Junior Devin Stanton was disappointed that she failed to reach the final round of the girls’ long jump at the New York State indoor track qualifiers on Tuesday night.
Afterwards,Southold/Greenport girls’ coach Tim McArdlegave her some advice.
“My message to her was, ‘Listen, you’re upset, you’re mad at yourself. Use it as motivation,’” he said. “This is motivation for spring. We gear up, take a week or two off. We rest. Hit the weight room, and we’re right back to work. We work on the next path to get to the states.”
“I’ll train for outdoor starting tomorrow, [Wednesday,] and I will work towards it all the way until my season starts the first week of March,” she said.
When told of Stanton’s plans, McArdle smiled.
“She wants it. I’d rather her want it than not,” he said.
It was a difficult two days for North Fork athletes at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood. No one qualified for the states at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island on March 6 and 7.
Stanton, who secured second place in the long jump (17 feet, 2 inches) at the Suffolk County small school championships at SCCC on Jan. 31, finished ninth on Tuesday, missing the top seven. Her best leap was 16 -7.75, 3.25 inches shy of the seventh-place finisher. Stanton fouled on her third and final attempt.
“I feel my run-throughs at first went pretty good,” she said. “It started going downhill. I think my technique was pretty good in the air, and my attitude was good going into it.”
Sachem East’s Bella Galeas won with a leap of 19-8.5.
Source: The Suffolk Times
