In the history of the Ohio State meet, Bridget was the first athlete to win four events that included all distance races.
Angela Bizzari added her name to the list of winning the same event all four years in the Div. 1 3200.
Jesse Owens (1933) now has the 4th longest long jump in Ohio high school history.
slaps wrote:
I watched the Ohio State meet and have to say I was way more impressed with the performances of Infeld, Bizzari, and Franek then I was with any of the boy distance runners.
It was a great meet to be sure and Franek was unbelievable. But how can you not be impressed with Sam Borchers? Winning both the 1600m with the fastest time of the day and the 800m. Plus running a 1:51.7 on his 6th place 4*800 team. I was really impressed with that!!
I didn't catch the Friday action. I missed the D3 1600 but was quite surprised the winner hit 4:16.
I think the bottom line is the depth in the boys races was tight and their races all go tactical. Its all about the win first. For a dominating runner who isn't worried about the competition, its easier to focus on time. I thought Melhorn would have been in that category and was expecting him to go out in 2:14-4:29 but it was very windy during his race. Balyo from my vantage point looked like he was quite capable of going 10 seconds faster. Look to see him run around 8:55 at least in the post season national meets.
But the efforts of Franek and Bizzari were more impressive that day. Especially Bizzari in the 1600 against Infeld. That was the highlight of the meet for me-the Girls D1 1600.
Overall it was a great meet-Horn, Saine, Franek, Bizzari, Beard. also the 24-0 long jump. Has to go down as one of the best Ohio State meets ever
What is being left out of this conversation is that Bridget anchored her team to victory in the 4 x 8 the day before with a 2:11 split.
Yes..... wrote:
What is being left out of this conversation is that Bridget anchored her team to victory in the 4 x 8 the day before with a 2:11 split.
I split her in 2:15 and her junior teammate in 2:13. Bizzari had the 2:10-2:11 split.
I'll take your word for that one as I arrived at the end of the DII boys race and got that info second hand.