The host school for last Saturday's Inter-Ac League Track and Field Championships, Episcopal Academy, celebrated the continued success of both its boys' and girls' teams. The EA boys won the Inter-Ac team title for the fourth year in a row, and the girls repeated as champions.

Main Line squads dominated the team scoring for the boys, with Episcopal putting up 124.5 points, while Malvern Prep was second with 110, edging out third-place Haverford School, with 107. From this side of the Schuylkill, the Penn Charter boys came in fourth with 70 points, a little ahead of Germantown Academy, which was fifth. With 66.5. Springside Chestnut Hill Academy came in sixth, garnering 46 points.

The area girls' teams fared better. After the EA Churchwomen, with their score of 152 points, came Penn Charter, with 119, and third-place GA, with 108. There was a tie for fourth between SCH and the Academy of Notre Dame, each team posting 43 points. After that came Agnes Irwin (29 points) and Baldwin School (25).

The Springside Chestnut Hill teams were missing a number of experienced runners who were preparing for a prom that evening.

In the girls' competition, Penn Charter junior Michaela Poland won both the 400 meter dash (25.20 seconds) and the high jump (5 feet, 2 inches), while anchoring the Quakers' victorious 4x400 meter relay (3:56.64) at the end of the day. Poland also placed second in the 200 meters.

PC senior Alli DeLisi, who holds the meet record in the 1600 meters, did not enter that event this year, but instead set a new meet standard in the 800 meters (2:13.47). Running in one of the slower heats of the 400, she placed third overall, and later ran the third leg of the 4x400.

Sophomore Naira Presley won the 300 hurdles (49.65 seconds) and junior Zsuzsi Pollock finished second in the 100 hurdles. Freshman Keagan Seth was third in the high jump, and the Quakers were third in both the 4 x 100 and 4x800 relays.

Nieve Keitel, a Germantown Academy sophomore, won the 1600 meter run by .02 seconds over Episcopal's Kendra Williamson, and later the two traded places in the 3200. Keitel also ran in the Patriots' 4x400 relay, which finished third. GA came in second in both the 4x100 and 4x800 relays.

Third-place finishes earned bronze medals for sophomore Piper Loney in the 100 meter dash and junior Sylvie Harrington in the 300 hurdles.

The Patriots scored well in the field events, led in gold-medal efforts by junior Layla Gentile in the shotput (38 feet, 9 inches) and senior Lorelai Fortmann in the pole vault (10 feet, 3 inches). Gentile also placed third in the discus throw. Fellow junior Ava Dalton was the runner-up in the high jump, while freshman Jocelyn Germain placed third in the long jump.

Springside Chestnut Hill saw freshman Nadia Bevan set a new meet record in the long jump (18 feet, 10 1/2 inches) and establish a new personal record while finishing third in the 200 meter dash. Senior Kennedy Hayward was the champion in the 100 hurdles (14.66 seconds), and freshman Madison Nathaniel was third in the shotput.

For the Penn Charter boys, seniors T.J. Zwall and Nate Johnson helped the Quakers win the 4x800 relay (8:17.58) and also excelled individually. Zwall was second in the 3200 and fourth in the 1600, while Johnson was third in the 1600 and fourth in the 3200.

Seniors Luis Rincon and Kai Shinholster achieved third-place outcomes in the pole vault and the high jump, respectively, and Charter placed third in the 4x100 relay.

Germantown Academy's senior pole vault duo went one-two in their event, with Adrian Diem taking the gold medal (15 feet) and Robbie Bright winning the silver. The field events also featured a third-place effort from freshman Tommy Pasquarella in the javelin throw.

Jet Dickerson was second in the 300 hurdles and third in the 100 meter dash, while fellow junior Evan Badami was the runner-up in the 800 meters. The Patriots ended the meet by finishing second in the 4x400.

Springside Chestnut Hill senior Stefon Dodoo, who is among the national top 10 in the 800 meters, broke his own Inter-Ac meet record from 2024, this time winning in 1:50.27.

Senior thrower Matt McTameney placed second in both the discus and the shot put. Two of his classmates earned third place in their events, Willie Lamb in the 300 hurdles, and Brendan Russell in the 400 meters.