Records Fall at Track Meet

The Palisades Optimist Club, in conjunction with the Palisades-Malibu YMCA, hosted its 38th annual Youth Track Meet on Sunday at Palisades High’s Stadium by the Sea. Over 120 athletes ages 3-15 competed and seven records fell. Tyler Bahan ran the Boys/Girls 25-meter dash in 6.26 seconds, breaking last year’s record by a full 15 seconds. Fellow Palisadian Matt Henderson (6.28) also eclipsed the old mark. Bahan also won the 100 meters in 24.53 seconds. In the 50-meter dash, Kate Lando set a new standard in the Girls’ 5-6 age division with a time of 8.75 seconds. Three others, Katie Farwell (8.96), Grace Carner (9.20) and Morgan Greenwald (9.30) also beat the 2004 record of 9.49. A year after setting the 50-meter dash record in the Boys’ 5-6 division, Palisadian Jack Tobin set a new record in the 7-8 division (7.94) while Preston Barnes bettered Tobin’s 2008 mark by 32 hundreths of a second. Barnes also won the 100 in 19.15. Filip Bastien shattered the Boys’ 9-10 record in the 400 meters, breaking the tape in 1:15.66 and St. Matthew’s student James Kanoff (1:18) also shaved a full second off Stephen Shigematsu’s 2002 record. Filip’s sister Karolina won the Girls’ 3-4 division in the 100-meter dash in 23.62. In the 800 meter race Laura Carr of Paul Revere won the Girls’ 13-15 age division in 2:55, easily breaking the record of 2:56.23 set by Phoenix Mason in 2003. The only record broken in field events was the Boys’ 9-10 shot put, where Michael Carner threw 12 feet, nine inches to break the 2001 record by six inches. He also won his age group in the long jump with a leap of 12′ 9.’ In the 100-meter dash, Erin Muldoon won the Girls’ 7-8 division in 18.72, Robert Osborne won the Boys’ 7-8 age group in 17 flat, Cade Christensen (15.25) won the Boys’ 9-10, London Alexander (15.66) won the Girls 9-10, Neal Conners (14.16) won the Boys’ 11-12 and Mackenzie Munro (16.75) won the Girls’ 11-12. Alexander also won the 200 meters in 33.12 and Munro won the long jump (10′ 9′), shot put (16′) and high jump (3′ 7′) and Palisadian Kaylie Ward won the Girls’ 13-15 shot (25′) and high jump (4′ 8′). The first heat of the Boys’ 200 meters was one of the most exciting races of the afternoon. Filip Bastien and Charlie Thompson tied for first place in 32.19 and Nicholas Hurley was just behind at 32.97 seconds. Kevin Rosen (11′ 6′) won the Boys’ 11-12 long jump and Zachary Kantor (7’11’) won the 7-8 division. Emily Kohn won the Girls’ 9-10 long jump (9′ 9′) and sister Camryn won the 7-8 division with a 8′ 4′ effort.