Here are the results of this morning's NJCTC Winter Championships at Ocean Breeze. After a nearly month-long break from competitive individual meets, the Crusaders made their NY meet debut in the running events. The meet was a resounding success, and we had a strong debut performance, as well as a personal record in the 55-dash event to kick off the day! As we embark on the individual meet season, we've clearly shown that we're making great progress and will continue our success! Well done, Addie!

55 Dash

Addison Hall 8.51

300

Addison Hall 51.63

Here are the results of this afternoon's Cherokee Throwdown at Cherokee High School. Today was our first track and field meet in quite a long time and it was finally time to showcase our throws on the field side. We had a big freshman debut today which proved to be quite a very strong entry into the sport...absolutely well done today, Maggie!

Shot Put Frosh

Maggie Cerny 20-3.5

Here are the results of this morning's meet at the brand new UPenn facility in Philadelphia. It was our debut meet to really showcase our hard work in these past 3 weeks of serious training. We knew that we would see some big performances today and we were not disappointed! With two big indoor track debuts in both the sprints and the endurance events we showed that our training is working very well and that we are on our way to big things and faster times! Congratulations, ladies! Keep pushing and keep working hard!

1600

Grace Marsden 6:18.47

200

Addison Hall 31.08

Here are the results of today's Group State Championships at Holmdel Park. Even though we didn't leave with a team title as last year, we absolutely accomplished some incredibly amazing things today. Together at the beginning of the season we made some important goals both as a team and as individuals. We ultimately wanted our best Holmdel performances at the end of the season when it truly mattered. And today we achieved this in a huge way. Along with the many course PR's we had our two senior runners in the top 10 which qualifies them to the Meet of Champions next week! And also very importantly we had big Holmdel race debuts for our team Freshmen and planting the seeds for the continued successful future of our program!

The other coaches and myself are so proud of you all not only for your efforts today but also your hard work, dedication, and overall enjoyment of the sport these past 4 months. It has been a joy for all of us to see you run at your very best in these past few weeks. Well done, lads! But we aren't yet done yet as we prepare for MoCs next week! Let's keep it going full steam!


5K NPB Championship
Ethan Caprarola 17:41.09 (4th)[/b]
Desmond Carey 18:09.19 (8th)
Alexander Dietz 19:06.08
Owen DeAndrea 20:21.34
Noah Nguyen 23:47.73
Josh Madgey 26:11.94

Here are the results of this morning's Bob Kiessling Invitational 5K at Dream Park. It was both a very important day to have our fastest race to date on the flat course at Dream Park and to also celebrate our senior athletes in a very special way. Today was by far our absolute best performance of the season to date with some incredible results including a plethora of huge PRs and a 4th place individual finish! We ran some incredibly fast times and we really demonstrated not only to South Jersey but the entire state that we are well ready to be in contention to accomplish something big next week at States! Congratulations, lads, and especially thank you and well done, seniors! But we have the most important part of the season coming up as we enter into one more week of training before our peak competition...let's keep up the hard work and excitement!

5K Varsity
Ethan Caprarola 16:32.37 (4th)
Desmond Carey 17:26.16
Alexander Dietz 17:39.47
Owen DeAndrea 19:32.80
Josh Madgey 23:19.36
Raghav Tomar 44:23.11

Here are the results of this afternoon's Olympic Conference Championships at Dream Park. This afternoon was the official start of our championship season and put us in one of our most competitive races of the season to date. With both the veterans racing in the varsity and our JV taking on the first 5K we achieved some fantastic results! Today was not only filled with incredible milestones including massive PRs and first time stellar effort 5K runs for our new runners, but we can boast having 3 2nd Team All Conference finishers! It is a very, very good transition into the championship season for us and we are starting to build some very important momentum in these 2.5 weeks to go to NPB States! Let's keep it going, boys!!

5K Varsity
Ethan Caprarola 17:16.15 (2nd Team All Conference)
Desmond Carey 17:36.10 (2nd Team All Conference)
Alexander Dietz 17:53.57 (2nd Team All Conference)
Owen DeAndrea 20:14.55

5K JV
Noah Nguyen 22:09.94
Joshua Madgey 24:57.16
Raghav Tomar 43:18.08

Here are the results of this afternoon's South Jersey Open at Dream Park. Even though this meet is considered our last of our regular season meets, we ran some incredibly amazing times and showed some true grit to end a full day of top tier meets! It started with our freshmen making their Bishop Eustace XC debut and they performed admirably in the freshman 4K race which had given us a great opening for the day. The varsity then closed our day and ran some phenomenally fast times with well executed race strategy and patience which produced several PRs and a silver medal 2nd place finish! Well done, boys! We have great momentum going into the championship season so let's continue to work hard and get focused on our ultimate goal at the season's end!

4K Frosh
Noah Nguyen 20:25.76
Josh Madgey 20:45.89

5K Varsity
Ethan Caprarola 16:58.73
Desmond Carey 17:44.73
Alexander Dietz 18:25.24
Owen DeAndrea 20:37.41

Here are the results of this morning's Holmdel 5K at the Shore Coaches Invitational. This meet historically symbolizes the true beginning of the top cross country races of the season and is the first opportunity to showcase to all serious competitors how well we look. Today's performances produced many Holmdel PRs and a top 15 finish! We still have more to gain and grow so keep foot on the gas as we enter into more intense training that we can have another fantastic story to tell the next time we are racing at Holmdel!

5K Varsity Boys E
Ethan Caprarola 17:40.21 (13th)
Desmond Carey 18:18.38
Alexander Dietz 19:52.73
Owen DeAndrea 21:57.35

Here are the results of this morning's TCNJ Invitation. With ideal weather and course conditions, it was the perfect day to race our first true varsity 5K and showing what we are capable of this season. We produced some very big season's best and a personal best with two finishes in the top 10 of all runners! It was a fantastically strong start of the 5K racing season for our team! Great job, boys, and keep up the fire and momentum!!

5K Varsity
Ethan Caprarola 17:10.20 (6th)
Desmond Carey 17:21.90 (7th)
Alexander Dietz 18:58.60
Owen DeAndrea 21:30.90

Here are the results of today's Cherokee Challenge 2 miler at Cherokee High School. It was one of the best weather conditions for some fast running and today was certainly that! All races today had well over 350 runners and we accomplished some amazing things by not only finishing towards the front end of the multitude of racers, but having all athletes competing achieving personal bests! Great job, everyone! This is a great start to the season and we have much more success to come!

3200m
Ethan Caprarola 10:36.93
Desmond Carey 11:14.10
Alexander Dietz 11:54.06
Owen DeAndrea 13:13.60