Though Brien McMahon High School had more than twice as many athletes entered in Saturday's Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Track and Field State Open Championship, with six members of its team competing, Norwalk had more than twice as many victories, with senior Nickel Hay literally running away with the meet.
Hay not only competed in three events, he also managed to qualify for the New England Interscholastic Boys' and Girls' Indoor Track and Field Championship in two of them and just missed qualifying in the third by .04 second.
Norwalk boys' head coach Bill Martin said in the beginning Hay was thrown off by competing in the long jump and the 55-meter dash simultaneously, but one never would have guessed that from the final results. In the long jump, Hay exceeded his seed distance, and personal best, of 21 feet, 5 3/4 inches by leaping to 21-9 1/4 and digging his toes into third place.
He placed sixth in the 55 dash preliminaries with a time of 6.69 seconds and qualified for the finals, in which he finished seventh overall in the state, reducing his time even further to finish at 6.67. As only the top six proceed to the regional championship, Hay just missed qualifying in the 55 dash.
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