Ireton Ends Track & Field Season at WCAC Finals

The Cardinals completed the 2009 track and field campaign last weekend at the WCAC championships at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland. Gonzaga won the boys title, while Elizabeth Seton captured the girls crown.

A number of Ireton athletes ran their personal best, the boys 4×200 set a school record, and Coach Brad Byrnes felt the squad competed well against some of the nation’s best athletes, competition which often motivates a top-level performance. The Cardinal girls finished seventh overall in the ten team conference while the boys finished ninth, paced by senior Colin Barkell’s third place in the high jump. “Our kids did not seem in the least bit intimidated by the level of competition,” commented Byrnes, and with an extremely young squad, both the boys and girls, only two juniors on the team, the Alexandria runners are poised to be a real threat next year.

A few top ten highlights from the past weekend:

Shannon Gordon 5^th (100 meter HH)8^th place(300 meter IH) 5^th (High Jump)

Boys 4×200 relay team 8^th place(new school record)1:40.06

Madeline Thomas 9^th place (1600 meters)

Marin Nolan 6^th place (800 meters)

Mike Anderson 7^th place (800 meters)

Boys 4 x 400 relay 6^th place

Girls 4×400 relay 5^th place

Colin Barkell 3^rd place (HJ) top BI performance of the meet

Hannah Thomas 6^th place (HJ)

Gabi Barowski 9^th place (LJ)

Katarina Axenfeld 10^th place (LJ)9^th place(TJ)