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“Pride of Methacton” Warrior Athletics – January Celebrations Visit our new website at www.methactonwarriors.org

The “Pride of Methacton” newsletter is a monthly publication which delivers to our schools and community updates on the commendable achievements of our athletic programs and milestones reached by individual athletes. Please enjoy this installment of the “Pride of Methacton”, which focuses its attention on an update of our winter sports season.

For your convenience, the Table of Contents are hyperlinked giving you direct access to a specific sport by holding down the “Ctrl” key and pointing at the team you want to reference while left clicking.

Table of Contents Methacton Girls Swimming: Methacton Boys Indoor Track: Methacton Girls Indoor Track: Methacton Boys Basketball: Methacton Girls Basketball: Methacton Wrestling:

Methacton Girls Swimming: As of the middle of the season, the girl’s Swimming and Diving team has performed just about as expected. We start our Dual meet season swimming some of the best teams in District 1. We have an overall record of 3-4. We have a PAC-10 record of 2-0, with a huge meet with Owen J. Roberts on January 14th. This meet will determine the supremacy of the Girls PAC-10 swim teams. Some of our standout swimmers and divers so far this year are: Kirsten Groff in the freestyle events, Emily Sykes in the non-free style events and Jen Rees in the sprint freestyle events. For the Divers, Samantha Lavrich has led the team, along with the rest of the diving team contributing valuable points in every meet. The team has had excellent leadership with Becca Sykes, Brooke Dobbs, and Kristen Unangst at the helm. We are looking forward to the end of the year, when all of the hard work pays off.

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Methacton Girls Indoor Track: The Girls Winter Track and Field season opened at Lehigh University against more than 70 schools throughout the Delaware Valley. This year’s team is very young, but it was the veteran leadership that shined at the meet.

Jenny Martin lead the way placing 3rd in the long jump with a leap of 16' 10", as well as placing 5th in the 60M Hurdles with a time of 9.73 seconds. Caroline Duffy had an outstanding meet, placing 4th in the 200M with a time of 26.92 seconds and leading off the 4x400 Relay with Carly Foster, Angela Ramsden and Rainah Dunham, as they placed 10th with a time of 4:20.01. Nikki Serratore had 2 top 10 performances of her own, placing 6th in the triple jump with a leap of 34' 2" and 7th in the 60M Hurdles with a time of 9.90 seconds. The trio of pole vaulters, Monica Sauer, Meagan Rinella and Lizzy Kapralick, finished 7th, 8th and 9th, respectively, all with vaults of 8' 6". Rounding out the top 10 performances was the 4x200 relay team of Nikki Rimlinger, Danielle Duda, Gianna Fazio and Aghina Marshall, as they placed 10th with a time of 1:55.63. In total, the girls had 10 "Top 10" performances and Martin (Long Jump and 60m Hurdles), Duffy (200M) and Serratore (Triple Jump), all qualified for the Meet of Champions.

The team then traveled to NYC to compete in the annual Bishop Loughlin Games. The meet features over 200 school from 7 different states. The girls came away with 5 medals, 5 State Qualifying performances, 8 Top 10 marks and 1 National Qualifying performance. Jenny Martin continue her torrid start to the season, placing 6th in the Long Jump (17' 7") and 6th in the 55M hurdles (8.58 seconds). Both are State Qualifying marks. Nicolette Serratore also brought home a medal and qualified for States in 2 events. Her 4th place finish in the Triple Jump (35' 5.5") was preceded by her qualifying mark in the 55M Hurdles (8.88 seconds). Caroline Duffy lit up NY 3 times on the afternoon. She blazed to a 10th place finish in the 55M Dash (7.60 seconds) and then led off the 4x200 Relay in both the trials and the finals. The 4x200 relay, which included Carly Foster, Angela Ramsden and Rainah Dunham in the trials, ran a State Qualifying mark of 1:47.76 to finish 6th in the trials. Due to an injury, Aghina Marshall replaced Ramsden in the finals and the foursome ran 1:46.71, placing 6th and qualifying the team for the National Championships as well.

The Sprint Medley Relay team of Brianna Landis (800M), Kelly Groth (200), Gianna Fazio (200) and Danielle Duda also walked away with a medal in NY. They won their heat easily and placed 6th overall with a time of 4:42.35. In addition to Marshall's performance in the 4x200 relay, she fell just short of a medal and a State Qualifying mark in the Long Jump. Her leap of 17' 2", placed 8th overall and is just 1" short of the state mark. Meagan Rinella also had a fine meet, finishing 9th in the Pole Vault with a vault of 9' 0".

