Photos: Runners Heat Up On The Track, Dutch Send 12 To States
On Saturday, Feb. 10, Guilderland, Berne-Knox-Westerlo, and Voorheesville indoor track teams battled to qualify for the state competition on March 2 in Staten Island. Guilderland qualified 12 for the state competition.
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Punching the air: Guilderland’s Jeanne Lu leaps up in her first attempt at the current height in the height jump event. Lu finished in 15th with a height of 4 feet, 6 inches.
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Skimming: Bulldogs’ Ella Roether soars through the air as she clears the bar. Roether finished in 11th with a height of 4 feet, 8 inches.
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Pushing off: Guilderland’s Aliyah Famodu shoves her pole away as she soars over the bar in the pole vault. Famodu finished in fourth with a height of 9 feet, 6 inches.
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State size bend: Guilderland’s Avery Kerr leaps up to soar and clear the bar. Kerr finished in third with a height of 5 feet even qualifying for states.
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Locked in: Guilderland’s Ashon Oliver kicks his right leg to clear the hurdle in the semifinal heat. Oliver finished 11th overall with a time of 8.87 seconds.
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Angry bird: Blackbirds’ Gus Dawson-Beilby battles a Shaker runner during their 55-meter dash semifinal. Dawson-Beilby finished 12th overall with a time of 6.97 seconds.
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Pumping his arms: Guilderland’s Octavius Flowers sprints down the track as he battles in the 55-meter dash semifinal. Flowers finished 17th overall with a time of 7.06 seconds.
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Soaring through the air: Guilderland’s Kirsten Barnhart pushes off her last step to fly towards the pit in the triple jump event. Barnhart finished third with a distance of 34 feet, 8.50 inches and qualified for states.
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Coming at ya: Bulldogs’ Katie Stevens comes down the lane at full speed during her 55-meter dash semifinal. Stevens finished 10th overall with a time of 7.76 seconds.
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Teamwork: Guilderland’s Will Smitas (2) and Aakash Iyer (5) battle in a crowd during the 3200-meter run. Smitas finished second with a time of 9:38.50 and Iyer in third with a time of 9:39.90 and both qualified for states.
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Winning kick: Guilderland’s Parker Steele breezes over the final hurdle in the finals of the 55-meter hurdles. Steele won with a time of 8.54 seconds and qualified for States.
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Battled till the end: Guilderland’s Langston Threatte, left, and Bulldogs’ Arlen Wright clear that last hurdle in the finals of the 55-meter hurdles. Threatte finished 6th with a time of 8.69 seconds and Wright finished in 5th with a time of 8.58 seconds.
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Photo finish? Guilderland’s Saida Assabahi battles Niskayuna’s Inara Bradford in the first heat of the 55-meter dash. Assabahi finished 5th with a time of 7.55 seconds.
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Taking on two: Guilderland’s Eryn Tynan battles two Saratoga runners during one of the laps in the 3000-meter run. Tynan finished in 6th with a time of 10:53.17.
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No cutting the corner: Guilderland’s Eryn Tynan (3), Kara Whiteside (6), Rebecca Kleiber (1), and Tara Iyer (7) make the turn during a lap in the 1000-meter run. Tynan finished in 8th with a time of 3:16.94, Whiteside finished 7th with a time of 3:15.96, Kleiber finished 9th with a time of 3:18.16, and Iyer finished 13th with a time of 3:26.08.
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Leaning in the turn: Guilderland’s Alexa Kosier battles other runs in the second heat of the 1000-meters. Kosier finished 6th with a time of 3:14.92.
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Coming off the turn: Bulldogs’ Kole Irwin (3) and Aggelos Lefkaditis (2) speed around the corner as they compete in the 300-meter run. Irwin finished 7th with a time of 38.93 seconds and Lefkaditis finished 17th with a time of 40.57 seconds.
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Friendly battle: Guilderland’s Octavius Flowers (3) races against teammate Jack Gregory (4) as they make their way around the track in the 300-meter run. Flowers finished 4th, and will be part of the intersectional relay team at states, with a time of 37.92 seconds and Gregory finished 11th with a time of 39.85 seconds.
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Head to head: Guilderland’s Evan Hickey sprints down the track in the 300-meter run. Hickey finished 18th with a time of 40.60 seconds.
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In sync: Guilderland’s Trevor Whitney, left, is slightly ahead of his teammate Will Parsons as they compete in the 300-meters. Whitney finished in 8th with a time of 38.97 seconds and Parsons finished in 19th with a time of 40.67 seconds.
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Neck and neck: Guilderland’s Maya Wojcik, left, runs next to her teammate Kendall Barnhart in the 300-meter run. Wojcik finished 14th with a time of 46.70 seconds and Barnhart finished 4th with a time of 42.41 seconds and will be part of the intersectional relay team at states.
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Pacing himself: Guilderland’s Luca Cummings starts to pick up speed as he starts the final lap in the 600-meter run. Cummings finished 9th with a time of 1:31.61.
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Battle at the top: Blackbirds’ Avery Grant attempts to draft off of Scotia-Glenville’s Schuyler Long in the first heat of the 600-meter run. Grant finished 9th overall with a time of 1:45.72.
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Working together: Guilderland’s Addison Vellekoop (1) and Avery Kerr (3) along the inside of the track as they battle Shaker’s Leonni Griffin in the 600-meter run. Vellekoop finished second with a time of 1:40.35, qualifying for states, and Kerr finished 4th with a time of 1:41.93 and will be part of the intersectional relay.
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Good exchange: Guilderland’s Liam Melochoir extends the baton to teammate Aakash Iyer as they compete in the 4 by 800-meter relay. The relay team finished in 5th with a time of 9:02.11.
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Relay battle: Guilderland’s Alexa Kosier, right, looks at teammate Braelyn Cornell as they both have their hands on the baton for the next racer in the 4 by 800-meter relay. The relay team had to battle back and finished second with a time of 9:49.71 and qualified for states.
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Making the turn for home: Blackbirds’ Wiley Dawson-Beilby gets to the outside of the Scotia-Glenville runner in the anchor leg of the 4 by 400-meter relay. The relay team finished in fourth with a time of 3:49.31.
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Grab and go: Guilderland’s Ethan Solomon, right, sees the baton go into his teammate Trevor Whitney as Whitney pulls away in the second leg of the 4 by 200 meter relay. The relay team sped away and finished second with a time of 1:37.83 and qualified for states.
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Hyping her teammate: Guilderland’s Parker Steele, left, starts to wrap her fingers around the baton as Saida Assabahi gives it to her and yells at her to go in the finals of the 4 by 200 meter relay. The relay team won with the relay with a time of 1:48.21 and qualified for states.