Outdoor Track 2008-2009
Girls Outdoor Track Liberty District Champions!
Members of the Thomas Jefferson Girls 2009 Liberty District Outdoor Track and Field Champions with Coach Jeff James standing on the right.
Team results follow the rosters.
Girls Track Team
Boys Track Team
| Schedule * | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Opponent | Location | Time |
| 3/25/09 | South Lakes | A | 5:00 |
| 4/01/09 | McLean Stone Bridge |
H | 5:00 |
| 4/15/09 | Madison Marshall |
Madison | 5:00 |
| 4/29/09 | Langley Stone Bridge |
H | 5:00 |
| 5/09/09 | Penultimate | H | |
| May 14, 15, 2009 | District Tournament | H | 5:30 |
| Region Tournament | |||
* League competition. See the track website for the complete outdoor track schedule.
Coaches – Jeff James & Matt Ryan
| Varsity Girls Track Roster | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Grade | Name | Grade |
| Tien N Bui | 9 | Katherine E Lin | 10 |
| Leila R Bushman | 12 | Andrea S Lorico | 10 |
| Elaine Chen | 9 | Ronit E Malka | 10 |
| Margaret M Coad | 10 | Stephanie A Marris | 12 |
| Claire L Cooper | 10 | Stephanie E Marzen | 10 |
| Rebecca L Corey | 12 | Kathryn A Moore | 11 |
| Temple A Douglas | 11 | Kimberly M Moore | 11 |
| Rita M Dwivedy | 9 | Nadya D Muchoney | 12 |
| Elizabeth R Ellor | 9 | Katherine M Neitzke | 12 |
| Tania P Ermak | 9 | Sarah E Nielsen | 9 |
| Marie J French | 11 | Moira Poje | 10 |
| Nora Z Gayer | 11 | Karishma A Popli | 9 |
| Amanda E Gilbert | 11 | Perisa Ruhi | 12 |
| Sara N Gokturk | 10 | Kathleen M Ryan | 12 |
| Laura K Handley | 10 | Victoria M Saadat | 12 |
| Julie V Hansen | 11 | Megan Y Sagurton | 11 |
| Christine W Harris | 9 | Katherine G Sanders | 9 |
| Kelly Ivins-Okeef | 10 | Gayatri Sardana | 9 |
| Holly M Jachowski | 10 | Neesha R Schnepf | 12 |
| Ryan M Johnson | 12 | Rekha R Schnepf | 9 |
| Lisa M Junta | 10 | Katherine A Sheridan | 9 |
| Deborah King | 9 | Sarah A Stites | 9 |
| Kathryn A Kingsbury | 10 | Ayaka Sugiura | 11 |
| Candice L Kremer | 11 | Jessica L Ungerleider | 12 |
| Rachel L Kuprenas | 10 | Kelly E Watson | 12 |
| Lauren D Laffosse | 11 | Sarah C Watson | 11 |
| Ji(Amber) Y Lee | 10 | Ciara Prencipe | 10 |
| Darcey Pancoast | 10 | Priya Patel | 11 |
| Varsity Boys Track Roster | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Grade | Name | Grade |
| Amer Ahmed | 11 | Eric J McShane | 9 |
| John R Anderson | 11 | Timothy L Meyer | 10 |
| Ryan S Anderson | 9 | Jacob A Miller | 9 |
| Matthew D Baron | 9 | Neal Milstein | 10 |
| Samuel F Brinton | 11 | Robert Orleans-Pobee | 10 |
| Zach A Brunt | 10 | Jonathan T Phillips | 10 |
| Michael D Bunting | 9 | Arvind Rachamadugu | 12 |
| James(Mic) M Byrne | 11 | Ian Rappaport | 11 |
| Edward J Cai | 9 | Syfuddin M Rashid | 11 |
| Matthew F Callahan | 9 | Joseph V Reilly | 12 |
| Neal M Chadudhuri | 9 | John B Reiter | 10 |
| Nimesh Chakravarthi | 10 | Patrick Roemer | 10 |
| Matthew S Chan | 11 | Christopher L Rom | 9 |
| Alex X Chen | 9 | Stanislav Schaller | 9 |
| Mark Cheung | 11 | Joseph Scholle | 11 |
| Chao-Cheng Chou | 10 | Ahshay Seth | 10 |
| Jerold W Council | 11 | James J Skehan | 10 |
| Edward (Ned) J Danyliw | 9 | Karl A Sofinowski | 11 |
| Amar N Desai | 12 | Jonathan P Sredl | 11 |
| Lawrence Diao | 11 | Kevin C Stahl | 10 |
| Colin R Donahue | 11 | Joel M Stein | 12 |
| Maximilian G Dreo | 12 | Zachary J Sturm | 9 |
| Timothy M Galvin | 12 | Jaewon Suh | 9 |
| Logan M Gates | 12 | John J Sullivan | 11 |
| Samuel F Girvin | 9 | Thomas P Tapen | 9 |
| Dasith Gunawardhana | 9 | Timothy H Tran | 10 |
| Jonathan Hahn | 10 | Shawn Tsutsui | 9 |
| Jacob F Hanger | 12 | Greg C Vernon | 12 |
| Connor T Hann | 9 | He(Richard) Wan | 9 |
| Richie N Hernandez | 10 | David A Warrington | 11 |
| Joseph K Jachowski | 11 | Alexander J Witko | 12 |
| Steven T Jackson | 10 | James F Wu | 11 |
| William A Johnston | 9 | Joseph Xu | 12 |
| Dylan M Keightley | 9 | Noah Yoo | 9 |
| Daniel E Keramat | 12 | Choong-Seoup Youn | 10 |
| David M Kim | 12 | Victor G Yu | 11 |
| George M Liang | 9 | Marvin S Yuen | 12 |
| Mo Yang Lu | 11 | Kerry P Zhang | 9 |
| Colin J Maloney | 11 | Jacob M Zucker | 9 |
| William C Manaker | 11 | Andrew J Zukosky | 12 |
| Daniel W Markwalter | 12 | ||
Team Results
TJ Girls 1st, Boys 2nd at Liberty District Championship
The TJ girls team claimed the Liberty District Championship by accumulating 140 points during the 2-day competition held on May 14-15, easily outscoring 2nd place Stone Bridge's 104 points. The TJ boys' team pulled out a 96-point tie for 2nd place with Stone Bridge, thanks to a dramatic come from behind win in the final event — the rain-delayed 4x800m relay. Jefferson had six individual District Champions and two Championship relay teams.
