Page 12 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2024 Revere girls track wins GBL meet By Dom Nicastro T he Revere High School girls track team backed up their undefeated league championship season with a massive win at the Greater Boston League championship meet on Friday, Feb. 2. Revere scored 106.33 points, ahead of second-place Medford (91). “There were PRs left and right and so many strong performances,” Revere coach Racquel MacDonald-Ciambelli said. Liv Yuong was the top scorer (30 points) and the GBL champion in three events (55-meter hurdles, high jump and long jump). She clocked new PRs in the 55-meter hurdles (9.57) and in the indoor long jump (15-07.75). She will be headed to states now in both the high jump and 55-meter hurdles. “All of these events overlapped and Liv was still able to give her all in each of them,” MacDonald-Ciambelli said. “Great prep as she works towards school records in the long jump and pentathlon.” Gemma Stamatopoulos was the second top scorer with 26 total points. She was the champion in the 600-meter with a new state auto-qualifying PR (1:47.11) and was the champion in the 2-mile. She also squeezed in a third-place in the high jump with a new PR of 4-8. “Gemma truly has such a strong competitive mentality and is so eager to get out there and race,” MacDonaldCiambelli said. “Each race she comes in with a new goal and gets there. Gemma and Liv accounted for more than half of our team’s points total. Absolutely incredible.” Revere scored massive PRs in the 55-meter dash for Ashley Rodriguez and senior captain Giselle Salvador, who each broke that eight-second mark. The Patriots had PRs for all three 300-meter runners (Jaliyah Manigo, Danni Hope Randall and Rania Hamdani). Sophomore Olivia Rupp had a first-place finish in the mile “She ran a super strong race considering she was out front from the start and had to run it on her own,” MacDonaldCiambelli said. Revere also scored PRs from Gianna Chiodi in the 600-meter, Genevieve Zierten in the mile and 1,000-meter, Basma Sahibi in the 55-meter hurdles (10.94) and Neyla Vranic in the long jump (13-07). The Patriots scored a huge win from the 4x200-meter relay team, defeating Lynn English by.01 second at the line. This pushes them closer to a state qualifying time and also only one second away from the school record. “This team came in with a goal this season to top the GBL, and they proved themselves week after week, meet after meet,” MacDonald-Ciambelli said. “This GBL Championship win was so well deserved since I see them work so hard at practice each day. Every single athlete has improved from December, and it is so rewarding to work with them and watch their confidence as student-athletes grow. We will have a few athletes head into some fi nal invitationals as we hope for more state-qualifying times. I’m very confident we will see many more PRs well into February.” Revere boys win GBL meet The Revere boys made it a clean sweep at the GBL meet, winning as a team with 124 points ahead of Somerville at 111. Joao Victor Cunha set a new school record in the 600 meters winning in a time of 1:23:43. This broke a 28-yearold record set by Shane Weiner in 1996. “JV’s record was almost an afterthought,” Revere coach David Fleming said. “More impressive was his race strategy. Prior, he told his teammates to let the Medford runner lead the race then when JV made his move, they should follow. It resulted in JV winning, Medy Bellemsieh coming in second and Kenan Batic fi nishing fourth. In the 600 alone, we outscored Somerville, 22-1. That was by far the biggest point diff erential in any event.” Allen Hou won the 55-meter dash with a time of 6:65. The new personal record qualifi ed Hou for the 2024 Nike Indoor Nationals in New York City. Lady Pats Belma Velic had 15 points and eight rebounds against Greater Lowell Tech. Here she is making a layup over a Sommerville opponent in previous action. (Advocate fi le photo) “Allen was so mentally tough in this race,” Fleming said. “He actually got off to a poor start, but made a huge move in the middle portion and simply refused to let anyone beat him. This win is a big breakthrough for Allen.” Richard Vilme won the high jump event with a jump of 6 feet. “You can’t say enough about Richard,” Fleming said. “He’s a tremendous athlete who battled through a tough competition with a monster 6-foot jump. Also extremely important was Oliver Escobar, who GIRLS TRACK | SEE Page 14 RHS PATRIOTS GIRLS TRACK TEAM: Shown from left to right: Back row: Head Coach Racquel MacDonald, Rania Hamdani, Nour Maihouane, Emma DeCrosta, Valerie Aguirre, Analyse Byrd, Basma Sahibi, Liv Yuong, Hadassa Dias, Dayana Ortega, Jaliyah Manigo, Genevieve Zierten, Caleigh Joyce, Katelynn Purcifull and Manal Hazimeh; middle row: Hiba El Bzyouy, Ivana Nguyen, Danni Hope Randall, Anahis Vazquez, Yasmin Riazi, Ashley Cabrera Rodriguez, Jade Dang, Jaleeyah Figueroa, Lesly Mendoza and Raquel Class; bottom row: Mayaah Ndi, Olivia Rupp, Gemma Stamatopoulos, Ashley Chandler, Yara Belguendouz, Angelina Montoya, Camila Echeverri, Ava Cassinello and Valeria Sepulveda. (Advocate fi le photo)
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