Announcement
WOW! Lucien Fitzpatrick BREAKS SCHOOL RECORD to WIN 300m Hurdles! Matt Osborne upsets the field to finish SECOND to Qualify for STATE!!!
In the IHSA Sectional 300m Hurdles, the 1-2 punch of Northside Junior Lucien Fitzpatrick and Sophomore Matt Osborne was awesome!! It was the greatest hurdles performances in the history of Northside! Fitzpatrick and Osborne were amazing!!! First, Northside Junior Lucien Fitzpatrick BROKE THE SCHOOL RECORD and WON the IHSA Sectional Title with a personal best time of 43.09. Lucien Fitzpatrick was awarded an IHSA Sectional Champion MEDAL for winning the 300m Hurdles. Lucien Fitzpatrick will also receive a WATERMELON for breaking the school record in the 300m Hurdles! Lucien Fitzpatrick QUALIFIED for State in four events (High Jump, Triple Jump, 110m Hurdles, and 300m Hurdles), and scored a record 38 points in the meet! Lucien Fitzpatrick also BROKE HIS SECOND SCHOOL RECORD of the day by becoiming the first Northside athlete to score over 200 Varsity points in a season! Lucien Fitzpatrick has now scored 223.50 Varsity points going into the IHSA State Championships!!
IHSA Sectional 300m Hurdle Champion featured on Chicagoland Preps: LUCIEN FITZPATRICK
Northside Sophomore Matt Osborne was seeded fourth in the 300m Hurdles prior to the IHSA Sectional Championships. Only the top two athletes qualify for the IHSA State Championships, and Osborne needed to pass two athletes in the race that had faster seed times than him to qualify for the IHSA State Championships. It would take nothing less than a personal best performance to qualify for State.
The best race comes from within, and Matt Osborne proved it, by upsetting the field, and finishing in SECOND place overall to QUALIFY for the IHSA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS in the 300m Hurdles with a personal best time of 45.15!!!
Matt Osborne was awarded a MEDAL for finishing in Second place. Matt Osborne scored a total of 18 points in the meet, to increase his Varsity points total for the season to 108.75 points. Matt Osborne is the first Northside Athlete to ever score over 100 Varsity points, and score over 100 Sophomore points in the same season!!!
Norridge Ridgewood Freshman Adam Bonifaciuk finished in third place with an official time of 46.68. Marshall Sophomore Samuel Davis finished in fourth place with an official time of 48.05. Marshall Senior Edward Lenon finished in fifth place with an official time of 48.61. Norridge Ridgewood Junior Mike Liacopolis finished in sixth place to complete the scoring with an official time of 50.79.
