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Glenbrook South’s DeVito casts designs on medal at state meet

March 20, 2012 By

(Glenview Announcements)  Glenbrook South distance runner Danielle DeVito is looking to strike it big in 2012.

Last spring DeVito took 13th in the 3,200-meter run (11:14.98) at the IHSA Class 3A girls track state meet, falling just short of all-state honors awarded to the top nine finishers. In the fall, the senior placed 27th at the Class 3A cross country state meet, with all-state honors given to the top 25 runners.

It looks like it could be that breakthrough season for DeVito. She already bested her state-meet time by running 11:14.1 at the CSL South indoor meet on March 15 and is well ahead of where she was in the spring of 2011.

“I’m definitely ahead of where I want to be right now,” DeVito said. “My cross country training helped and it carried over into track season.

“I’m trying to make it in the 10’s this year and we’ll see how it goes. Staying healthy and getting good practice in, it should be easy to get there.”

Titans head coach Fred Kocian likes what he’s seen from DeVito so far. She finished just 7.7 seconds behind New Trier’s Jessica Ackerman last week, taking third place. Ackerman was second at state last year in the 3,200.

“The (indoor) school record before this year was 11:53 and she’s run an 11:14, so she dropped 40 seconds,” Kocian said. “She knows the pace, she knows how to control it. She ran with two all-state runners and never let them get away from her until the last couple laps. She has closed the gap on those people.”

Glenbrook South has one other athlete returning who also made it to state last year. Sophomore sprinter Danielle Yapor won the 400 at sectionals with a time of 1:00.1. She took sixth in her heat at state in 1:00.87 and didn’t advance to the finals.

“She’s been sick on and off during the indoor season, so it’s been hard to gauge her,” Kocian said. “She’s running heavy-legged right now.”

Yapor could be moving to the 800 this season and will also jump for Glenbrook South. She took second in the long jump (16-feet-4) at the conference indoor meet.

Anastasia Athas will be another Titan to watch for this season. She placed second in the triple jump (34-3) and third in long jump (16-1.5) at the CSL South meet.

“She jumped even better than she did last year at outdoor, so that was a very good job on that,” Kocian. “She really put in the work in the offseason. She’s doing everything she can.”

Glenbrook South featured a couple of promising shot putters who did well in the conference meet. Tina Brkovic took second with a toss of 29-10 1/2, while Jessica Galemore was fourth at 29-6 1/2.

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Titans Chase The Pack At Indoor Conference

March 20, 2012 By

(Journal Online)  Even though the record temperatures tempt the track and field athletes to get outside, they still have to compete indoors.

Last week the Glenbrook South boys and girls teams capped off their indoor seasons at the Central Suburban League-South indoor conference meet.

Girls

The Lady Titans competed with a tough pack from New Trier, Niles West and Maine South. The difference between 1st and 3rd was only 10 points.

But Glenbrook South maintained for a solid 4th place out of the six competing teams in Glenview last Thursday.

“Overall it was highly competitive, but everyone was doing their best,” said GBS coach Fred Kocian.

New Trier was crowned champion with 113 points followed by Niles West (105), Maine South (103), Glenbrook South (68), Waukegan (59) and Evanston (12).

Leading the way for the Lady Titans was senior Danielle Devito. The distance runner scored major points for the team in the 2-mile run going toe-to-toe with her former cross country foes.

Three of the event’s top six finishers placed in the top 30 at state cross country in November, including Devito.

Devito placed 3rd in 11:14, which is about 40 seconds faster from her time last year, Kocian said.

She raced 18 laps in a close pace behind New Trier’s Jessica Ackerman (1st, 11:06) and Maine South’s Emily Leonard (2nd, 11:09). At cross country state, Leonard placed 6th (17:00) and Ackerman in 11th (17:11) on the 3-mile course.

Ackerman’s sister, Courtney, was the star of the 1-mile run placing 1st in 4:58 breaking the Glenbrook South fieldhouse record.

Maine South’s Megan Lemersal placed 2nd (5:11.70), New Trier’s Mimi Smith in 3rd (5:12.70), followed by Leonard in 4th (5:22.10) and Devito in 5th (5:32.10). The top four finishers in the 1-mile all placed in the top 10 in November.

Also scoring points for the team was returning state qualifier and sectional-champ Danielle Yapur. The sophomore has been battling sickness and leg pains, but placed 4th in the 400-meter dash in 1:04.40. Maine South’s Emma Ropski took 1st in 1:03.50.

