Sacred Heart's Maeve Going wins CHSAA intersectional track and field championships in the 1,500 meters and 4 X 800 relay
Maeve Going, Sacred Heart after winning the 1500 meter race during the CHSAA High School track and field individual track and field championships at Icahn Stadium in New York, NY, Saturday, May 24, 2025 Credit: Ed Murray
This is not the first time that Sacred Heart junior Maeve Going will be going to the state track and field championships. However, it is the first time that she'll bring a posse with her.
Going was the first Long Island girl to become a double champion at the outdoor CHSAA intersectional championships Saturday at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island. Going came from behind in the 1,500 meters and ran a season-best time of 4 minutes, 31.79 seconds to beat Notre Dame of Manhattan senior Maggie McCabe, who won the 800 earlier in the meet. However, Going’s emotional peak came later when she anchored Sacred Heart’s 4 x 800 relay team to victory.
Going’s 2:16.26 split nailed down the win in 9:51.79. Going has clinched a berth to the state championships, scheduled for June 13-14 at Middletown High School, in each event. The 4x 8 win not only sent Going to the premier meet, but also teammates Grace Gutman, Elle Riches and Kate Hannan.
The four had never run on the same relay team until Saturday.
“It’s super great,” Going said. “Last year, I qualified for states, but I was on my own because no one else from my team was going. So all of the training for it was really solitary for those two weeks. This year, there’s a three-week gap until states, so I think we’re going to get super close during our workouts. We’ll suffer through them for three weeks together, and I’m just so excited to spend time with them.”
Amelie Dejoie, St. Anthony in the 200 meter race during the CHSAA High School track and field individual track and field championships at Icahn Stadium in New York, NY, Saturday, May 24, 2025 Credit: Ed Murray
In a similar sense, St. Anthony’s Amelia DeJoie was also a double champion, winning the 200 in 25.11 seconds and sprinting the second leg of the team’s champion 4 x 100 squad that finished in 49.36.
DeJoie, who ran for Haiti at the Carifta Games in Trinidad in April and will be running for Albany next school year, has accomplished a lot in her senior year. She was the CHSAA indoor intersectional champion, and qualified for the state meet, in the 300. On Saturday, she finished nearly a full second (0.92) ahead of the pack.
DeJoie thought the race was much closer, until she crossed the finish line.
“I heard the announcers say the other girl’s name, so I was like, ‘Oh my God, is she right there?’ ” DeJoie said. “And then when I crossed, I realized. It feels so good. I’m so happy with the result.”
DeJoie's two titles helped St. Anthony’s win the team championship with 67 points. Archbishop Molloy placed second with 30. Leah Sudentas, Charlotte Marino and Gianna Bowman joined DeJoie on the 4 x 100 team.
Sophomore Amelie Demeri and senior Abrianna Mandarino also won titles for St. Anthony’s.
Demeri cleared 8 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault. It was a long journey for her to get to the state championships. She missed last season recovering from a benign tumor that had to be surgically removed from her hip.
“The doctors didn’t know what it was for a while, plus my sister does track, so having to watch her and not being able to do anything was tough,” Demeri said. “I’m so excited to go to states. I’m over the moon right now.”
Mandarino, who won the javelin throw (104-8), was ineligible to compete in the CHSAA last spring because she transferred schools. However, javelin is not featured at the state championships, so Mandarino will have to settle for a league title. She also finished second in the discus with a personal-record of 112-3.
“It’s especially nice to have won,” Mandarino said. “Just to know that I’m part of the elite is an amazing feeling.”
Elsewhere, St. John the Baptist senior Madison Guerrera, the defending CHSAA champion in the 100-meter hurdles, finished second in this year's race in 15.02. It was only her second race of the season. She suffered a grade 2 tear of her posterior crucial ligament in her knee earlier in the season. Several weeks of physical therapy helped her make a full recovery quickly, clearing her for her season debut at last Saturday’s NSCHSAA track and field league championships.
After thinking her season, and high school career, had come to an end with the loss, Guerrera walked back into the stands to sit with her team. Once she got there, her coach, Amber Sanchez, told her she'd beaten the state’s at-large qualifier time for Class B, meaning that she secured herself a spot in the state championships.
“I didn’t really think that I could come back from injury and qualify for states, so I’m really happy,” Guerrera said. “My coach said, ‘Did you know you qualified for states?’ I told her no. I was sitting down thinking that it was my last race of high school, so to be told that was just shocking.”
Mike Anderson is a high school sports reporter who has covered 12 sports so far at Newsday. He was the sports editor of Stony Brook University's campus newspaper for two years.
