Announcement
Northside Senior Ari Perlmutter WINS Indoor City High Jump Title! Porter Abbey places THIRD in Long Jump!
In the Varsity Long Jump, Northside Senior Porter Abbey finished in THIRD place overall with a jump of 19'0.
In the Varsity Shot Put, Northside Sophomore Jacob Cosby finished in fourth place with a throw of 35'1.50.
In the Varsity Triple Jump, Northside Senior Matt Osborne scratched on all three attempts. It was the first time in his high school career that Osborne scratched on every jump in the competition. Osborne was over 40'0 on every attempt, too. The best is yet to come.
Matt Osborne has been one of the Mustangs leading points scorers at every meet this season. Osborne scores in the Long Jump, Triple Jump, and Hurdles at almost every meet. He is one of the best athletes on the Team.
Osborne was disappointed about not scoring in the Triple Jump at the Indoor City Championships. The coaching staff told him not to worry, and just like he had picked up the TEAM on so many occassions, another teammate would come through for him with some unexpected points.
You had to look no further than the High Jump pit for those unexpected points. Prior to Sunday, Northside's best high jump of the season was 5'2.
In the Varsity High Jump, Northside was seeded fifth in the competition, and nobody expected Northside to win it.
Northside Senior Ari Perlmutter is a great athlete, and won the Sophomore City High Jump Title in 2013, and qualified for the IHSA State Championships in Shot Put. He has been a part of multiple indoor City Championship Teams, an Outdoor Sophomore City Championship Team, and an IHSA Sectional Track and Field Championship Team.
Prior to Sunday, Perlmutter had a career personal best of 5'7 in the High Jump. He had not competed in High Jump at a meet this season. Ari Perlmutter just recently completed Basketball season, and was in only one other Track meet this year, in which he threw the shot put an outstanding 40'0.
After Basketball season ended, doctors determined that Perlmutter needed surgery on both of his feet. For the TEAM, Northside Captain Ari Perlmutter postponed the surgery so he could compete at the Indoor City Championships.
When the bar was raised to 5'8, there was only two jumpers remaining in the competition, Whitney Young's Milton Woods and Northside Senior Ari Perlmutter.
Northside Senior Ari Perlmutter jumped a PERSONAL BEST of 5'8 to WIN the high jump competition and secure 10 points for the Chicago Northside Mustangs!!!
During his athletic career, Ari Perlmutter has won both the Sophomore City High Jump Title (2013), and the Varsity Indoor High Jump City Title (2015)! Ari Perlmutter was awarded a gold MEDAL for winning the Varsity Indoor High Jump City Title!
