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District 1 AA Championships Recap
9.0 months ago @ 12:04PM
- Game Date
- May 18, 2024
Peaking at the end of the season is the goal of every athlete.
The Dock track and field program set a dozen season or personal bests in their final meet, the District 1 AA Championships Friday and Saturday at Coatesville High School. The results helped the girls place second behind Delaware County Christian while the boys were seventh, five points out of fourth place.
The Pioneers had one gold medal winner though no Dock athletes will advance to the state championships. Liv Mozzone got the meet and the Pioneers off to a great start when the sophomore set a new personal record and cleared 7-feet to win the girls pole vault.
Sophia Mercure had a big breakthrough in the girls javelin. The senior in her first season of track and field improved her best by more than 11 feet to place second with an 80-feet-1 PR. Gretchen German threw 70-8 for sixth place.
Sophia Veltre pulled ahead to second place with a 31-7.75 distance in the girls triple jump. Olivia Valverde placed fifth at 28-10.5. Veltre was second in the girls shot put with a personal best of 30-10.75. She earned third in the girls long jump with a personal record 15-7.5. Mercure was seventh with a 13-5.25 jump.
Jayden Waters hit a big personal best of 16.77 seconds for second place in the boys 110-meter hurdles. Trace Scavetti ran 19.99 for seventh place. Waters was third in the boys 300 hurdles in 44.94 seconds. He increased his personal record in the boys long jump to 19-feet-10 while placing fifth.
The girls 4x800 relay of Ceara Barnes, Tessa Moyer, German and Ashley Brown took 13 seconds off their season best to go 10:16.57 for second place.
Tessa Moyer ran 5:36.74 for second in the girls 1,600 meters. Liv Moyer ran 5:43.81 for fourth place. Liv Moyer ran a season-best 12:21.51 and closed fast to finish third in the girls 3,200 meters.
In the girls 800 meters, German placed third in 2:31.07, Tessa Moyer ran a personal-best 2:32.52 for fifth and Barnes was eighth in 2:35.42.
The girls 4x400 relay of Barnes, Valverde, Liv Moyer and German ran 4:30.67 for fourth place.
Maddie Afanador was fifth in the girls 100-meter hurdles in 19.43 seconds while Mozzone ran a personal record of 19.59 for seventh place. Afanador was seventh in the girls 300-meter hurdles in 57.47 seconds while Mozzone came in eighth in 1:00.12.
The boys 4x100 relay of Johnson, Smeland, Xander Morsby and Waters was fifth in 46.75 seconds.
Aaron Sensenig lowered his personal best to 10:55.24 while placing sixth in the boys 3,200 meters.
Seungkyu Cho threw 101-feet-8 for seventh in the boys discus. Cho was sixth in the boys javelin with a throw of 123-4 while Luke Smeland was seventh with a 122-9 effort.
Myles Johnson placed seventh in the boys triple jump with a 35-3.25 measurement.
The girls 4x100 relay of Mozzone, Afanador, Eliana Farmer and Valverde ran 57.71 for seventh place.
The boys 4x800 of Michael Pustay, Aaron Sensenig, Josh Frederick and Roman Kurian ran 9:16.30 for seventh place.
The boys 4x400 relay of Morsby, Scavetti, Pustay and Johnson ran 3:52.19 for seventh place.