Winner of the Intermediate Boys high jump, Charles Eager, of SAERC, recorded this jump of 1.71m on Thursday.
-by Bill Dunphy
Conditions were ideal on Thursday for the Inverness-Richmond District track and field meet held at the Angus R. Beaton Memorial field at Dalbrae Academy.
The meet is held in advance of the School Sport Nova Scotia Highland Region meet which takes place at the CBU track facility in Sydney on May 22-23.
The top six competitors in each of the district events advance to the regional meet.
Dalbrae’s athletes flexed their muscles by setting six of the seven new records to enter the book on Thursday.
Kyle Levesconte led the charge for the Dragons, setting two district records in the Senior Boys division.
Levesconte erased Leland Murphy’s 11-year-old record of 5.69m in the high jump, beating the CBHA athlete’s mark with a jump of 5.87m.
And in the Senior Boys high jump, both Levesconte and SAERC’s William Langdon recorded jumps of 1.80m to beat Dalbrae’s Olan Spears’ 2016 record of 1.78m. Levesconte was placed first on the basis of fewer attempts.
Three records fell in the 400m, which was run earlier in the day before a strong wind started to kick in on that backstretch as the day went on, cutting down on further running records.
In the Junior Boys 400m, provincial track team member Ashton Hawley ran it in 1:00.21, beating out fellow Bayview athlete Carter DeCoste’s record of 1:03.15 which he set last year and who now competes for Dalbrae as an Intermediate.
Dalbrae’s Sawyer Nadasdi kept DeCoste in his rearview mirror in the Intermediate Boys 400, stopping the clock at 58.49 seconds to beat the former record of 59.83 set in 2024 by Dalbrae’s Jayden Cameron.
And Maddison MacEachern beat her own record of 1:09.77, set last year, with a new mark of 1:08.92 mark in the Intermediate Girls 400m.
Also in Intermediate Girls competition, teammates Gracie Kenny and Scotia Van den Heuvel went head-to-head in the triple jump – with both breaking the previous record of 9.95m set in 2018 by Jayden Shaw.
Kenny set the new standard with her jump of 10.22m, while Van den Heuvel finished second with a distance of 10.02m.
And in the sheer awesomeness category, Dalbrae’s Jonah Ellis fired the 1.75kg discus 34.48m for a new Senior Boys record.
Dalbrae’s boys basketball coach Noah Dunn held the previous record of 33.44m set in 2018 when he was student at CBHA.
The following are the top six finishers for each event at this year’s district track and field meet (events with less than six results means that’s everyone who entered):