Masai Russell of Bullis School took bronze at PanAm Junior Championships in Peru -
57.55 400m Hurdles! Photo by Sharon Russell
Bullis Swept Girls 4x100, 4x200, and 4x400 Relays at NB Nationals -
MoCo Notes
All-American Honors: Poolesville's Ryan Lockett | Bullis's Ashley Seymour
Seymour is All-Time MoCo 100m Record Holder: 11.48 (0.8w)
400m Freshman National Champions: Bullis's Ashton Allen (47.62) | Shaniya Hall (54.33)
21 individuals and relays from Montgomery County won state titles
Boys 100m 4A Raynard Bell John F. Kennedy 10.79
Boys 200m 4A Mayen McClain Springbrook 21.81
Boys 1600m 3A Ryan Lockett Poolesville 4:23.70
Boys 3200m 3A Ryan Lockett Poolesville 9:24.62
Boys 3200m 4A Rohann Asfaw Richard Montgomery 9:24.26
Boys High Jump 4A Divinus Muteba Northwest 6-04.00
Boys Shot Put 3A Jabari Bennett James H. Blake 56-01.00
Boys 4x100m 4A Springbrook 43.39
Boys 4x200m 4A Northwest 1:28.87
Boys 4x400m 4A Springbrook 3:20.99
Boys 4x800m 4A Northwest 8:01.64
Girls 800m 4A Morgan Casey Montgomery Blair 2:16.22
Girls 3200m 3A Nandini Satsangi Poolesville 11:07.01
Girls 3200m 4A Abigail Green Walter Johnson 10:45.66
Girls 100m HH 4A Eddita Pessima Northwest 14.41
Girls 300m IH 4A Eddita Pessima Northwest 44.38
Girls High Jump 4A Taylor Wright Northwest 5-04.00
Girls Discus 4A Xanthi Limber Clarksburg 114-02
Girls 4x200m 3A James H. Blake 1:42.52
Girls 4x400m 3A James H. Blake 3:58.09
Girls 4x800m 3A Damascus 9:31.05
WCAC Championship Recap Darnell Pratt's Grueling, Record-Breaking
Day Led Falcons: 10.81/21.39/47.78 + All-Time MoCo Record 1:26.63 4x200
Draper Invitational: Masai Russell is all-time greatest 300-meter hurdler from MoCo by a lot: 42.15 Darnell Pratt 48.15 400m, best by MoCo and GC athlete
since 2010 Anthony Diruji of St. Andrew's Episcopal 49-01.50 Triple Jump, Best in MoCo since 1998
Check out Mocorunning's DCC Leaderboards after the 2017 DCC Championship: Boys, Girls
Penn Relays Highlights: Bullis set all-time Montgomery County records in the boys 4x400 (3:13.24) and girls 4x100 (45.31). Ryan Lockett of Poolesville and
Rohann Asfaw of RM finished second and third in the 3k in fastest times by MoCo boys at Penn since 1984.
Renaldo Smith's hot start to the outdoor season makes him a Penn Relays hopeful:
Mocorunning Story
The Jamaican-born Sherwood athlete wants nothing more than to jump
against the world's best prep athletes at the prestigious Philadelphia meet. His 47-02.50 mark to start the outdoor campaign might get him there, but it has
been a winding road he traveled.
Ray Boss, father, husband,
and track official, passed away on Monday, February 13, 2017, as a result of a heart attack.
Arrangements will be held at: Derwood Alliance Church,
16501 Redland Road, as follows:
Visitation: Sunday, February 19 - 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Memorial Service: Monday, February 20 - 11:00 a.m.
The outpouring of support for this tribute was incredible. It was a testament to Ray's character
and impact on the Montgomery County track & field communitiy.
Alexis Postell is competing at the highest level this season.
