Sprint to Victory
Senior Day for Girls Track. Tigers win all phases
Story and Photos by Steven Zaitz
The Northport Girls Spring Track Team celebrated Senior Day with a win over Copiague. Let’s just say they ran away with it.
Senior Sprinter Olivia Jaworski won 1st place in the 100 Meter with a personal best time of 12.50 She won the 200 as well with a time of 26.4
Mia Wickard won the 1500 meter event with a time of 4:48.0 and Maggie Taylor took 1st place in the 3000 meter at 12:03.6
Senior Lianna Greenstein was first 1st in the Triple Jump with a leap of 33 1/2 and also won the long jump at 14-5 while senior Grace Wertheimer won gold in the both the 100m and 400m hurdles.
The throwers, led by senior Kelly Kropp, took 14 out of a 18 points.
“It felt really good to get a personal best on senior day,” said Jaworski, who’s hair was shaded somewhere between cyan and powder blue for this meet. “I’m hoping this performance will allow me to get a better seed time for divisions.”
The Lady Tigers have an invitational meet on Friday May 13th against West Babylon and then will have a contingent of girls competing at Divisional Finals at Connetquot on May 24th. The New York State qualifying meet will at Comsewogue High School on June 2nd and 3rd.
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