Alumnus Alex Gold '13 ran 2:28:58 for 172nd place in the world's most famous running race, the Boston Marathon! Other DFDC Boston Marathon finishers today were Aaron Spak '15, Matt Gold '18, and Declan Black '19. Congrats!
With the wind howling at Niles North, we focused on racing smart and hard, prioritizing place over clock, and mission accomplished. Highlights:
B.Freedman and D.Kriegel 2-3 in the Dan Horyn Mile.
S.Chaban 2nd in the 3200m.
4x800 3rd
J.Fine: Frosh/soph 3200m champ.
Great day at New Trier for the frosh/soph distance runners. PRs all over the place!
2-Mile
Luo 10:07.19
I.Adler 11:35.78
800m
Reich 2:07.23
Bryan 2:17.45
Shulman 2:20.68 (pictured)
A.Adler 2:56.02
Mile
Fine 4:47.32
Shifrin 5:03.20
Borucki 5:04.49
Distance highlights from Deerfield Invite:
Ben Freedman 2:00.72 PR for 4th in the 800m
Jamie Chandler 2nd in the 3200m in 9:29.29
Hugo Albrecht-Buehler 10:09.22 PR
4x800m relay of Dowell, Kriegel, Chaban, Marks 8:25.51 for 4th
Great day for the frosh/soph at Barrington yesterday. The young guys are showing big things!
Distance highlight of the meet: 2nd place Distance Medley Relay team of Jasper Fine, Wade Perrelli, Ethan Reich, and Logan Luo.
EPIC moment at Lake County last night! Noelan Tossing's foot got ripped by somebody's spike in a collision that caused a race re-start. He insisted on still racing. He proceeded to win the heat in a 5-sec mile PR of 4:42 on a bloody foot that got five stitches later that night.
6 distance freshmen, 4 distance events.
March 17 CSL South Indoor: 9 points
May 12 CSL South Outdoor: 24 points
That's a trend 📈
s/o to Beckett Shifrin who got third as part of the 4x800, third in the 3200m (10:48), and fourth in the 1600m (5:07), and is now very sore :)
Congrats to our newest sub-5:00 miler Beckett Shifrin! He ran 4:57.48 on Monday. That puts our team total at 16 sub-5 milers this season!
Also, big PRs and second place finishes from both Hugo Albrecht-Buehler in the two-mile (10:02.23) and Logan Luo in the mile (4:42.46).
🚨STATE QUALIFIER ANDREW CALDERON!🚨
1600m run - 4:20.83
The smallest runner in a crowded field was bumped to the back right away.
1st lap - 12th
2nd lap - 12th
3rd lap - 7th
Finish - 3rd
9th seed coming in. 3rd place finish.
Three second PR. One second under the state cut.
Congrats to junior (rising senior?) Hugo Albrecht-Buehler on placing 5th in the North Shore Classic Half Marathon in 1:17:06! And to alum Dylan Cohen '24 for 9th place in 1:20:39!
A great five days with 18 DFDC runners at Great Lakes XC camp! Lots of learning and hard running to be the best runners we can be. Congrats to Andrew and Hugo for finishing in the camp's top 10 and to Scott for finishing 11th!