Varsity Indoor Track Results

2008-09 Varsity Indoor Track

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Mar. 5, 2008, Gazette: B-CC girls win indoor track title

It was almost audacious to talk about it before it happened. Only four members of Bethesda-Chevy Chase’s girls indoor track team qualified for the Class 3A state meet, held last Monday at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, but things had fallen the Barons’ way all day.

First, they won the 4x800-meter relay, and then Alex Doll and Addie Tousley finished first and third in the 1,600-meter race, and as they waited out the final race of the day, the 4x200 relay, they found themselves in first place with 43 points. When Charles County’s Westlake finished third in that race, it could only raise its total to 42 points, and the final reckoning became a reality - B-CC had shocked the field and itself, winning the Class 3A state crown.

‘‘We sized up the competition, but we never talked about winning a state title,” B-CC coach Chad Young said. ‘‘We knew that we would win in the 4x800 and in the 1,600, and after that we saw that it was wide open. After we ran, and figured out how many points we had, we really started to look at the scoreboard.”

The Barons were in that position because all of their runners scored points. Tousley added a third-place finish in the 3,200 to go with her third-place showing in the 1,600. Hannah Richardson scored in the 500 and 800, placing fifth and second, respectively. But, the largest reason for B-CC’s success was due to Doll, who is only a freshman. The Montgomery County champion in the 1,600, where she unseated favored senior Morgane Gay of Whitman, Doll has been running with confidence ever since. Last Monday, she was indirectly or directly responsible for 21 of the Barons’ points, anchoring the 4x800 team that also consisted of Paige Donnelly, Tousley and Richardson, and winning the 1,600 title in 5 minutes, 16.41 seconds. With just the Class 3A state meet run on Monday — it was originally scheduled to be run in tandem with the Class 4A meet the previous, but was pushed back when the 3A West Region meet was postponed because of inclement weather — Doll had less time to recover between races, making her feat even more impressive.

‘‘It was weird,” she said. ‘‘Between the 4x800 and the 1,600 I had just 15 minutes to recover, which was hard. But, it worked out.”

That may due to the fact that Doll is already used to hard work. A midfielder on B-CC’s girls soccer team in the fall, Doll is so talented that she is part U.S. National U-14 girls soccer pool, and has played with the team in tournaments in California and Florida. In between the regional meet, held last Thursday, and the state meet, Doll played four soccer games with the Maryland U-15 Olympic Development Squad at a tournament in Virginia, and will concentrate on soccer this spring. Yet, she says that she plans to run again next winter.

‘‘It is different than soccer, but it was really fun,” she said. ‘‘I did a lot of relays, which made it feel like a team sport.” ...

Notes: Other Montgomery County medalists were ... B-CC’s Dylan Straughan and Alex Prevost, who won the silver medal in the boys 3,200 and the bronze in the boys 1,600, respectively.

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