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Cougars Run Hard at BSAL Track Meet

This story originally appeared on the Albany High School Cougar Online. Read more from The Cougar at http://www.albanyhighcougar.com.

The Albany Cougars competed at the Bay Shore Athletic League Track and Field Championships this past Thursday and Saturday, with a total of 21 athletes qualifying for the North Coast Section Championships this Saturday at James Logan High School. 

The Albany Varsity Girls team finished in second place, with the Varsity Boys coming in third place. The Junior Varsity Boys fell three points short of winning the championship.

Among the standout performers were senior Siobhan Bauer and junior Conrad Federspiel, both of whom won their respective discus events with personal bests. Bauer won with a heave of 97’ 8” and Federspiel took the BSAL title with a personal best of 138’ 1”. Senior Jeffrey Wu, who dug himself a deep hole in the early rounds came back strong to finish second in the discus to Federspiel.

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Senior Stuart Adams improved upon his school record for the 300-meter hurdles, finishing with a time of 41.63 seconds. Adams finished second to state-ranked Kenneth Walker III of Kennedy High and pushed the UCLA-bound football star to the last hurdle. Adams is the first Albany runner under 42 seconds for the 300 hurdles.

Two sophomore girls, Naomi Hamada and Suzanne Becker, both came within one second of breaking the school records for the 300-meter hurdles and the 800-meter run, respectively. Becker will be competing in two events at the NCS meet this weekend, finishing second in both the 800 and 1600 meter races.

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Other strong finishers included senior Chris Gilliam who notched second place in the 400 meters and senior Kyle Moore who finished second in the 100 meters.

Albany athletes qualifying for the NCS Track and Field Championships on May 19:

  • Stuart Adams (300m hurdles and 4 x 400m)
  • Lachlan Athanasiou (4 x 400m)
  • Siobhan Bauer (Shotput and discus and 4 x 400m)
  • Suzanne Becker (1600m and 800m)
  • Ivory Beltran (400m and 200m)
  • Rachel Brumels (100m hurdles)
  • Albert Buck-Bauer (1600m and 3200m)
  • Conrad Federspiel (Discus)
  • Chris Gilliam (400m, 200m, 4 x 400m)
  • Naomi Hamada (300m hurdles and 4 x 400m)
  • Erlend Harbo (1600m)
  • Jeremy Juwono (Long Jump)
  • Tracey Lum (100m hurdles, 300m hurdles and 4 x 400m)
  • Teo Maldonado (1600m)
  • Dorothea Miller (1600m and 800m)
  • Kyle Moore (100m and long jump)
  • Andrew Nealy (4 x 400m)
  • Rance Thomas (400m, 4 x 400m)
  • Nolan Tonkyn (1600m and 3200m)
  • Kai Wilmsen (800m)
  • Jeffrey Wu (Shotput and discus)

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