Chesterton senior Aaron Resto and junior teammate Louis Raffin, the school’s two fastest 400-meter runners, were among eight competitors at Saturday’s Garry Nallenweg Chesterton Relays to earn meet awards.

Tom Keegan
Onwardtrojans.com
Chesterton senior Aaron Resto and junior teammate Louis Raffin, the school’s two fastest 400-meter runners, were among eight competitors at Saturday’s Garry Nallenweg Chesterton Relays to earn meet awards.
The meet turns every event into a relay, adding the times or distances of teammates to determine each event’s winner. No team score is tabulated.
Raffin won the Most Valuable Track and Field Athlete Larry James Award. Resto won the Most Valuable Relay Runner Steve Kearney Award.
Raffin was on four first-place teams, running a leg of the 4x200 relay, the 4x400 relay, the 800 sprint relay and the long jump, where he had the day’s third-best distance with a 20-foot jump.
Resto ran on the 4x200, 4x400 and mixed gender 4x400 relays, all first-place finishers.
Other award winners:
Girls Most Valuable Track and Field Larry James Award: Ava Paramantgis (Crown Point).
Boys Most Valuable Field Event Clint Brown Award: James Leiter (Warsaw).
Girls Most Valuable Field Event Clint Brown Award: Kara Williams (Portage).
Girls Most Valuable Relay Runner Steve Kearney Award: Kylie Bird (Portage).
Boys Most Valuable Running Athlete Cassie Peller Award: Jack Chandler (West Lafayette).
Girls Most Valuable Running Athlete Cassie Peller Award: Everly Pycraft (Crown Point).