Cuyahoga Heights’ boys’ and Kirtland’s girls’ track teams won team titles at the 66th Annual Cuyahoga Heights Relays on Saturday.
“Last year, we were runner up here, had a nice meet, so we really wanted to make a run at it this year and try to get first place,” said Kirtland coach J. P. Moran. “We just had really outstanding performances; everybody was on point today.”
In fact, an important performance occurred in the last event of the day when the Kirtland girls’ 4×400-meter relay team consisting of Elise Beinhardt, Izzie Copeland, Megan Urbanick, and Sylvia Vosicky took first place, edging out Hubbard’s team by less than a second with a time of 4:32.99.
“We knew it would a tough one,” said Beinhardt, a sophomore. “We had to beat one team.”
Vosicky’s performance was especially impressive as she went on to earn the George Gross Outstanding Track Athlete award.
“Sylvia, she’s outstanding,” Moran said. “Pretty much for that race she comes from third to win it and that sealed her winning MVP of the meet along with us winning as a team. She just did an amazing job there.”
Kirtland also won the 4×1600 (Brynn Bradac, Ainsley Borthwick, Kaitlyn D’Amato, Delaney Kuczkowski), the 4×800 relay (Borthwick, Izzie Copeland, Kuczkowski, Vosicky), 800 sprint relay (Marissa Carmosino, Julia Fleming, Lauren Palagyi, Vosicky), and the 4000 distance medley (Borthwick, Copeland, Kuczkowski, Vosicky).”
Cuyahoga Heights’ boys’ team claimed wins in the 4×100, 4×200, 4×400, 4×800, 4×1600, and 4000 distance medley.
Independence’s boys’ team won the 4×100-meter relay, Trinity won the girls’ 4×100 and 4×200, and Cuyahoga Heights’ girls’ 4×100 finished first.
Cuyahoga Heights swept the boys’ awards.
Bradyn Rusch earned the Lenny Reichelt Outstanding Track Athlete award and Francis Connors was the recipient of the Bill Attewell Outstanding Field Athlete award.
Brooklyn’s Jenna Young claimed the Doug Amari Outstanding Field Athlete award in the girls’ competition.
