Mount wins third straight Catholic Academies track title

by Tom Utescher
Posted 5/17/23

The Mount Magic won six of 15 events, finishing second in six others, and piling up additional points with its team depth.

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Mount wins third straight Catholic Academies track title

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Winning six of 15 events, finishing second in six others, and piling up additional points with its team depth, Mount St. Joseph Academy won the 2023 Athletic Association of Catholic Academies track and field championships on its own campus last Tuesday afternoon.

It was the third straight championship for the Mount Magic, who registered 183 total points to overcome two other triple-digit scorers, Villa Maria Academy (149) and Gwynedd Mercy (116). The Mount actually had a very strong team in 2020, but no championships were held that year due to COVID-19.

At last week's meet Merion Mercy Academy finished fourth with 38 points, followed by Villa Joseph Marie (Holland, Pa.) with 33, Sacred Heart Academy (22) and Nazareth Academy (15). This marked the last occasion that Nazareth athletes would appear in any Catholic Academies championship event, since the school is leaving the AACA to join the northern division of the Philadelphia Catholic League.

Mount St. Joseph saw most of its first-place finishes come in the footraces. Distance ace Ella Woehlcke, a junior, won the 800 and 1600-meter runs, while senior Maggie Murphy won the 3200 and came in second in the 1600. Junior Ella Vogel was the 100-meter-dash champion and was runner-up in the 200 by 0.07 seconds.

The Magic also won the 400 thanks to junior Lily Bradfield. The sixth individual champion for Mount St. Joe was freshman Morgan Cross, who won the triple and also came in third in the long jump. The Magic picked up second-place points in the long jump from senior Julia Donahue, and junior Saanai Jones was second in the shot put.

Versatile senior Faith DeCarlo was part of a three-way tie for first place in the high jump, while also placing second in the 100-meter hurdles and fourth in the pole vault. Junior Constance Huber was third in the 100 hurdles.

Since the Mount has no pole vault pit, that event was held off-campus a day earlier, with sophomore Veronica Vacca taking second place. On Tuesday, she placed fifth in the 100-meter dash.

The Magic won two of the three relays, going with freshmen Lydia Moy, Jenna Miller and Allie Seweryn and senior Katie Bakley in the 4 x 800 (10:30.01), and wrapping up the meet with a victory in the 4 x 400 (4:06.84) with Bradfield, Bakley, Donahue, and Woehlcke.

A number of Mount athletes have met the qualifying standards to compete in the PIAA District 1 championships. Woehlcke qualified in the 800 and 1600 meters, and DeCarlo in the high jump and pole vault. Murphy made it in for the 1600, Jones for the shot put, and Vacca for the pole vault. In addition, Murphy, Bakley, Bradfield and Woehlcke qualified in the 4 x800 relay.

MEET RESULTS

100 Meters

  1. MSJ Ella Vogel  13.01
  2. GMA Sabrina Beinquez 13:10
  3. MMA Amira Wardlaw  13.20
  4. MMA Simone Waheed  13:23
  5. MSJ Veronica Vacca  13:43

200 Meters

  1. MMA Simone Waheed  26.57
  2. MSJ Ella Vogel  26.64
  3. NAZ Meghan Scott  27.46
  4. VJM Emma Vogt 27.72
  5. GMA Molly McCartney  28.05

400 Meters

  1. MSJ Lilly Bradfield  1:00.92
  2. GMA Lucy Van Hoof  1:01.57
  3. GMA Molly McCartney  1:02.00
  4. VJM Emma Vogt  1:03.55
  5. VJM Cienna Turco  1:04.96

800 Meters

  1. MSJ Ella Woehlcke  2:18.48
  2. MMA Paige Tavares  2:25.58
  3. SHA Maya Walker  2:29.75
  4. VMA Rileigh O'Niell  2:32.57
  5. MSJ Katie Bakley  2:34.28

1600 Meters

  1. MSJ Ella Woehlcke  5:21.36
  2. MSJ Maggie Murphy  5:32.00
  3. GMA Reese Miller  5:35.14
  4. GMA Catherine Fitzgerald  5:38.57
  5. SHA Makenzie Fisher  5:46.13

3200 Meters

  1. MSJ Maggie Murphy  11:40.30
  2. GMA Sarah Hock  12:27.03
  3. GMA Reese Miller  12:36.34
  4. SHA Makenzie Fisher  12:38.08
  5. VMA Annie Cellucci  13:10.72

 

100 High Hurdles

  1. VMA Maddy Kelley  16.60
  2. MSJ Faith DeCarlo  16.88
  3. MSJ Constance Huber  18.00
  4. VMA Catie Connolly  19.37
  5. VMA Rita Irvine  19.63

300 Intermediate Hurdles

  1. GMA Sabrina Beniquez  49.12
  2. VMA Mary Cate Doughty  50.63
  3. VMA Maddy Kelley  50.98
  4. GMA Kiera Webster  51.62
  5. GMA Molly O'Neill  53.99

 

High Jump

  1. SHA Aly Albanese  5'00"
  2. VMA Talia Davidson  5'00"
  3. MSJ Faith DeCarlo  5'00"
  4. VMA Ella Tacelosky  4'10"
  5. MSJ Audrey Kukla  4'8"

Long Jump

  1. VMA Maddie Samar  16'11"
  2. MSJ Julia Donahue  16'5.25"
  3. MSJ Morgan Cross  16'3.25"
  4. NAZ Meghan Scott  16'0.75"
  5. MSJ Kaitlyn Cunningham  15'11.75"

Triple Jump

  1. MSJ Morgan Cross  33'2.5"
  2. VJM Addison Holmes  33'0'
  3. VMA Maddy Samar  32'11.5"
  4. MSJ Kaitlyn Cunningham  32'4.75"
  5. VMA Ella Tacelosky  32'1.25"

Pole Vault

  1. VMA Maddy Kelley  12'6"
  2. MSJ Veronica Vacca  11'6"
  3. VMA Mary Cate Doughty  11'6"
  4. MSJ Faith DeCarlo  10' 6"
  5. VMA Mikaela Halliday  8'0"

Shot Put

  1. GMA Piper Marion  35'0.5"
  2. MSJ Saanai Jones  34'7.75"
  3. VMA Jill Stroup  31'10"
  4. VMA Kaelyn Stek  31'0"
  5. NAZ Kaitlyn James  29'6.75"

Discus

  1. VMA Jill Stroup  107'4"
  2. VMA Reese Dyson  96'7"
  3. GMA Piper Marion  95'1"
  4. VMA Marin Rosser  89'5"
  5. MSJ Ella Seenick  81'0"

Javelin

  1. VMA Marin Rosser  111'8"
  2. GMA Piper Marion  103'9"
  3. VMA Reese Dyson  91'3"
  4. MSJ Marin Stensrud  88'3"
  5. VMA Margaret Flick  87'1"