LEXINGTON SHINES THROUGH THE RAIN AT COACHES METRO INVITATIONAL
Meet Information
MSTCA Coaches Metro Invitational
May 10, 2025
Lexington Center Track - Lexington, MA
RESULTS
LEXINGTON, MA - For the first time in recent memory, Lexington played host to a major invitational meet. The 2025 Coaches Metro Invitational featured some of the top prep talent from all parts of the Bay State. Despite miserable conditions in the early morning, the teams that traveled from across Massachusetts were met with a tremendous atmosphere, fantastic competition, and sunny skies breaking just as the meet came to a close. As the host team, The Minutemen certainly benefitted from home field advantage as they took home the victory in seven events on day.
Sophomore Trevor Stevens got the morning off to a great start as he competed in the Boys 2 Mile. A true distance grinder, the LHS harrier kept the pace honest throughout the early part of the race. As the laps clicked off, Stevens wore the field down until it was just him running against the clock as he approached the bell. In the end, Stevens barreled down the homestretch, to the roar of his teammates huddled under their tents along the fence to stay dry, and with a new personal best of 9:39.61 he took home gold. In the Mile, senior Max Zhang and sophomore Patrick Noonan were at the front early on with Winchester senior Nicholas Walker. The trio were right together as they approached the bell, and as they came down the backstretch Zhang and Noonan made a big move to overtake Walker. Around the curve Zhang found another gear and powered his way to victory in a new personal best time of 4:24.62. Zhang's final lap of 63.7 was simply too much for Noonan, who still delivered his best time of the season as he earned silver with a time of 4:28.18. Junior captain Amari Mow has spent much of his spring focusing on developing his talents in the horizontal jumps. However, on Saturday he showed that he has plenty of firepower to sprint at a high level. In weather that haunts sprinters, rain and cold, Mow qualified first out of the 100m prelims with a time of 11.03 seconds. Then, in the finals, Mow exploded out of the blocks and smoothly transitioned through his drive phase into his top gear. The LHS junior won the race by daylight with a new personal best and MA #9 time of 10.93 seconds. That performance put Mow in extremely elite company, as he is only third Lexington sprinter to break the elusive 11-second barrier in the last 30 years. The Minutemen's final victory on the boys' side came in the Boys 4x800m Relay. The Indoor school record team of senior James Joseph, sophomore Arjun Raha, Zhang, and senior Zach Barry all double back after their open events. With a pair of 2-flat splits by Zhang and Barry to close out the race, the team won in a season best time of 8:14.51. The final big performance of the day came from senior Ryan Zhang. While Zhang had to settle for silver in the 110m Hurdles, he was simply sensational as he broke the LHS record just set by his teammate and training partner, junior captain Simon Tandeih, with a run of 14.52 seconds.
For the Lex girls, the story of the day was the continued dominance by junior Ainsley Cuthbertson across her three throwing events. The wet conditions seemed to be affecting her early in the Discus as she was in the unfamiliar position of being in second place in the finals. However, she retook the lead with a throw of 117'0" in the fifth round, and delivered a throw of 121'9" to make it an emphatic victory by 6-feet. Next up was the Shot Put. In her final throw of prelims, Cuthbertson dropped a bomb 39'1.75" into the sector. That mark won the event by a wide margin, as the LHS junior produced the 4 farthest throws of the competition. The final event to finish on the day was the Hammer Throw. Cuthbertson's first throw soared 149'5", which won the event by over 20-feet. With her triple gold performance, Cuthbertson earned the MSTCA's Athlete of the Meet Award. Back on the track, freshman Amelia Whorton competed in just her second meet of the season as she locked up with Newton North senior Ciara Evans. Despite being two of the best milers in the Bay State indoors, they never got the chance to square off in the winter. So, Saturday's race had plenty of build up and delivered all the excitement of big time middle distance racing. Whorton was out front early, and, along with Evans, had gapped the field by about 10 meters as the pair came through the halfway point at 2:34. As the two approached the bell, Evans, who had been sitting on Whorton's shoulder every step of the way, made her move and surged into the lead. Whorton gave a late run down the homestretch to try and reel Evans in, but it was too late as Evans took the victory in 5:00.36. The LHS freshman finished with the silver medal in a time of 5:03.93. Not to be overlooked, LHS's sprint squad delivered a pair of big performances on the girls' side. Junior Aubrey Deardorf ran a time of 12.80 seconds to earn silver in the 100m. Fellow classmate Felice Haverly managed a silver medal of her own, as she crossed the line in 26.08 seconds in the 200m.
