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Four Freshman finish in SIXTH place in the Varsity 4x100m Relay! One-two punch of John Kim and Norberto Nieves excel in the 4x800m Relay!

Posted by Jon Gordon on Mar 31 2017 at 05:00PM PDT

 The Northside 4x100m Relay featured four Freshman, including Freshman phenom Chris Jackson, Cameron Boulanger, Jeronimo Najarro, and Josh Burns. The young guns had a BIG day, and scored in the Varsity 4x100m Relay by finishing in sixth place out of 11 schools, against experienced Juniors and Seniors.

 In the 4x100m Relay, Leo won it with an official time of 45.32. Chicago Bulls finished in second place with an official time of 45.94. University High finished in third place with an official time of 46.26. Amundsen finished in fourth place with an official time of 49.07. Christ the King finished in fifth place with an official time of 49.36. Chicago Northside (Chris Jackson, Cameron Boulanger, Jeronimo Najarro, and Josh Burns) finished in sixth place to complete the scoring with an outstanding time of 50.02. Chris Jackson, Cameron Boulanger, Jeronimo Najarro, and Josh Burns earned a Varsity letter by scoring in a Varsity Track meet. Von Steuben finished in seventh place with an official time of 51.37. Lincoln Park finished in eighth place with an official time of 52.58. Intrinsic finished in ninth place with an official time of 53.98. Cristo Rey Jesuit finished in tenth place with an official time of 57.46.

 The 4x800m Relay at the Eric Nelson Classic is named after School Record holders, IHSA STATE FINALS qualifiers, and Alumni legends Patrick Brennan, Malcolm Grba, Danny Rosen, and Simon Kafka.

 In the 4x800m Relay, University High won it with an official time of 9:09.70. Lincoln Park finished in second place with an official time of 9:21.17. Amundsen finished in third place with an official time of 9:31.96. 

 The Chicago Northside 4x800m Relay featured the one-two punch of Sophomores John Kim and Norberto Nieves.

 John Kim lead off the relay with a personal best 800m split of 2:22, and made a nice exchange to Norberto Nieves. Norberto Nieves ran an impressive 800m split of 2:17, and made a good exchange to Seth Karall. 

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