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Nighthawk Track And Field Teams Compete At Blue & Gold Stadium

By Andy Hutchison

Published: Apr 26, 2025 6:45 am

Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ track and field teams had their first home meet of the spring, entertaining Bethel and Immaculate of Danbury at Blue & Gold Stadium on April 22. On the girls’ side, NHS defeated Bethel 98.5-51.5 and beat Immaculate 149-1; in the boys’ meet, NHS lost to Bethel 115-35 and defeated Immaculate 116-24.

“Bethel has always been a tremendous program. Their athletes are excellent competitors and they are very well coached on both the boys and girls side of the program. Immaculate has also had some excellent teams as well as athletes across the years and has always competed at a high level,” Newtown Coach Nick Fraticelli said. “Our student-athletes performed tremendously well with numerous SWC conference championship qualifiers on both the girls’ as well as boys’ side in both individual events as well as in relay events. We are progressing well. “

Girls’ meet results:

100: 2. Summer-Rose Chaljub 13.17; 4. Brynn Lozer 13.63.

200: 2. Chaljub 27.16; 3. Lola Kessler 27.50; 4. Abigail Manka 28.13; 5. Lozer 28.23.

400: 1. Kessler 1:00.54; 2. Rachael Albrecht 1:01.61; 4. Kelsey Brennan 1:03.88; 5. Jessie Moore 1:04.40.

800: 1. Natalie delCampo 2:33.08; 4. Natalie Andrew 2:44.93; 5. Kailyn Lahey 2:47.66.

1600: 1. Ana Morris 5:46.98; 2. Teegan Svendsen 6:03.19; 3. Kailyn Lahey 6:06.65; 5. Eva Ziemnicki 6:13.17.

3200: 1. Morris 12:44.49; 2. Anabelle Foley 12:51.48; 3. Svendsen 12:54.67.

100 hurdles: 1. Aashni Shetty 15.78; Marcela Corral 18.23.

300 hurdles: 3. Brennan 52.29; 4. Anna Parsons 53.13; 5. Jolene Bracket 54.69.

4x100: 1. Chaljub, Moore, Manka, Kessler 52.32.

4x400: 2. Brennan, Leah Morris, Moore, Csaszar 4:18.95.

4x800 relay: 1. Leah Morris, Csaszar, delCampo, Albrecht 10:34.07.

Shot-put: 2. Jamie Humphreys 28-0; 3. Faith Weir 27-4; 4. Lily Tullis 26-0.

Discus: 1. Humphreys 88-7; 3. Tullis 84-3.

Javelin: 1. Mackenzie Penrod 84-8; 2. Humphreys 80-3; 3. Tullis 78-1.

High jump: 2. Parsons 4-8; 3. Isabella Walder 4-6; 5. Corral 4-4.

Pole vault: 1. Kessler 8-6; 3. Csaszar 7-6.

Long jump: 1. Shetty 17-1; 2. Violet Assante-LaBash 15-8.5; 3. Gwen Lyon 14-10; 5. Charlotte Miller 14-3.25.

Triple jump: 1. Shetty 35-11.75; 3. Assante-LaBash 32-10.

Boys’ results:

100: 4. Noah Kooper 11.51.

200: 5. James D’Amico 24.10.

800: 4. Duncan Kolb 2:05.63.

1600: 2. Orion Lowery 4:38.70; 4. Sebastian Colburn 4:55.75.

3200: 4. Ubay Dissa 10:47.57.

110 hurdles: 1. Jayden Taylor 15.45; 4. Derek Jopp 18.88; 5. Mauricio De La Garza 20.36.

300 hurdles: 1. Taylor 43.32.

4x100: 2. Taylor, Kooper, Tanner Smith, Justyn Gonzalez 44.84.

4x400: 3. Kooper, Bryce Maddox, D’Amico, Soheib Dissa 3:41.89.

4x800: 2. Reid Karnas, Mark Caratas, Bryce Taylor, Nick Oliveria 10:00.15.

Shot-put: 1. Guilherme Magalhaes 41-7.

Discus: 1. Magalhaes 116-3.

Javelin: 5. Gonzalez 121-11.

High jump: 2. Owen Sullivan 5-6.

Long jump: 2. Sullivan 19-6.5; 3. Smith 19-5.25; 5. Gonzalez 18-3.75.

Triple jump: 2. Sullivan 39-10.5; 4. Gonzalez 38-9.

Sports Editor Andy Hutchison can be reached at andyh@thebee.com.

Natalie delCampo was first in the 800 when Newtown hosted Bethel and Immaculate on April 22. —Bee Photos, Hutchison

Sebastian Colburn (No. 5) and Orion Lowery (No. 2) race with a group of Bethel runners in the 1600. Lowery finished second and Colburn fourth.

Jamie Humphreys won the discus event.

Myles Commodore was sixth in the 400 with a time of 59.48.

Among Aashni Shetty’s wins was the triple jump competition.

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