Liberty Bell

Saturday, 10 September 2022

Race Review

Wow! Where do we begin? I suppose with the two new school records! At SHS, we aren't satisfied with a new school record, we set two on the same day!

Dom ran 15:09 and improved his best time, set last year at the Garmin Running Lane National Championship by 26 seconds. His 15:09 school record is 38 seconds faster than he ran at Liberty Bell last year and bests Liam Meirow's previous school record set in 2013 by 20 seconds. Of note, Liam went on to win the State Championship that year! Dom's time is also in the top 25 ever run at Liberty Bell, #8 in the State and #1 in 4A!

Ella ran 16:46, 1:29 faster than last year! That lowered the school record of 17:25 set by Whitney Anderson in 2004 when she won the State Championship by 39 seconds! It was an improvement of 61 seconds on her PR set last year at Desert Twilight. It is the 4th fastest time ever run at Liberty Bell. Her time puts her at not just #2 in the State and #1 in 4A, but also #2 in the nation!

More important, from an overall aspect, was the outstanding team performance.

EVERYONE improved on their Cheyenne Mountain times, setting new Season Bests. Some of the biggest improvements:

Chloe improved by 4:47
Niamh improved by 2:30
Claire improved by 2:18
Darby improved by 2:15
Cece improved by 1:44
Avery improved by 1:40
Paige improved by 1:33
Lauren improved by 1:17
Ella improved by 1:08
Adaline improved by 0:56
Jens improved by 4:13
Memphis improved by 3:03
Gavin improved by 2:29
Carter improved by 1:53
Donovan improved by 1:44
Cain improved by 1:38
Zach improved by 1:18
Lando improved by 1:17
Josh improved by 0:54

EVERYONE ran faster than last year at Liberty Bell, including:

Ella improved by 1:30
Avery improved by 1:20
Niamh improved by 1:18
Kai improved by 3:23
Bryce improved by 2:03
Zach improved by 0:59
Dom improved by 0:38
Josh improved by 0:26

All but two set all time PRs! (Including out of state low elevation races.)

Avery PR'd by 1:20
Ella PR'd by 1:02
Adaline PR'd by 0:29
Niamh PR'd by 0:09
Cece PR'd by 0:07
Kai PR'd by 3:09
Zach PR'd by 0:53
Dom PR'd by 0:26
Josh PR'd by 0:14

Results as of 4:00 pm on Sunday still aren't complete, so I have no times for Maisy and Claire.

The boys Top 5 average time improved by a big 0:37 compared to last year. That's an average improvement of 37 seconds per runner! Even more significantly, the Top 7 (important for team depth) improved by a bigger 1:19.

The girls Top 5 average time improved by a huge 1:09 and the Top 7 average time by 1:19!

Significantly, big improvements are happening in the all important 3rd through 5th positions, where faster times impact the team score more than improvements at 1st and 2nd. (See - the standard deviation bell curve and here.)

The girls were 16th of 22 teams in the Sweepstakes division but more importantly the first 4A team! Last year we were in Division 2, this year they skipped Division 1 and bumped the girls all the way to the Sweepstakes.

The boys were 4th of 23 teams in Division 1 and would have won if Dom's time (he ran in the Sweepstakes) were included! In fact, if we had run in the Sweepstakes we would have been very close to Eagle Valley for second 4A team. Our first 3 boys were faster than Eagle's first 3 and our 4th just one second behind their 4th. It was only at 5th that they were significantly ahead. We will have to wait for the mega-merge to see if we would have beaten Eagle Valley.

The boys ran 4 of the top 10 SHS times ever at Liberty Bell. The girls ran 5 of the top 9 and 9 of the top 20 SHS times at Liberty Bell.

Summit Daily Article: Summit’s Ella Hagen and Dom Remeikis shatter school records at Liberty Bell Invitational

MileSplit Article: Clawing To Victory At Liberty Bell

Twitter: U.S. #1 and #2!