Other Highlights for the Boys
Other Highlights for the Girls
Up Next
It will be a quick turnaround for The Minutemen as the full team is back in action this Tuesday, May 13th against Winchester. The meet - at the Lexington Center Track - will be the final meet for many members of the Class of 2025. Action gets underway at 4pm
MSTCA Coaches Metro Invitational
May 10, 2025
Lexington Center Track - Lexington, MA
RESULTS
LEXINGTON, MA - For the first time in recent memory, Lexington played host to a major invitational meet. The 2025 Coaches Metro Invitational featured some of the top prep talent from all parts of the Bay State. Despite miserable conditions in the early morning, the teams that traveled from across Massachusetts were met with a tremendous atmosphere, fantastic competition, and sunny skies breaking just as the meet came to a close. As the host team, The Minutemen certainly benefitted from home field advantage as they took home the victory in seven events on day.
Sophomore Trevor Stevens got the morning off to a great start as he competed in the Boys 2 Mile. A true distance grinder, the LHS harrier kept the pace honest throughout the early part of the race. As the laps clicked off, Stevens wore the field down until it was just him running against the clock as he approached the bell. In the end, Stevens barreled down the homestretch, to the roar of his teammates huddled under their tents along the fence to stay dry, and with a new personal best of 9:39.61 he took home gold. In the Mile, senior Max Zhang and sophomore Patrick Noonan were at the front early on with Winchester senior Nicholas Walker. The trio were right together as they approached the bell, and as they came down the backstretch Zhang and Noonan made a big move to overtake Walker. Around the curve Zhang found another gear and powered his way to victory in a new personal best time of 4:24.62. Zhang's final lap of 63.7 was simply too much for Noonan, who still delivered his best time of the season as he earned silver with a time of 4:28.18. Junior captain Amari Mow has spent much of his spring focusing on developing his talents in the horizontal jumps. However, on Saturday he showed that he has plenty of firepower to sprint at a high level. In weather that haunts sprinters, rain and cold, Mow qualified first out of the 100m prelims with a time of 11.03 seconds. Then, in the finals, Mow exploded out of the blocks and smoothly transitioned through his drive phase into his top gear. The LHS junior won the race by daylight with a new personal best and MA #9 time of 10.93 seconds. That performance put Mow in extremely elite company, as he is only third Lexington sprinter to break the elusive 11-second barrier in the last 30 years. The Minutemen's final victory on the boys' side came in the Boys 4x800m Relay. The Indoor school record team of senior James Joseph, sophomore Arjun Raha, Zhang, and senior Zach Barry all double back after their open events. With a pair of 2-flat splits by Zhang and Barry to close out the race, the team won in a season best time of 8:14.51. The final big performance of the day came from senior Ryan Zhang. While Zhang had to settle for silver in the 110m Hurdles, he was simply sensational as he broke the LHS record just set by his teammate and training partner, junior captain Simon Tandeih, with a run of 14.52 seconds.
For the Lex girls, the story of the day was the continued dominance by junior Ainsley Cuthbertson across her three throwing events. The wet conditions seemed to be affecting her early in the Discus as she was in the unfamiliar position of being in second place in the finals. However, she retook the lead with a throw of 117'0" in the fifth round, and delivered a throw of 121'9" to make it an emphatic victory by 6-feet. Next up was the Shot Put. In her final throw of prelims, Cuthbertson dropped a bomb 39'1.75" into the sector. That mark won the event by a wide margin, as the LHS junior produced the 4 farthest throws of the competition. The final event to finish on the day was the Hammer Throw. Cuthbertson's first throw soared 149'5", which won the event by over 20-feet. With her triple gold performance, Cuthbertson earned the MSTCA's Athlete of the Meet Award. Back on the track, freshman Amelia Whorton competed in just her second meet of the season as she locked up with Newton North senior Ciara Evans. Despite being two of the best milers in the Bay State indoors, they never got the chance to square off in the winter. So, Saturday's race had plenty of build up and delivered all the excitement of big time middle distance racing. Whorton was out front early, and, along with Evans, had gapped the field by about 10 meters as the pair came through the halfway point at 2:34. As the two approached the bell, Evans, who had been sitting on Whorton's shoulder every step of the way, made her move and surged into the lead. Whorton gave a late run down the homestretch to try and reel Evans in, but it was too late as Evans took the victory in 5:00.36. The LHS freshman finished with the silver medal in a time of 5:03.93. Not to be overlooked, LHS's sprint squad delivered a pair of big performances on the girls' side. Junior Aubrey Deardorf ran a time of 12.80 seconds to earn silver in the 100m. Fellow classmate Felice Haverly managed a silver medal of her own, as she crossed the line in 26.08 seconds in the 200m.