The Lady Warriors wrapped up their meets for the 2013 calendar year with another handful of outstanding performances. The Lady Warriors traveled to Lehigh University for the annual Christmas City Relays and came away with 5 top 3 medal performances and 3 PA Top 6 performances for the season.

Jenny Martin continued her incredibly strong season, winning the 60M Hurdles with a time of 9.20 seconds. That time currently stands as the #3 performance in the State. Martin then placed 3rd in the long jump with a leap of 17' 2.25". She started the day by leading off the 4x200 Relay to a second place finish with a time of 1:50.83. Also joining her on the relay was Carly Foster, Rainah Dunham and Caroline Duffy. Duffy had an outstanding performance of her own, placing 2nd in the 400M run at 1:01.08. That time is currently #6 in PA. Adding to the medal stand was junior Nicolette Serratore. Serratore placed 2nd in the Triple jump with a PA #3 distance of 36' 1.75".

Although the weather delayed their first meet of the 2014 calendar year, the Girls Track and Field team did not lose a beat competing in 2 meets over the January 11/12 weekend. Both meets featured some of the top schools from the Eastern half of PA and both featured some outstanding performances from Methacton athletes. Caroline Duffy shined in both meets, winning the 400M run at Lehigh in a State Meet qualifying time of 1:00.71 and coming back to win the 200M in another State Qualifying time of 26.57 seconds at Franklin and Marshall on Saturday. Duffy also placed 2nd in the 55M Hurdles at F&M. Junior Aghina Marshall added her name to the State Qualifiers at Lehigh, placing 2nd in the Long Jump with a leap of 17' 3.5". Freshman Rainah Dunham gave her best performance of the season, placing 3rd in the 200M at Lehigh and qualifying for the Meet of Champions with a time of 27.29 seconds.

Other outstanding performances on Saturday at Franklin and Marshall included: The 4x200 Relay of Kelly Groth, Tianna Crippen, Gianna Fazio and Angela Ramsden winning in a time of 1:53.04 Brianna Landis placing 2nd in the 3000M with a time of 12:06.27 Nikki Rimlinger placing 3rd in the 55M Hurdles with a time of 9.552 seconds Jenny Martin placing 3rd in the shot put with a throw of 32' 7.5" Rainah Dunham placing 3rd in the Long Jump with a leap of 15' 8" 4x800 Relay of Jess Holub, Brianna Landis, Kalena Mangum and Nicolette Serratore placing 3rd with a time of 10:34.67

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Methacton Boys Basketball: December-January 2014:

The Methacton Boys’ Basketball team currently holds a record of 8-5 overall and 6-1 in PAC-10 play. After suffering several non-conference losses over the holiday break, the Warriors bounced back with three consecutive PAC-10 wins over Phoenixville, Pope John Paul, and Pottsgrove. Methacton is currently positioned in second place in the Liberty Division of the PAC-10, one game behind first place Spring-Ford. The Warriors will close out the regular season with 9 games over the next three weeks as they pursue a spot in the PAC-10 Final Four and PIAA District-One Playoffs. Scoring leaders for the Warriors are Zach Jenkins at 14 points per game, Justin Ardman at 10 points per game, and Sean Mann at 9 points per game.

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Methacton Girls Basketball: The Lady Warriors Varsity basketball team is off to a great start. Their record currently stands at 8-4 overall and 4-2 in the PAC-10 and currently in second place in the Liberty Conference. The teams four losses are to teams with a combined record of 38-4. Two big wins so far this year came at Boyertown in the PAC-10 and against Wildwood Catholic at the Boardwalk Classic in Wildwood, NJ over Christmas. Senior Jenna Carroll was named local Female Athletes of the Week by The Times Herald for the week of 12/15. Senior Kelly Glatthorn currently leads the team in scoring at 14.1 ppg and Senior Jenna Carroll is second at 13.1 ppg.

The JV Lady Warriors currently stand at 5-5 on the season. Freshman Brianna LaCurts leads the team in scoring at 8.0 ppg and fellow Sophomore Lauren Engelman is second at 7.1 ppg.

Methacton Wrestling: This season the Wrestling Team finished runner-up at the Nazareth Invitational, 3rd place at the Exeter Duals, runner-up at the A.I. DuPont Tiger Classic, and Runner-up at the Council Rock North Rock Yard Duals. During the last month two wrestlers won their 100th match of their careers. Tracey Green currently sits at 113 victories and is the winningest heavyweight in Methacton history. Joe Staley currently sits at 104 victories at 145 pounds.

The team is currently 7-3 overall and is ranked 7th in the region. League wrestling begins this week with Pope John Paul and Upper Perkiomen.

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Paul Spiewak, Assistant Principal for Athletics and Activities