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Times-Dispatch: St. Catherine's captures LIS track title
Saints win 10 events en route to LIS title in track and field.
St. Catherine's won its first League of Independent Schools outdoor track and field championship since 2007, and Fork Union defended its Prep League title Saturday at Collegiate School.
The Saints captured all three relays, seven individual events and placed well in the seven events they didn't win.
They amassed 255 points, five more than the total of Collegiate (118), Norfolk Academy (101) and Trinity Episcopal (31).
"Our goal coming in was for every girl to do her job," said St. Catherine's coach Jon Molz, whose team won the LIS and VISAA indoor titles. "We define 'your job' as doing the best you can in your event . . . competing to the best of your ability.
"We didn't pay attention to the score. We just tried our absolute hardest at everything we did."
University of Richmond-bound Taylor Clevinger won the 1,600 (5:21.59) and 800 (2:23.77) and was third in the shot and fifth in the discus.
Her accomplishments, which came roughly 18 hours after she ran 2:16.24 in the 800 in the Southern Track Classic, earned her the LIS award for outstanding overall athlete.
"We ended up running at 9:30 (Friday) night, so I got home kind of late," she said. "My body was kind of tired, but I just told myself to sit and relax (in each of her races on the track) and stay in it."
St. Catherine's Barrett Haynes, Kristine Scherger, Tacy Wagner and Anabel O'Hagan won the 3,200 relay (10:13.30). Lissie Baker, Hannah Whitworth, Kaylin Blount and Susanna Reid won the 400 relay (53.15), and Reid, Maya Jackson, Anne Maxwell Ellett and Sarah Katz prevailed in 1,600 relay (4:21.40).
The Saints' Tiana Douglas was first in the 300 hurdles (48.11), Randall Ackerly won the 3,200 (12:20.92), Isabelle Hinckley took the high jump (5-2), Laura Kerr won the long jump (16-4), and Spencer Blanton was victorious in the shot put (31-10).
Trinity Episcopal's Jordan Stokes, voted the outstanding running events performer, captured the 100 (12.80), 200 (25.62), and 400 (57.63).
Hannah Myers (16.04 in the 100 hurdles) and Sally Sommers (32-8 in the triple jump) scored victories for Collegiate.
Fork Union, the Prep League indoor track runner-up, won 10 of 17 events, pulled away late in the meet, and compiled 154 points to finish ahead of Woodberry Forest (135) and St. Christopher's (129).
"Andre Parker just put the team on his back," said coach Winston Brown. "Even after he made a mistake in the 100 (false start in the finals), he just carried us.
"Then, he PR'ed in the shot by about 5 feet and won (in 52-8). Then, he won the 200 (in 22.29). That was pretty big."
Woodberry Forest's Kevin Bennert, bound for Wake Forest, missed much of the cross country season and all of the winter with injuries, but he's remained healthy throughout the spring and won the 1,600 (4:24.91) and 3,200 (9:37.22).
He was selected the meet's top running event performer.
The St. Christopher's team of Will Bruner, Eddie Whitlock, Aoky Sarhan and Jamie Ball won the 3,200 relay in 8:08.93.
The Saints also had first-place performances from Douglass James in the long jump (21-7½) and Chip Wigginton in the pole vault (13-6).
C.J. Procise of Woodberry Forest was voted the meet's outstanding athlete on the strength of his first place in the 100 (11.18), second in the 200 (22.54), fourth in the long jump (20-3), and anchor leg of the Tigers' third-place 400 meter relay team.
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Located in the heart of Richmond, Virginia, St. Catherine’s School is a private, all-girls pre-K, kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school. We provide a well-rounded educational experience for girls from communities across Richmond, Chesterfield, Henrico and all of central Virginia. St.Catherine’s all-girls educational experience is rooted in more than a century of history and tradition. From our revolutionary past to our dynamic present, St. Catherine’s has always focused on preparing students for a boundless future.
