Division crown for Hewlett track

Hewlett girls’ track and field brushed off a slow start this spring to finish the regular season with a 10-3 record and on an upswing that carried over to the Division 3A championships.
The Bulldogs won the 3A meet over talented South Side May 17 with many personal best performances in the process. Hewlett went on to finish fourth in the 16-team Nassau Class AA championships six days later.
“It was an interesting regular season but we still managed 10 wins,” coach Stephen Honerkamp said. “We went to the Penn Relays the last weekend of April for the first time since Covid and it really sparked the girls. They stepped up left and right in the division meet to beat a very strong South Side team.”
Senior Aurelli Narcisse tied a Hewlett program record with 28 points in the division meet, winning the 400- and 200-meter dashes and finishing second behind senior teammate Charlotte Moscovici in the pole vault. “Aurelli is one of the most improved kids I’ve had from junior to senior year,” Honerkamp said. “She had such a great day at divisions.”
Narcisse also won the county title in the pole vault. Moscovici was unable to compete in the event after suffering an injury earlier in the day but has been a standout for years and scored consistently in jumping events.

Senior Halimah Lawson totaled 26 points in the division championships with wins in the long jump and triple jump to go with a third-place showing in the 100 hurdles. She went on to place fourth in both jumping events at the county meet. “She’s a highly respected teammate with a great work ethic,” Honerkamp said. “Another kid who had a big, big day.”
Discus is where the Bulldogs saw their major surprise as seventh-seeded senior Chelsea Numa surpassed 87 feet, a personal best, to win the 3A title. She also took third in the shot put. “It was her first year in our school and she was throwing better as the season went on, but the win was unexpected and great to see,” Honerkamp said. Also scoring key points in throws was junior Daniella Nickerson, a team leader who placed second in discus and fifth in shot put.
Senior Clarissa Duhaney won the division title in the high jump and took third in the triple jump.
After battling injury for the first half of the season, sophomore Kayleigh Jamieson started rolling in early May and ended up All-County in the 800 with a school-record 2:19.95 in the AA championships to grab third. She was also runner-up in the 1500 in the division meet and ran the leadoff leg in Hewlett’s All-County 4x400 relay.
Freshman Nylah Phillips, the Bulldogs’ top sprinter and one of the top ninth-graders in the state in several events, anchored the relay which included Narcisse and junior Tariah Coleman. In the division meet, Phillips finished second in the 400 and third in both the 100 and 200. In the state qualifier June 1, she ran 57.24 in the 400 to beat her own school mark.