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Ward Melville High School 4x400m Relay Team Takes 4th Place at 2017 Millrose Games
4x400m and 4x800m relay teams race at international track event
The Millrose Games, in its 110th year, is a prestigious indoor track and field event that features Olympic and world champions, professionals, youth, clubs, masters and top high school athletes.
This year’s event was held on Saturday, Feb 11, at the New Balance Track & Field Center at the Armory, in Manhattan.
Gold and silver Olympic track medalists and national record holders such Natasha Hastings, Dalilah Muhammed, Derek Drouhin, Matthew Centrowitz, Katerina Stefanidi, Sandi Morris, Tianna Bartoletta, Shaunae Miller, Shannon Rowbury, Maria Michta-Coffey and Mikey Brannigan, were present.
Ward Melville High School coach Tom Youngs sent both 4x400m and 4x800m relay teams to the Millrose Games.
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The 4x400m team, consisting of Hannah Hobbes, Samantha Rutt, Madison Hobbes and Megan Raftery, came in 4th behind West Babylon, Brentwood and Uniondale in the Long Island girls 4x400 race, with a time of 4:04.57.
West Babylon's winning time of 3:52.63, broke the 18-year old Suffolk girl's track record for the 4x400m.
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Ward Melville's 4x800m team, with Allyson Gaedje, Samantha Sturgess, Elizabeth Radke and Shannon Ryan, ran their race in 9:29.39.
Maria Michta-Coffey, the Nesconset native who competed in the 2012 London Olympics 20km racewalk event, won the 1-mile racewalk in 6:31.85.
Northport native Mikey Brannigan, who won the 1500m gold at the Paralympic Games in Rio last summer, placed seventh in the Millrose Games Invitational Mile with a time of 4:04.26.