Category Archives: Track and Field

Jonny participated in the Lancaster Dual Track Meet between Lancaster High School and Granville High School this evening at Lancaster High School. Jonny and some other distance runners were put into the 4×200 relay instead of the 4×800 relay today. He was also entered in the 4×400 relay.

In the 4×200 relay Jonny ran the final leg in 24.6 with a team time of 1:36.8. The team finished in 2nd place.

In the 4×400 relay Jonny again ran the final leg of the race in 55.0 with a team time of 3:40.2. The team won by about 100 meters.

Overall Jonny ran both races very well in the windy conditions.

Jonny ran in the Hank Smith Invitational today held at the Heath High School. He ran in the 4×800 meter relay, the first non preliminary race, and the 4×400 relay, the last race of the event.

Jonny ran the first leg in the 4×800 relay. He finished his leg in 2:06.6 which tied his personal best from Thursday’s meet. The team finished with a time of 8:28.53 and took 2nd place.

Jonny ran the 2md leg of the 4×400 relay. He was quite a ways back in the field to begin his leg, and took off slow to start with around the first turn. He really picked up his pace on the back stretch and started making up his 30 meter deficit from the guy in front of him. He caught the guy in front of him and made up time on the rest of the field. The guys after him continued to make up time and passing people and the team ended up 2nd in their heat with a time of 3:42.4

Jonny runs the 4×400 at the Hank Smith Invitational

Running the 4×400 at the Hank Smith Invitational

Jonny participated in the John Glen Invitational held at Muskigum University located between Zanesville and Cambridge. He competed in the Sprint Medley Relay and the 4×400 Relay. The meet schedule showed the 4×400 Relay starting at 10:10 pm and since it was over an hour drive home, Nikki and I decided that we were not going to attend this meet. The information in this post was provided by Jonny and Coach Agosta.

The Sprint Medley Relay consists of four legs, two 200 meter legs, a 400 meter leg and an 800 meter leg. Jonny was running the last leg of 800 meters. Jonny ran his 800 meters in 2:06.6 which is new outdoor personal best. The team ran the race in 3:52.32 which is a new Granville High School record, with Jonny running half the race. Congratulations Jonny. The team took 1st place in that event.

Jonny ran the last leg in the 4×400 Relay and completed his 400 meters in 53.6, which is a personal best for him. The team finished in 3:38.7 and again took first place at the meet.

Jonny was invited by the upperclassmen to celebrate with them at Steak and Shake after they got back to the High School. The kids didn’t have school the next day so he was allowed to go celebrate.

Jonny competed in the Lexington Invitational today. He was scheduled to run the 800 Meter run. 15 minutes before the 4×1600 Meter run one of his teammates hadn’t made it to the meet yet due to some confusion on what event he was running, so they asked Jonny to run in his place for the 4×1600.

He ran a his leg in 4:48 and was pleased with his time. He was told he only 6 seconds off the Granville Freshmen record and now he has a goal to beat that time by the end of this years track season. The team ran in 20:14.29 and finished 9th out of 14 teams running three freshmen and one Junior against the other Division I teams.

He ran in the 800 Meter run as well and finished with a time of 2:08.07. He finished 14th out of 29 and was the top freshman in the experienced field consisting of 2 Freshmen, 5 Sophomores, 8 Juniors and 14 Seniors.

Jonny ran a couple of events at the Dick Houston Relays held at Licking Valley High School on April 4th. The weather was in the 50’s and steady rain, so the track was pretty slow.

He competed in the 4×1600 Meter relay and he ran the 400 meter leg of the Distance Medley Relay. In both events Granville took 2nd.

Jonny completed his leg of the 1600 Meter relay in 5:00.6. All he needed was .7 of a second to get sub 5 minutes. I’m sure if he knew he would have beat the 5 minute mark. Hopefully he will get another chance in another meet to accomplish that.

On his leg of the Distance Medley relay he ran the 400 meters in 55.2. This is his first high school outdoor meet and the conditions were far from ideal.