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ChesMont Championship Highlights

The Bishop Shanahan team had a solid outing at the ChesMont Championship meet held at Coatesville Area High School yesterday. By the numbers, the girls’ team earned 21 medals, set 15 personal bests, produced season bests in all relays, crowned a ChesMont champion, set one school record, qualified an athlete for Districts in an additional event, and finished 8th of 13 schools in the team standings.

Our medal winners were:

Anastasia van der Steur won the ChesMont title in the high jump with a leap of 5’0”. Elizabeth Wolfe and Sarah Uhlman followed with 6th and 8th place medals respectively in the event.
Ava Ceulers finished in 3rd place in the long jump with a jump of 17’3.5”. Bridget Kelly followed with a 6th place medal.
Bridget Kelly also earned a 3rd place medal in the triple jump with a mark of 33’10”.
Ava Ceulers medaled in the 100. Her prelim time of 12.68 establishes a new school record and qualifies Ava for Districts in her 3rd event.
Meghan Willis ran a personal best of 2:24.85 in the 800 to earn a 7th place medal. Not bad for a freshman.
Caroline Sendi earned an 8th place medal and a point for the team in the javelin.
The 4x800 team overcame a fall that knocked them out of the lead, but they persevered and finished in 3rd place. Relay team members were Carlyn Segrave-Daly, Nora Kyle, Elsie Kaas, and Meghan Willis. Despite the fall, they eclipsed their season best by 4 seconds.
The 4x100 team also topped their season best, earning a sixth-place medal in the process. They once again met the District qualifying standard with a time of 50.79. The team of Elizabeth Wolfe, Kathleen Delate, Avery Egan, and Ava Ceulers has worked so well together this season to accomplish everything they have.
The 4x400 team of Angelina Luongo, Olivia Miller, Nora Kyle, and Meghan Willis won their heat in thrilling fashion and placed 7th overall and recording a season best by 9 seconds. Nora and Meghan both ran the best splits (63.5 seconds each) of their lives.

In addition to the personal bests mentioned about, the following athletes had their best performances ever:

Julia Bennett lopped an incredible 21 seconds off her personal best in the 3200. For those keeping track, that’s 12 PRs in a row for Julia – and absolutely amazing streak.
Bella Cipriano running the 3200 for the very first time produced what I consider the most inspiring effort of the meet, posting a very respectable time of 13:02 and an 18th place finish.
Sarah Uhlman and Abbey Chan just missed medals with their 9th and 10th place triple jump PRs.
Avery Egan’s 13.70 in the 100 was a career best.
Rebecca Hangey ran a personal best in the 300 hurdles finishing 9th in the event and just out of the medals.
Deborah Uhlman followed Rebecca with a 10th place PR. Deborah also PR’d in the 100 hurdles.
Riley Forde and Alayna Wybranski both had their longest shot puts ever.

Full results can be found at: Ches-Mont Champs - Live Results | RUN.tf

Another great day for the team. Next on the racing agenda: the 4x800 team will make one more run at the District qualifying standard on Saturday morning. Then it’s on to Districts next Friday and Saturday for the following athletes: Ava Ceulers, Anastasia van der Steur, Kathleen Delate, Avery Egan, Elizabeth Wolfe and maybe the 4x800 relay team. Congrats also to Arie van der Steur and Noel Klein from the boys’ team. Both have qualified for Districts and Noel was CM Champ in the 110 hurdles.

Downingtown East Highlights

The PR parade continued at Downingtown East for the Shanahan girls this afternoon. The team recorded 23 more personal bests, and that’s not including the 7 athletes performing events for the first time. Two more individuals qualified for ChesMonts for the first time and Ava Ceulers set a school record. Here are the highlights.