Yapur performed up to par in the long jump placing 2nd clearing 16-feet, 4-inches. Teammate Anastasia Athas placed 3rd in 16’1.5.”

Athas went on to place 2nd in the triple jump reaching a 34 foot, 3-inch distance, which is farther than she reached all of last year.

Also in the field scoring for the team was Tina Brkovic who placed 2nd throwing 29’10.5.” Teammate Jessica Galemore placed 4th throwing 29’6.5.”

A strong performance came from the 4×800 meter relay with Shannon Carroll, Yapur, Melissa Bastanipour and Nikki Wells placing 3rd in 10:31.70.

“Their time was the best of the season and one of the best in the last four to five years,” Kocian said.

Boys

The Titans had close finishes and strong performances at Evanston last Friday. The team knew Evanston was a fierce opponent––the Wildkits were later crowned indoor conference champ with 163 points.

But GBS was close to finishing as runner up. New Trier touched them out with 93.5 points and the Titans finished 3rd with 90.

“For us it was just another invite. We were in a good position and Evanston ran away,” said GBS coach Kurt Hasenstein.

Running with the pack was Titan senior Sam Stanek in the 800 meter run.

The marquee event featured Maine South’s Michal Filipczak who placed 2nd at state last year in the event.

“That last lap was the race of the night,” Hasenstein said.

New Trier’s Leland Later broke through finishing 1st in 1:58.60, Filipczak in 2nd (1:58.80) with Evanston’s Aaron Mann in 3rd (2:02.90) and Stanek in 4th (2:04.60).

The Titans picked up some more points with sophomore David O’Gara in the 2-mile run. He set the sophomore school record with his 3rd place finish in 10:02.60.

Senior Max Leonard surprised some competitors in the shot put. He was seeded 4th but broke through to place 2nd throwing 47-feet, 11-inches.

Scoring the most points for the team though was Ose llenikhena with his 2nd place in the high jump (6’2”) and 3rd in the long jump (20’4.5”).

One of the team’s best performances came in the 4-lap relay. Marsean Hood, Yassine Taib, Ben Thompson and Malcolm Engel placed 2nd in 1:16.40.

“It’s about as fast as we ever ran it,” Hasenstein said.

Evanston beat them by one second finishing in 1:15.10.

Also scoring for the team were: Eric Finzer’s 3rd place finish in the pole vault (10’6”), Hood with a personal record in the 200 meter dash (3rd, 23.8), Austin Dickholtz tying his best time in the 400 meter dash (3rd, 53.8) and Gus Shipp placing 2nd in the high hurdles (7.66).

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GBS make strides at indoor meet against GBN – DeVito hits personal best in 3,200-meter run

March 2, 2012 By

(Glenview Lantern)  The Glenbrook North and South girls’ track teams continued to prepare for the outdoor season on Tuesday, Feb. 28, with an indoor quad meet with Niles North and Maine East at GBN.

Team scores weren’t kept, but both GBS coach Fred Kocian and GBN coach Meaghan Clavey had a few standouts at the meet.

“The Bobart twins, [Cassandra and Valerie], are doing real well. Ashley Cohn on shot put is always great,” Clavey said. “I’m trying to keep the team motivated.”

GBS started the meet strong, as distance runner Danielle DeVito broke her personal best in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11 minutes, 28.23 seconds. Kocian said DeVito beat her personal best in the race by a full 10 seconds and met her goal of finishing in less than 11:30. This time, if repeated at conference, would get her into the fastest heat at state for the first time, Kocian said.

“It was a 10-second increase from a few weeks ago. I’m pretty happy,” DeVito said. “[Kocian] knew I wanted to go real hard, so he was making sure I was on pace.”

Cohn performed well in the shot put, taking first with a throw of 31 feet, 4 inches. Diana Boyer placed second in the pole vault with a mark of 7-6.

GBN’s Annie Urbanczyk finished with a 7.14 in the 50, winning her heat and holding the top time until GBS’s Olivia Maj clocked a 7.06. Urbanczyk’s time, however, still represented a new personal best for her.

Clavey said she is proud of her athletes’ progress so far and sees a big improvement over last year’s team. She said she wants her Spartans to be more goal-oriented and has tried several different tactics to make that happen.

“I have the write down goals after every meet,” Clavey said. “They have a different mindset this season. I want them to be focused.”

