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Raiders score more than a dozen district titles
Ransom Everglades boys' and girls' track and field team members won 16 individual district titles – one of the best performances in school history – at the Florida High School Athletic Association 2A District 15 Championship at Tropical Park in Miami April 19. Latrice Nelson '25 captured four gold medals in the 200 meters, long jump, triple jump and girls' 4x400 relay, and David "Chuli" Serra '24 earned three in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200. Sophia Linfield '26 (1,600, 3,200) and Liam Malik '24 (discus, javelin) each won a pair of golds. The girls' team, which claimed 14 out of 15 top-three finishes in the running events, won its 16th team championship in the past 18 years under coach Mike Becker.
Other gold medalists included Kennedy Hagen '24 (800) Alexandria Leiser '25 (high jump), Antonio Pedro de Macedo '24 (100), Joaquin Merlo-Garzon '24 (pole vault) and Marella Rebessi '24 (400). Find the full results here, and see the top Raider finishes below:
Girls’ 200 meters
Girls’ 200 meters
1 Latrice Nelson ’25 (26.61)
2 Alexandra Leiser ’25 (26.71)
3 Marella Rebessi ’24 (26.81)
Girls’ 400
1 Marella Rebessi ’24 (59.74)
2 Alexandra Leiser ’25 (1:01.61)
Girls’ 800
1 Kennedy Hagen ’24 (2:30.16)
2 Mia Campbell ’24 (2:31.73)
3 Patricia Drulard ’24 (2:33.43)
Girls’ 1600
1 Sophia Linfield ’26 (5:24.71)
2 Julieta Salvat ’27 (5:35.53)
3 Patricia Drulard ’24 (5:40.72)
Girls’ 3200
1 Sophia Linfield ’26 (12:30.31)
2 Julieta Salvat ’27 (13:04.23)
3 Alexandra Russoniello ’26 (13:05.96)
Girls’ 100 hurdles
3 Haile Ferrentino ’25 (18.38)
Girls’ 400 hurdles
2 Haile Ferrentino ’25 (1:14.47)
Girls’ 4x400 relay
1 Ransom Everglades (4:07.60)
Girls’ High Jump
1 Alexandra Leiser ’25 (1.42)
Girls’ Pole Vault
2 Lucia Rose Dahn ’23 (2.10)
3 Alexandra Russoniello ’26 (2.10m)
Long Jump
1 Latrice Nelson ’25 (4.61)
3 Haile Ferrentino ’25 (4.30)
Girls’ Triple Jump
1 Latrice Nelson ’25 (9.34)
3 Karina Ly ’25 (8.55)
Boys’ 100 meters
1 Antonio Pedro de Macedo ’24 (11.06)
Boys’ 200
2 Antonio Pedro de Macedo ’24 (22.20)
Boys’ 400
2 Antonio Pedro de Macedo ’24 (50.00)
Boys’ 800
1 David Serra ’24 (1:56.60)
Boys’ 1600
1 David Serra (4:26.90)
3 George Wood-Leness ’24 (4:47.54)
Boys' 3200
1 David Serra (9:28.07)
Boys' 3200
1 David Serra (9:28.07)
Boys’ 4x800
3 Ransom Everglades (8:55.70)
Boys’ High Jump
3 Lucas Schleifer ’26 (1.57)
Boys’ Pole Vault
1 Joaquin Merlo-Garzon ’24 (3.60)
2 Jude Yeo ’24 (3.30)
3 Eric Whited ’25 (2.70)
Boys’ Discus
1 Liam Malik ’24 (43.15)
Boys’ Javelin
1 Liam Malik ’24 (35.41)
3 Alexander Fernandez-Andrew ’24 (30.70)
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.