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Milton Track Teams Compete at 25th Roswell Relays
Annual Relay Meet is most competitive Meet of the Season
By Coach Andy Carr
March 19th
Roswell HS
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The Milton HS track & field teams faced their stiffest competition to date with their participation in the 25th Annual Roswell Rotary Relays at Roswell HS and came away with multiple top-10 all-time school performances against some of the best programs in the state of Georgia.
GIRLS
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The Lady Eagles of Milton (20th-11 pts) defeated 8 schools while competing against the best programs in the state. The quartet of junior Farrah Frith, seniors Genevieve Trainor & Megan Stechschulte & sophomore Ella Grace Malcom teamed up TWICE to score all the points for the Lady Eagles in the meet! In the first event of the day, the 4x1600m relay (4th-22:56.63) just missed out on a top-3 podium spot by less than a second over a 4-mile race but came back many hours later to challenge for the meet win in the 4x800m relay (3rd-10:16.58) finishing a strong 3rd by defeating 25 teams in the race! Girls’ team highlights include the 4x200m relay (1:51.20-16th) that ran the 2nd fastest time in school history by Haydn Bendall, Jessica Sheinkopf, Gabriella Harris & Leelah Ravoori. The girls Distance Medley relay also notched a top-10 all-time school performance (15th-13:58.38) with the team of senior captain Shelby Howerton, sophomore Leelah Dennis, senior Jessica Albregts & sophomore Calista Cacciatore.
BOYS
Milton (14th-18 pts) defeated 14 schools on the day. The top-finishing relay team was the 4x100m relay (5th-43.04) running the 10th best time in school history. Andrew Sirras, Jack Lawson, Devin Dahunsi & Ved Rao comprised the team. The boys 4x200m relay (7th-1:32.94) ran the 2nd best time in school history with Rao, Dahunsi, Sirras & Ethan Hagel taking the baton around the track. The Eagles other scorers included individual scorers with Dahunsi in the triple jump (4th-43’1”) just missing his best by an inch and Andrew Dassler in the Pole Vault (5th-13’6”) in his deepest competition he has face all season. In the high jump, Roman Atlow tied for the 9th best jump in school history (6th-6’0”) to finish 6th place.
The Milton HS track & field teams next see action right back at Roswell HS this Saturday for the Fulton County Public Schools Championships where all 17 county schools will compete for the title as best track & field team in the county!