Kocian’s team had a few winners in the meet as well.

Danielle Yapor competed in several events for the first time, including the 1,600 relay with DeVito, Melissa Bastanipour and Michelle Dume. The team clocked a time of 7:37.83.

Bastanipour was a multi-threat in the GBN fieldhouse, recording a time of 10.59 on the 55-meter high hurdles and taking first in the 1,600 run with a 6:14 mile.

GBS also dominated the long jump, taking the top three spots in the event. Anastasia Athas took first with a monster leap of 16-1.5, Yapor placed second with a jump of 15-3.5, and Mary Anderson placed third with a 14-3 jump.

Kocian said he was happy with his team’s progress in its fourth indoor meet and is already looking forward to state.

“They’re putting the time and effort into their workouts,” Kocian said. “We’re right on pace. All in all people are competing, and that’s what’s important. They’re running hard. They take a lot of pride in what they’re doing.”

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Titans boys track and field team finds strength in numbers

February 23, 2012 By

(Glenview Lantern)  There’s no shortage of spring sports at the high school level.

With baseball, volleyball and lacrosse splitting the interest of males athletes at Glenbrook South, it’s not easy for any one team to gain a substantial amount of depth.

But the Titans boys track and field team was able to do just that.

Carrying nearly 120 athletes on the roster, the Titans have been able to enter the 2012 season with athletes eager to compete, a trait coach Kurt Hasenstein recognizes as winning half the battle.

“We’re getting extra points because some of the other teams don’t have hurdlers or they don’t have jumper,” he said. “Kids don’t want to be on teams that aren’t doing well. Its more fun to be on a successful team.”

Hasenstein, a physical education teach at GBS, does his best to recruit for his team.

He’s aware that athletes may switch to different sports as the spring season progresses, but said he is always welcome to letting anyone give the sport a chance.

“At least you’ll know what we’re about,” he said. “And if you don’t make it [in other sports] you can come back. It’s a win-win for the kids. To me, it’s very important. I just want kids to have a good experience.”

Of the near 120 student athletes on the roster, about 75 are underclassmen and around 45 are freshman.

But as important as it may be to fill a roster with younger, up-and-comers, the Titans will continue to rely heavily on experience as the year goes on.

Senior Gus Shipp is one of the top returning hurdlers in the conference and figures to be among the elite come the postseason.

Sam Stanek, an all-conference cross country runner, brings a winning mindset to the team, as does Ose Ilenikhena, a GBS football player who has had success with long jump in the past.

Hasenstein said that while he considers the depth of the team to be extremely important, having experienced athletes is what allows teams to achieve consistent success.

“They just have a different confidence level,” he said. “They’ve been there and done that before. They’re not really nervous. They’re out there to compete. And they set the tone for the younger kids, too.”

Unlike in year’s past, GBS doesn’t have a strong presence among returning sprinters.

Short sprint may cause somewhat of a problem for the team, but Hasenstein said he and the team hopes that, because of their strength in other areas, the Titans will be able to finish in the top half of the Central Suburban League South conference.

“It’s a competitive league and we want to make sure we’re able to compete,” he said. “If we finish in the top half, we think that’s a pretty solid performance for our team.”

Girls track and field

If the indoor season carries any weight, the Glenbrook South girls track and field team could be in store for a successful season.

Danielle DeVito, a state qualifying cross-country runner, has already shaved 14 seconds off of her school record 3200 meter run time, and Anastasia Athas is achieving the best triple jump distances of her career.

While coach Fred Kocain was hesitant to invest to heavily into his team’s indoor success, he did say that the Titans’ early success could go a long

way.

“It’s important because you get good confidence” he said. “Sometimes doing well early just makes you hungry to keep improving throughout the season.”

Typically, the indoor season allows coaches to develop a solid understanding of their team, helping them figure out who will compete in which events come the outdoor season.

There has been no shortage of names sticking out for Kocain.

Sophomore Danielle Yapor returns after qualifying for state in the 400 last season, Melissa Bastanipour has made a successful switch to the 800 and has also performed well on hurdles and Jessica Galemore has consistently produced in the shot put.

But it’s the jumpers that have stolen the show.

Outside of Athas’ improvments, Mary Anderson and Gina Lathrop have also done well enough for Kocain to consider long and triple jumps to be among the strong points of his

team.