She has run under 8.20 in the 55-meter hurdles in three meets so far this season and most recently set a personal best time of 8.12 at the Private School
Invitational at Georgetown Prep. The time ranks #5 all-time by a Montgomery County athlete, but she is not done yet. The Bullis senior has witnessed the
evolution of the nationally renowned track program ever since its early stages when the school's first ISL track title was still a dream. The school's track
success has afforded Postell and her teammates the opportunity to travel and see many different regions of the country along the way. Mocorunning explores her
experience in this interview.
Eric Allen broke Montgomery County All-Time Record in 300m Dash (34.13) - Mocorunning
Notes
Rohann Asfaw Qualified for NXN, Abigail Green Qualified for Footlocker Nationals Maryland Girls Topped Team Scoring at
Footlocker Northeast Regional: Mocorunning Thoughts
Ode to Tom Arnold - Retirement Tribute Written by Former OLGC Athletes
Jewish Day School Boys Won Third Straight PVAC Title
Lockett Flipped the Script at 3A West
Reversing the outcome from the Urbana
Invitational five weeks ago, Poolesville's Ryan Lockett won the 3A West Regional at Urbana, breaking Micah Hewitson's course record in convincing fashion.
Lockett has seemingly grown exponentially stronger in every race. Photo by Craig Amoss
6-time track/xc county champ Rohann Asfaw announced his committment to UVA via twitter
Abigail Green of Walter Johnson set Montgomery County record 14:21 at Manhattan Invitational. Sally Glynn ran 14:28 at Manhattan in 1994, the year that she
finished second at Footlocker Nationals and qualified for world junior XC championships.
Meet Nearly Tripled in Size in Second Running The Heights School won Boys Title, Damascus won Girls Title Heather Delaplaine of Damascus Won Girls
Varsity by over 1:00
*Seneca Valley won girls division IV on fewest points tiebreaker. In the event of a tie, the team that has defeated the other team(s) with which it is tied will be the champion.
If there is still a tie, then the tie will be broken by the lowest combined points scored in division meets.
If a tie still remains, the largest combined margin of victory among the teams that are tied will be used.
Poolesville's Nandini Satsangi notched her first major invitational victory with a time of 19:03. Ryan
Lockett finished second in 16:30. Mud and rain were factors.
Landon experienced a spike
in participation in the 13th rendition of its signature home invitational. Cady Hyde of St. John's and Wesley Feldman of Landon ran away with Brown Race
individual titles. What's with this "White" and "Brown" stuff anyways? Read Mocorunning's recap.
Gaithersburg High School debuted the new 4A West Regional XC Course on Sept 20 in a quad meet, coincidentally against all 3A schools.
Mocorunning was on site to scope out the new course, take photos, and ask questions.
Richard Montgomery's Rohann Asfaw became just the second Maryland runner to ever win the Varsity 'A' race at the Oatlands
Invitational. Green of Walter Johnson shaved 49 seconds off her time from the same course a year ago. WJ girls, Good Counsel boys were top Maryland
teams.
Walter Johnson's
Abigail Green debuted junior season with 17:54.7 5k (a 2:05 margin of victory). Rohann Asfaw of Richard Montgomery won the boys large school race in 16:10.
Northwest boys and Wootton girls won team titles
The race had no official scores and no
official timing. I can only report the winning boys and girls times: Jimmy Vazzana of Good Counsel was the first male finisher in 17:20 while Claudia Wendt of
Good Counsel was the first female finisher in 20:54.
"We definitely want to win states," said senior Zoe Nuechterlein. "That's our main focus...everything is with that end goal in mind at the end of the
season."
Believe it or not,
Walter Johnson won four consecutive cross country state titles twice before in school history. The girls team did it from 1996 to 1999 and the boys team did
it from 2008 to 2011. Head coach Tom Martin said that it is too early to tell exactly what they have, but a fourth consecutive state title could potentially
be in the cards.
"We are all as one," continued
Quansah. "There is no such thing as 'oh, he's not from Africa or he was born somewhere else.' I bought the shirts so that we could all be one. It doesn't
matter. We are all a team and we all have the same goals and we're trying to go for the state title."
