Roosevelt Girls Track Team Wins in Tallmadge

The Theodore Roosevelt track and field teams made their final tune-up runs Thursday afternoon at the T-Con Relays in Tallmadge before the Portage Trail Conference championship begins next week.

The Rough Rider girls scored four top finishes and eight second-place finsihes to win the five-team field. The boys placed third behind St. Vincent-St. Mary and Tallmadge after winning two events.

"I’m really impressed with the way our season’s beginning to wrap up," girls' coach Kate Kusnyer said. "This has been the moment. Sprinters don’t like the cold that much, so when it gets warmer they start to work harder and things come together."

Minus a shaky handoff in the 4x100-meter relay, the Kent girls' sprinters anchored the team by winning the 4x200 by nearly a second and finishing three-tenths behind Tallmadge for second in the sprint medley.

In addition to the relay teams, senior distance runner Hannah Sampson finished runner-up in the 3,200-meter run — the only individual event in honor of the memorial meet’s namesake, Teresa Conti.

They boys’ team scored a big victory in the shot put relay, bettering second-place St.
Vincent-St. Mary’s mark by almost 23 feet. The Rough Riders also nabbed a first in the shuttle hurdles.

Roosevelt will rest its teams until the PTC meet begins next Wednesday, May 11.