Our last race of the season was the DE State Championship race at Killens Pond (or, as some of the girls termed it, "Kill-it" Pond). It was definitely a welcome change from last year's States race at Brandywine, which involved several enormous hills, as the Killens Pond course is almost entirely flat. Our team was rather well equipped for the temperatures in the upper 30s, showing up wearing about three layers each and bringing gloves, hats, hand warmers, blankets, and even sleeping bags.
Four races were held at this meet, a girls and a boys race each for Division I and Division II schools. Our top seven male and female runners competed in the respective Division II races, with the girls race taking off first at 1pm.
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| The start of the girls race (Photo: Mrs. Jen Mengel) |
Hannah Ye ('21) ran a personal best time of 22:00, placing 44th overall. Faith Hollister ('22) was not far behind in 56th place with her own new PR of 22:13. Fiona Fawcett ('22) finished in 82nd place with a time of 23:43, and Katie Rippon ('20) and Captain Naomi Mengel ('18) ran personal bests of 24:03 and 24:19 respectively to place 91st and 96th. Katelyn Walker ('19) finished in 100th place in 24:40. Cathy Nicholson ('21) crossed the line in 105th place at 25:07, despite twisting her ankle in the latter half of the race.
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| Weston (and Matteo) around the half-mile mark (Photo: Naomi Mengel) |
The Division II boys race started an hour and twenty minutes later at 2:20 pm. Joshua Deitrich ('19) once again led the Red Lion boys, placing 24th overall with a personal best of 17:19. He was followed by Weston Marshall ('20), who set a PR of 18:51 and placed 67th. Matteo D'Andrea ('20) finished in 111th place in 19:53, followed by Spencer Armstrong ('19) in 115th place with a PR of 19:59. Captain Luke Sherman ('18) and Dennis Nicholson ('19) both set PRs of 20:29, finishing 125th and 126th, with Luke just ahead. Marc Sherman also set a PR, coming in 148th with a time of 21:14.
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| Josh Deitrich leading the Red Lion boys (Photo: Naomi Mengel) |
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Full results can be found
here for both races.
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| Captain Luke Sherman finishing his final race as a high school XC runner (Photo: Naomi Mengel | ) |
At practice this past week, Coach Shirley told us he'd set a goal back at the beginning of the season for the girls team and one for the boys team for our States races. The girls' goal was to place in the top ten teams in Division II, and the boys' was to place in the top fifteen. At this meet, our girls team did indeed finish in tenth place, and the boys finished in fifteenth. In addition, ten out of our fourteen runners who competed in this meet set new personal bests today. ("Kill-it" Pond turned out to be a very appropriate name.)
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| Team pictures after the race (Photo: Mr. Dan Mengel) |
After team pictures, we headed out to Chick-fil-a to celebrate as a team. The girls team also revealed their Secret Sisters at the meet. Our season is officially over, but I don't think we could have ended with a better race. We'll celebrate some more at our banquet on Thursday, and after that it's a wrap.
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| The girls team (Photo: Mr. Dan Mengel) |
I'll probably post one more blog entry after our banquet next Thursday and share more of my personal experience from this season, so keep an eye out for that :)
Naomi
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