Orange High School Track and Field Celebrates Senior Night at the Dale Kramer Relays

Photo by Al Kornspan

The Orange High School Track and Field program hosted the 81st Dale Kramer Relays and celebrated senior night on Friday.

“Senior night was great, luckily the weather held off for us, no rain,” said Orange High School Head Track and Field Coach Rachel Frutkin. “The meet went really well. We had a really great timing crew out here. We had really great officials.”

 

Winning the 1600m for the Orange Lions was senior Brian Gent, an NCAA Division I track and field commit who will be attending the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall.

 

“He’s our top 1600m and 800m runner,” said Frutkin. “He has made great strides in his career at Orange and we’re really proud of him. We will definitely miss him.”

 

In addition to Gent winning the 1600m, Orange won the Boys 4×110 shuttle hurdle relay (Sam Russo, Luke Schmotzer, Jonah Frey, Naashon Colliens).

After winning the 4x110m shuttle hurdle relay, senior Sam Russo talked about being a student-athlete at Orange High School.

 

“This year I did soccer and football at the same time and I am doing track right now,” said Russo. “This athletic program at Orange is amazing. The coaches are phenomenal, the parents and the students are phenomenal.  All around it’s top tier.”

 

Orange also won the 4x1600m relay (Brandon Gent, Ishan Batt, Galvin Dovgan, Brian Gent),  the girls high jump (Elana Novak), and the girls long jump (Anna Meillat).  

Also participating in the relays included Beachwood, Canfield, Chagrin Falls, Collinwood, Notre Dame Cathedral Latin, Solon, and West Geauga.

Beachwood won multiple events at the relays including the boys long jump (Max Page), boys shot put (Josh Rosenberg), girls shot put (Madison Torbert), girls 4 x 100 (Dakota Houston, Lauren Luxenberg, Alexandra Myers, Kylie Walters), boys 4 x 100 (Braylen Eaton, Strahinja Dimitrijevic, Osita Ogar, David Steckner), boys 4 x 200 (Strahinja Dimitrijevic, David Steckner, Mattix Revells, Osita Ogar), girls 800m sprint Medley (Dakota Houston, Lauren Luxenberg, Alexandra Myers, Kylie Walters), and the boys 4 x 400 (Braylen Eaton, Mattix Revells, David Steckner, Max Page).  

Canfield won the Girls team competition, while Notre-Dame Cathedral Latin won the Boys team competition.

In summarizing the Dale Kramer Relays coach Frutkin stated, “It was a really good night overall.”