Lauren Laffosse claimed TJ's first championship of the meet with a convincing win in the girls' pole vault at 9'6". Also winning 1st place for TJ girls was smooth running Kathryn Moore in the 300m intermediate hurdles with a winning time of 47.63, and Sarah Stites who churned out a gutsy performance of 11:28.31 to win the 3200m. TJ boys were led by school-record-holder Dan Markwalter who won the boys pole vault in 12'6". Dan was joined in the winners' circle by Timmy Galvin whose tremendous sprint at the end of the 1600m produced a winning time of 4:29.24. Alex Witko rounded out TJ's individual District Champions with his solid victory in the 3200m in 9:54.42.
Also claiming 1st place was the TJ Girls 4x800m relay team of Ronit Malka, Kimee Moore, Sarah Nielsen, and Moira Poje with a winning time of 9:52.01, and the TJ Boys 4x800m relay of Jacob Hanger, Logan Gates, Timothy Tran, and Timmy Galvin who claimed the District Championship in very dramatic style with an exhilarating come from behind victory and an excellent time of 8:16.91.
Several other Jefferson athletes earned All-District Honors including Katherine Sheridan (2nd 1600m, 5:10.16; and 2nd 3200m, 11:30.62), Arvind Rachamadugu (2nd long jump, 20'2"; 2nd triple jump, 41'11"), Nora Gayer (2nd high jump, 5'2"), Amanda Gilbert's (2nd pole vault, 7'6"), Kimee Moore (2nd 800m, 2:22.71), Alex Witko (2nd 1600m, 4:36.72), Sara Gokturk (3rd shot put, 31'7"; and 3rd discus, 90'8"), Ayka Sugiura (3rd pole vault, 7'6"), Lauren Laffosse (3rd long jump, 15'7"), Ryan Johnson (3rd 100m hurdles, 17.29), Ronit Malka (3rd 800m, 2:23.11), Stephanie Marzen (3rd 1600m. 5:11.74), Andrew Zukosky (3rd pole vault, 11'6"), Girls 4x400m relay team of Kathryn Moore, Tanya Ermak, Rebecca Corey, and Kimee Moore (3rd in 4:07.32), the Boys 4x400m relay team of Colin Donahue, Arvind Rachamadugu, Jack Sullivan, and Jacob Hanger (3rd in 3:31.53), Neesha Schnepf (4th 3200m, 11:37.64), Timmy Galvin (4th 800m, 2:03.73), Jimmy Wu (4th 3200m, 10:00.05), Candice Kremer (5th 100m hurdles, 17.73; and 5th long jump, 15'4.25"), Colin Donahue (5th 400m, 52.37), Patrick Roemer (5th pole vault, 10'6"), Sy Rashid (6th 400m, 52.38), Jonathon Phillips (6th 1600m, 4:40.45), Max Dreo (6th 3200m, 10:05.63), and Ed Cai (6th triple jump: 39'6").
Congratulations to all of the All-District performers!!!
TJ Penultimate Experience Produces Great Performances
In their final performance before the Liberty District Outdoor Track & Field Championship competition begins on May 14, the TJ girls team claimed 1st place at the Penultimate Meet on May 9th out of 20 teams by accumulating 125 points… more than double 2nd place W.T. Woodson's 57 points. The boys' teams took 6th out of 17 schools with 46 points.
TJ had four 1st place finishers: Nora Gayer (high jump), Sara Gokturk (discus), Katherine Sheridan (800m) and Dan Markwalter (pole vault). As she did the previous week, Nora Gayer led off a great team effort by TJ girls when she won the high jump with a state-qualifying leap of 5'2", equaling her personal record (PR). Sara Gokturk took 1st place in the girls discus with a PR and district-standard surpassing throw of 96'6". Also winning 1st place for TJ girls was Katherine Sheridan in the 800m with a winning time of 2:21.62. TJ boys were led by Dan Markwalter who won the boys pole vault with a PR and state-qualifying vault of 13'6". TJ had five 2nd place finishers: Kathryn Moore (48.34 in the 300m hurdles), Ronit Malka (2:22.84 in the 800m), Sarah Stites (5:18.44 in the 1600m), Lauren Laffosse (15'6.25" in the long jump), and Timmy Galvin (2:00.16 in the 800m).
Katherine Sheridan of Jefferson outpaces teammate Ronit Malka and two Oakton runners for first place in the 800m run in a time of 2:21.62.
Photo by Maurice Malka
TJ had four individual 3rd place finishers and a 3rd place relay team: Stephanie Marzen (5:19.87 in the 1600m); Tania Ermak (15'4" in the long jump); Lauren Laffosse (8' in the pole vault); Arvind Rachamadugu (42'8" in the triple jump), and the boys 4x400m relay team of Colin Donahue, Arvind Rachamadugu, Sy Rashid, and Jacob Hanger who ran a regional-qualifying time of 3:27.26.