East Longmeadow had never had a Girls Western Mass. Champion in a relay in their entire history.
I shall try to find the video of this as it was telecast in 2003 on WGGB-TV. I probably have it on VHS (what's that?)
We were tied for the number one seed in the 4 x 100 meter relay, and I had heard that this happened only one time before, but the team dropped the baton at Western Mass.
PLEASE don't ever allow this to happen to us. We have been fortunate it has not happened during my tenure here.
We were placed in the wrong lane and when I tried to protest it, Mr, Dutille ( who was the starter) had already given instructions. So we ran from lane 8...which rarely ever produces a winner.
Christiana Racicot, who went by the name of XENA led off. She is the one on the far left. She also hurdled for us.
From there Erika TEDDY Graham took the second leg. She is currently our school record holder in the pole vault and Captained our team as well as Dartmouth College's.She is the one on the far right.
The third leg was held down by Beth Honecker. We called her TUGBOAT as she was always tugging on my jacket. Ultimately, she was a stellar member of several superior relay teams we had.
The anchor is my daughter, who holds several individual records here as well as at UConn.We called her STORM, but she also answered to the name Kara Budd. She went on to win New Englands in the Triple Jump, she won several State titles as well.
Each runner represented a different class of the school, XENA was the Senior, TEDDY a Junior, STORM was a sophomore and TUGBOAT was a freshman.
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