Groups Girls: Blanchard quadruples, Lee and Gilligan win state titles
Mercer County girls will be busy at the Meet of Champions after loading up on medals at the group championships.
Groups Boys: Crawford blazes to NPB 400mH title, Bennett leads Princeton Day to three wins
Nine individual boys and four relay teams punched their tickets to the Meet of Champions with superb performances.
Sectionals Girls: WWP North wins back-to-back CJ3 team titles, CVC girls win gold in almost every event
Eight individual girls and two relay teams won sectional titles, with WWP North taking the team championship in Central Group 3.
Sectionals Boys: Kinsler, Jones, Jha, Williams, Skillman pace a big weekend for the CVC boys
Forty-one individual boys and ten relays teams earned medals, including several sectional champions.
CVC Championships Boys Recap: Quick sprints as Notre Dame storms to the team title
WWP South’s Kinsler and Ewing’s Jones deliver big sprint duels, WWP North sweeps the distance events, and Notre Dame’s Crawford leads the Irish to the team title.
CVC Championship Girls Recap: Impressive doubles and triples as WWP North claims team title
WWP North claims the title behind Lee’s big distance double. Other highlights include a speedy sprint triple from Nottingham’s Crusoe Gaye, three field event golds for Hopewell Valley’s Obidike, and lots of big breakthroughs.
April Wrap: Lee smashes state 3200m record, leads flood of big results in distance and hurdles
Allison Lee (WWP North) shatters the outdoor 3200m state record with a stunning 9:46.78, a wave of distance runners rewrite the county leaderboards, and Corey Woodson (Lawrenceville) and Yi-Tian Xiong (Princeton) trade big PRs in the 110mH.
Penn Relays: Bartlett repeats as AOTM to lead Mercer County’s haul of medals
Bartlett breaks the 3000m junior class national record, Blanchard and Casciano post some of the top marks in county history, and multiple 4×4 teams take home some hardware: Ewing boys and girls, Notre Dame boys and girls, Nottingham boys, and WWP South girls.
Freshman/Sophomore Meet: Impressive triples and doubles lead the county’s rising stars
Notre Dame’s sprinters rack up the wins, the sophomore boys distance ranks are loaded, and many other younger athletes show off their talents.
Round-up: Hurst, Blanchard, Woodson lead a busy weekend of breakthroughs
Stella Blanchard (Wilberforce) and Tyler Hurst (Steinert) get big 1600m wins, Corey Woodson (L’ville) and Yi-Tian Xiong (Princeton) run two of the top 110mH times of the year, and countless others set big PRs on a busy weekend.
Mercer Coaches Relays Recap
The Mercer Coaches Relays featured tight competitions and dramatic finishes all day long.
TCNJ Invitational: Blazing battles on the straightaway headline opening invite
Angel Johnson (Ewing) sets the 100mH state lead, while Arianna Crusoe Gaye (Nottingham), Samya Jenkins (Lawrence), and Leah Daniels (Ewing) rise to NJ #2, #3, and #4 in a fast 100m. On the boys side, Dasan Jones (Ewing) goes NJ #2 in the 100m and joins his teammates for the 4×100m win in an NJ #3 time.
Meet of Champions: Lee blazes to 3200m title, Blanchard battles to silver in 800m
WWP North’s Allison Lee amazed with a US #4 10:07 in the 3200m, while Wilberforce’s Stella Blanchard dropped a US #10 2:08 in the 800m. Also taking home medals were WWP North’s Agrim Jha in the 1600m, WWP South’s Julius Kinsler in the 400m, Hopewell Valley’s Finnegan Curley in the 3200m, and Hightstown’s Chloe Lewis in the long jump.
Eastern States headlined by fast 400s, 1600s, hurdles, and triple jumps
Julius Kinsler (WWP South) is silver in 400m, Tessa Hughes (Peddie) takes 4th in a fast 55mH, Hightstown 4×400m breaks 49-year-old school record, Allison Lee (WWP North) and Agrim Jha (WWP North) crush 1600m splits in the DMR, and much more.
Boys Groups: Curley’s breakthrough headlines big weekend for CVC boys
Hopewell Valley’s Curley surges to the Group 2 title with a huge PR, and several others put themselves in great position for a wild card entry to the Meet of Champions.
Girls Groups: Lee dazzles with historic 3200m, Blanchard excels in mid-distance double
WWP North’s Lee breaks CVC 3200m record with a 10:19, Wilberforce’s Blanchard dominates Non-Public B 800m, Notre Dame’s Schmitz stuns for Non-Public A shot put title, and several others advance to the Meet of Champions.
Boys Sectionals: Hurdlers and distance runners lead qualifiers for groups
WWP North’s Agrim Jha won a fast 1600m in Central Group 3, Hopewell Valley’s Finnegan Curley claimed the Central Group 2 3200m, and Princeton’s Yi-Tian Xiong led a half-dozen hurdlers to groups qualification.
Girls Sectionals: Lee crushes a super distance double, jumpers and throwers claim top medals
WWP North’s Allison Lee runs an NJ #2 3200m and NJ #7 1600m, Hopewell Valley’s Uchenna Obidike and Hightstown’s Jaiden Bosley claim the shot put titles in Central Groups 2 and 3, and WWP North’s Anamika Sertil wins the Central Group 3 high jump.
Boys CVC Championships: Notre Dame repeats as team champion
Plus, Ewing’s Dasan Jones uncorks a big sprint triple and WWP North’s Agrim Jha sweeps the distance races with fast times.
Girls CVC Championship: Ewing sprints away with team title
Plus some huge performances by WWP North’s Allison Lee and the CVC’s top hurdlers and jumpers.