Track Meet at Belchertown

On Friday April 24, 2009 the Eaglebrook Track team traveled to Belchertown, and logged another win for Eaglebrook, 51-40.  Our 4 x 100 relay teams took first place and second place. Greg Poole ’10, Johnathan Flores ’09, Riley Silbert ’09, and JinWu Choi ’09 together had a time of 48.7, and our second team made up of Junbeom Ku ’11, Chun-Yen (Hilton) Chao ’11, Kyle Kotch ’09 and Dong Hyun (DH) Kim ’09 took second place with a time of 55.5.  Belchertown ran a 1 mile race rather than our normal 1500 meters, and despite the small difference George Reich ’09 took second place with a time of 5:25.  Sunho Park ’10 took forth place with a time of 5:27 and David Lim ’09 took fifth place with a time of 7:08.  The 100-meter dash was swept with the Eaglebrook sprinters; JinWu Choi ’09 took first with a time of 11.7, closely followed by Greg Poole ’10 taking second with a time of 11.8, and Johnathan Flores ’09 taking third place with a time of 12.5.  Jeff Simmonds ’09 took second place in the 400 meters with a time of 1:01 closely followed by Hwi Jae Shin '10 taking third place with a time of 1:02. George Reich ‘09 led the pack taking first place in the 800 meters with a time of 2:35. The 200 meters was a full race, and Greg Poole ’10 took first place with a time of 24.8 and Junbeom Ku ’11 took third place with a time of 27.1, Riley Silbert ’09 had a time of 27.9, earning fourth place and Jeong Jun (JJ) Kim ’12 had a time of 33.4 taking sixth place. The 4 x 400 relay team made up by Johnathan Flores '09, Jeff Simmonds '09, Austin Teece '09, and Sunho Park '10 took second place with a combined time of 4:24.

Eaglebrook took home seven of the twelve possible places in the field events. Johnathan Flores ’09 took first place in the shot put with a throw of 36’5”, and Chun-Yen (Hilton) Chao ’11 took second place with a throw of 32’1”. Austin Teece ’09 had the fifth place throw of 31’6.5”. Alejandro Perez-Smolij ’09 took third place in the discus throw with a throw of 54’ 1”. The high jump had two Eaglebrook scorers, Chun-Yen (Hilton) Chao ’11 jumped 5’10” earning him second place and Yuji Develle ’10 took third place with a jump of 4’10”.  The long jump also had two scorers: JinWu Choi ’09 took first place with a jump of 19’4”, and Greg Poole ’10 took third place with a jump of 16’8”.  Other notable jumpers were Junbeom Ku ’11 taking sixth place with a jump of 14’1.2”, and Riley Silbert ’09 took seventh place with a jump of 13’4”.