A Record Setting Season for Doane Stuart-Rensselaer Track

Rensselaer, NY – The records keep falling for the Doane Stuart-Rensselaer Thunder Rams track team.  As it currently stands, 20 Doane Stuart records were broken by the boys and girls teams this year, a phenomenal feat.  Congratulations to our student athletes and coaches for their record-setting season.

Since last week, three brand new school records were set:

• 3000m Steeplechase – Thomas Mathes –  10:59.86
• Boys 3200m Relay – Gawain Semlear, Jonny Hacker, Liam Lynch and Zak Maurer (Renss.) – 8:27.14
• Girls 3200m Relay – Sarah Stapleton, Anne Fraser, Amelia Stapleton and Catherine LaPorta (Renss.) – 10:32.60

Liam, Thomas, Meghan Araldi and the Boys 1600m Relay team also lowered their school records:

• 3200m – Thomas Mathes – 10:47.19
• 3000m – Meghan Araldi – 11:55.29
• 800m – Liam Lynch – 1:59.23
• Boys 1600m Relay – Brandon Clancy (Renss.), Gawain Semlear, Zak Maurer (Renss.), Liam Lynch – 3:31.7

 Other school records set in 2015 Girls

• 100 High Hurdles – Amelia Stapleton – 17.22
• 400m – Amelia Stapleton – 62.74
• 400 Intermediate Hurdles – Amelia Stapleton – 67.56
• 2000m Steeplechase – Meghan Araldi – 8:09
• 400m Relay – Abby Hanna, Maurin O’Connor, Louise Metz, Christina Bellamy (Renss.) – 55.26
• 1600m Relay – Catherine Laporta (Renss.), Sarah Stapleton, Anne Fraser, Amelia Stapleton – 4:26.56
• Triple Jump – Louise Metz – 30ft 8.5in
• Pole Vault – Maurin O’Connor – 9ft 6in

Boys

• 100m – Liam Lynch – 11.58
• 200m – Liam Lynch – 22.68
• 400m – Liam Lynch – 49.58
• 1600m – Liam Lynch – 4:48
• Javelin – Jonny Hacker – 53ft 4in

State Qualifiers will be held Thursday and Friday, June 4-5 at SUNY Albany.  Good luck to all of our Thunder Rams as they compete to earn a spot at States!

A special note of good luck and well-wishes to Liam and Amelia, our graduating seniors.  Liam will attend Haverford College in Haverford, PA in the fall, where he will join Dan Sax ’14 who is a current member of the track team.  Amelia will run track for Smith College in Northampton, MA.  Liam and Amelia currently hold seven and five school records, respectively.

The Doane Stuart School is the Capital Region’s only interfaith, coeducational Early Childhood through Grade Twelve college preparatory school.  For more information about Doane Stuart, contact Geoffrey M. Bowman Director of Admission, at (518) 465-5222 X241