ● 4x160m Relay - 1st Place - All Freshman team ○R. Tolentino / M. Womack / S. Aydoner / N. Fnu ● 400m Dash ○K. Ruff - 1:01 - 1st Place ○J. Lewis - 1:07 - 2nd Place ● 1600m Run ○Koepfle - 6:22 ● 200m Dash ○J. Lewis - 1st Place - 29.4 ○O. Luckey - 4th Place - 31.4 ● 1600m Relay - 3rd Place - 5:06 ○J. Pokusa / S. Aydoner / L. Garcia / K. Ruff
● Long Jump ○S. Herbert - 1st Place - 4.46m ● Shot Put ○Z. Golubovic - 8.47m - 2nd Place ○A. Rios-Tejeda - 7.81m - 3rd Place