Cross Country – Girls Varsity vs Choate Rosemary Hall – Away

This represents a competition without team scores or awards in preparation for the remainder of the competitive season, which starts next week at the Canterbury Invitational. Choate divided the competition into three races, one for veteran girls (previous cross country experience), one for veteran boys and then a novice race combining both boys and girls. The course at Choate is known for its interesting layout as well as an incredibly challenging hill right before the 2 mile mark.

Beginning at 2:00 PM, veteran girls took off from the finish line in sunny, hot and humid conditions. Three members of the girls’ team (all seniors) ran in the veteran meet: Olivia Reynolds, Stella Risinger and Ashleigh Stepnowski. Olivia had the fastest time for the 5.0 kilometer (3.1 mi) race, finishing in 23 minutes and 38 seconds (23:38).

KO entered five boys in their veteran race who finished for us in this order: Sam Merkatz, Eli Johansen, Sam Bromberg, Shumayl Sheik Syed and Justin Rios. Sam finished with the best time in this group, finishing in 21:51.

Fourteen runners participated in the boys and girls combined novice race: Carson Zeilinski, Kami Tarantino, Regina Miller, Tommy Vumback, Ted Simons, Ryan Zheng, Jordan DiMauro, Sruthan Tokala, Sasha Dausey, Amogh Peddapothla, Bassil Chughtai, Sam Auclair, Cameron Hart and Elsa June Cisel. Carson Zielinski was the top boys finisher with a time of 21:03. We anticipate the possibility that he will break the 20 minute mark soon. Kami Tarantino was the top finisher for the girls with a time of 23:27.