On Friday and Saturday of this week, the Bishop Ireton track team will compete in one of their favorite meets of the year, the Draper relays. Each year St. Stephens host this meet, which serves as the final tune-up for states and the WCAC championships. The Cardinals enter the meet with one of the strongest and largest teams in quite some time. This past weekend BI athletes competed in two different meets, which saw of number of performances equal the best efforts of the year. Penn Relays Many Ireton sprinters and middle distance runners competed in the prestigious Penn Relays. This year’s meet was highlighted by the performance of Usain Bolt, who ran on Saturday before a record crowd of 54,000 spectators. The crowd was largely made up of Jamaican spectators who enjoyed seeing the worlds fastest man perform on the local stage. He did not disappoint. Neither did the Cardinals’ boys and girls. XB Cassalls (Chantilly) BI also had a strong contingent of runners competing in Chantilly on Saturday afternoon. While the majority of our sprinters were in Philadelphia, the core of our distance team competed locally. At the meet a number of personal best were recorded, highlighted by another freshman, Catherine Babiec, who finished third in the freshman 1600 with a time of 5:48.10. Other personal best times were recorded by Murphy Costigan(1600), in his best time of 4:38.75, finishing 8thoverall. Liam O’Connor ran a personal best in the 3200 of 10:25.14. Nicole Bond returned from Philadelphia to make the finals in both the 100 and 200, running a personal best of 27.88
Over three days, BI competed in the women’s 4×100 and 4×400 relays, as well as the men’s 4×100 and 4×400. The girls teams consisted of Marin Nolan, Shannon Gordon, Jesse McFadden, Sarah Hershey, Nicole Bond, and Katarina Axenfeld. Shannon Gordon who is now the area leader in both the 100 and 300 hurdles, was the anchor for both relay teams which ran personal best. Both Nicole and Sarah are freshman who show tremendous potential. On the boys side, newcomers Doug Vines and Moses Webb, combined with Sam Ferrara and anchor Mark Holmes finished in 44.77 just missing a school record. In the 4×400, BJ Townley, Sam, Mark, and newcomer Chris Levy also ran a personal best to finish 5th and their event.
The Draper Relays open at 1pm on Friday and continue all day on Saturday on the campus of St Stephens/St Agnes School, 1000 St Stephens Road, Alexandria. Weather promises to be perfect for track and field, admission is free.
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