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Plenty of new names entering the conversation for top boys in the county this XC season!
XC is here! Here are some storylines to follow this fall. Who will be the county’s top teams?
See the rankings for the girls teams in Mercer County, based on the Track Mercer leaderboards for this past spring season.
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The Trentonian selects Allison Lee (WWP North, Jr.) and Gavin Alvarez (Allentown, Sr.) as runners of the year. The two stars share their reactions to their performances and experiences at the Meet of Champions. Honorable mentions go to Christopher Young (Notre Dame, Sr.), Sean Wilton (Princeton, Sr.), and Sonjay Baylor-Reeves (Trenton, Sr.).
NJ.com’s CVC boy athlete of the year is Gavin Alvarez (Allentown, Sr.), and they highlights his fast PRs, medals at groups and Meet of Champions, and his big improvement from last year. The boys coach of the year is Nottingham’s Kenley Souffrant, and the boys team of the year is Notre Dame.
Allentown’s Gavin Alvarez talks about coming in with confidence to break out of a slump, and about how he and his teammates are letting people know that Allentown is no joke. WWP North’s Subomi Allison talks about tactics that helped his kick and about wanting to give his best for his teammates, and coach Brian Gould credits his 4×800m boys with being “all heart” and bouncing back after not medaling in the groups 4×800.
The Trentonian highlights Notre Dame hurdlers Christopher Young and Aldric Crawford, who earned automatic qualifiers to the MoC after getting silver medals in the 110mH and 400mH respectively. Other auto-qualifiers who get a callout are Princeton’s Sean Wilton (shot put), Allentown’s boys 4×100m team, and WWP North’s Allison Lee (3200m).
Highlights include wins from Hopewell Valley’s Sydney Young at the Cherokee Challenge and a trio of WWP North runners — Allison Lee, Paul Wittenberg, and Agrim Jha — at Run the Night, plus a couple of very close 2nd-place finishes from freshmen Ashvin Avineni (WWP North) and Reed Huggins (Allentown).