Early Season Recap

The first two weekends of the season are in the books. We are still not sure of the best way to cover the indoor season since it lacks real team aspect. So here goes.

Boys 600 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 1:29.14 (1:29.91)

At the Gobbler Classic, the Freshman race was won by Alexander Riley of JFK Campus. Hardly a rookie (VO2 Max), Riley ran 1:33.41

In the Varsity race, three boys hit the auto standard.

Lavell Irving (Thomas Jefferson)         1:26.18

Andreas Tsatsas (HSMSE)                   1:27.62

Nathan Zhu (Bronx Science)               1:28.20

At the Jim McKay Games, Riley defended his freshman title, running a 3-second improvement of 1:30.08. The Sophomore race was won by Moudour Birgui Alhou Za of Success Academy in 1:38.64. Not sure how Success Academy qualifies as a PSAL program, but maybe the PSAL is trying to build a non-public school division in the Public School Athletic League. As we learned a few weeks ago, Hunter also falls into this category.

No boy hit the automatic standard in the Varsity race, but it was won by Thomas Michi of Curtis in 1:29.44

At the Donald Douglas Games, Brooklyn Tech’s William Berger won the Freshman race in 1:29.64, narrowly missing the qualifier.  Leron Anderson of Truman won the Sophomore race in 1:23.88.

Three other boys qualified out of the Sophomore sections:

Kingston Mighty (Benjamin Banneker)          1:24.13

Isaiah Frederick (Brooklyn Tech)                    1:28.37

Alexander Draves (Stuyvesant)                      1:28.60

The Varsity race was won by Jaylen Anthony of Medgar Evers in 1:20.94.

Eight other boys qualified out of the Varsity sections:

Lavell Irving (Thomas Jefferson)                     1:24.30

Andreas Tsatsas (HSMSE)                               1:25.31

Thanh Nguyen (Brooklyn Tech)                      1:25.75

Nathan Norman (Medgar Evers)                    1:26.28

Elijah Hilaire (Medgar Evers)                          1:26.77

Conor Loftus (Brooklyn Tech)                         1:26.94

David O’Brien (Stuyvesant)                            1:28.24

Weston Macari (NEST+M)                              1:28.56

That could be some 4x8 for Medgar Evers

Boys 1000 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 2:47.47 (2:49.13)

At the Gobbler Classic, the Freshman race was won by MSIT’s Abeishan Pakeerathan in 3:05.29.

In the Varsity race, three boys hit the auto standard.

Weston Macari (NEST+M)                  2:38.36

Lavell Irving (Thomas Jefferson)         2:43.83

Simon Saffayeh (MSIT)                       2:47.33

At the Jim McKay Games, the Freshman race was won by Andres Felip Castrillon of Townsend Harris in 3:01.21. The Sophomore race was won by Isaiah Pappalardo of Success Academy in 2:55.78. No Varsity boy hit the standard, but the race was won by Dennis Jeffrey II of Townsend Harris in 2:48.93

At the Donald Douglas Games, the Freshman race was won by Luca Ho (Brooklyn Tech) in 3:10.82. Hunter’s Lowen Zuo ran 2:50.83 to win the Sophomore race. The Varsity race was won by Alexander Jones of Brooklyn Tech in 2:36.48.

Besides Jones, nine more boys hit the auto standard.

Jayden Brown (Erasmus Hall)             2:37.32

Leo Kindred (Bronx Science)              2:39.08

Christopher Thom (Bronx Science)    2:43.10

Andrea Gallina (Susan Wagner)         2:43.57

Brayden Coleman (Brooklyn Tech)     2:43.93

Siddharth Ganti-Agrawal (Hunter)    2:44.68

Ajdin Boljevic (MSIT)                          2:47.04

Eliot Faith (Bronx Science)                  2:47.06

Collin Toung (Manhattan Center)       2:47.14

Boys 1600 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 4:43.22 (4:45.50)

At the Jim McKay Games, the Freshman race was won by Zijian Gao of Flushing Campus in 5:35.79. Noah Katz of WESS won the Sophomore race in 5:03.58. No Varsity boy hit the standard, but the race was won by Jayron Salazar of Thomas Edison in 4:58.46.

At the Donald Douglas Games, the Freshman race was won by Henry Todd of Brooklyn Tech in 5:11.50. Anders Collier of John Jay Campus won the Sophomore race in 4:54.13

The Varsity race provided a fast race for early December, with five boys under 4:30. MSIT’s Simon Saffayeh won easily in 4:20.35.

Eleven other boys qualified for Cities.

Ramsey Hansen (NEST+M)                 4:23.66

Tristan Acevedo (Susan Wagner)       4:26.81            PSAL FRESHMAN RECORD!

Ezekiel Cohen (LaGuardia)                 4:29.04

Raphael Ramot (Stuyvesant)              4:29.79

Aidan Fleming (Brooklyn Tech)          4:36.64

Ariel Yaron (LaGuardia)                      4:37.39

Abraham Wilchins (Brooklyn Tech)    4:38.51

David Oropeza-Sosa (Aviation)          4:39.92

Scott Kelly (MSIT)                               4:39.96

Tyler Horiuchi (Stuyvesant)                4:41.00

Jasper Graham (Hunter)                     4:41.72

Boys 3200 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 10:25.26 (10:37.37)

At the Gobbler Classic, the following boys qualified for the City Championship:

Jasper Graham (Hunter)                     9:51.34

Ezekiel Cohen (LaGuardia)                 9:52.44

Simon Saffeyeh (MSIT)                       10:17.85

Boys 4x800m Relay - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 8:46.95 (8:59.89)

At the Gobbler Classic, the Freshman Relay was won by MSIT in 9:48.84.  Hunter won the Varsity race in 9:10.77

At the Jim McKay Games, the Freshman Relay was won by Townsend Harris in 10:28.66.  They also won the Varsity race in 9:04.52.

