Everett High track star Kayshaun Eveillard gets first state title; two relay teams finish in Top 10; several school records fall at last weekend’s State Division 2 Meet

By Joe McConnell

Over three days last weekend at Merrimack College in North Andover (May 29-31), Everett High School Spring track coach Jehu Cimea’s boys and girls teams distinguished themselves quite nicely at the State Division 2 Meet.

On the first day of the competition last Friday, May 29, senior Kayshaun Eveillard (22.04) finished second in the 200, and in so doing he broke his previous school record of 22.64. His classmate Kervens Joseph ended up eighth overall. As a sidenote, both Eveillard and Joseph are now ranked first and second, respectively in the EHS record book in this event.

Two days later on May 31, Eveillard (49.38) won his first state title after exploding past the competition in the 400. Plymouth North’s Kaz Gallo (50.17) ran a distant second to the Everett speedster, as an example of his dominance against the best in Division 2.

On the same day, the boys 4×800 relay team of Lucas Nunes, Carlos Pagan Landeo, Christopher Portillo Cruz and Jeremy Whitlow (9:11.42) broke their own school record, while finishing 21^st overall in the entire division.

A short time after the boys bettered their all-time record, the girls 4×100 relay team of Emelly DeJesus, Marissa Cadet, Zoe Massiah and Shinead Riley (52.12) established their own mark in the school’s record book to finish seventh in all of Division 2. The previous record of 52.22 was set in 2015. Westborough (51.19), Springfield Central (51.61), Wellesley (51.79), Winchester (52.00), Hopkinton (52.05) and Plymouth North (52.06) were the only teams to finish ahead of them out of 23 Division 2 qualifying schools statewide.

The boys 4×100 quartet of Sandesh Pun, Joseph, Saymon Silva and Eveillard (44.24) repeated the girls heroics with a seventh-place finish of their own. Placing ahead of the Everett boys were Catholic Memorial (42.83), North Andover (43.06), Springfield Central (43.24), Chelmsford (43.83), Waltham (43.84) and Lincoln-Sudbury (44.01). A total of 22 Division 2 relay teams took part in this event.