“For our school, having three jumpers jumping over 16 feet is good,” he said. “This, more than any other year, I see the jumps coach working with them and working through a lot of it earlier on.”

It’s no coincidence that the Titans are excelling with their jumps.

Kocian made concentrated effort to shift some of his better sprinters towards the events, but it didn’t come without an expense.

While the girls may have a better chance to qualify for state with their newfound skills, it may leave the team short on experienced sprinters.

“With sprints, either you have the speed or you don’t,” Kocian said. “You can’t take a person that is just naturally slow and make them fast. That takes a heck of a lot of

work.”

Like so many times before, much of the focus may land on DeVito.

Having already cut down on her state-qualifying 3200 time from last season, and with a new-found confidence after signing on to run at Bradley University, the sky could be the limit for her success.

“The longer the race, the closer she is at being better and better,” Kocian said.

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Strickland Just Misses Cutoff

June 3, 2011 By

(Journal Online) The boys competed last weekend at EIU. Glenbrook South’s lone qualifier was senior John Strickland. He placed 2nd in the long jump at sectionals next to Prospect’s elite Nick Batcha.

Strickland did not make it past Friday’s preliminaries. He jumped 21’5.75″ placing 3rd, just missing the cutoff. Batcha jumped just ahead of him in 2nd by 21’8.5.”

Loyola qualified three individuals but had a hard time getting out of the gate, too.

Jeff Toraason was crowned sectional champion in the high jump, but didn’t make the cutoff for Saturday’s finals.

Todd Ford placed 4th at sectionals in the 1600-meter run. He also didn’t make the cutoff. He placed 9th in the first heat of the prelims in 4:31.72.

William Hague was the lone surviving Rambler to compete in Saturday’s finals. He placed 28th in the 3200-meter run in 9:43.36.

Girls

The girls competed at EIU on May 21. Glenbrook South had two girls qualify with one advancing to the finals.

Senior Danielle DeVito placed 13th in 11:14.98 in the 3200-meter run, dropping eight seconds off her sectional time for a personal record.

Freshman Danielle Yapor qualified in the 400-meter dash, but didn’t make it past preliminaries. She finished 6th in the third heat in 1:00.87.

Loyola had a hard time advancing out of preliminaries as well. Both Katie Simons and Stacey Weaver placed 4th in their heat with a height of nine feet in the pole vault, but it wasn’t enough to advance.

Michelle Ricolcol did not survive preliminaries in the triple jump. She placed 7th in the second heat in 33’11.25.”

Bridget Doyle achieved no height in the high jump, not advancing to the finals.

Jackie McDonnell and Rachel Price couldn’t find the speed in the 800-meter run to advance. They finished in 2:18.14 and 2:17.77 respectively.

No Shortage Of Highlights In Another Strong Titan Season

 

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Danielle Yapor competes at State Meet

May 27, 2011 By

Glenbrook South’s Danielle Yapor ended her first high school season by competing at the State Meet in Charleston.

The freshman ran a 1:00.87 in the 400 meters, but missed advancing to the finals at O’Brien Stadium.

 

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DeVito 3,200 state berth eases disappointment

May 19, 2011 By

(Glenview Announcements) After finishing fourth in the 3,200 at Thursday’s Class 3A Loyola Sectional, Glenbrook South’s Danielle DeVito waited nervously to find out her official time.

The track’s public address announcer built the suspense even more.

“They announced over the speaker that ‘Danielle DeVito came in fourth,’ then they paused and I was like ‘Oh my God!’ Then, they said ‘ … and will be advancing to the State Meet,” DeVito said.

DeVito’s time of 11:22.01 was the second best of her career and came in just under the state-qualifying standard of 11:22.04.

This weekend, the junior heads down to Charleston to make her second appearance at the IHSA Class 3A State Meet. She also ran the 3,200 at last year’s event.

DeVito was one of two Glenbrook South runners to qualify for this year’s finals, along with freshman Danielle Yapor, winner of the 400 meters at the sectional.

“We got down the people we wanted. In both cases it was close, but not that close,” said GBS head coach Fred Kocian. “DeVito ran the qualifying time and ran a great race. Though the qualifying time just got harder (this year).

“Yapor led wire-to-wire in the 400. She didn’t run the qualifying time, but it gets her down.”

Kocian believes DeVito’s State Meet seasoning will be valuable to her this weekend, and he said the runner should benefit from competing in the slower of the two heats.