At the Donald Douglas Games, Stuyvesant won the Freshman race in 9:53.00. Hunter won the Sophomore relay in 9:28.39. Bronx Science won the Varsity relay in 8:50.32. 

No team has yet hit the City standard.

Girls 600 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 1:47.31 (1:48.30)

At the Gobbler Classic, Anahia Joseph (Ruff Kutz) of Pathways College Prep won the Freshman race in a city-qualifying time of 1:45.00. DeWitt Clinton’s Makayla McKenzie (VO2 Max) also hit the standard, running 1:45.61.

Only one athlete qualified for Cities out of the Varsity sections. And a huge welcome back to DeWitt Clinton’s Aisha Wajid (VO2 Max) who was seen in a boot at VCP this Fall. She ran 1:39.71 to win.

At the Jim McKay Games, the Freshman Race was won by Lula Eng-McDonald of HS for Health Professions in 2:00.84  The Sophomore Race was won by Alanah Gatling of Cambria Heights Academy in 1:59.75. Beacon’s Madeleine Kildow won the Varsity race in 1:52.25

At the Donald Douglas Games, Anahia Joseph of Pathways College Prep by way of Ruff Kutz again won the Freshman race, this time in 1:42.32. DeWitt Clinton’s Makayla McKenzie was again 2^nd in 1:43.74.

Sophomore Kennedy Hutchinson (Jeuness) of Benjamin Banneker ran a very fast 1:34.92 to win the Sophomore race. That time often finds the podium at the Federation Meet. Susan Wagner’s Malina Rodriguez King (Ocean Breeze) and Alisa Kiliarska ran 1:40.77 and 1:44.68, respectively, to also qualify for Cities.

The Varsity race was won the Aisha Wajid (VO2 Max) of DeWitt Clinton in 1:38.22.

Five more girls qualified out of the Varsity sections:

Skylar Skevelair (South Shore/Ruff Kutz)                   1:42.35

Olivia Gorczyca (James Madison/Prototype)             1:42.54

Phoebe Estep (HSMSE)                                               1:45.17

Kenese Irish Bramble (Medgar Evers/VO2 Max)       1:45.47

Salimata Timite (Evander Childs)                               1:46.03                       

Girls 1000 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 3:22.01 (3:24.78)

At the Gobbler Classic, Pathways College Prep’s Najada Thomas (Ruff Kutz) won the Freshman race in 3:33.29. In the Varsity race, Milani Modeste won, but barely missed the City qualifier, running 3:22.77

At the Jim McKay Games, Beacon’s Ivanna Frank-Nelson won the Freshman Race in 3:31.97. Alanah Gatling of Cambria Heights Academy completed the 600-1000 double with a win in 3:38.39. Manhattan Center’s Blythe Lansner won the Varsity race in 3:36.33.

At the Donald Douglas Games, Rose Luders of Brooklyn Tech won the Freshman Race in 3:21.55, qualifying for Cities. A number of Brooklyn Tech’s soccer team always show up Indoors for the Engineers.

The Sophomore race featured four qualifiers. Brooklyn Tech’s Evelyn Craig won in 3:14.24.

The others were:

Klea Kukaj (Hunter)                            3:15.25

Maya Ochsenkuehn (Brooklyn Tech) 3:20.50

Amanda Lee (Stuyvesant)                  3:21.69

Brooklyn Tech completed its sweep in the Varsity race. Francesca Haidt won in 3:10.71.

The five other qualfiers were:

Jessica Ryan (Bayside)                        3:11.46

Niera Eugene (Midwood)                   3:12.53

Tatiana O’Neal (Brooklyn Tech)          3:17.79

Noelle Barone (Midwood)                 3:18.30

Sora Toji (Bronx Science)                    3:19.82

Girls 1500 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 5:21.04 (5:27.60)

At the Jim McKay Games, Beacon’s Evelyn Sciaraffo ran 5:21.56 to win the Freshman race, narrowly missing the auto-qualifier. What’s most interesting about this is that we know how good Beacon’s freshman class is, but Sciaraffo didn’t even run XC in the Fall, she played soccer. Incredible amount of talent pouring into this program.  Annelise Rodriguez of Metropolitan Campus won the Sophomore race in 6:02.13. Manhattan Center’s Ainsley Raha won the Varsity race in 5:38.79.

At the Donald Douglas Games, LaGuardia’s June Grunden won the Freshman race, running 5:21.60 to narrowly miss qualifying. Her teammate Sigrid Lussier ran 5:32.03 to win the Sophomore Race. LaGuardia completed the 1500 sweep with a Naomi Douglas win in 4:42.89.

Other qualifiers were:

Noa Yirmiyahu (Hunter)                     4:57.89

Hazel Lyons-Baum (Bronx Science)    5:13.75

Milani Modeste (James Madison)     5:14.85

Girls 3000 Meter Run - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 11:36.07 (11:54.29)

Matilda Quinn of John Jay Campus won the Varsity race at the Gobbler Classic in 11:36.33, just missing the qualifier.

Girls 4x800m Relay - City Auto (and Secondary) Qualifying Standard: 10:33.54 (10:49.19)

At the Gobbler Classic, the Beacon girls won the Freshman relay in 12:13.51. DeWitt Clinton won the Varsity race in 10:50.04.

At the Jim McKay Games, the Beacon girls again won the Freshman race and WESS won the Varsity race.

At the Donald Douglas Games, the Stuyvesant Freshmen (11:47.95)  and Midwood Sophomores (10:58.96) won their races.  DeWitt Clinton won the Varsity race in 10:20.17 and are the only team so far to hit the qualifying standard.