Track Triumph: Mendham Girls Claim Gold at Penn Relays Event

It’ll never get old, no matter how many times it’s achieved.

Members of the Mendham girls track team have done it again, claiming a title at the Penn Relays in the 4x400 relay race, the third time in the last four years the lady Minutemen runners have taken home a Penny Relays event trophy.

Competing against teams from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, runners Audrey O’Neill, Emma Schacht, Kylie Cooper, and Sierra Tonneson outpaced the competition to take gold.

Coached by Roy Hamblen, O’Neill, set to run at Division I College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts next year, led off the relay with a time of 1:00.82, followed by Schacht, with a time of 1:01.65; then Cooper, with a time of 1:03.64; and anchor leg Tonneson, who will run for Boston College next year, with a time of 1:00.28.

The team’s official time was 4:06.39, besting the second place team from Dallastown, Pennsylvania, with a time of 4:09.28.

O’Neill, Tonneson, Schacht, and Maggie Wadley also competed in the 4x100 relay and placed fifth overall with a time of 52.18.

The Mendham girls will look for more trophy case filler as they compete in the Morris County Relay Championships on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 at Morris Knolls High School.

Pictured: From left: Coach Hamblen, Maggie Wadley, Emma Schacht, Sierra Tonneson, Audrey O’Neill, Kylie Cooper, Ayonna Post.

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