The USN Tigers had fantastic cross country meets on Wednesday, September 28th and Thursday, September 29th at the River Campus. Our 7-8 girls team took home the top prize in the A competition on Wednesday while our 5-6 girls took second and our 5-6 boys took 3rd. On Thursday, our 7-8 boys competed in the AA division and placed second with only MBA beating them out.
Here were our top 5 runners for each of those races.
7-8 Girls:
Lainey Theobald (13:51) - 4th
Madeleine Wiseman (14:14) - 7th
Emily Mallal (14:41) - 9th
Greta Molvig (15:15) - 14th
Nicola Auman (15:53) - 19th
5-6 Boys:
Peter Weiss - 13th
Ahmad Abuali (10:15) - 17th
Barry Chen - 22nd
Ike Tift - 23rd
Charlie Brackett (10:51) - 26th
5-6 Girls:
Leela Jain - 16th
Reese Mehr - 17th
Tate Dawkins - 21st
Layla Jahangir (12:49) - 25th
Mariah Crenshaw (13:09) - 30th
7-8 Boys:
Jack Fruin (10:47) -2nd
Aidan Ozgener (11:24) - 4th
Drew Zwerner (11:35) - 5th
Cecil Ward (12:30) - 13th
Brendan Hess (13:08) - 29th
With perfect weather and awesome training under our belts, it is no surprise that we also had a multitude of best times across the two days.
PRs in the 2 Mile Race:
Alden Huntington- 15:36, dropped 1:37
Devin McAteer- 15:21, dropped 1:30
Max Scott-Barnes- 13:42, dropped 1:25
Asher Freiberg- 18:27, dropped 1:21
James Michels- 11:24, dropped 1:09
Judd Lane- 13:46, dropped 49 seconds
Greta Molvig- 15:15, dropped 40 seconds
Isaac Eeds- 14:35, dropped 33 seconds
Emily Mallal- 14:41, dropped 31 seconds
Edith Grissom- 16:21, dropped 28 seconds
Lainey Theobald- 13:51, dropped 28 seconds
Drew Zwerner- 11:35, dropped 22 seconds
James Little- 14:03, dropped 21 seconds
Lilly Lapidus- 16:28, dropped 18 seconds
Cecil Ward- 12:30, dropped 17 seconds
Calhoun Maddox- 15:35, dropped 16 seconds
Brendan Hess- 13:08, dropped 11 seconds
Aidan Ozgener- 11:24, dropped 11 seconds
Madeleine Wiseman- 14:14, dropped 2 seconds
PRs in the 1.5 Mile Race:
Brody Sanders- 13:00, dropped 2:07
Knox Followill- 13:25, dropped 1:55
Ahmad Abuali- 10:15, dropped 1:15
Oren Schwartz- 11:27, dropped 1:10
Mariah Crenshaw- 13:09, dropped 1:06
Charlie Bracket- 10:51, dropped 1:03
Layla Jahangir- 12:49, dropped 59 seconds
Asher Huffman- 13:11, dropped 40 seconds
Clio Cherry-Pulay- 13:12, dropped 35 seconds
Benjamin Scretchen- 11:14, dropped 15 seconds
We also had a few runners negative split! (run the second half faster than the first). Those were: Emily Mallal, Greta Molvig, Madeleine Wiseman, Brendan Hess, and James Michels.
This was a fantastic conclusion to the season! We look forward to seeing everyone at Fall Sports Awards in November. More results and pictures are attached!
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