LEAPING LEVY: Princeton High girls’ track star Noa Levy clears the bar at 5’2 in the high jump at the Meet of Champions last Wednesday at South Plainfield. The jump was a personal record for sophomore Levy and gave her a 15th place finish at the meet. (Photo by John Dowers)

Youth was served for the Princeton High track team as a number of its top athletes competed at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions last Wednesday at South Plainfield.

Sophomore distance star Alex Roth continued his strong spring campaign, taking 15th in the boys’ 3,200 with a time of 9:20.32.

Roth’s classmate, Noa Levy, produced a breakthrough performance in the girls’ high jump. With the competition starting at 5’2, a height she had never cleared, Levy made it on her second attempt. Her personal record jump gave Levy a 15th place finish at the meet.

In the boys’ 4×800, PHS took 15th as the quartet of sophomore Patrick O’Connell, sophomore Alex Roth, junior Noah Chen, sophomore Cy Watsky, and senior Ben Siegel posted a time of 8:16.58. The Little Tigers girls’ 4×800 of senior Paige Metzheiser, junior Lou Mialhe, senior Julie Bond, and sophomore Annefleur Hartmanshenn placed 23rd in a time of 9:46.64.

The girls 4×400 relay of junior Maia Hauschild, freshman Jackie Patterson, junior Jordan Vine, and Metzheiser, finished ninth in 3:59.03. Paced by two big splits from Hauschild (57.9) and Patterson (58.9), the quartet posted the  second best 4×400 in school history.

Hauschild made some history on her own, running in two open meets last week, one on June 2 and another last Saturday, producing two consecutive personal bests in the 400 meters, running 57.85 and then 57.47. Her 57.47 is a top-five time in Mercer County for the last five years.

PHS athletes will be looking for some more top performances as they compete in the 2015 New Balance Nationals Outdoor meet from June 19-21 at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, N.C.