- Alex Polivka 

The Dawn DeHart Memorial Invitational at Loveland High School started at 9:30 in the morning on April 26th, 2008, with 15 high schools in attendance. The Turpin Spartans came into the stadium looking for a win, having come in the top three in the Milford Invitational the weekend before.

The Lady Spartans had the first official race of the meet in the 4 by 800 meter run, aside from the preliminary rounds that took place before it. The team consisting of Adele Literski, Jenny Beahr, Hannah Plattner, and Adrienne Grogan came in 4th place with a time of 10:26. Having qualified Junior Kristen Uhl and Senior Erin Kratzer in the prelims, both athletes came back to run the 100 meter hurdles, coming in 4th and 6th with times of 17.69 and 17.92, respectively. Two Spartans, Junior Kelly Mulrey and Sophomore Erica Zemites, also qualified in the 100 meter run, coming in 2nd and 5th with strong times of 13.08 and 13.53, also respectively. Another strong finish was run by the 4 by 200 team, which came in 3rd place. In the Mile run, Sophomore Jillian Jaworek, drawing from her success in the Milford Junior Varsity meet on April 22nd, ran another PR (personal record) in the mile, placing 6th with 5:43, with fellow sophomore Alexia Yun right behind her in 5:49. The first win for the Turpin girls came in the 4 by 100 meter team, who ran a 51.78 and was made up of Erica Zemites, Kelly Mulrey, Jesse Harrigan, and Erin Kratzer. The success continued in the individual 400 meter run as Junior Kaitlin Price, who had run in the mile and 800 meter run the previous night at the Darby Distance Classic, came in first place with a time of 1:02. She was followed closely by Sophomore Helen Gamez who ran a 4th place 1:05. In the 300 meter hurdles, sophomore Brooke Bonne came in 4th with 49.76 and Erin Kratzer came in 10th and 52.75. The combination of Kelly Mulrey and Erica Zemites returned in the 200 meter run as both qualified in prelims to run a 2nd place 26.5 and a 4th place 27.5, respectively, in the finals. The races finished with a bang for the Lady Spartans as the team of Erin Kratzer, Betsy Holcombe, Jesse Harrigan, and Kaitlin Price won the 4 by 400 meter in 4:18. The field events yielded some more wins as Freshman Meghan Rewick continued her victorious first high school season, winning the high jump, with fellow freshman Madeline Turk placing 6th in the high jump. Sophomore Hannah Zimmerman came in 2nd in the Pole Vault, Kelly Mulrey won the Long Jump, Senior Morgan Byrd placed 8th in the Shot Put, and in the Triple Jump, Erica Zemites and Jesse Harrigan came in 2nd and 3rd place, adding more points to the Girl’s strength. The Turpin Girl’s won the Dawn DeHart Memorial with a total of 135 points to Loveland’s 2nd place 122.5.

The Turpin Guys, having come in 3rd behind Winton Woods and cross-district rival Anderson at the Milford Invitational, looked to make more progress at the Loveland meet. The first event to be won was the 100 meter hurdles by Senior Danny Polaneczky in a time of 15.33. In the 100 meter run, junior Jon Denman came in 8th place with 12.2, and the 4 by 200 team came in 4th with a time of 1:35. In the mile run, Junior Drew DiSabatino, who had run in the Darby Distance Classic the night before, ran a 7th place 4:43 and Senior Ben Wagner, coming back from weeks of no practice and an 800 meter run the previous night, came in at 4:59. Senior Meecis Davis ran a strong 400 meter run, placing 2nd with a time of 52.8, while Senior Danny Polaneczky came back to win the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 41.11. Senior Rob DiMartino, also having run the mile and the 800 in the Darby Classic, ran the 800 meters in 2:02, placing 3rd, while Sophomore Alex Polivka made a PR of 2:06.9 in 10th. In the 200 meter run, Meecis Davis came to place 2nd with 23.08. The 3200 meter run (2 mile) was a strong win for Senior Kyle Rewick who came in 1st place with a PR of 9:49.72. Sophomore Nicholas El-Khoury, who had run the entire race and finished 2nd in 9:57 before Cincinnati Christian’s Josiah Bragg’s 10:02, was disqualified, regrettably, due to stepping over the line barrier. Both Rewick and El-Khoury had run in the 800 and 1600 at Darby the previous night. Finally, the boy’s 4x400 team, consisting of Meecis Davis, Ben Wagner, Danny Polaneczky, and Rob Dimartino, was disqualified while they were in 3rd place for dropping the baton. Over at the field events, Senior J.D. Emery placed 4th in the High Jump, Junior Derek Tucker won the Pole Vault with fellow Junior Cody Vanderpool placing in 5th, Senior Kyle Woodward came in 6th in the Long Jump, and Senior Kevin Marshall placed 2nd and 3rd in the Discus and Shot Put, respectively. The Turpin Guys, pushing through many competitive teams, ended up coming in 2nd place with 99 points to Anderson’s score of 127.5.

