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Bromfield track and field athletes win gold and silver…
Ben McWaters (left) passes the baton to Liam Kemeza in the Bromfield boys 4×800 relay race. The team came in fourth overall. (Photos by Adam Wool) Evelyn Wool (#3) enters the seventh lap in the 2-mile MIAA D6 Track and Field Championship race. She won the race setting a new personal record with a time […]


Ben McWaters (left) passes the baton to Liam Kemeza in the Bromfield boys 4×800 relay race. The team came in fourth overall. (Photos by Adam Wool)
Evelyn Wool (#3) enters the seventh lap in the 2-mile MIAA D6 Track and Field Championship race. She won the race setting a new personal record with a time of 11:02. Rosie Bradley (#7) came in second with a time of 11:11)
The boys and girls outdoor track and field teams distinguished themselves at last week’s Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association Division 6 State Championship at Tufts University, winning gold in the girls 2-mile and boys high jump and medaling in 10 other events. The girls team also won a spot on the winners podium with their fifth-place finish among the 45 participating schools.
Senior Evelyn Wool won the girls 2-mile with a time of 11 minutes, 2.04 seconds, shaving 8.25 seconds off her personal record. She is now ranked seventh among this year’s Massachusetts 2-milers and 74th in the nation.
It was junior Rosie Bradley, however, who was first to take control of the 2-mile race, according to Coach Marisa Steele. “After a relatively slow first two laps, Rosie … broke away from the pack with Evelyn in tow,” she said. Wool took over the lead with three laps to go and closed hard to set a PR of 11:02.04, with Bradley finishing second, 13 seconds ahead of the third-place finisher.
Wool also raced in the 1-mile event, placing second and setting another personal record in the process. “Unfortunately, she was overtaken by her Littleton nemesis, Erin Regan, in the final lap,” said Steele.
Vasilis Psathas dominated the boys high jump. “He was clean over all the jumps through 6 feet, 4 inches,” meaning that he had no misses at all during the competition through the opening height of 5 feet, 8 inches through 6 feet, 4 inches, said Steele. Two other competitors cleared 6 feet 4 inches, but Vasilis won the gold medal outright as the other competitors had missed jumps at lower heights.
The Girls 4×800 relay team came in seventh overall in the MIAA D6 Track and Field Championship. From left: Evelyn Wool (senior), Gabriella Temps (sophomore), Abby Wool (freshman), and Jacquie Wilkins (sophomore). (Courtesy photo)
At MIAA sanctioned track and field events, the top 8 finishers get medals. Other Bromfield medal winners were the fourth-place boys and seventh-place girls 4×800-meter relay teams; Ben McWaters, who placed fourth in the boys 2-mile; Sienna Schulz, fourth in the girls high jump; Harrison Binnick, seventh in the boys 800-meter, and Rosie Bradley, eighth in the girls 1-mile.
Three Bromfield athletes qualified for this year’s MIAA Meet of Champions, scheduled to get underway at Fitchburg State College June 5 and June 7. Wool and Bradley will compete in the girls 2-mile, and Psathas will compete in the boys high jump.
MIAA Division 6 Outdoor Track and Field State Championship, May 30 and June 1
Girls
- 1-mile: Evelyn Wool, second, 5 minutes, 8.80 seconds (PR); Rosie Bradley, eighth, 5:18.72
- 2-mile: Evelyn Wool, first, 11:02.04 (PR); Rosie Bradley, second, 11:11.81; Abby Wool, 27th,12:44.62
- High jump: Sienna Schulz, fourth, 5 feet, 00 inches
- Javelin throw: Ashley Aftosmis, 24th, 83-01
- Pole vault: Laci Ostaszewski, seventh, 8-00
- 4×800 relay: Evelyn Wool, Rosie Bradley, Gabriella Temps, and Jacquie Wilkins, seventh, 10:50.96
Boys
- 800-meter: Harrison Binnick, seventh, 2:02.19; Liam Kemeza, ninth, 2:02.46
- 1-mile: Ben McWaters, ninth, 4:41.29
- 2-mile: Ben McWaters, fourth, 9:43.16 (PR); Christian Johannesen, 20th, 10:26.70; Kai Kemeza, 27th, 10:40.49
- High jump: Vasilis Psathas, first, 6-04 (PR)
- Pole vault: Cole Maddalone, 14th, 10-00
- 4×800 relay: Harrison Binnick, Christian Johannesen, Liam Kemeza, and Ben McWaters, fourth, 8:31.36
Editor’s note: PR indicates that a result is a personal record.