Other Highlights for the Boys
- The 4x100m Relay of sophomore Cayden Chambers, Tandeih, sophomore Luis Linares Gutierrez, and Mow placed second with a Divisional qualifying time of 44.04 seconds.
- Junior Franz Schroeder earned bronze in the Hammer Throw; senior Raphael LeDonne (150'9") placed fourth; junior Christian Brown (142'7") placed fifth; junior Matheo Gomes (118'9") earned seventh placed finish with a PR.
- In the 800m, Joseph ran a PR of 1:58.98 to place fourth; Barry placed sixth in 1:59.93; sophomore Eric House (2:00.91) PRed and earned an eighth place finish from the unseeded section; Raha ran a PR and finished ninth in 2:00.91; senior Nathan Cunningham (2:02.50) finished 18th overall.
- Junior Panos Kokkinias placed fourth in the 110m Hurdles in a personal best time of 15.71 seconds; junior Aidan Raney (16.76) finished 17th; freshman Nicolas Perroud hit the Middlesex League Championship standard for the first time with a PR of 17.56 seconds as he finished 22nd.
- It was junior Nick Roell (137'5") who placed fourth in the Discus; Schroeder (133'4") placed fifth.
- Along with Stevens' big day, freshman Rhys Behling placed fifth and qualified for the MIAA Division 1 Championships in the 2 Mile with a time of 9:51.56; junior Liam Singh (9:57.17) placed seventh and qualified for League as well.
- Roell placed fifth in the Shot Put with a throw of 46'9"; Schroeder (41'11.50") was 12th.
- Chambers (23.30) placed seventh in the 200m; Linares Gutierrez (23.86) finished19th overall.
- Sophomore Alden Hall (4:35.56) ran a personal best to finish 12th in the Mile.
Other Highlights for the Girls
- The 4x100m Relay of freshman Sabina Green, Haverly, sophomore Natalie Seed, and Deardorf earned bronze with a time of 51.13 seconds.
- Along with Whorton, sophomore Callie Glenn placed fourth overall in the Mile with a season best time of 5:12.88.
- Freshman Evelyn Radcliffe (108'6") earned a fourth place finish as she turned in another personal best in the Discus; junior Ella Wolosoff (91'5") finished 10th overall.
- It was sophomore Alycia Charest who delivered a personal best time of 11:46.65 to place fifth in the 2 Mile; junior Meghan Caldera (12:20.87) finished 11th.
- The Hammer saw junior Emily Wondolowski (102'2") place fourth; freshman Hazel Pryce Lewis (91'1") placed sixth; Wolosoff (85'4") finished seventh; Radcliffe (61'11") was ninth overall.
- Freshman Sarojini Nath earned a fifth place medal in a time of 1:11.01 in the 400m Hurdles; fellow classmate Kashish Kumar (1:12.49) placed seventh; senior captain Caroline Kvaal (1:13.03) ran a season best to finish 11th.
- In the 100m Hurdles, freshman Cynthia Gu qualified sixth to the finals in a time of 16.87 seconds; junior Monjola Finnih (17.75) finished 14th; senior Naomi Francillon (17.85) was 15th.
- The 800m saw freshmen Natalie Bielat (2:25.85) and Addie Haiar (2:26.64), along with senior captain Claire Cunningham (2:26.99) place ninth, 11th, and 12th respectively.
- Junior Julianna Mathurin finished ninth in the 200m with a time of 27.20 seconds; sophomore Marissa Hao (27.36) was 12th with a personal best.
- In the High Jump, freshman Charvi Talupuru (4'8") finished 12th.
- Freshman Rebecca Wu finished 14th with a leap of 15'6.25" in the Long Jump.
- Green placed fifth in the Freshman 100m with a time of 13.71 seconds.
Up Next
It will be a quick turnaround for The Minutemen as the full team is back in action this Tuesday, May 13th against Winchester. The meet - at the Lexington Center Track - will be the final meet for many members of the Class of 2025. Action gets underway at 4pm