With a wide set of wins across the board at the Dawn DeHart Memorial, the Spartans now have a week to get ready for the King’s Invitational on May 6th. Congratulations to all the Spartan athletes for getting through one of the biggest meets of the season, and thank you to all the Turpin supporters who came to the Dawn DeHart.

Results

The SouthWest Ohio Coaches Classics meet enjoyed its 9th year with strong competition across the board on Wednesday, April 9th, and Friday, April 11th. Teams from across southwestern Ohio, including Mason, Sycamore, Anderson, St. Ursula, Moeller, and Turpin, sent their best to the Coach Classic Preliminary rounds at Mason, Milford, and Fairfield, where only the top four teams/runners in each event moved on to the Fairfield High School Finals on Friday. The Turpin Spartans travelled to Milford High School for the first day of the classics. The scoring part of the meet, not including the prelims to the sprinting events, started off smoothly for the Spartans with the girls and boys 4 by 800 meter relays. The girl’s team claimed an easy win as Kaitlin Price, Alexia Yun, Sam Patty, and Lauren Young set a time of 10:02 to travel to the Fairfield Finals. The guy’s relay, consisting of Ben Wagner, Alex Polivka, Nicholas El-Khoury, and Rob Dimartino, battled their way to the top seeded spot of the finals with a time of 8:25. Cutting to the sprinting events, freshman Stephanie Valenti qualified in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 17.9, while Senior Danny Polaneczky qualified in second place with a time of 15.3. Junior Kelly Mulrey qualified to Fairfield in the open 100 meter with a time of 12.7. The Spartans continued qualifying in the 4 by 200meter relays. The girl’s side, composed of Brooke Bonne, Erin Kratzer, Ashley Pinney, and Kelly Mulrey, claimed a second place finish in 1:52, while Brian Comerford, Andy Robinson, Danny Polaneczky, and Meecis Davis made their way to Fairfield with a 1:36 on the guy’s side.

In the 1600 meter run, Junior Kaitlin Price and Sophomore Megan Plichta represented the girls team. Plichta came in 3rd place with a time of 5:32, while Price finished close behind in 5:36. For the guy’s team, Senior Kyle Rewick qualified with a time of 4:39, winning the race, while Junior Drew Disabatino came in 5th, but with a personal best of 4:43. The female 4 by 100m team, run by Stephanie Valenti, Kelly Mulrey, Jesse Harrigan, and Erin Kratzer, won the race with a time of 52.2, while Junior Andy Robinson qualified to Fairfield in the 400 meter run with a time of 54.1. Both Erin Kratzer and Danny Polaneczky won their 300 meter hurdles races with times of 49.5 and 42.3, respectively. In the 800 meter runs, Kaitlin Price and Rob Dimartino came in 2nd with times of 2:29 and 2:09, respectively. Senior Sam Patty carried the 3200 meter run with a strong time of 11:24, followed by Junior Lauren Young’s qualifying time of 12:11. In the male 3200 race, Senior Kyle Rewick won another distance race with a time of 10:13, and qualified with Sophomore Nicholas El-Khoury, whose second place time of 10:22 sent him to Fairfield. Finally, in the running events, the Spartan girl’s relay, run by Helen Gamez, Kaitlin Price, Erin Kratzer, and Jesse Harrigan, came in 2nd in the 4 by 400 meter run with a time of 4:20, and the guy’s 4 by 400, run by Meecis Davis, Andy Robinson, Dale Becker, and Rob Dimartino, edged out Anderson’s relay to come in first with a time of 3:35.9. The field events had a wide range of qualifiers, with Senior Morgan Byrd in the Shot-Put, Senior Kevin Marshall in the Shot-Put and Discus Throw, Jesse Harrigan in the Long Jump, Freshman Meghan Rewick in the High Jump, Senior Dale Becker in the High Jump, Sophomore Hannah Zimmerman in the Pole Vault, and Junior Derek Tucker in the Pole Vault. This ended the first day of the Coaches Classics and all of the qualifying Spartans looked to make their mark on Friday at the Fairfield Finals.

