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Monday, June 20, 2011 South’s Rogowsky 5th at Decathlon
NASHUA – Nashua High School South junior Connor Rogowsky was hoping he would be atop the leaderboard by the end of Day 2 at the 55th New Hampshire Decathlon. Deep down, Rogowsky knew this was Monadnock senior Nick Athanasopoulos’ event to lose.
“I felt pretty good going into (Sunday),” Rogowsky said, “I thought about winning it briefly, but I knew Nick had this pretty much wrapped up.”
Rogowsky earned the area’s top finish in either the Decathlon or the 35th Heptathlon for girls, grabbing fifth place with 5,088 points. He was 1,306 points behind the Decathlon champion from Monadnock.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/spor...386-221/souths-rogowsky-5th-at-decathlon.html
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Coming in behind Athanasopoulos (6,394) and in front of Rogowsky were runner-up Blake Pearson (5,444 points) of Fall Mountain, Pinkerton Academy’s Chris Selke (5,329) and Matthew Dionne (5,192) of Timberlane Regional in Plaistow.
Sunday’s slate of events gave Rogowsky his best individual result, as he was part of a three-way tie for second place in the pole vault at 12 feet, 0 inches. His top finish on Day 1 was a six-way tie for fourth in the high jump at 5 feet, 8 inches.
“It was pretty awesome,” said Rogowsky of his Top 5 finish. “I knew the pole vault would be my best event, just because I’ve been doing it all season. It was my first season doing it, but some of these athletes have never tried it. The whole experience was awesome.”
Rogowsky is already putting Sunday’s fifth-place finish behind him. It’s just another building block for his senior campaign. Freshman year, he finished in the 50s (he believes it was 56th). Sophomore year it was up to 25th. Senior year?
“Who knows what’s possible,” Rogowsky said. “I’ve improved a lot since freshman year, so it will be fun going into this event again next year and trying hard to get that top spot.”
Other local boys finishing the Decathlon in the Top 40 were Rogowsky’s teammates Shawn DeCost, who finished 12th with 4,641 points, Ray Ramos (21st, 4,273) and Keith Guay (39th, 3,748); the Merrimack duo of Chaz Myers (20th, 4,278) and Alex Doyle (29th, 3,991); and Souhegan’s Trevor Brown (38th, 3,843).
In the 35th Heptathlon, it was Nashua High School North’s Sarah Kert gaining top local honors with 2,839 points for 19th place overall.
Exeter’s Hillary Holmes won the event with 4,358 points. Rounding out the Top 5 for girls was the Londonderry tandem of Katie Schwarz (4,053) and Megan Schwarz (3,956), Timberlane’s Taylor Ordway (3,602) and Jen Athanasopoulos (3,487) of Monadnock Regional in Swanzey.
Other local girls finishing in the Top 40 were the Souhegan duo of Emily Ballantyne (33rd, 2,464) and Angela Blume (37th, 2,406); and Hollis/Brookline’s Kenzie Whalen (40th, 2,296).
Complete results of both events can be found online at http://www.raiderresults.com/results/live/
cut and pasted from the nashua telgraph today. some pictures as well
NASHUA – Nashua High School South junior Connor Rogowsky was hoping he would be atop the leaderboard by the end of Day 2 at the 55th New Hampshire Decathlon. Deep down, Rogowsky knew this was Monadnock senior Nick Athanasopoulos’ event to lose.
“I felt pretty good going into (Sunday),” Rogowsky said, “I thought about winning it briefly, but I knew Nick had this pretty much wrapped up.”
Rogowsky earned the area’s top finish in either the Decathlon or the 35th Heptathlon for girls, grabbing fifth place with 5,088 points. He was 1,306 points behind the Decathlon champion from Monadnock.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/spor...386-221/souths-rogowsky-5th-at-decathlon.html
full article
Coming in behind Athanasopoulos (6,394) and in front of Rogowsky were runner-up Blake Pearson (5,444 points) of Fall Mountain, Pinkerton Academy’s Chris Selke (5,329) and Matthew Dionne (5,192) of Timberlane Regional in Plaistow.
Sunday’s slate of events gave Rogowsky his best individual result, as he was part of a three-way tie for second place in the pole vault at 12 feet, 0 inches. His top finish on Day 1 was a six-way tie for fourth in the high jump at 5 feet, 8 inches.
“It was pretty awesome,” said Rogowsky of his Top 5 finish. “I knew the pole vault would be my best event, just because I’ve been doing it all season. It was my first season doing it, but some of these athletes have never tried it. The whole experience was awesome.”
Rogowsky is already putting Sunday’s fifth-place finish behind him. It’s just another building block for his senior campaign. Freshman year, he finished in the 50s (he believes it was 56th). Sophomore year it was up to 25th. Senior year?
“Who knows what’s possible,” Rogowsky said. “I’ve improved a lot since freshman year, so it will be fun going into this event again next year and trying hard to get that top spot.”
Other local boys finishing the Decathlon in the Top 40 were Rogowsky’s teammates Shawn DeCost, who finished 12th with 4,641 points, Ray Ramos (21st, 4,273) and Keith Guay (39th, 3,748); the Merrimack duo of Chaz Myers (20th, 4,278) and Alex Doyle (29th, 3,991); and Souhegan’s Trevor Brown (38th, 3,843).
In the 35th Heptathlon, it was Nashua High School North’s Sarah Kert gaining top local honors with 2,839 points for 19th place overall.
Exeter’s Hillary Holmes won the event with 4,358 points. Rounding out the Top 5 for girls was the Londonderry tandem of Katie Schwarz (4,053) and Megan Schwarz (3,956), Timberlane’s Taylor Ordway (3,602) and Jen Athanasopoulos (3,487) of Monadnock Regional in Swanzey.
Other local girls finishing in the Top 40 were the Souhegan duo of Emily Ballantyne (33rd, 2,464) and Angela Blume (37th, 2,406); and Hollis/Brookline’s Kenzie Whalen (40th, 2,296).
Complete results of both events can be found online at http://www.raiderresults.com/results/live/
cut and pasted from the nashua telgraph today. some pictures as well
