All-Area girls' indoor track profiles

• Griswold won the ECC Small Division meet 110.5-109 over Plainfield and sophomore Alyssa Brehler was one of the reasons why, scoring 30 of those points herself. Brehler won the 1,000 (3:13.61), 1,600 (5:20.13) and 3,200 (11:38.93). In the fall, she was named The Day's All-Area Girls' Cross Country Athlete of the Year after winning the Class SS championship and finishing as the top Connecticut runner at the New England meet (12th).

• Brittany Grabill's leap of 17-7 to place her second in Class LL was the farthest long jump of the season among area athletes, but Grabill didn't stop there in helping lead NFA to a title at the ECC Large Division championship. Grabill, a junior, won the ECC title in the long jump (16-4.5) and as a member of the 4x180 relay, as well as finishing second in the 55 meters. She went on to finish second in Class LL and third in the State Open in the long jump and was a member of the Wildcats' 4x200 team which competed at the New Balance Nationals, setting the school record in 1:46.08. Grabill is a high honors student.

• After her fifth-place finish in the shot put at the ECC Small Division meet (33-2), Ledyard junior Adedoyin Ladoja (33-2) picked it up a notch to finish seventh in Class M (34-2) and qualify for the State Open. She threw a personal best of 34-8.5 at the Jack Long-ECC Coaches' Challenge on Jan. 10 at Wesleyan University, placing her second in that meet. She is an honor student who has received her academic pin.

• Consistently in the conversation as one of the area's best distance runners, Fitch senior Brandy LeClair won the 1,600 (5:25.98) and 3,200 (11:57.47) at the ECC Large Division meet. She went on to finish second in the 3,200 in Class L (11:39.68), ninth in the State Open (11:33.61) and competed in the 5,000 at the New Balance Nationals in New York City. LeClair was also an all-state and All-Area selection during cross country, when she finished fourth in the ECC, fifth at the State Open and qualified for the New England meet. She will attend Central Connecticut State.

• Brianna Lenehan, the NFA junior, can seemingly run any distance from the 600 meters up and still excel. Lenehan had the fastest times in the area this season in the 600 (1:39.34), 1,000 (3:00.06), 1,600 (school record 5:08.38) and was charged with the 800 leg of the Wildcats' sprint medley relay team which won the ECC Large Division and later finished 12th at the New Balance Nationals in a school-record setting time of 4:10. Lenehan won the 600 (1:40.0) and was second in the 1,000 at the ECC meet and was second in the 1,000 and fourth in the 1,600 in Class LL. She was second in the State Open and seventh in New England in the 1,600. A highest honors student and a longtime competitor in Irish dance, Lenehan is also an all-state and All-Area cross country runner.

• Mercedes Santos used her consistency as a high jumper to make a name for herself in just her sophomore year at New London, winding up in a tie for fourth in the State Open at 5-0. Santos was second in the ECC Large Division and in Class M, jumping 5-0 at both meets, before continuing her success at the Open.

• Ledyard sophomore Chenoa Sebastian was just as fast for the Colonels whether she was leaping over a hurdle or carrying a baton. Sebastian won the 55 hurdles (9.02) and ran a leg of the first-place sprint medley relay team (4:02.90) at the ECC Small Division meet. She was then second in Class M (8.83) and second in the State Open (8.76) in the hurdles, while leading Ledyard's sprint medley relay at both meets. Sebastian wound up 13th in New England in the hurdles.

• NFA senior Allie Sullivan will compete in the pole vault at Notre Dame, following her father Timothy and sisters Sarah and Jessica to the university in South Bend, Ind. Sullivan, who equalled her indoor record of 11-6 this season, won the ECC Large Division, was third in Class LL and tied for third at the State Open, all with leaps of 11-0. She is a highest honors student, a member of the National Honor Society and set the ECC outdoor pole vault mark of 12 feet, 1/2 inch in last year's championship meet.

• Old Saybrook's 4x200 team of Bri Hanley, Christie DeAntonis, Katie Beezer and Kim Glorioso set the program record once at the Shoreline Conference meet (1:51.61) and lowered the mark twice more as the postseason wore on. The Rams were second in the Class S state championship (1:50.54) and ninth in the State Open (1:50.17). Old Saybrook won its second straight Shoreline championship with 135 points. All four are juniors. Hanley was also second in the 55 dash at the Shoreline meet, fourth in the long jump in Class S and ninth in the long jump at the State Open. She was all-state in the heptathlon last spring and also competes for the Rams' girls' soccer team. Beezer was second in the 55 hurdles at the Shoreline meet. She is a member of the National Honor Society and past rotary student of the month for history. Glorioso and DeAntonis also helped lead the Rams' 4x400 team to a first-place finish in the conference in a meet record 4:16.42, going on to finish second in Class S, as well. Glorioso was second in the 300 and DeAntonis the runner-up in the 600. DeAntonis was also an All-Area pick last spring as a member of the girls' tennis team.

• NFA's 4x400 team reached its peak with a third-place finish in New England (4:00.38), with Dyshelle Pemberton, Camille McKenzie, MiaLynne Park and Lenehan smashing the school record by more than six seconds to earn All-New England honors. The team was previously second in Class LL (4:04.45) and fifth in the State Open (4:06.25). After that, the same four athletes focused their attention on the New Balance national meet, teaming to set the school record in the championship sprint medley relay in 4:10, good for 12th place. Pemberton, McKenzie and Park also teamed with Grabill to run the 4x200 relay at the nationals, finishing 15th in the emerging elite race in 1:46.08, also a school record. Pemberton, a junior, won the 55 dash at the ECC Large Division meet (7.43) and was second in the 300. She is an honor roll student. McKenzie was first in the ECC meet in the 55 hurdles (9.56), while Park was third in the 55 and the 300. Both are sophomores.

• East Lyme's Anika Pallan, Stephanie Wisner, Noelene Power and Eva Christensen won the Class L 4x800 relay title in 9:58.91, backed by two of the area's top cross country runners in Power and Christensen. The Vikings were eighth in the State Open (9:51.75). A junior, Christensen won the 1,000 at the ECC Large Division meet (3:10.66) and was third in the 600 (1:41.85) and the 3,200 (11:43.48) at the Class L championship as the Vikings finished third. She is an honor roll student, a competitive horseback rider and along with Power was a member of The Day's All-Area cross country team. Power, a senior, was third in the 1,000 and the 1,600 in the ECC. She is a former record-setting swimmer at East Lyme, a high honor student and a member of the French Honor Society. Pallan was third in the 600 in the ECC and helped the 4x360 team to a third-place finish. She is a senior member of the honor roll and the student senate. Wisner, a senior, is a high honor student, an AP Scholar with Honor and a National Merit Commended Scholar.

• Chantel White, Kaylyn Bruciati, Lauren Scahill and Sebastian formed Ledyard's sprint medley relay team, which won the ECC Small Division title, then went on to finish fifth in Class M (4:29.5) and eighth, the top local team, in the State Open (4:25.45). White and Bruciati also won ECC titles as members of the Colonels' 4x360 relay team, while Scahill chipped in for a win in the 4x720. White is a senior high honors student who plans to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Bruciati, also a senior, was second in the ECC in the 55 dash, as well as captain of the girls' soccer team last season. She will attend Merrimack College. Scahill is a sophomore who was also a member of the soccer team.