Ava Ceulers set the Bishop Shanahan school record in the long jump with a leap of 17’8.5”. That is the 8th longest jump in the state of Pennsylvania this year, and eclipses the former BSHS record of 17’5” set by Anna Ebersole in 2017. Bridget Kelly followed Ava’s victory with a second place in the long jump and a personal best of 16’7”. This is 6th best jump in the ChesMont league this season and just 3” shy of the District qualifying standard.
Javelin throwers Caroline Sendi, Riley Forde, and Alayna Wybranski crushed their PRs by a whopping 11, 14, and 9 feet respectively. Caroline and Riley easily qualified for ChesMonts in the process.
Emma McHugh added an impressive 7 feet to her discus PR.
The 4x100 meter relay squad (Elizabeth Wolfe, Kathleen Delate, Avery Egan, Ava Ceulers) made another attempt at the District qualifying standard. They ran their season best time of 51.58 but fell short by 0.44 seconds.
Deborah Uhlman narrowly missed the ChesMont qualifying standard in the 300 hurdles, but PR’d by 3 seconds. Anastasia van der Steur and Sarah Rogelstad also topped their personal bests - by 2 seconds -in the event.
Seven Shanahan girls ran personal bests in the 100, most by significant margins. These runners are: Emily Rule (PR by .71 seconds), Elizabeth Heinz (by .57 seconds), Jenna Thomas (.46), Taylor Burgess (.37), Kristen Pineda (.21), Gabby Scarantino (.21), and Lillian Foley (.08).
The 400m run also produced many PRs. Most notably Claire Sherlock lowered her previous best by 5 seconds and Ella Foret did so by 4 seconds. Gillian Malany, Michaela King, and Grace Lane also PR’d.
Elizabeth Wolfe came in second in the high jump, tying her PR of 4’8”.
Julia Smyth ran a personal best of 6:37 in the 1600.

Full results can be found at: chesmontjvno3 | MeetPro by DirectAthletics (tfmeetpro.com)
Another great day for the team. Next on the racing agenda: the Unionville Invitational on Saturday.

The Whippet Invitational Highlights

The weather got a little warmer; the winds were calm; and the Bishop Shanahan girls were on fire. At the Whippet Invitational on Saturday, the Shanahan girls faced their stiffest competition of the season. They did not disappoint. The team recorded an astounding 27 personal bests, with 13 performances bettering the ChesMont qualifying standard and 2 performances eclipsing the District qualifying requirement. Here are the highlights:

Headlining the day was Anastasia van der Steur’s victory in the high jump. Her leap of 5’1” makes her the second member of the team to qualify for Districts and tops her previous best jump by 3 inches. Interestingly, her brother Arie won the long jump and also qualified for Districts. I’ve asked their parents to keep feeding the kids the same thing they did this morning.
Carlyn Segrave Daly also had one of those career days. Using outstanding race tactics and a lot of heart, she won her heat and smashed her PR by a whopping 9 seconds. Carlyn finished 9th overall in a talented field of 51 runners. After emptying her stomach of its breakfast contents, she came back in the 400 just 50 minutes later and set another PR to finish 11th in the field of 53. Carlyn becomes the first person on the team to qualify for ChesMonts in 4 individual events – the 400, 800, 1600, and 3200. We call that RANGE in distance running.
Deborah Uhlman also produced a double PR – one in the 100 hurdles and one in the 400. She is within a second of qualifying for ChesMonts in both.
While we’re on the topic of the 400, amazingly ALL 8 Shanahan girls’ entries in the event ran personal bests. In addition to Deborah and Carlyn, Nora Kyle (CM qualifier), Kathleen Delate (CM qualifier), Gillian Malany (2.3 second PR), Penelope Loeper, and Julia Bennett also recorded their best times.
And while we are on the topic of Julia Bennett, she extended her streak of consecutive PR performances to 10 with her double in the 1600 and 400. I have never witnessed her not running a PR. At some point, this streak has to end, but it is quite a remarkable 4 month string of solid races.
Elsie Kaas obliterated her 800m PR by 5 seconds and qualified for ChesMonts. She finished 10th in the field of 59 runners. And she wasn’t done. She doubled back 20 minutes later with a 66.5 second opening leg of the 4x400 – her fastest ever.
Sarah Uhlman’s leap in the triple jump eclipsed the ChesMont qualifying standard by 16.5” and established a new PR for her.
In the field, Molly Coghan’s discuss toss was 4’7” further than her previous best, and Emma McHugh’s was a PR by 4’1”. Riley Forde once again met the ChesMont standard in the shot put with a PR.
Avery Egan blew away her personal best in the 200 by .6 seconds. Elizabeth Wolfe and Gabby Scarantino also PR’d in the event.
Freshman Megan Willis lopped 4 seconds off her PR in the 1600 to finish 11th overall in 5:34, which is 11 seconds below the ChesMont qualifying standard.
Ava Ceulers earned a second-place medal in the long jump, once again bettering the District qualifying standard.
Abbey Chan and Julia Smyth shaved 3 and 2 seconds off their 800 times respectively.
Julia Jermyn took 4 seconds off her 1600 PR.
Jenna Thomas shaved .44 seconds off her 100 hurdles best.
Evelyn Hewitt’s split of 69 seconds in the 4x400 was her best ever.

