Gymafi Wins Discus at Northern Virginia Invitational!

The Wolverines travelled to the site of this year’s Northern Region Championships (Robinson Secondary School) and competed in the Northern Virginia Invitational.  Over the course of the two day invitational there were a total of three Regional qualifying performances and six District qualifying performances for the West Potomac Track & Field program.

Once again junior Mychael Gyamfi led the way for the boys team, winning the Boys Discus in a new personal best of 142-03.  Gyamfi’s mark qualifies him for Regionals and currently ranks him first in the District.   In addition to his impressive results in the Discus, Gyamfi qualified for Districts on the track in the 100m and 200m and improved his District qualifying mark in the Shot Put to 43-04.  Sophomore Lozie Goolsby also qualified for Regionals in the 400m with a new personal best of 50.95 after finishing 5^t, he also placed 5^th in the High Jump.  The Wolverines added District qualifiers in the Long Jump (Diemorney Pierson-El  8^th in 20-01), 800m (Corey Rosenberg 10^th in 2:01.53), and the 1600m (Luca Halladay 11^th in 4:29.77).

The Lady Wolverines had a regional qualifying performance from junior Katie Genuario in the 3200m.  Genuario moved up throughout the race to place 6^th in a very fast field, her time of 11:23.34 was a solid opener.   Freshman Meredith Barber placed in the top 10 of her event after finishing 9^th out of 40 girls in the Freshmen 1600 and lowering her personal best by 8 seconds.

Up next for the West Potomac Track & Field program is their Quad Meet against South County, W.T. Woodson and Lake Braddock on April 17^th at South County.  To see all post-season qualifying mark (District, Regional & State) for the Wolverines this far please check the left-hand column of the blog.