“I think (experience) should count for something,” he said. “She knows the track and the competition, she knows the tactics and we’re hoping she can have the same type of time drop she did last year.

“Downstate, the competition will be closer and she’ll have more people to run with and pace her. She tried to go out with the faster people in the conference and sectional, and was not quite ready for that pace.”

DeVito narrowly missed qualifying for state in cross country last fall and said she is pleased to be back running among the state’s elite.

“In cross country, I missed state by two places. I went Downstate in track last year and I wanted to prove I was still good enough to be down there again,” she said.

Yapor, who ran a 1:00.10 in the 400, prepares to make her first Downstate appearance. Kocian said the trip will mostly be about gaining experience.

“We want her to get inspired and get a taste of it and a feel of it,” he said. “She has a few more years and we will look for an event in which she can (eventually) place.

“(Yapor) is a true athlete. Whatever she would attempt in sports, she would have a measure of success in. She has a good competitive attitude and work ethic.”

Yapor said the trip to State will be a great way to complete her first season of organized track.

“It’s been really exciting. I’ve never done track before,” she said. “I like it, but the practices are tough. But it really pays off in the end.”

Junior Mary Anderson finished fourth in the 400 (1:02.15), earning four points for the Titans.

Also scoring for Glenbrook South at the sectional were Yapor in the 200 meters (4th, 26.91) and freshman Anastasia Athas in the long jump (16-feet-2) and triple jump (33-1 1/2).

The Titans (29 points) finished eighth in the 12-team sectional.

 

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Pair of Titans Advance to State Championships

May 13, 2011 By

(Glenview Patch) Danielle DeVito knew she was cutting it close in the 3200 run. Behind the three front runners, DeVito’s only shot at getting to the state championships was getting under the IHSA qualifying time of 11:22.04.

“Coming down the home stretch I was looking at the clock, sprinting and sprinting,” DeVito told Patch. “I crossed and thought it was going to be very close so I was scared.”

DeVito’s final time: 11:22.01 (read: she qualified for state by three one-hundredths of a second at the IHSA Class 3A Wilmette Sectional). DeVito went to state in the 3200 last year when the qualifying time was nine seconds slower.

The junior distance runner was one of two Glenbrook South athletes to qualify for the state championships. Danielle Yapor edged out Niles North’s Kiana Foreman to win the 400 by .34 seconds.

Although only a pair of Titans made it past the Sectionals, Glenbrook South coach Fred Kocian was pleased with the team’s effort.

“We came with a smaller team,” Kocian said. “Our pole vaulter [Haley Mooney] did alright; she started bending the pole. Anastasia [Athas] in the long jump got her best jump by about five or six inches, and Danielle Yapor did a great job in the 400, winning that.”

Athas, only a freshman, took third place in the long jump with a mark of 16-02, breaking Glenbrook South’s school record.

“I was really happy,” said Athas, although she failed to qualify in either the long jump or triple jump. “I got PRs in both so I was thrilled.”

Athas came back to place sixth in the triple jump with a mark of 33-01.5. That jump was a personal record and broke Glenbrook South’s freshman record.

“I think she has the biggest potential in her triple jump because a girl that we had a few years ago that placed in triple jump her junior and senior year, she broke her freshman record already,” Kocian said. “She knows she has time and wide open.”

Although Yapor’s time was slower than the IHSA qualifying standard, the top two finishers in each event automatically advance. Yapor, also a freshman, placed fourth in the 200 as well.

Sophomore Nikki Wells placed 10th in the 800 with a time of 2:35 and sophomore Katie Dwyer was also 10th in the 300 hurdles (52.88). Mooney was seventh in the pole vault (7-03).

DeVito finished ninth in the 1600 later on in the meet, but said she used the event to get in some practice in the heat.

Loyola Academy ran away with the meet, accumulating 113 team points. As a team, Glenbrook South finished eighth with 29 points. The state meet will be held in Charleston, Il. next weekend.

“I’m excited to go back down to state again and see how I can do,” DeVito said.

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Glenbrook South begins chasing berths at State

May 12, 2011 By

(Glenview Announcements) Glenbrook South didn’t have much to show after Friday’s CSL South Meet.

But event though Titans finished last at Niles West, the sectional and state meet are still ahead.

Junior long distance runner Danielle DeVito is trying to make her second straight trip to State, but as another year goes by, it has become all that more difficult to get in.