Full results can be found at: WhippetInvite2021 | MeetPro by DirectAthletics (tfmeetpro.com)
Next on the racing agenda: JV Meet #3 on Tuesday and the Unionville Invitational on Saturday.

The Warrior Invitational Highlights

Day 2 of the Warrior Invite produced some impressive Shanahan performances following a strong day yesterday. Here are the highlights:

Carlyn Segrave-Daly came in 2nd place in the 800 in a field of 58 runners. Her time of 2:29.11 eclipsed her personal best by an impressive 2.36 seconds and easily meets the ChesMont qualifying standard. Megan Willis closed strongly to finish just behind Carlyn in 2:29.13. Megan and Carlyn have now qualified for ChesMonts in 2 events each. Nora Kyle followed in 7th place, Elsie Kaas in 10th, Penelope Loeper in 11th and Julia Bennett in 18th. Julia Bennett’s time lowers her PR by 4 seconds, making it her 8th consecutive PR this year. Penelope Loeper shaved 5 seconds off her HS best.
Our 200-meter runners had a good day as well, led by Olivia Garzaron who lowered her PR by 0.64 seconds, Lilli Foley who was competing at the distance for the first time in HS, and Kristen Pineda who shaved 0.58 seconds from her PR. First time 200m runners Gabby Scarantino, Gillian Malany, and Emily Rule also ran great races.

Full results can be found at: Warrior Invite 2021 | MeetPro by DirectAthletics (tfmeetpro.com)

The Bishop Shanahan girls had a stellar first day at the Warrior Invitational held at Henderson High School this afternoon. With temperatures in the mid-50s and winds at 15 mph, it was not a friendly day for fast times and good jumps. Somehow, the team managed to post some impressive marks in the adverse conditions. Here are the highlights:

Headlining the day were our long jumpers who had the worst conditions because they were running and jumping directly into the teeth of the wind. Ava Ceulers had the best day of her jumping career, posting 4 District-qualifying jumps to win the event with a leap of 17’3.5”. Her jump ranks her 14th in the state, just 9” off the #1 spot. Bridget Kelly also overcame the winds to post her best jump of the season at 16’1.5” and place 4th.
Rebecca Hangey continued her hot streak in her first-ever attempt at the 300 hurdles. She placed 6th overall with a time only 0.30 seconds shy of the ChesMont qualifying standard.
In the 100, Ava Ceulers posted her second best time ever to earn a fifth-place medal. Kathleen Delate place 10th, just 0.03 seconds off her personal best, and Avery Egan shattered her PR to place 14th.
The 4x100 team earned a third-place medal. Elizabeth Wolfe led off, followed by Kathleen Delate, Avery Egan, and Ava Ceulers. In case you’re counting, this was Ava’s third medal in a span of 2 hours.
Angelina Luongo won her heat and placed 5th overall, qualifying for ChesMonts in the 400. Shannon Donahue followed in 9th place and Deborah Uhlman ran a PR to place 11th.
Our long jumping duo of Anastasia van der Steur and Sarah Uhlman earned 3rd and 5th place medals respectively in the high jump. Both met the ChesMont qualifying standard.

Full results can be found at: Warrior Invite 2021 | MeetPro by DirectAthletics (tfmeetpro.com)
The Warrior Invitational continues tomorrow morning. Best of luck to the Shanahan girls running tomorrow.

2nd Super Meet Highlights

The Bishop Shanahan Girls Track team concluded intraleague competition with the second Super Meet held yesterday at Downingtown West. Participating teams included Coatesville, Downingtown West, Downingtown East, West Chester Henderson, West Chester East, Avon Grove, and Bishop Shanahan. Although the final team scores are not in, we had some outstanding individual performance. We had four additional ChesMont qualifying performances, 9 personal bests and 9 additional solid performances by people performing an event for the first time.

