Regional Results

Wow!  Congratulations to the four Section V runners that have qualified for Nationals - either Nike Cross Nationals in Oregon, or Footlocker Nationals in San Diego.  Katie Lembo qualified for the latter, with an excellent run at Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, to place third.  Joining us at Bowdoin Park for the Nike Regional meet were Siobhan Quinn and Kennedy Jensen, who grabbed the last two spots in the girls race, and Mickey Burke, who was second in the boys race, behind the new course record-holder, Nick Ryan of F-M.  Ryan was away from the field immediately, holding about a 10-second lead, just a half-mile into the race!

Our team fared well at the race, with most of our girls starting off the day in the Open race, which featured  the combined NY and Northeast regions.  Running without Val, who was waiting for the Championship race and Amanda, who was vacationing in California, the girls still managed 7th of the 21 teams, thanks to a nice team race, including Ashlynn's best team finish (3rd).

The boys had to go without Zach's services, as his hip would not allow him to race, and he was relegated to the spectator role.  And the boys stepped up, turning a very close battle for third place at the halfway point into a comfortable margin at the finish.  Justin and John had big negative splits (28 and 15 seconds, respectively) to finish 9th and 15th overall, while Kevin ran even splits to grab 32nd.

We had to wait a couple more hours for Val's race, as the conditions hardened, with the sun disappearing and the wind picking up a bit.  Val started a little easier than last week, and was placed in the low 20s early in the race.  By the halfway point she had moved her way up to 12th place and was within 10 seconds of the fifth spot.  She couldn't close the gap any further, but wound up almost breaking 19 minutes, and taking 19th place to pick up a new t-shirt at the awards ceremony.

Overall, a very nice trip to wind up a fun and exciting Cross Country season!

Complete Nike Regional results are available here.  And Footlocker results are available here.