BOYS & GIRLS WIN TITLES AS THE MINUTEMEN PUT A STAMP ON AN EPIC ML12 YEAR
Meet Information
Middlesex League Championship
May 21, 2025
Burlington High School - Burlington, MA
RESULTS
BURLINGTON, MA - Last year the LHS girls came to Burlington with undefeated regular season record in Middlesex League action. However, they simply were not prepared for the onslaught brought by the Woburn Tanners and Arlington Spy Ponders as they fell to a disappointing third place finish, the team's lowest since 2019. Fast-forward to Wednesday where, with a renewed commitment to the team first mentality, they capped off the 2025 Middlesex League season with an emphatic 91-point victory as they won with 191 points over Melrose. Lexington's 191 points also shattered the previous championship scoring record set back in 2017 by Woburn. Along with the record setting day for the girls, LHS's boys were nearly just as dominant. The Minutemen scored 164 points, which bested Winchester's 92.25 and secured their fourth Middlesex League Outdoor Championship in a row.
In championship meets, it is always teams' stars that shine the brightest. This was certainly the case for the Lex girls on Wednesday in Burlington. Junior Aubrey Deardorf once again set the tone for her teammates as she qualified first out of the prelims in the 100m. That set up the head-to-head against Reading's Kamryn Encarnacao that everyone wanted in the finals. There, Deardorf executed her race to perfection and took first place and 10 points with a time of 12.64 seconds. While it was a narrow victory in the 100m, in the Long Jump the LHS junior was in a class of her own. Each of her six jumps were farther than any of her competitors, with her best of 18'9.25" being nearly two feet better than second place. Deardorf capped off her triple gold performance as the leadoff leg of the 4x100m Relay, which included freshman Sabina Green, sophomore Natalie Seed, and junior Julianna Mathurin. The team won going away with a time of 50.62 seconds. While Deardorf dominated the short sprints and jumps, fellow classmate Felice Haverly was doing work in the 400m. Haverly has been one of the best 200/400 girls in the state this spring and at the League Championships she delivered another huge performance. She blew away the competition with a time of 58.46 seconds as she picked up 10 big points for her team. The LHS junior returned to open up the 4x400m Relay with a 59.5-second split before she passed the baton to senior Lucy Kontos. Kontos and sophomore Marissa Hao only grew the lead from there, before freshman Amelia Whorton delivered a huge 58.2-second split to win relay in 4:04.67. Earlier in the meet, Whorton also proved to be in a class of her own in the 800m. She took the race out in a sizzling 64.80 seconds through the quarter mile and then poured it on over the final lap to cross the line in 2:13.93. That mark bested second place by six seconds. In the 2 Mile, freshman Janie Conrad turned in yet another big win for the Lex girls. The freshman already had a 10-meter lead as the race came down the homestretch for the first time. That lead only increased over the next seven laps as Conrad won by over 20 seconds with a time of 11:04.72. LHS's Bomb Squad had a strong day across the board and delivered one of the biggest surprises of the meet. In the Discus, junior Ainsley Cuthbertson was not herself in the prelims as she qualified second for the finals behind her teammate, freshman Evelyn Radcliffe. That meant that Radcliffe would have the final throw of the competition in the finals. In those finals, Cuthbertson quickly took the lead with a throw of 114'5". The junior's lead held through the next two rounds until Radcliffe stepped into the circle for the last throw of the day. The freshman wheeled around and launched the 1kg implement far out into the sector. The discus crashed down at 115'2" and with that Radcliffe earned the first championship win of her high school career.
