MSTCA Coaches Elite Invitational (MA)
Can US #3 Joe Luongo crack 1:21 in the 600m for the first time this season? Better yet, can he improve upon his 1:20 personal record?
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Gianna Mastrometteo is just one of several sophomores dominating the national 1k leaderboard this season. The St. Peter-Marian (MA) athlete blasted 2:56.27 at the MSTCA Auerbach Freshman-Sophomore Small Schools meet earlier this month. She'll look to better her US #9 mark with some company this weekend, as Newton South's Clare Martin (US #19 2:58.68 season-best) and Cambridge R&L's Maya Halprin-Adams (US #20 2:58.69 season-best, 2:53.17 personal best) have also broken three minutes this season. Rita Maurais (Hopedale, MA) also enters with a 2:58.15 personal best.
Halprin-Adams is also on the start list for the 600m, where she has a US #18 1:37.41 mark so far this year. Lucy Lang (Lexington, MA) owns the top performance so far this year with her US #10 1:36.23, though Kate Gobi (Wachusett, MA) enters as the top seed. The junior owns a personal best of 1:35.28, though she has raced only 1:45.8 so far this season.
In the Mile, Emily DeMarco (Ipswich, MA) will look to improve her US #21 5:05.98 mark. She'll be pushed by sub-five miler Olivia Lantz (Man Essex, MA). DeMarco will go for a double, as she returns in the 2 Mile versus US #13 11:12.78 performer Emily Bryson (No. Quincy).
King Philip Regional will look to break four minutes in the 4x400m and snap the top nationwide top 10. They currently rank US #17 at 4:01.28.
In the Boys 300m, it's all about Chris Jewett (Woburn, MA), currently ranked US #15 at 34.84. He will need to get under 34.70 to mix it up in the national top ten. The mark is already a two-second personal best for Jewett since 2014. Look out for the unknown in Abu Ceesay (Norton, MA), who is currently US #21 35.11 with just one career race under his belt.
The Boys 600m run features US #3 1:21.08 performer Joe Luongo (St. John's Prep), who owns a career-best of 1:20.05. Other top 25 national performers include Allen Vance (Amherst-Pelham) and Esu Alemseged (Cambridge R&L), who will also be a top competitor in the Mile alongside top seed Andrew Ernst (Marblehead), who has already clocked US #10 4:17.24 this year.
The nation's fastest returner for 1k in Everest Crawford (Gloucester) makes his season debut in the distance two weeks after running 4:25 for the Mile at the Dartmouth Relays. The senior ran 2:26.11 last season and will face P.J. Garmon, who has starred on the Billerica distance relays all season and has a 1:54.55 800m credit to his name this indoor season.
US #14 6-7.25 high jumper Kevin Hack (Nipmuc) will look to get over 6-8 and crack the national top ten standings.
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