Track And Field News

Vikes have a great day at the State Relay Championships!

1/17/20

Our boys and girls had a great day last night at the State Group 2 Relay Championships at the Bennett Center in Toms River. Our Vikings had

four top ten finishes in the relay events! Here are the highlights:

Boys DMR 6th place 11:09.28 Jack Tavaglione,
Tom Mahoney, Luke Higgins, Dylan Fritz

Boys 4x800m 7th place 8:49.66 Dylan Fritz,
Jack Tavaglione, Josh Kinsky, Luke Higgins

Boys 4x400m 19th place 3:52.28 Ricky Strange,
Owen Minor, Dylan Fritz, Daylen Joyce

Girls DMR 2nd place 12:53.86 Emma McGill,
Rachel Rosales, Sophia El-Zahr, Emily Sell

Girls SMR 7th place 4:33.29 Sonia Marran,
Kerrigan Brennan, Rachel Rosales, Emma McGill

Girls 4x400m 13th place 4:35.54 Emily Sell,
Kerrigan Brennan, Rachel Rosales, Sophia El-Zahr

Girls 4x800m 16th place 11:12.47 Grace Pankuck,
Emma Pankuck, Julia Romero, Kali Torkildsen

The girls team finished in 13th place overall and the boys

finished in 24th place.

Great job everyone!!!!

Rachel Rosales

Vikes run strong at the Warrior Classic!

1/10/20

Our Viking Track & Field team had a great showing at the Warrior Classic at East Stroudsburg University in PA on Friday!! The event was hand scored, with only the top 5 finishers in each event posted.

Here are the top finishers for Voorhees:

800m Emma McGill 1st place 2:22.40

1600m Emma McGill 1st place 5:05.70

3200m Emily Sell 3rd place 11:58.00

Girls 4x400 1st place 4:29.10

3200m Luke Higgins 2nd place 9:55.60

3200m Dylan Fritz 3rd place 9:57.30

Boys 4x200 5th place 1:44.50

Congratulations everyone!!!!

Luke Higgins

Alumni results for January 11, 2020

Four of our former Vikings had a great day for their respective schools yesterday at the Angry Birds Challenge at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.

Jack Memoli ('18) placed 2nd in the 60m Hurdles with a time of 8.46 and 15th in the 200m with a time of 23.81 for Bucknell University. In the 3000m, Evan Minor ('16) finished 5th at 8:59 and Matt Vira ('15) 8th at 9:19, both for Bucknell. Lauren Wagner ('19) finished in 9th place in the 800m with a time of 2:26 for American University.

The meet was attended by Bucknell, Lehigh, Sacred Heart, Fairleigh Dickinson, American and St. Joseph's (Pa.) Bucknell finished in first place for the men and American came in 5th for the women.

Awesome job runners!!! You continue to make us so proud back here in Vike country!!

Daniel McConnell ('19) took 4th place in the 600m with a time of 1:27 for his Bates College team at the Bates/Colby/MIT Tri-Meet at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Great job Daniel!!

Jack Memoli

McGill wins at the Ocean Breeze!!

12/20/19

Emma McGill won the 1600m at the Essex County Track Coaches Association Season Opener at the Ocean Breeze T&F facility on Staten Island on Friday night. Her time of 5:14.47 was eight seconds ahead of the next runner. In the same race, Sophia El-Zahr finished in 8th place with a time of 5:42.54.

For the boys, Luke Higgins and Dylan Fritz took 4th and 5th places with times of 2:08.26 and 2:10:58 respectively in the 1600m race.

Here are the other top 25 finishes for our Vikes from the meet:

Shot Put Elizabeth Ollerenshaw 10th place 29-05.25

800m Kerrigan Brennan 18th place 2:42.83

800m Zoey Cassavell 20th place 2:45.40

1600m Julia Romero 23rd place 6:05.93

1600m Emma Pankuck 24th place 6:06.15

1600m Jack Tavaglione 12th place 2:14.85

1600m Matt Deacon 22nd place 4:56.44

800m Dylan Fritz 13th place 2:09.26

800m Luke Higgins 19th place 2:10.58

Shot Put Austin Miller 24th place 36-1.25

For complete results, go to https://nj.milesplit.com/meets/372463/teams/4118#.Xhsz7lNKgdU

The girls team finished in 5th place out of 22 teams overall and the boys 15th out of 27 teams. Great job everyone!!!

A great season opener!!!