Girls Shine Bright at Night

From left to right: Caroline Onderko, Ali Wehrhahn, Shanna Ehlers, Chinonso Morsindi

Running at the Holmdel Twilight Series, the girls' team turned in several inspiring performances on Thursday night. Leading the way was the 4 x 400m team who shattered the school record with a time of 4:33.23. Chinonso Morsindi led off and set the tone with a strong 66.06s split. In the middle, Shanna Ehlers (70.5s) and Ali Wehrhahn (68.9s) pushed hard to keep under record pace; and put anchor Caroline Onderko (67.1s) in position to bring it home, which is just what she did as she made a hard move over the last 50 meters to seal a 3rd place finish in the heat.

In other action, Immaculata fielded its first ever Girls' Shuttle Hurdle relay (Kelly Griffin, Caroline Onderko, Kat Diana, Taylor Luger) which finished in an unofficial time of 1:23. All four members of the girls 4 x 800m (Ali Wehrhahn, Caroline Onderko, Carly Makowicz, Taylor Luger) collected seasonal best 800m splits on the way to a time of 11:30.29.  

And lastly, despite missing 2 members of its 'A' squad, the Boys' 4 x 100m showed some grit and fight competing in the fastest heat. Gianni Riga handed off to Kendall Davis, who then handed off to 400m/800m specialist Mark Schwalm. Schwalm then handed off to jack-of-all-trades Mike Paustian, who can now boast a range of 100m through 3200m on the track. He may or may not have completed 3 miles worth of a hard workout earlier in the afternoon before being called into action.

It was a fantastic night and meet put on by Holmdel HS.  Everyone stepped up and rose to the occasion. Next up for the Spartans is the Somerset County Relays on April 15, beginning at 9 a.m. at Ridge HS.

You can see the results of the Holmdel Twilight Series - Penn Qualifier here.