Baldwin High Sends Two Athletes to State Indoor Track & Field Championships

qualified two athletes for the 2011 Pennsylvania Track & Field Coaches Association championships, which were held at Penn State University on Saturday, Feb. 26.

Baldwin's Paul DeGregorio competed in the boys 3,000-meter run at the PTFCA event, while the Highlanders' Krista Kuss competed in both the girls 60 and 200 dashes.

DeGregorio earned the 's 2011 boys 3,000 title with a time of 8 minutes, 57.73 seconds at Edinboro University on Saturday, Feb. 19, but he lost pretty much any chance of repeating that performance at the state meet on Feb. 26 when he was stepped on and lost his shoe on the fourth lap.

DeGregorio ran the remaining bulk of the race with just one shoe but still turned in a respectable time of 9:16.38. However, that time put him in last place out of 13 athletes. A North Allegheny High School runner earned the 2011 PTFCA boys 3,000 title with an 8:34.14 time.

Kuss ran a time of 7.98 seconds in the preliminaries of the 60, which put her in 12th place entering the semifinals of that competition. Her time of 7.90 seconds in the semis did not qualify her for the final, though. She did end up remaining in 12th place overall out of 21 competitors. A Radnor High School athlete won the competition with a time of 7.53 seconds in the final.

The 200; like the 3,000; did not have prelims or semis, and Kuss placed 15th in the 200 with a time of 25.87 seconds. The winner from George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science posted a time of 24.16 seconds to beat 28 other runners.

The PTFCA meet marks the end of the Highlanders' indoor season this school year. The outdoor season gets under way this coming spring.