WTC Boys at the Start of the Midget Race
(Photo by David Ilsley)

Youth members put in another outstanding team performance Sunday at the New England Junior Olympic Championships at Free Style Farm in Amherst, NH. We had 17 top 25 individual performances, two first place teams and one second place team finish and 6 personal records. The top 25 individuals in each race and the top 3 teams (top 4 for the 11-12 boys) automatically move on to the Region 1 Championships next week in Queensbury, NY.

Individual place finishers included Blissie Vernon in the Sub-bantam Girls’ race (4th place in 9:56), Jack Cronin (24th in the 9-10 Bantam Boys’ race in 13:25) and Christian Herlihy (25th in the 13-14 Youth Boys’ race in 15:29).

In the team scoring, our 11-12 boys finished first with 48 points. Daniel O’Donoghue was 2nd overall in a PR 10:56 (previous PR from 2 years ago was 12:26.85), Jacob Jampel was 4th in a PR 11:01 (previous PR from 2 years ago was 12:17.12), Michael O’Donoghue was 9th (7th team) in a PR 11:15 (previous PR from 2 years ago was 1:26.56), Calvin Perkins was 11th (8th team) in 11:23, and Henderson Sykes was 36th (27th team) in 12:13. Rounding out our team was Steven Ingman in 47th (35th team) in 12:34, Andrew Mah in 52nd (39th team) in 12:39, Sean O’Neill in 63d (39th team) in 13:02, Tommy O’Neil in 66th with a PR 13:11 (previous PR from 2 years ago was 13:32.8) and Liam O’Callaghan in 81st (45th team) in 14:03.

Our other winning team was our 13-14 girls with 30 points which included Leah Brams in 2nd (1st team) in 16:06, Sonya Jampel in 4th (2nd team) in 16:14, Lauren Ilesley in 5th (3rd team) in 16:21, Becky Grusby in 9th (7th team) in 16:34, and Zoe Gompers in 19th (17th team) in 16:59. Rounding out our team was Courtney Aylaian in 21st (19th team) in 17:02, Lindsey Mogan in 75th (56th place team) in 19:26, Charlotte Sykes in 79th in 19:34 and Hannah Randolph in 97th in 23:20.

Our other scoring team was our 11-12 girls, who were 2nd with 49 points. Clare Martin was 4th overall in 11:58, Gabby Vandendries was 10th (5th team) in 12:14, Einat Gavish was 11th (6th team) in a PR 12:17 (previous PR from 2 years ago was 13:59), Olivia Vernon was 24th (15th team) in 12:34 and Alex Wolf was 28th (19th team) in 12:44. Rounding out our team was Catherine DeGroot in 35th (23rd team) in 12:51, Rose Teszler in 44th (27th team) in 13:14, Lillian Joyce in 63rd (40th team) in 13:59, Katie Cronin in 77th in 14:59, Julia Kendall in 85th in 16:03 and Jackie Fitzgerald in 89th in a PR 16:42 (previous PR from 2 years ago was 18:12.19).

Einat Gavish Fights for 11th Place
(Photo by David Ilsley)

Our 13-14 boys finished 5th with 162 points and included Christian Herlihy in 25th (20th team) in 15:29, Will Rhatigan in 42nd (24th team) in 15:59, Andy Theall in 79th (27th team) in 17:02, Connor Meaney in 80th (45th team) in 17:10, Thomas O’Donoghue in 104th (46th team) in 19:38 and Phil Batler in 105th (58th team) in 19:55.

Our other competitors were Dante Vetrone in the 9-10 Boys’ (43rd in 15:13) and Alessia Caira (32nd in 16:07) and Anna Kraffmiller (41st in 17:16) in the 9-10 Girls’.

Complete results may be found here.