At the Montgomery County cross-country meet on Saturday, the top performers weren’t just members of the varsity team. Here are Coach Chad Young’s comments on several other impressive racers in the JV competitions:
In the JV freshmen-sophomore girls’ race, freshman Annie Annie McElvein finished second overall, in 20 minutes, 54 seconds. “She’s 8th or 9th on our varsity team, but on most teams she would be running on varsity. She has been very impressive,” he said.
Other top performances in that race: Sophomore Vanessa Shu, fifth overall, in 21:47; and Amanda Cohen, eighth overall, in 21:56.
In the JV junior-senior girls’ race, Young cited several runners, including senior co-captain Susannah Derr, who was third overall, in 21:56; junior Victoria Prevost, in 22:17, for eighth overall; and juniors Shayna Nash and Emily Hardgrove, who both finished in 22:30, for 11th and 12th places. Also, senior Claire Galasso ran 23:44 for 24th place, and senior Lilly Herrick-Reynolds who ran 25:54 for 65th place.
Young made special mention of senior Alison Thomas, who has been injured for the much of the season with a stress fracture in her ankle. She is scheduled to have surgery soon. Her doctor cleared her to run in the race, and Young saw that she was in pain in the second half.
“She wanted to gut it out one last time,” he said. “You can see the pain in her face toward the end. It was an accomplishment to finish.” Her time was 24:04 for 27th overall.
In the boys’ JV freshmen-sophomore race, Young named several runners as having impressive performances, including: sophomore Sam Hainbach, 43rd overall in 19:07; sophomore Lucas Beck, 46th place, 19:13; freshman Dylan Johnson, 55th, 19:27; sophomore Conrad Jones, 61st, 19:35; and freshman Wyatt Donnelly, 68th, 19:44.
Young also said the team was heartened to see freshman Jack Ward run after an incident during school on Thursday in which he was hurt. “He was unsure whether he was going to run, but on Saturday he felt fine so he gave it a go,” Young said.
“The whole team was excited to see him out there. He became the team hero this week for being able to race.”
Ward did more than just race. He ran a PR in 21:52, 50 seconds faster than his previous best time.
Sophomore Kevin Flores, described by Young as very quiet, had been battling knee injuries all year and had run in the 28 to 29 minute range for the 5K races. But on Saturday, he ran 24:15. “He was so excited that he ran over to (coach) Emily (Young) with a huge smile and said, ‘I ran my fastest time ever!’ Just to see that emotion from him was a big deal.”
In addition, Jason Kohn also was battling injuries, and he ran with a distinct limp. He finished in 31:27, the second to last finisher. “He was so determined,” Young said.
In the boys’ JV junior-senior race, the six runners were: junior Thomas Horton, 18:29, 21st place; junior Greg Picard, 31st, 18:47; senior Alessandro Lallas, 34th, 18:54; junior Jacob Bennett, 41st, 19:09; senior Ethan Ebinger, 76th, 20:40; and senior Schuyler Parsonnet, 84th, 21:16.
“For Ethan and Schuyler, both of them had been injured most of the year, but they still worked hard in practice when they could,” Young said. “It was good to see them out there in their last race.”
Here is a list of PRs set Saturday for the team. In all, 19 boys and 15 girls set personal records. They are:
Sam Alston 21:30
Sam Baker 17:29
Lucas Beck 19:12
Matt Boden 18:03
Ethan Ebinger 20:39
Nolan Ebner 17:19
Kevin Flores 24:15
Bill Foley 21:35
Sam Hainbach 19:06
Aidan Hennessey 17:42
Peter Horton 16:45
Conrad Jones 19:34
Alessandro Lallas 18:53
Liam McGowan 20:27
Nick McGreivy 17:09
Kyle Nakasaka 21:22
Alex Riishojgaard 16:23
Jack Ward 21:52
Paul Witten 20:39
Alyssa Alfonso 24:13
Sarah Bien 23:57
Marieanne Bonnefoy-Campusano 30:58
Francesca Faccone 23:36
Ali Friedman 30:05
Abby Fry 20:12
Hadara Goldsmith 24:53
Hallie Jester 19:48
Tess Joseph 25:16
Annie McElvein 20:54
Kat McNeill 19:40
Nora McUmber 19:17
Elaine Otieno 23:56
Victoria Prevost 22:16
Vanessa Shu 21:47
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