2013 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix: Top Junior Milers, Relay Squads set for New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, release, note by Larry Eder

Mary Cain, photo by PhotoRun.net

The 2013 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix is less than ten days away! One of the big draws is the Junior Miles and the Junior Relay Squads. The best prep milers of the New England area, plus their relay teams will duel on the 200 meter MONDO Super-X indoor track, to see, who gets the bragging rights for the 2013 NB Indoor Grand Prix.

Mary Cain, the high school phenom who ran a fine 9:02.10 for 3,000 meters less than two weeks ago, runs a mile in New York on January 26. After that event, Mary will run the two mile at the NBIGP.

If you can get there, buy tickets NOW, at www.nbindoorgrandprix.com! Don’t miss this meet!

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Top Junior Milers, Relay Squads Set

for New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston

New England vs. New YorkRivalry Renewed in Relay Match-ups

BOSTON (Jan. 24, 2013) – The Patriots and the Giants will be watching the Super Bowl on television but the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix will keep alive the sporting rivalry between Boston and New York with featured New England vs. New York boys’ and girls’ relays on February 2, organizers have announced. And true to the sport’s roots, the country’s top high school indoor milers will once again descend on Boston to try to claim a victory in what is the top event of its kind each year.

New York and New England diehard sports fans lamenting their NFL and MLB teams’ early exit from the playoffs will see a club boys’ 4 x 800 meters and girls’ 4 x 400 meters consisting of athletes from the top high school teams from both regions in a scored event. Firebirds TC, a club team of athletes from Kellenberg HS, leads the boys’ entries with a time of 7:51.72 already this season. New England’s top squad, Lowell TC, hasn’t posted a standout time just yet but the team of Lowell HS athletes won the 2012 Massachusetts Division 1 Cross Country Championships. Also in the field, Brookline TC has the fastest time in the state this season.

The Girls’ Junior Mile may be the deepest in the event’s history. Led by the 2012 New Balance Outdoor High School National Champion,Wesley Frazier from Ravenscroft High School in North Carolina, the event also features Maine’s first ever sub 5-minute high school girl,Bethanie Brown, and Connecticut’s indoor 800m state record-holder, Sarah Gillespie.

The fields are listed below:

*Girls Junior Mile*
NAME	*High School*	*Hometown*
Annika Gompers	Gann Academy	Waltham, MA
Sarah Gillespie	NW Catholic HS	Hartford, CT
Wesley Frazier	Ravenscroft HS	Raleigh, NC
Ryen Frazier	Ravenscroft HS	Raleigh, NC
Bethanie Brown	Waterville HS	Waterville, ME
Marissa Ruskan	Bridgewater-Raritan	Bridgewater, NJ
Sara Sargent	Pennsbury HS	Yardley, PA
Katie Lembo	Penfield HS	Penfield, NY
Keelin Hollowood	Saratoga Springs HS	Saratoga Springs, NY
Julie Williams	Tatnall HS	Wilmington, DE
Julie McConville	Hingham HS	Hingham, MA
Sheridan Wilbur	La Salle Academy	North Smithfield, RI

*Boys Junior Mile*
NAME	*High School*	*Hometown*
Michael O’Donnell	Methuen HS	Methuen, MA
Henry Wynne	Staples HS	Westport, CT
James Randon	Middlesex HS	New Canaan, CT
Jonathan Green	St. John HS	Berlin, MA
Trevor Crawley	Cumberland HS	Cumberland, RI
Jay Navin	Saratoga Springs HS	Saratoga Springs, NY
Jack Hagood	Tatnall HS	Wilmington, DE
Keith Pease	Greece-Athena HS	Rochester, NY
Rob Napolitano	Red Bank Catholic HS	Brick, NJ
Jack Stevenson	Stuyvesant HS	New York, NY
Garrett O’Toole	Middlesex School HS	Concord, MA
Bryce Kelley	Chariho Regional HS	Hope Valley, RI

*Boys 4 x 800m*		*Girls 4 x 400m*
New York		New York
St. A’s TC		Villa Bears
Firebirds TC		Kell TC
Flyers TC		TMLA TC
Fidelis TC		SJB Elite TC
Knights TC		Stanners TC
SJB Elite TC
New England		New England
Lowell AC		South Shore TC
Titans AC		Mansfield TC
Brookline TC		King Phillip TC
Marshfield TC		Needham TC
Billerica TC		Ursuline TC
Wellesley TC		Lexington TC

The 18th-annual New Balance Indoor Grand Prix is the first stop in USA Track & Field’s Championship Series. It begins at 5 p.m. on Feb. 2 at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College. Tickets and meet information can be found on-line at www.nbindoorgrandprix.com or by calling 1-877-849-8722.

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 51-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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