Here are a few of the many highlights:

Bridget Kelly and Sarah Uhlman recorded ChesMont-qualifying leaps in the triple jump to finish 4th and 6th respectively in the event. Incredibly, it was Sarah’s first time competing the event. Abbie Chan, Anastasia van der Steur, and Evelyn Hewitt also represented the team well in the event.
Ava Ceulers continued on her roll, qualifying for ChesMonts in her 4th individual event. Her 200 time of 27.24 was a personal best.
Rebecca Hangey crushed her PR in the 200 by 0.36 seconds and followed with a strong leg in the 4x400 relay.
Carlyn Segrave-Daly led the 3200 squad with a 10th place finish in 12:39, recording her second fastest time ever and qualifying for ChesMonts in the process. Julia Bennett, Elsie Kaas, and Penelope Loeper captured 15th through 17th places in a tight pack shortly behind. Julia’s performance was her 7th consecutive PR.
Caroline Sendi, Molly Coghan, and Emma McHugh eclipsed their personal bests in the discus, with Emma throwing an impressive 18 feet further than her previous best.
Deborah Uhlman shaved more than a second off her 300 hurdle PR, and followed with a 4x400 split that was faster than her best open 400.
Maddie Olivo, lowered her personal best in the 800 by 8 seconds

A solid day for the Shanahan girls. Congratulations to everybody.

Full results can be found at: Chesmont Super Meet 2 | MeetPro by DirectAthletics (tfmeetpro.com)

Polar Bear Meet Highlights

The BSHS girls had another strong day at the Polar Bear meet held at Henderson High School on Saturday, February 27th. The events contested were the 400, the long jump, and the 1600. Other participating schools were Henderson, West Chester East, Rustin, Downingtown East, Downingtown West, Great Valley, Unionville, and Avon Grove.

The 400m squad got us off to a strong start with Ava Ceulers, Kathleen Delate, Olivia Miller, Rebecca Hangey, and Deborah Uhlman placing 8th, 9th, 14th, 21st, and 22nd respectively in a field of 36 runners. Deborah obliterated her 400m PR by an incredible 4.27 seconds in the process.

Ava Ceulers followed her 400m performance with a strong 2nd place finish in the long jump. Despite this being the first meet of the season where the long jump was possible, a bit of a headwind working against the jumpers today, and weeks of weather preventing us from having any jumping practice, Ava posted three solid jumps of 16'6", 16,5", and 16'3". Kathleen Delate followed with a 6th place finish.

The 1600m runners closed out a strong day for the Eagles. Carlyn Segrave-Daly led the way with a 5:47 to finish 5th overall. Nora Kyle (6:08) and Penelope Loeper (6:12) followed in 13th and 17th place respectively. Julia Bennett lowered her personal best to 6:18 to finish 21st, and Julia Jermyn destroyed her PR to finish 26th in a time of 6:47.

The Winter Track season concludes at next Saturday's Polar Bear Championship meet. The hard work of the team through the nasty winter weather will surely pay off this Spring.

Henderson Highlights

The Shanahan girls had another solid outing at the Henderson track. It was another day of frigid temperatures, but the wind was only blowing at 10mph compared to 18mph last week. It was almost, but not quite, a tropical paradise out there. Amazingly, the eleven BSHS girls participating managed four personal bests, and three personal second bests. In the process, everybody competed well, earning four heat victories, two seconds, and three thirds. Participating schools were Henderson, WC East, Rustin, Kennett, Downingtown East, Downingtown West, Unionville, Avon Grove, Great Valley, and Bishop Shanahan. Events held were the 200m dash and the 800m run.

Here are the highlights:

Deborah Uhlman shattered her personal best in the 200 by an incredible three seconds and followed that with a personal best in the 800 - finishing 2nd in her heat in both races.
Carlyn Segrave-Daly won her 800 heat and placed 7th overall in the field of 69 runners
Ava Ceulers ran her second fastest 200 ever and placed 5th in the field of 44 sprinters.
Kathleen Delate followed Ava with a 12th place finish in the 200 with her second fastest time ever.
Rebecca Hangey won her heat of the 200 and finished 16th overall with her second fastest time ever.
Olivia Miller won her 200 heat to claim 22nd place overall.
Nora Kyle and Jess Ward ran strong races to finish 3rd and 4th respectively in their heat and 21st and 23rd overall in the field of 69 runners
Kirsten Ward made a decisive move midway through the 800m to win her heat going away - her second fastest 800 ever.
Julia Bennett lopped 5 seconds off her 800 PR.
Julia Jermyn followed her strong showing last week with another PR, finishing 3rd in her heat in the process.

Pep Rally

The boys and girls cross country teams proudly marched together at the Fall 2020 Pep Rally during Spirit Week this year!

Girls Cross Country in Action

Congratulations to the girls cross country team on their fall 2020 season! Enjoy these action photos from recent meets!