Yesterday at Pinnacle Athletic Complex in Victor the Batavia Blue Devils indoor track squad set the bar higher with new personal records in multiple events.
Since announcing the start of the season in January the double-digit Section V squad for both boys and girls have had challenges to overcome.
Head indoor track Coach Nicholas Burk said “Our athletes have now been practicing for five weeks and we're just starting to see the results of consistent training. It takes time to see results from our workouts, but we're reaching that point of our season where our athletes times and performances are going to start improving.”
In a phone interview after the meet, Burk spoke about new rules with COVID-19 for student athletes, training and the outlook this season.
"We've been very fortunate for the opportunity to practice and honestly besides keeping small separate groups in practice, we've been able to have pretty consistent and productive training," the coach said. "We've been utilizing the weight room, Van Detta, the high school gyms, and running outside for practice.
"With approximately 80 athletes involved, we've had to use multiple locations to keep our groups small. We have two remaining league meets but are looking for some event specific meets to go to as well. Some of our pole vaulters went to a pole vault meet at Gates, and we're hosting a high jump/shot put meet this week.
"Sectionals is on March 7th and our girls’ team will be competing for their 17th Sectional Championship and our boys are looking for their 10th. We don't have all of the information for Sectionals yet, but we expect it will be a very tough meet with great competition. We'll keep working towards our goals try to be ready to compete March 7th.
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Team Highlights
Boys
Jacob Long / 44' 2" Shot -- (First Place)
Austyn Fernandez / 41' 8.5" Shot – (PR) (Second Place)
Dan Seava / 40' 10.75" Shot – (PR) (Third Place)
Fabian Vazquez / 55 Hurdles -- 8.63 (First Place)
Jesse Reinhardt / High Jump -- 5'10" (Second Place)
Jamarion RIchardson / 55m -- 7.01 (Third Place)
Jamarion Richardson / 300m -- 40.80
Jonah Epps, Cody Harloff, Nate Canale, Dom Grillo / 4x8 team -- 9.33.30 (First place)
Girls
Rebekah Daniszewski / 37' 10.75" Shot -- (First Place)
Emma Radka / 28' 9.75" Shot – (PR)
Elizabeth Kingston / 25' 10" Shot – (PR)
Samantha Davis / 19' 10.25" Shot – (PR)
Campbell Riley / 1,000m -- 3:35.82 (Third Place)
Melanie Quinones / 3,000m -- 13:25.92 (First Place)
Melanie Quinones / High Jump -- 4' 6" (Second Place)
Team information provided from coaches Buckenmeyer, Boyce and Geiger.
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