A great night at the races. It was an all star competition of 4 X 400 relays.
Unfortunately the Donovan 4 X 400 meter team came up short of qualifying. The team's effort was outstanding with Sean Fitzgerald leading off in 50.8, Nick Chiarella 51.7, Anthony Cappello 51.2 and TJ Lynch 54.4.
The athlete of the meet is the full relay team for a focused all out effort by all.
TJ fell less then 10 yards from the finish line in a gutsy effort to pass Camden and qualify. His fall cost him 3.5 seconds and gave the team a 3:28.29 time. Even with his fall, the team's time is within 1/2 a second of the school record.
I estimate that if TJ didn't stumble he would have run 51.0 and the team would have run 3:24.7 which would have been good for 3rd in these trials. To put his race into perspective, TJ's first 200 was 23.1 which is faster then the school record for 200 meters.
The county all time record for the 4 X 400 meter relay is 3:24.4 by Lakewood at the Nationals in 2003. This record will come to Donovan in the next few weeks.
Results can be found here.
Photo's of the races click here.
