OLMA Wins Small Schools Track Title

There was a race within the race Saturday at the Nassau-Suffolk CHSAA track and field championships in South Huntington.

While the traditional Catholic powers – St. Anthony’s, Chaminade and St. John the Baptist – vied for overall supremacy on the track, a parallel meet unfolded with as the star.

Yes, the Nassau-Suffolk CHSAA Large Schools team championships. The girls ran away from the pack with 110 points. Kellenberg was second (78), St. John the Baptist third (74) and Holy Trinity a distant fourth (19).

But Our Lady of Mercy Academy won the Nassau-Suffolk CHSAA Small Schools girls team title. OLMA scored 89 points to outdistance second-place St. Mary’s (34).

“I was really excited,” OLMA junior Bridget Krumholz said. “It was a good season.”

Krumholz, of Smithtown, had reason for her optimism. She won three events in the Small Schools category. Krumholz took the 200 meters in 27.41 seconds, the 400 in 61.69 and ran a leg for OLMA’s winning 4 x 400 relay (4:31.16).

“My goal was to hit 61 [seconds] in the 400,” Krumholz explained. “And in the 200, I wanted to get 27 flat. I was a little off.”

Other OLMA winners: Meaghan Walsh in the 800 (2:33.48), Kami Saracino in the 1,500 (5:21.39), Caroline Grima in the high jump (4-8) and Debbie Johnson in the shot put (27-10).

Up next is the CHSAA Intersectional championship next Saturday at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island. The top finishers advance to the state Federation meet.