Ocean City Track Relay Breaks School Record

The Ocean City High School girls distance medley relay team of (left to right) Rachel Stremme, Cierra Granger, Bridget Flynn and MaryKate Brelsford competed in Eastern States Championship meet at the New York Armory on Monday, Feb. 25.

The girls placed eighth with a time of 12:22.39, which breaks the previous winter track school record of 12:45.55 set earlier this season.

Their time qualifies them to compete in the New Balance Indoor National Championship meet on March 8 at the New York Armory.

Individual race splits were as follows: 1200m, MaryKate Brelsford, 3:47.64; 400m, Cierra Granger, 1:02.39; 800m, Rachel Stremme, 2:20.59, 1600m, Bridget Flynn, 5:11.38 (which is faster than her open 1600m school record time of 5:15.63 set in January).

Also competing in the meet was Kevin Scott who place sixth overall (medal) in the 2-mile in a time of 9:42.37. Kevin has also qualified to compete at Nationals.