Patriots Excel at First Meet of Season

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Winter Track Notebook: Patriots Excel at First Meet of Season

Dec 16 2022 9:06 AM

POTTSTOWN -- Germantown Academy's Winter Track teams got their seaons started this week, traveling to The Hill School for a quad meet featuring Hill, Perkiomen School, and Villa Maria Academy. The Patriots had 10 first-place finishes on the day. GA will be back in action on Jan.7 at The Hispanic Games in New York.

Boys

- Jet Dickerson '26 took first in the Boys 55m Hurdles, running 9.08. Dickerson also took third in the 200m Dash, running 25.12. He was closely followed by Braedan McDonough '26 (25.20) and J-Jay Ordillas '23 (25.72).

- Lucas Philip '24 finished the Boys 1600 in 5:09.84, nearly 30 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher from Hill. Jake Spain '23 ran 5:48.43, taking third overall.

- Evan Badami '26 was the second-youngest student-athlete running the Boys 400m Dash, but the first to cross the finish line, going 53.49. He also won the Boys High Jump, clearing 5-2.

- Walter Mulroy '26 and Andrei Vava '24 went 1-2 in the Boys 3200, going 11:30.97 and 11:41.67, respectively. Robert Bright '25 and Adrian Diem '25 both cleared 9-0 in the Boys Pole Vault, finishing tied for the top spot.

- GA dominated the Boys Shot Put event, turning in four of the top-five finishes. Gavin Fountain '24 led the way, throwing 47-6.75. Mario Toscano '24 (43-7), CJ Mersky '24 (41-3.50), and Ansh Kakadia '24 (36-8.75) went 2-3-4. Sebastian Cortes '24 took sixth with a 33-5.25 throw.

Girls

- Fiona McKenna '23 burned up the track in the Girls 55m Hurdles. The senior ran 8.64 to smash the previous mark of 9.55 set in 2019 and completed the event nearly three seconds faster than the second-place finisher. McKenna also took fourth in the Girls Shot Put, throwing 28-6.

- Kayla Sweeney '24 and Aja McBride '24 went 1-2 in the Girls 200m Dash, running 28.85 and 29.33, respectively. McBride also finished second in the High Jump, clearing 4-10.

- Olivia Jappe '23 narrowly missed a first-place finish in the Girls 1600, crossing the line in 6:20.46, just .30 after a Villa Maria runner.

- Layla Gentile '25 took third in the Girls Shot Put, recording a 28-10.5 throw. Caitlin Lozano '24 rounded out the top-five finishers, throwing 26-5.25.

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