The competition is always extremely fierce at the Coach Classics Finals. Looking back on last year’s cold, freezing finals; the Spartans came onto the starting line on the bright, but windy, day, knowing what they had to do. The Turpin girl’s team had some strong races, but were struggling to score a lot of points in the shorter races of the day. Kaitlin Price running in the 800 meter finals, scored 6th place and a time of 2:28.8, and 4th place in the 1600 meter run with a time of 5:31. Megan Plichta, also running the 1600, scored 9th with a time of 5:35. Sam Patty ran a tough race, competing against Brooklyn Ridder of Oak Hills and Alannah Sonntag of Sycamore, in the 3200 meters, coming in 2nd with a time of 11:33. Lauren Young came in 7th with a time of 12:01. In the girl’s 300 meter hurdles, Erin Kratzer came in 8th with a time of 49.17, and the earlier qualifying relay of the girl’s 4 by 100 came in 7th and at 52.43. The girl’s 4 by 200 team came in 8th with a time of 1:50, and the 4 by 400 team came in 7th as well. The girl’s 4 by 800, the first race of the day, came in 4th place with a time of 10:01. Over in the field events, Meghan Rewick tied for fourth place in the High Jump and Jesse Harrigan came in 6th in the Long Jump.

During the meet, the male Spartans found themselves in the same situation as the girl’s team: running well, but unable to score major points. Senior Kyle Rewick came in 6th in the 1600 meter run with a time of 4:46, and also came back to run a 10th place 10:26 two mile race. Sophomore Nicholas El-Khoury broke out in the last 200 meters of the two mile to place 7th with a time of 10:20. Senior Danny Polaneczky tied for 5th in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 16.41 and also ran an 8th place 42.45 300 meter hurdles race. The 4 by 400 relay came in 8th overall with a time of 3:33 and the 4 by 800 meter relay ended up coming in 6th with a time of 8:30. The field events had some scorers as well, as Senior Kevin Marshall came in 5th in the Shot-Put and 13th in the Discus. Juniors Derek Tucker and Cody Vanderpool placed 11th and 13th in the Pole Vault.

Overall the Turpin girl’s team placed 6th with 37.5 points, and the guy’s team came in 13th with 17.5 points. The Mason girls and LaSalle guys won the meet. For the first challenge of the season, the Turpin Track teams did well, showing they have something to look to and something to look back on, but also that they were a force not to go unnoticed. The Spartans are looking forward to the Milford Invitational on April 17th and 18th at Milford High School.

Results: Prelims, Finals
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Friday April 4, 2008

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Schedule is as follows:
Field Events begin at 4:30pm (discus, shot, high jump, long jump, pole vault)
4 x 1600m relay begins at 5:00pm
Running finals begin at 6:00pm

4 x 110m Hurdles
4 x 200m relay
4 x 800m relay
reserve 4 x 200m relay
sprint medley (100m, 100m, 200m, 400m)
distance medley (400m, 800m, 1200m, 1600m)
4 x 100m relay
1600m medley (200m, 200m, 400m, 800m)
3 x 300m hurdles
4 x 400m relay

The track schedule was last updated April 3. Please check for changes. More specific information regarding individual meets (start time) will be updated when it becomes available.

Welcome to the new website for Turpin Track.

The schedule for the 2008 track and field season is now available in Event Schedule. Please be aware that this schedule is preliminary and changes are likely. Keep checking back as the season nears for the most up-to-date information along with personalized Google Maps directions to meets.

Also note the following dates:
April 26: Prom
May 5-16: AP Exams (click here for the date of your exam)
May 7-9: Camp Kern session 1 (Mason Invite)
May 12-14: Camp Kern session 2 (League Meet)
May 14-16: Camp Kern session 3 (League Meet)