“At this time last year, this would be her best time, but the sad part is that they’ve lowered the qualifying for the 3,200,” said coach Fred Kocian. “Last year, it was at 11:31 and they dropped it to like 11:21 (11:22 FAT), and that’s a tremendous drop in one year to just expect people to qualify. She’s on pace, and we just have to make sure next week she runs a good race.”

DeVito placed second Friday in the 3,200-meter run in 11:27.66, just six seconds behind her target, and fifth in the 1,600.

Although the junior competes in both long distance events, her main event is the 3,200, and the 1,600 gives her a better idea of what to do.

“I focus on the 3,200, but we’re using the 1,600 to try and get my miles consistent instead of going out fast and then coming back with a slower mile,” DeVito said.

Even with the lowered qualifying time, DeVito is close, and will be looking to improve on her 17th-place finish at last spring’s State Meet.

“I’m pretty close,” DeVito said. “I just have to work a little harder next week and then see how I can do and then stick with the faster pack at sectionals.”

Glenbrook South scored 40 points and had no firsts at Niles West.

“We’re not beating other teams in the scheme of everybody else, but I’m happy that they are competing so well,” Kocian said.

Although medals were few, Glenbrook South made its share of improvements.

“We’ve had some of our best efforts, with some personal bests,” Kocian said. “We’ve got people into the finals of the hurdles and the 200. I’m happy because I can’t expect more than their best.”

Freshman leaper Anastasia Athas set a freshman record in triple jump, a mark previously held by Andrea Crump, who’s now at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

The young jumper finished fifth in triple jump, as well as in the long jump.

Kocian is excited to see what Athas will achieve, as she’s already eclipsed Crump, who placed twice at State in her years at GBS.

“She’s farther along than a girl that placed seventh and second in State,” Kocian said. “She’s been having some troubles with her ankle, but you get a nice day, you get some confidence built up and you can have good times.”

In the 400 dash, Danielle Yapor and Mary Andersen, who ran at State in 2010, finished 4-5. Yapor also placed fifth in the 200.

 

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Titans Keep Pace At CSL-South Indoor Meets

March 21, 2011 By

(Journal Online) The Central Suburban South is stacked with such heavyweights as New Trier and Maine South, but Glenbrook South’s girls, ripe with young talent, placed 4th with 71 points at last week’s indoor track conference meet.

South hosted the meet on Thursday, but it was Maine South that took the title, their first, finishing with 112 points.

“It was a close, nail biting battle,” said Glenbrook South coach Fred Kocian.

The Titans barely missed 2nd place New Trier (88 points) and 3rd place Niles West (82).

Freshman Danielle Yapor put points on the board. She placed 1st in the 400-meter dash (1:02.2) and 2nd in the long jump (16’3.75″) achieving a freshman record. She also placed 4th in the 50 and 200-meter dash.

The 200-meter dash kept the crowd on edge. Yapor held a sizable lead, but dropped to second and teammate Mary Anderson in 4th place.

With one lap to go Yapor got a second wind and sprinted past a Trevian to take 1st place in 1:01.6. Anderson then passed the Trevian on the turn to finish 2nd in 1:02.6.

Sophomore Klaudia Kukulka placed 1st in the pole vault (8 feet) with teammate Haley Mooney behind in 3rd (7’0.5″).

Also providing the Titans points was Antonikka Smith placing 3rd in shot put throwing 33 feet 11.5 inches.

“We had a real good balance between the field and track events,” Kocian said.

The Titan girls finish their indoor season this week and begin training outdoors during spring break next week.

Boys

The Titan boys managed to place 3rd with 90 points at Evanston last Friday.

Evanston won the conference title with 126 points and Maine South in 2nd (109).

Placing big for Glenbrook South was junior Kyle Kwasniewski. The Titan placed 1st in the 50-yard dash (5.3 seconds), 2nd in the pole vault (12 feet) and 3rd in the 220-yard dash (23.3 seconds).

Junior John Strickland stepped up in the long jump to place 1st (22’2.5″) and 4th in the triple jump (41’7″).

Gus Shipp leapt over hurdles and the high bar to place big for the Titans. The sophomore placed 2nd in the 60-yard high hurdles (7.5 seconds), 3rd in the low (7.1), and 5th in the high jump (5’10″).

Teammate Max Pompilus took 2nd in the high jump in 6 feet, just missing Evanston’s top guy by two inches.

The Titans begin their outdoor season next week.

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