New Jersey Meet of Champs is ONE FOR THE AGES!

NJMOC2020 wrote:

NJ's Gabriel Moronta, Nicholas Medeiros, and Jordan Kaplan go NJ #3,5, and 6 (respectively) in the 800m, all going sub-1:53

*Sorry, they went US #3,5, and 6--not NJ #3,5, and 6

Nice for the meet to finally be held on a good track - Ocean Breeze. Tom's River is trash.

Kyle Reers came in 3rd in the 800, 1:52.81, Jordan Kaplan was 7th.

cr11 wrote:

Kyle Reers came in 3rd in the 800, 1:52.81, Jordan Kaplan was 7th.

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albanese wrote:

Nice for the meet to finally be held on a good track - Ocean Breeze. Tom's River is trash.

So the NJ state meet was held outside of NJ?

summer Breeze wrote:

albanese wrote:

Nice for the meet to finally be held on a good track - Ocean Breeze. Tom's River is trash.

So the NJ state meet was held outside of NJ?

That's correct. The Bubble in Toms River is better than nothing but the seating is extremely limited and most folks have to cram inside the track which makes for a lot of track crossings. And it's a flat track track. Back in my day, the NJ Indoor State Meet and MOC was held at Princeton.

Because the University of Delaware got rid of their indoor track when they cancelled the men's program, the Delaware Indoor State Championship is held at the Prince George Sports Complex in Landover, MD.

People who don't live on the East Coast don't realize that we are talking about 2 hour drives. Most states have kids driving as much as 6 hours to a state meet.

New England wrote:

People who don't live on the East Coast don't realize that we are talking about 2 hour drives. Most states have kids driving as much as 6 hours to a state meet.

I am a New Yorker. The trip to ocean breeze was around 11 hours for us with all the food stops pickups and dropoffs. Would be 6.5 hours under ideal traffic conditions and driving straight there.

high school xc coach wrote:

New England wrote:

People who don't live on the East Coast don't realize that we are talking about 2 hour drives. Most states have kids driving as much as 6 hours to a state meet.

I am a New Yorker. The trip to ocean breeze was around 11 hours for us with all the food stops pickups and dropoffs. Would be 6.5 hours under ideal traffic conditions and driving straight there.

I should say I am from New York State. I think calling yourself a "new yorker" might typically be reserved for the city people.

NJMOC2020 wrote:

There was a LAP MISCOUNT in the 1600m resulting in the runners running 7 laps as opposed to 8. Allentown's Liam Murphy looked poised to win it, with CBA's Shaw Powell close behind. A re-run is likely.

I like the optimism of the official who thought the kids were running a a sub 3:40 mile. Seriously you can sort of understand the miscounts in 3ks/5s (after all the offical would need to use more than their fingers) but how does someone get screwed up in a mile?

Happened at the Iowa State meet last year. Kids were at 7:20 on the bell lap in the 3200. Announcer was yelling that state record was getting crushed.

The timer near the finish line was started before the race actually started. The official was judging the laps based off of the time without realizing that the time was incorrect.

New England wrote:

Happened at the Iowa State meet last year. Kids were at 7:20 on the bell lap in the 3200. Announcer was yelling that state record was getting crushed.

Pretty normal for kids to be close to the world record for 3k in HS:) It is easy to laugh about crap like this but it happens especially with lapped runners and the like.

It took a few days but they ended up awarding 1st place to the 7 lap winner and 8 lap winner.

if you go to the NJ state meet you will see that the average age of the officials is about 80. It is great that these people have been involved in hs athletics so long but the state really needs to do something to draw fresh blood into the official ranks

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summer Breeze wrote:

albanese wrote:

Nice for the meet to finally be held on a good track - Ocean Breeze. Tom's River is trash.

So the NJ state meet was held outside of NJ?

No really, Staten Island is pretty much the New Jersey suburbs; New Jersey uses the Ocean Breeze facility more than New York does.

dadsfadsfdasfdsafdas wrote:

NJMOC2020 wrote:

There was a LAP MISCOUNT in the 1600m resulting in the runners running 7 laps as opposed to 8. Allentown's Liam Murphy looked poised to win it, with CBA's Shaw Powell close behind. A re-run is likely.

I like the optimism of the official who thought the kids were running a a sub 3:40 mile. Seriously you can sort of understand the miscounts in 3ks/5s (after all the offical would need to use more than their fingers) but how does someone get screwed up in a mile?

The NJISAA track officials are really good at a lot of difficult things, but will screw up simple stuff. They are mostly acting on muscle memory; I think some of those guys have dementia.

I ran 7 laps for an indoor 1200 on a DMR in high school in NJ. The worst part of it was that instead of just saying "oops, everyone ran too far, but that's the race now" we all ran the extra lap and then the race was fully stopped. It was re-run, but I was exhasuted and a much slower kid ran in my place.

Pisses me off still 20 years later