It was a big day for The Minutemen's middle and long distance squads on the boys' side as well. In the Mile, senior Max Zhang, who has as much big time championship race experience as any athlete, was locked in a tight pack of four runners. As they approached the bell, the pace began to quicken as the four athletes broke away from the field. Zhang remained calm and moved swiftly into the lead down the backstretch, as only Melrose's Caleb Barnes was able to cover that move. However, Zhang saved another gear for the turn. There, he took flight and surged away from Barnes to cross the line in 4:20.43 after an impressive 60-second final quarter mile that earned him the victory. In the 800m, the senior trio of James Joseph, Zach Barry, and Nathan Cunningham ran 1-2-3 down the backstretch of the final lap. Wakefield's Ethan Mezikofsky made a charge around the turn, but it was simply not enough. Joseph outlasted Barry to earn the victory in a time of 1:56.72. Meanwhile, Barry (1:57.52) and Cunningham (1:58.38) crossed the line next in a sensational sweep of the top three places. Unfortunately, The Minutemen were denied the championship golden broom as Winchester's Owen Bernstein and Melrose's Adam Caldwell broke up the pack from the unseeded section. Despite this, Joseph, Barry, and Cunningham still managed the win, along with third and fifth place in a trio of tremendous performances. The Minutemen faced Barnes again in the 2 Mile with sophomore Patrick Noonan getting the call. Noonan was stride-for-stride with Barnes as the two approached the bell. However, the Melrose senior had too much left in the tank and took the victory. Despite the silver medal finish, the competition brought out the best in Noonan as he managed his first personal best run of the year with a time of 9:29.06. While the Mid-D and Distance squads were lighting it up on the oval, junior Aidan Raney delivered a historic performance in the Pole Vault. Raney's rival, Belmont's Mitchell Woo, no-heighted, which meant that with his clearance at 12'6" he had already won the competition. However, the LHS junior had his eyes on a bigger prize. After Raney cleared the bar at 13'0", to break the meet record he and Woo set last spring, the bar was moved up to 13'7". Raney missed his first attempt, but with his second he soared over the bar and took down the 30-year old LHS record held by Nathan Jauvtis (LHS '95). Over on the opposite apron, junior captain Amari Mow was lighting it up on Long Jump runway. Mow's second jump landed him 22'3.50", which qualified him first into the finals. Once there, he found something that has eluded him since his freshman year. A personal best. Mow's fourth attempt took him 22'9" into the pit, which won the event by nearly a foot, and now ranks him MA #8 in the event. Clearly, Mow is peaking at just the right time.
Point Scorers for the Girls
Final Girls Team Scores
1. Lexington - 191
2. Melrose - 100
3. Arlington - 85
4. Reading - 67.50
5. Winchester - 63
6. Burlington - 62
7. Wakefield - 44
8. Belmont - 28
9. Woburn - 22.50
10. Stoneham - 18
11. Wilmington - 6
Point Scorers for the Boys
Final Boys Team Scores
1. Lexington - 164
2. Winchester - 92.25
3. Melrose - 75.25
4. Arlington - 75
5. Wakefield - 73
6. Burlington - 62
7. Reading - 53
8. Woburn - 40
9. Stoneham - 21.25
10. Belmont - 20
11. Wilmington - 19
12. Watertown - 6.25
With that, the 2024-2025 Middlesex League Track & Field year has come to its end, and it is worth taking a look back on one of the most successful year's in team history. Back in early December, the LHS boys fought hard but fell to a tough Arlington team in a meet that came down to the 4x4. Since then, LHS's boys and girls have been untouchable. Both groups won out in the Indoor Season, capped off by impressive victories at the League Championship. Outdoors, the team was even more dominant. Save for another tight clash with the Spy Ponders, where the Lex girls won by a narrow margin, the team's average victories in the other nine meets was just over 82 points. In truth, Wednesday's League Championship saw everything The Minutemen preach. Throughout the misty, cold, deary May weather, LHS's athletes were locked in on the team first mentality that made everyone perform at a higher level in order to support the team's goal. And, with the ultimate team prize of a state title just a week away, it is clear The Minutemen are ready to compete with the best Massachusetts has to offer.
A special thank you to LHS Athletic Director and Middlesex League Track & Field Commissioner Naomi Martin. Naomi is in a league of her own with regard to supporting track & field in Massachusetts. Throughout the year she works to ensure the Middlesex League competes at the finest facilities in the world, the Track at New Balance and BU, during the Indoor Season. She developed a first-of-its-kind model for Outdoor Track & Field in Massachusetts that allows for fully automatic timing (FAT) at all dual meets. In addition, her efforts to pull together the resources necessary for Lexington to hosts its first invitational track meet recent memory this spring were simply tremendous. It is an honor and a privilege to have her as the team's AD and on behalf of the student-athletes and coaches, we would like to thank her for her relentless work for our team.
