4/19 - Five meet records go down at American Conference Relays

 

Five meet records were broken at the meet, including three by the boys and two by the girls. In the Sprint Medley, Quakertown posted a 3:32.1 to break the 1990 record behind Jon Mitchell, Nate Cox, Dan Schepis, and Adam Breisch. Wissahickon was 2nd in 3:38.0. Methacton's Blake Taylor and Doug Mazzocco set a new Triple Jump Relay record of 87-0.25. The Upper Merion 4x800 squad of Ronak Patel, Mike Brothers, Mike Heavner and John Greis ran 8:08.8 to beat a 19-year-old record held by Wissahickon. For the girls, Wissahickon's 4x200 relay of Brandie Smith, Brooke Williams, Alex Baptiste and Krista Simkins broke the record set by their own school last year, going 1:44.5. And Upper Dublin's Stephanie Richter and Ann Stout teamed to set a Pole Vault Relay record of 17-0, breaking their own school's record set in 2002.