Tigers Strike Gold in Track & Field Invitational

[Editor's Note: The following information was provided by NDB athletic director, Jason Levine. If you would like your team's scores or acheivements posted on Patch, send me an email.]

The (NDB) frosh/soph track team won it's second invitational in a row on Saturday April 21.

Paced by outstanding performances in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays, the short handed Tigers finished first out of 23 teams.

Trailing Scotts Valley 59-51 going in to the final event, the 4x400, NDB needed to win the event to win the meet. The team of Hannay Say, Claudia Arquerro, Laurasia Holzman and Nadine O'Riordan  ran a season best time of 4:23.76, a drop of more than 12 seconds, to ensure the victory for Notre Dame.

With most of the junior and senior athletes receiving the day off after prom, Lizzy Hegedus and Carolyn Doricott were the only two athletes competing in the varsity meet. Lizzy finished first in the pole vault equaling her personal record of 8'6", Carolyn finished third in the pole vault, equaling her personal record, 7'6".

Notre Dame compiled 22 Personal Records and 20 medals on the day. The top six were awarded medals, the top seven scored.

GO TIGERS!!!

Team Scores

1st NDB 61, 2nd Scotts Valley 59, 3rd San Mateo 50, 4th Fremont 45, 5th Aragon, 6th Jefferson 28, 7th Alameda 26, 8th Lynbrook 25, 9th Leland 21, 10th Balboa 20, 11th Crystal Springs Uplands 19, 12th San Rafael 18, 13th Lowell 16, 14th Sequoia 14, 15th Mercy Burlingame 13, 16th San Marin 8, 17th Sacred Heart Cathedral 7, 17th Hillsdale 7, 17th Half Moon Bay 7, 20th Lick Wilmerding 6, 21st  Kings Academy 2, 21st Terra Nova 2, 23rd East Side Prep 1

Medal Winners, Scorers & Personal Records

1st - Pole Vault Lizzy Hegedus 8'6" PR
3rd - Pole Vault Carolyn Doricott 7'6" PR

1st -  4x100m Kristen Thompson, Hannah Say, Tasia Tsiplakos, Claudia Arquerro, 53.59

1600m - Kristen Shaw 7:34.61 New PR

7th - 100mh Lizzy Menzel 20.14

2nd - 400m Claudia Arquerro 1:01.72 New PR

3rd - 100m Kristen Thompson 13.70 New PR
6th - 100m Hannah Say 13.85 New PR
        100m Mary Saade 14.81 New PR
        100m Abby Leus 15.10 New PR
        100m Kira Costillo 17.46 new PR

800m - Megan McDonell 2:40.91 New PR
            Emma Pastorino 2:43.26 New PR
            Grace Trainor 2:55.44 New PR
            Kristen Shaw 3:25.88 New PR

3rd - 300mh Nadine O'Riordan 54.67
4th - 300mh Laurasia Holzman 55.05 New PR
        300mh Kaylee Kohlmaier 56.74 new PR
        300mh Lizzy Menzel 58.04 New PR

200m - Abby Leus 32.80 New PR
           Kira Costillo 38.04 new PR

1st - 4x400m Hannah Say, Claudia Arquerro, Laurasia Holzman, Nadine O'Riordan 4:23.76 Season Best

3rd - High Jump Rachelle Carlevaris 4'8 PR
4th - High Jump Nadine O'Riordan 4'4"
6th - High Jump Raizel Luna 4'4" PR

Triple Jump - Laurasia Holzman 29' 7" New PR

                    Nadine O'Riordan 29'3" New PR

6th - Shot Put Eleni Giotinis 24' 3"

4th - Discus Tasia Tsiplakos 71' 3"