NIN: Conestoga 4x8 #3 PA AT | Bailey, Adams, C. Lavong, Mallon shine | 16 All-Americans

Conestoga has become a distance relay powerhouse over the last several years, and every year they show up big at the end of the year.  This year the girls team placed 6th in the 4x800 to earn All-American status with a time of 9:11.48, the same time they ran last year indoors.  (In photo courtesy of Mona Ramadane)  The mark puts them in a three-way tie for PA #3 all-time, and only 3 seconds shy of William Penn's 9:08.69 from 2000.  The other times are 9:11.22, Perkiomen Valley (1982), 9:11.48, Hatboro Horsham (2004), and 9:11.48, Conestoga (2008).  Marta Klebe led off with a fantastic split of 2:14.5.  Dina Ramadane covered the second leg in 2:18.9.  Meghan Shanley completed the third leg in 2:22.6, and Kacie O'Neil closed out the anchor leg with a quick 2:14.9.  Conestoga was also 9th in the SMR with a time of 4:10.99.  In that relay Dana VanOcker and Shonte' Kenendy led off with 200 splits of 27.4 and 26.6.  Marta Klebe ran the 400 leg in 58.5 and Kacie O'Neil anchored the 800 leg in 2:18.1. 

Conestoga, running as the Irish Road TC, finished 5th in the SMR with a time of 3:34.51.  Curtis Baylis and Connor Tait started with the 200 legs in 23.1 and 23.3.  Tom Mayer ran the 400 leg in 51.1.  J.C. Rizzo ran the 800 leg in 1:56.6.  Conestoga boys were also 9th in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:24.30.