Women's Track 2nd, Men 4th at MAPL Championships
Lena Finucane ’09 (right) swept the 800, 1600, and 3200-meter runs to pace Mercersburg at the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Prep League Track & Field Championships May 10 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Women’s MAPL event champions included Finucane (800m, 1600m, 3200m), Paige Summers ’11 (discus), and the 4x800m relay team of Hannah Miller ’10, Joy Mullins ’10, Soso Buggisch ’10, and Annie Spencer ’08.

On the men’s side, James Finucane ’08 took first in the 1600m and 3200m, David Strider ’08 grabbed top honors in high jump, and Fleet White ’08 set a new school record with his MAPL-winning 56.08 effort in the 400m hurdles.

The Blue Storm women placed second out of six teams with 130.5 total points (in 2007, the team was fourth with just 67 points). The Mercersburg men were fourth with 77 points. Lawrenceville captured both the men’s and women’s team titles with 196 and 209 points, respectively.

Additionally, five athletes (L. Finucane, 4th/3200m; Sarah Kolanowski ’10, 5th/400m hurdles and 10th/100m hurdles; Spencer, 5th/pole vault; Emily Weiss, 6th/400m hurdles; Summers, 9th/javelin) posted times that rank in the top-ten all time among Mercersburg performances.