Up Next
A select group of athletes will compete this Saturday, May 24th at the John Tranchita Last Chance to Qualify Meet. The meet will feature a Pole Vault competition, which will begin at Weston High School at 10am. The rest of the events will be held at Leary Field in Waltham, also beginning at 10am.
Middlesex League Championship
May 21, 2025
Burlington High School - Burlington, MA
RESULTS
BURLINGTON, MA - Last year the LHS girls came to Burlington with undefeated regular season record in Middlesex League action. However, they simply were not prepared for the onslaught brought by the Woburn Tanners and Arlington Spy Ponders as they fell to a disappointing third place finish, the team's lowest since 2019. Fast-forward to Wednesday where, with a renewed commitment to the team first mentality, they capped off the 2025 Middlesex League season with an emphatic 91-point victory as they won with 191 points over Melrose. Lexington's 191 points also shattered the previous championship scoring record set back in 2017 by Woburn. Along with the record setting day for the girls, LHS's boys were nearly just as dominant. The Minutemen scored 164 points, which bested Winchester's 92.25 and secured their fourth Middlesex League Outdoor Championship in a row.
In championship meets, it is always teams' stars that shine the brightest. This was certainly the case for the Lex girls on Wednesday in Burlington. Junior Aubrey Deardorf once again set the tone for her teammates as she qualified first out of the prelims in the 100m. That set up the head-to-head against Reading's Kamryn Encarnacao that everyone wanted in the finals. There, Deardorf executed her race to perfection and took first place and 10 points with a time of 12.64 seconds. While it was a narrow victory in the 100m, in the Long Jump the LHS junior was in a class of her own. Each of her six jumps were farther than any of her competitors, with her best of 18'9.25" being nearly two feet better than second place. Deardorf capped off her triple gold performance as the leadoff leg of the 4x100m Relay, which included freshman Sabina Green, sophomore Natalie Seed, and junior Julianna Mathurin. The team won going away with a time of 50.62 seconds. While Deardorf dominated the short sprints and jumps, fellow classmate Felice Haverly was doing work in the 400m. Haverly has been one of the best 200/400 girls in the state this spring and at the League Championships she delivered another huge performance. She blew away the competition with a time of 58.46 seconds as she picked up 10 big points for her team. The LHS junior returned to open up the 4x400m Relay with a 59.5-second split before she passed the baton to senior Lucy Kontos. Kontos and sophomore Marissa Hao only grew the lead from there, before freshman Amelia Whorton delivered a huge 58.2-second split to win relay in 4:04.67. Earlier in the meet, Whorton also proved to be in a class of her own in the 800m. She took the race out in a sizzling 64.80 seconds through the quarter mile and then poured it on over the final lap to cross the line in 2:13.93. That mark bested second place by six seconds. In the 2 Mile, freshman Janie Conrad turned in yet another big win for the Lex girls. The freshman already had a 10-meter lead as the race came down the homestretch for the first time. That lead only increased over the next seven laps as Conrad won by over 20 seconds with a time of 11:04.72. LHS's Bomb Squad had a strong day across the board and delivered one of the biggest surprises of the meet. In the Discus, junior Ainsley Cuthbertson was not herself in the prelims as she qualified second for the finals behind her teammate, freshman Evelyn Radcliffe. That meant that Radcliffe would have the final throw of the competition in the finals. In those finals, Cuthbertson quickly took the lead with a throw of 114'5". The junior's lead held through the next two rounds until Radcliffe stepped into the circle for the last throw of the day. The freshman wheeled around and launched the 1kg implement far out into the sector. The discus crashed down at 115'2" and with that Radcliffe earned the first championship win of her high school career.
