The Gilmour Academy girls indoor track & field club team topped the field at their season-ending meet this past weekend.
Gilmour's 55 points were the highest total of any girls team at the Division II/Division III Indoor Finale Meet held by the Ohio Association of Track & Cross Country Coaches. The meet, which featured more than 50 schools, was held at the SPIRE Institute.
Gilmour's performance was especially impressive as the Lancers were one of only two teams to even surpass 35 points. Gilmour was 20 points clear of the third-place team, the same margin that separated the team in third place from the team in 15th place.
The Lancers were led by their 4x400 relay team that finished first in 4:07.00. Their winning time was more than one second ahead of the runner-up and more than six seconds clear of the third-place team. Addie Nemeth '24, Kaleigh McNamara '22, Mary Lombardo '22 and Amy Weybrecht '24 comprised the winning group.
Lombardo and Weybrecht also featured prominently on Gilmour's runner-up 4x800 relay. Lombardo led off and was followed by Mia Polisena '22 and Caitrina Barton '21 before Weybrecht anchored the squad. The group finished in a season-best 9:55.83.
In the 800-meter run, Weybrecht took third as an individual, crossing the line in 2:16.26. Lombardo came in sixth in the same event, finishing in 2:23.65, as both Lancers reset their personal best in the event.
Before leading off the winning 4x400 relay, Nemeth and McNamara had also run the opening two legs on Gilmour's 4x200 relay squad. That quartet finished in third place in 1:48.03 as Karah Henderson '22 and Mariyah Moore '24 ran the closing legs.
Mackenzie Palinski '21 led Gilmour in the field events. She was the runner-up in the weight throw with a school-record fling of 51 feet, 5 inches. She also took sixth in the shot put with a mark of 35 feet, 3.5 inches.
Bella Lasecki '22 added a top-10 showing in the field events for Gilmour with her mark of 8 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault.
Two Lancers scored in the 60-meter hurdles to add to Gilmour's point total. Henderson placed fifth in 9.48 seconds while Edith Tomasek '23 was eighth in 10.31 seconds.
In the meet's quickest race, Moore came in sixth place in the 60-meter dash in 8.13 seconds.
After running on the 4x800 relay to begin her day, Barton then came back and easily surpassed her prior personal best in the 3200-meter run. She finished sixth in the event in a time of 11:17.48.
Nemeth (1:02.23) and McNamara (1:02.38) took ninth and 11th, respectively, in the 400-meter dash, with both times representing season bests. Polisena placed 10th in the 1600-meter run in a personal-best time of 5:32.42.
While only three boys competed in the meet for Gilmour, CJ Johnson '22 still ensured that the Lancers would earn some points. He placed sixth in the weight throw, easily surpassing his personal best, with a mark of 47 feet, 5 inches.
Gilmour's boys and girls track & field teams will begin their outdoor seasons Wednesday, April 7, by hosting a tri-meet at Weber Stadium.
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