Lynn Burke
05-21-2007, 05:37 PM
Handy recovers quickly from injury
By Daniel Maher | Correspondent
Perhaps no winner in last weekend’s Peninsula District outdoor track championships appreciated the sweetness of victory as much as Hampton junior
Lavell Handy, a winner in the boys 110-meter hurdles and triple jump.
“It means a lot to me because I came back from a knee injury suffered last Monday,” said Handy, “I wasn’t even sure I was gonna get out here and run today.”
Handy posted the second-best preliminary time in the hurdles, behind favorite Brian Carter of Woodside, but in the final, he caught Carter at the last hurdle and slipped across the finish line in a time of 15.11 seconds, narrowly besting Carter’s 15.14.
The triple jump is Handy’s stronger event, and his distance of 45 feet, 6 inches may have been nearly a foot longer than second-place finisher Cedric Gipson of Denbigh, but his knee limited his potential and kept him well short of his goal.
“I’m trying to go above 47 like I did earlier at Landstown,” Handy said.
By Daniel Maher | Correspondent
Perhaps no winner in last weekend’s Peninsula District outdoor track championships appreciated the sweetness of victory as much as Hampton junior
Lavell Handy, a winner in the boys 110-meter hurdles and triple jump.
“It means a lot to me because I came back from a knee injury suffered last Monday,” said Handy, “I wasn’t even sure I was gonna get out here and run today.”
Handy posted the second-best preliminary time in the hurdles, behind favorite Brian Carter of Woodside, but in the final, he caught Carter at the last hurdle and slipped across the finish line in a time of 15.11 seconds, narrowly besting Carter’s 15.14.
The triple jump is Handy’s stronger event, and his distance of 45 feet, 6 inches may have been nearly a foot longer than second-place finisher Cedric Gipson of Denbigh, but his knee limited his potential and kept him well short of his goal.
“I’m trying to go above 47 like I did earlier at Landstown,” Handy said.