Lexington track update

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We placed 4th place at ESDAA championships hosted by RISD on May 14th. Our team flopped a bit, as we couldn't bring two of our best tracksters to ESDAA. We did our best!

Our top three finishers at ESDAA Track & Field Championships:
Will Jones: 100m- 1st place, 200m- 1st place, and 400m- 2nd place.
Angel Ortiz: 3200m 1st place
Raymond Devarez, Will Jones, Nayyar Zia, & Je' Antonio Fortune: 4 x 400m- 2nd place
Guillermo Burgos, Raymond Devarez, Evans Seraphin, & Nayyar Zia: Sprint Medley (1600m)- 3rd place

On Wednesday, May 25th, we ended our season participating in Metro League Track & Field Championships hosted at Astoria Park, Queens, NYC. This is league's third year running Track program. Lexington Boys and Girls have won previous two championships. This year, our girls came so close and fell in 3rd place only by 9 points in overall standings. But our boys fared so well and won 3rd championship in three years. This tournament allows you to put four athletes in each event as we only have six schools that are members of this league. This league is a low key and is made to encourage students at disadvantage levels to compete among eachother. We participated three meets before this tournament. Lexington Boys fared so well this year as seven of our boys broke their personal best at this meet, which was a shock for me. I guess it was the warm and beautiful weather that helped us, as it was a 80-degree day.

Top three Lexington Boys' finishers at Metro League with their distances/times:
Long Jump: Will Jones, 1st place- 18'4.5"
Shot Put: Madine Metfah, 3rd place- 34' 9.5"
4 x 100m Relay: Guillermo Burgos, Raymond Devarez, Andy Espinal, & Will Jones, 1st place- :47.8
400m Dash: Manuel Cortez, 2nd place- 1:01.2, Evans Seraphin, 3rd place- 1:01.6
100m Dash: Will Jones, 1st place- :11.5
800m Run: Nayyar Zia, 1st place- 2:27.4, Raymond Devarez, 2nd place- 2:33.3, Santiago Guerrero, 3rd place- 2:44.3
200m Dash: Will Jones, 1st place- :23.7, Satish Thapa, 2nd place- :25.6
1600m Run: Nayyar Zia, 1st place- 5:50.7, Je' Antonio Fortune, 2nd place- 6:01.0, Santiago Guerrero, 3rd place- 6:19.0
4 x 400m Relay: Evans Seraphin, Satish Thapa, Je' Antonio Fortune, and Will Jones, 1st place- 4:28.4

Final Metro League Championship Boys standing:
1. Lexington 114
2. Wintson Prep 34
3. Lowell 19.5

Other participating schools: The Child School, Summit School, and Windsor-(only 3 boys).

Top three Lexington Girls' finishers at Metro League with their distances/times:
Shot Put: Chen Liu, 3rd place- 26' 4.5"
4 x 100m Relay: Chen Liu, Isatou Sankanu, Chelsea Hilaire, & Nayrani Seerattan, 1st place- 1:02.0
400m Dash: Isatou Sankanu, 3rd place- 1:18.6
100m Dash: Nayrani Seerattan, 3rd place- :14.9
800m Run: Isatou Sankanu, 2nd place- 3:51.9
200m Dash: Nayrani Seerattan, 2nd place- :32.0
4 x 400m Relay: Chen Liu, Isatou Sankanu, Chelsea Hilaire, & Nayrani Seerattan, 1st place- 5:59.1

Final Metro League Championship Girls standing:
1. Winston Prep 62
2. The Child School 58
3. Lexington 53

Reported by: Frank Wells, Lexington Boys' Track & Field Head Coach