Press Release: MIAA to Sell Track Tickets Online

The follwing is a press release issued Wednesday by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association:

Track and Field fans across the state will be able to purchase tickets online in advance of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s (MIAA) Indoor Track and Field Divisional Meets this weekend at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston due to an agreement between the MIAA and TicketLeap.

Indoor Track and Field events start Friday, Feb. 18 at 4:30 p.m and run through Sunday Feb. 20. This service will initially be offered only for this weekend’s Indoor Track and Field Divisional Meets but may be expanded to other sports in the future. Tickets can be purchased by clicking on the followinglink: http://miaa.ticketleap.com/miaa-2011-indoor-track-and-field-divisional-meets/.

“TicketLeap is proud to partner with the MIAA as its exclusive online ticketing provider,” said Mike Vaughan, Vice President of Business Development at TicketLeap. “Together, we will provide convenience and accessibility for MIAA fans, families and friends to purchase tickets online for the first time.”

TicketLeap, the leader in high school sports ticketing, is an online platform designed to make creating events and selling tickets easier than it's ever been. Using TicketLeap, event organizers can sell tickets quickly, track sales in real-time, and get people talking about events from one unified system. To learn more, visit www.ticketleap.com.  

For additional information pertaining to this announcement, please contact Sherry Bryant, Assistant Director of the MIAA at 508-541-7997 or sbryant@miaa.net.

Meanwhile, a host of Holliston athletes will be competing the Division 3 divisional meet on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Senior Vickie Palamatier is seeded first in the girls shot put with a long throw of 36 feet, 4.5 inches. Also for the Panther girls, senior Kendra Costello is seeded eighth in the 300-meter dash at 42.79 seconds, while junior Jill Rosati (mile, 5:39.96) is seeded 15th and junior Rachel Everett (high jump, 4-10) is seeded 23rd.

For the Holliston boys, junior Cam Chisholm is seeded fourth in the shot put at 48-2.75. Junior Andrew Krauss (55-meter hurdles, 8.18 seconds) and seniors Zack Snow (600 meters, 1:26.90) and Evan Reseka (2-mile, 10:01.48) are all seeded 10th, while seniors Ben Moody (1000, 2:43.71) and Josh McLinden (55 hurdles, 8.31 seconds) are both seeded 17th.

Seniors Alex Greenberg (5-10) and Patrick Castellanos (5-10) are seeded 20th and 21st, respectively, in the high jump, while Greenberg (long jump, 19-2.5), senior Trevor Alper (55-meter dash, 6.98 seconds) and junior Devin Sanford (300 meters, 38.52 seconds) are all seeded 23rd.

Senior Andy Mysliwiec is seeded 25th in mile with a time of 4:50.64.