It was a big day for The Minutemen's middle and long distance squads on the boys' side as well. In the Mile, senior Max Zhang, who has as much big time championship race experience as any athlete, was locked in a tight pack of four runners. As they approached the bell, the pace began to quicken as the four athletes broke away from the field. Zhang remained calm and moved swiftly into the lead down the backstretch, as only Melrose's Caleb Barnes was able to cover that move. However, Zhang saved another gear for the turn. There, he took flight and surged away from Barnes to cross the line in 4:20.43 after an impressive 60-second final quarter mile that earned him the victory. In the 800m, the senior trio of James Joseph, Zach Barry, and Nathan Cunningham ran 1-2-3 down the backstretch of the final lap. Wakefield's Ethan Mezikofsky made a charge around the turn, but it was simply not enough. Joseph outlasted Barry to earn the victory in a time of 1:56.72. Meanwhile, Barry (1:57.52) and Cunningham (1:58.38) crossed the line next in a sensational sweep of the top three places. Unfortunately, The Minutemen were denied the championship golden broom as Winchester's Owen Bernstein and Melrose's Adam Caldwell broke up the pack from the unseeded section. Despite this, Joseph, Barry, and Cunningham still managed the win, along with third and fifth place in a trio of tremendous performances. The Minutemen faced Barnes again in the 2 Mile with sophomore Patrick Noonan getting the call. Noonan was stride-for-stride with Barnes as the two approached the bell. However, the Melrose senior had too much left in the tank and took the victory. Despite the silver medal finish, the competition brought out the best in Noonan as he managed his first personal best run of the year with a time of 9:29.06. While the Mid-D and Distance squads were lighting it up on the oval, junior Aidan Raney delivered a historic performance in the Pole Vault. Raney's rival, Belmont's Mitchell Woo, no-heighted, which meant that with his clearance at 12'6" he had already won the competition. However, the LHS junior had his eyes on a bigger prize. After Raney cleared the bar at 13'0", to break the meet record he and Woo set last spring, the bar was moved up to 13'7". Raney missed his first attempt, but with his second he soared over the bar and took down the 30-year old LHS record held by Nathan Jauvtis (LHS '95). Over on the opposite apron, junior captain Amari Mow was lighting it up on Long Jump runway. Mow's second jump landed him 22'3.50", which qualified him first into the finals. Once there, he found something that has eluded him since his freshman year. A personal best. Mow's fourth attempt took him 22'9" into the pit, which won the event by nearly a foot, and now ranks him MA #8 in the event. Clearly, Mow is peaking at just the right time.
Point Scorers for the Girls
- Senior Caitlin Lennox took the Pole Vault title on jumps with an 8-foot clearance; junior June Reddy picked up the silver with an 8-foot jump of her own.
- In the 100m Hurdles freshman Cynthia Gu (16.72) won silver; senior Naomi Francillon (17.15) and freshman Rebecca Wu (17.69) placed sixth and eighth.
- It took an MA #2 throw to defeat Cuthbertson in the Shot Put, as the LHS junior placed second with a throw of 41'1.50".
- The leaderboard of the 2 Mile was dominated by the Lex girls; along with Conrad's win, sophomore Erin Ehmann (11:32.78) earned bronze; sophomore Alycia Charest (11:39.81) placed fifth; junior Meghan Caldera (11:45.39) earned a sixth place finish.
- In the Mile it was sophomore Callie Glenn (5:07.87) who earned the bronze medal; Kontos placed seventh in 5:13.67.
- Hao (27.22) and Mathurin (27.25) placed fourth and fifth respectively in the 200m.
- The 400m Hurdles saw freshmen Sarojini Nath (1:10.49) and Kashish Kumar (1:10.88) place fifth and sixth respectively.
- In the Triple Jump it was freshman Sabina Green that earned fifth place with a leap of 33'9".
- Junior Iris Yu earned fifth place in the Long Jump with a leap of 15'11".
- Mathurin (13.47) and Seed (13.81) placed sixth and eighth overall in the 100m.
- Freshman Natalie Bielat charged to a sixth place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:23.57.
- In the High Jump freshman Charvi Talupuru (4'8") placed seventh.
- The 4x800m Relay of Glenn, Bielat, freshman Addie Haiar, and senior Claire Cunningham placed second with a time of 9:48.51.
