The senior on the Riverhead High School girls winter track team, who broke the school record in the mile Jan. 9 in the Hispanic Games at the Armory Track and Field Center in Manhattan, returned to that venue twice more in the last week, and reset the school record each time.

First, Skinner finished the mile in 5 minutes 4.26 seconds at the Millrose Games trials on Jan. 13. Skinner, who placed fourth in the race, was the top runner from Suffolk County and the second Long Island finisher after Holy Trinity's Colleen Schmidt, who placed third. The winner was Hayley McMahon of Arlington in 4:59.9.

Three days later, at the Molloy Stanner Games on Saturday, Skinner lowered the mark again, in the Stephanie Companioni Memorial Girls Invitational Mile. Skinner set a new school record of 4:59.46 -- bettering her own record by almost five seconds -- and finished fourth in the race, less than four seconds behind the winner, Kelsey Margey of Harborfields.

Prior to Skinner's run of excellence, Ellen Dougherty had held the Riverhead mile record of 5:08.5.

Also at the Stanner Games, Riverhead's Alex Budd won the Andy Kappel '69 Memorial girls high jump with a leap of 5 feet 3 inches. The Riverhead girls were also represented Sunday at the Jim Howard Meet at Suffolk County Community College West in Brentwood. In the girls long jump, Christy Brewer was seventh at 14-11 3/4, followed by Fatima Brown in eighth place at 14-11 1/2.

At the Millrose Trials, the Riverhead boys' 4 x 400-meter relay team was ninth in 3:35.59. Riverhead boys also won two events at the Molloy Stanner Games. Mike Smith took the shot put with a throw of 52-3 3/4 while Treval Hatcher won the triple jump at 44-7. Sasha Schafer placed fourth in the pole vault at 13-6.

MICHAEL GASPARINO

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: 1/21/2010
Woo-hoo. Congrats Katie. Go Waves.
--Rachel H [RHS '09 + family]

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