
Local athletes proudly display their medals.
Latin Academy’s Leanna Lynch placed 4th in the 200 meters, and 5th in the 400.

Ryan Collins was a 6th place finisher in the 800m.

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association has over 380 member schools.
As the days wind down to the end of this school year, so does the athletic competition to decide state champions in track and field as well as baseball.
The MIAA divisional track and field competition took place at Merrimack College (Division 2), Westfield State (Division 3), and Tufts University (Division 6) this past weekend. Individual winners automatically advance to the MIAA “Meet of Champions” at Fitchburg State on June 5 and 7.
Other participants will be selected by the best times recorded during the season as well as a place of finish in the divisional competition. Boston city schools will place several athletes in the state competition following their strong showings this past weekend.
The boys and girls track and field teams from Dearborn STEM Academy, John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, Boston Latin Academy, TechBoston Academy and Charlestown High School all placed athletes in the top 10 categories of individual events.
Rick Barros, a senior from Dearborn STEM Academy, lived up to his title as Boston Public School (BPS) Outdoor Athlete of the Year, finishing second in the 100- and 200-meter sprints with times of 11.33 and 22.10 seconds, respectively. The freshman tandem of Nassir Camille (51.55 for seventh place in the 400-meter run) and Terrance McGhee (two minutes 2.22 seconds for eighth place in the 800-meter run) gained headlines for their school.
Leanna
Lynch, a senior from Boston Latin Academy, the BPS Girls Outdoor
Athlete of the Year, followed the lead of Barros with a fourth-place
finish in the 200-meter sprint (26.25 seconds) and fifth in the
400-meter run at 59.28 seconds against the top flite competition.
Other
individual athletes who gained distinction were Uchendu Bede, a
sophomore from O’Bryant, who placed second in the high jump at six feet,
two inches and eighth in the triple jump at 41 feet, 10.75 inches.
Sophomore
Sara Blanco turned in a time of two minutes, 21.12 seconds in the
800-meter run, good enough for a fourth-place finish. She also completed
the mile run in a time of five minutes, 22.75 seconds for 11th place.
Boston
Latin Academy got strong performances from sophomore Lendz Desamours,
who jumped 19 feet, 8.5 inches, and freshman Will Harllenz, who jumped
19 feet, 5.25 inches, in the long jump. BLA junior Ryan Collins and
senior Dominic Jorge turned in sixth and ninth place finishes in the
800-meter run — Collins in a time of one minute, 55.41 seconds and Jorge
in a time of one minute, 56.74 seconds.
Senior
Demya McClure, the BPS Indoor Athlete of the Year, led the Dragons
women’s team by tossing the shot put 33 feet, 4.5 inches for fifth place
in the individual competition.
The STEM 4x400 relay squad finished second to Lunenburg with a time of three minutes, 27.91 seconds.
TechBoston was led by junior Donte Robinson, who doubled as a sprinter and pentathlete.
Robinson
ran 16.46 seconds in the individual 110-meter hurdles and third in the
pentathlon event, winning the high jump at five feet, 10 inches, the
110-meter hurdles in 16.96 seconds, and placing
second in the shot put (11.31 meters) to register a score of 2,701
points. His teammate Salomon Sanon placed seventh in the 100 meters in
11.76 seconds, and Shane Archer tossed the shot 47 feet, 11.75 inches
for a sixth-place finish in the individual competition.
The
young women from Boston United and Brighton High schools gained
distinction in individual and team events. Junior Lailah Harris (13.61
seconds in the 100 meters for 11th place) and the 4x100 relay squad
(53.25 seconds) did their work for Boston United, while Brighton High
senior Jai- Reon Brown-Carter ran a time of 27.43 seconds in the
200-meter run, placing 10th in the event. Quincy Dorsey (2 mins. 2.66
seconds for 10th in the 800 meter) and the Townies 4x800 relay squad (8
minutes, 30.93 seconds for third place) left their mark in the
competition as well.
In
MIAA postseason baseball competition, Boston placed two teams in the
round of 16 as Boston English trounced Mount Greylock, 16-2, and
Charlestown whipped Millis, 6-3.
“The
results of how our city athletes measure up to state competition
reflects the combination of [athletic] talent and dedicated coaching,”
said Avery Esdaile, athletic director for the Boston Public Schools “Our
athletes take great pride in their competitive spirit and feel that
they can compete with anyone.”