Final Girls Team Scores
1. Lexington - 191
2. Melrose - 100
3. Arlington - 85
4. Reading - 67.50
5. Winchester - 63
6. Burlington - 62
7. Wakefield - 44
8. Belmont - 28
9. Woburn - 22.50
10. Stoneham - 18
11. Wilmington - 6
Point Scorers for the Boys
- Senior Ryan Zhang cruised to victory in the 110m Hurdles with a time of 14.78 seconds.
- LHS's Bomb Squad picked up 19 points in the Discus as junior Nick Roell (140'1"), senior Raphael LeDonne (133'4"), and senior Adrian Boell (127'11") placed second, third, and fourth respectively.
- The 100m saw Mow (11.07) earn the silver medal; sophomore Cayden Chambers (11.37) placed fifth; senior Tim George placed eighth in 11.55 seconds.
- On his final throw of the competition, junior Sam Myerberg moved up three places to earn the bronze medal in the Javelin with a throw of 154'10".
- Roell picked up the bronze medal with a throw of 47'7.25" in the Shot Put.
- In the Mile, sophomores Alden Hall (4:31.71) and Owen Ross (4:32.62) placed fifth and sixth respectively.
- Chambers placed fifth in the 200m with a time of 23.09 seconds; George placed sixth in 23.13 seconds.
- The 400m saw freshman Matteo Sanchez de Rojas (53.68) place seventh.
- Sophomore Sheryas Hanchinamani placed eighth in the 400m Hurdles with a time of 1:00.65.
- In the 4x800m Relay the team of Cunningham, sophomore Finn O'Donnell, senior Will Fletcher, and sophomore Eric House won in a time of 8:16.21.
- The 4x100m Relay of Chambers, sophomore Luis Linares Gutierrez, George, and Hanchinamani won gold in 43.54 seconds.
- Senior Kabir Gokarn, Hanchinamani, Cunningham, and Joseph earned silver with a time of 3:30.98 in the 4x400m Relay.
Final Boys Team Scores
1. Lexington - 164
2. Winchester - 92.25
3. Melrose - 75.25
4. Arlington - 75
5. Wakefield - 73
6. Burlington - 62
7. Reading - 53
8. Woburn - 40
9. Stoneham - 21.25
10. Belmont - 20
11. Wilmington - 19
12. Watertown - 6.25
With that, the 2024-2025 Middlesex League Track & Field year has come to its end, and it is worth taking a look back on one of the most successful year's in team history. Back in early December, the LHS boys fought hard but fell to a tough Arlington team in a meet that came down to the 4x4. Since then, LHS's boys and girls have been untouchable. Both groups won out in the Indoor Season, capped off by impressive victories at the League Championship. Outdoors, the team was even more dominant. Save for another tight clash with the Spy Ponders, where the Lex girls won by a narrow margin, the team's average victories in the other nine meets was just over 82 points. In truth, Wednesday's League Championship saw everything The Minutemen preach. Throughout the misty, cold, deary May weather, LHS's athletes were locked in on the team first mentality that made everyone perform at a higher level in order to support the team's goal. And, with the ultimate team prize of a state title just a week away, it is clear The Minutemen are ready to compete with the best Massachusetts has to offer.
A special thank you to LHS Athletic Director and Middlesex League Track & Field Commissioner Naomi Martin. Naomi is in a league of her own with regard to supporting track & field in Massachusetts. Throughout the year she works to ensure the Middlesex League competes at the finest facilities in the world, the Track at New Balance and BU, during the Indoor Season. She developed a first-of-its-kind model for Outdoor Track & Field in Massachusetts that allows for fully automatic timing (FAT) at all dual meets. In addition, her efforts to pull together the resources necessary for Lexington to hosts its first invitational track meet recent memory this spring were simply tremendous. It is an honor and a privilege to have her as the team's AD and on behalf of the student-athletes and coaches, we would like to thank her for her relentless work for our team.
Up Next
A select group of athletes will compete this Saturday, May 24th at the John Tranchita Last Chance to Qualify Meet. The meet will feature a Pole Vault competition, which will begin at Weston High School at 10am. The rest of the events will be held at Leary Field in Waltham, also beginning at 10am.