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BG girls track keeps dynasty alive another year

By Staff | Feb 27, 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Telegraph sports department is recruiting students from Greater Nashua high schools to offer their take on the current trends, hot topics and events surrounding student athletes at their respective schools. Bishop Guertin’s Ethan Michaud is one of those High School Insiders.

In 2003, the NHIAA Division I indoor track championship title was won by the Bishop Guertin girls team. The girls would take the tile the following year as well, and then the year after that, and every single year from then until now, including the 2014 title won.

That’s a whole lot of titles. And to save you the counting, 2014 is the year of the 12-peat.

To put that in perspective, when the 2003 girls team began the reign, the seniors on this year’s championship team were around 6 years old. And the seniors on that 2003 team are somewhere around 30 years old.

Through the years, the state title has looked different for the girls every year, but each has continued the dynasty. Some wins have not been so decisive, such as in 2009 and 2013 when the margin of victory was only a single point. However, wins have also come on the other end of the spectrum, such as in 2005 and 2006 where the margin was 36 points, or in 2012 where the difference between first and second place was as much as 57 points. Nonetheless, each year marked another season as victorious for the girls track program.

This year brought just as much pressure and, as usual, the girls did not disappoint. Their biggest competition came from Bedford, who left nothing on the track attempting to oust the record and put an end to the dynasty. Bedford, however, fell short, as the last 12 second place teams have in their attempts to move BG down the podium, but the Bedford team left little margin for error. The two teams were neck-and-neck in points the entire meet, and going into the final event, the 4x200m relay, the stakes could not have been higher.

With one event left, the two teams were just a few points apart, and both had relay teams in the final event. It would come down to who beat who in the 4×200.

Battling for first place the entire race, our team comprised of Briana Silck, Carolyn Nichols, Grace Linnehan, and Molly McCabe, was behind going into the final lap. Not going down without a fight, anchor leg Molly McCabe put the heat on, and in the last 100m of the race she edged out the lead to take the win, and seal a 12th straight victory for the girls team.

Without the effort of many others, that final win would have meant nothing. Among individual state titles, McCabe was the champion in the 600m run, and Briana Silck was state champion in the long jump.

There were multiple other scorers, including championship 4x800m and 4x400m relay teams. Without the effort of all team members, this historic event may not have taken place, and as we look to the future, we also look forward to how many more years this dynasty may be extended.

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