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Girls Top 20 New Jersey XC Team Rankings 2025 - Oct. 14th
From MileSplit’s top 20 girls teams:
#5 Princeton
#19 WWP North
”Bubble” Lawrenceville
Boys Top 20 New Jersey XC Team Rankings 2025 - Oct. 14th
From MileSplit’s top 20 boys teams:
#12 WWP North
#20 Lawrenceville
”Bubble” Princeton
Girls Top 20 New Jersey XC Team Rankings 2025 - Sept. 19th
Three CVC girls teams made MileSplit’s top 20 for September 19:
#2 Princeton
#12 Hopewell Valley
#19 WWP North
Boys Top 20 New Jersey XC Team Rankings 2025 - Sept. 19th
Three CVC boys teams break into MileSplit’s rankings for September 19th:
#20 WWP North
Bub. Hopewell Valley
Bub. Princeton
Girls Preseason Top 20 New Jersey XC Team Rankings 2025
In MileSplit NJ’s preseason rankings for girls teams, Princeton is #2, Hopewell Valley is #11, and WWP North is #15.
Boys Preseason Top 20 New Jersey XC Team Rankings 2025
Three boys teams made MileSplit NJ’s preseason rankings. Princeton is #18, WWP North is #20, and Hopewell Valley is one of five bubble teams.
Paige Sheppard Smashes 1600m State Record In Season Opener
MileSplit NJ highlights the amazing run by Union Catholic’s Paige Sheppard, who broke the New Jersey 1600m record with a 4:44.77 on the newly resurfaced indoor track at the Lawrenceville School. It also talks about Blair Bartlett (Lawrenceville, So.) who got 2nd with an incredible 4:51.81, which is US #2 right now.
CJ Recap: Lee Smashes CR, Metuchen, Colts Neck Sweep
Allison Lee (WW-P North) “dropped the biggest bomb of Sectional Saturday with her jaw-dropping course record run.” She broke the course record, previously held by Caroline Kellner of WW-P South, by 15 seconds and won the race over a Footlocker Finalist by 27 seconds.
Girls New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 22nd
MileSplit's latest girls rankings include the following teams from Mercer County and NJ Central groups:
#3 Princeton (no change)
#6 Middleton South (no change)
#7 Colts Neck (up from #17)
#8 Manalapan (down from #7)
#9 Freehold Township (down from #8)
#13 Rumson-Fair Faven (up from #12)
#20 West Windsor-Plainsboro North (up from bub.)
Bub. Hopewell Valley (down from #20) 
Bub. Metuchen (new)
Boys New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 22nd
MileSplit's latest boys rankings include the following teams from Mercer County and NJ Central groups:
#3 Colts Neck (no change)
#10 Manalapan (no change)
#17 South Brunswick (up from #20)
Bub. Metuchen (new)
Bub. West Windsor-Plainsboro North (new)
Bub. West Windsor-Plainsboro South (no change)
Girls New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 14th
MileSplit's latest girls rankings include the following teams from Mercer County and NJ Central groups:
#3 Princeton (up from #5)
#6 Middleton South (down from #4)
#7 Manalapan (no change)
#8 Freehold Township (no change)
#12 Rumson-Fair Faven (up from #13)
#17 Colts Neck (up from #18)
Bub. Hopewell Valley (down from #20) 
Bub. West Windsor-Plainsboro North (no change)
Bub. Wilberforce (down from #17) 
Boys New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 14th
MileSplit's latest boys rankings include the following teams from Mercer County and NJ Central groups:
#3 Colts Neck (no change)
#20 South Brunswick (no change)
Bub. Cinnaminson (no change)
Bub. Princeton (no change)
Bub. West Windsor-Plainsboro South (no change)
Recap: New Jersey Race By Race At Manhattan Invitational
In MileSplit's recap of the Manhattan College XC Invitational, they selected Princeton as the top NJ girls team and Kajol Karra as the top NJ junior girl.
Girls New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 7th
MileSplit's latest girls rankings include the following teams from Mercer County and NJ Central groups:
#3 Princeton (up from #5)
#4 Middleton South (up from #4)
#7 Manalapan (down from #6)
#8 Freehold Township (down from #7)
#13 Rumson-Fair Faven (up from #16)
#17 Wilberforce (down from #13)
#18 Colts Neck (down from #15)
#20 Hopewell Valley (up from NR)
Bub. West Windsor-Plainsboro North (up from NR)
Boys New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 7th
MileSplit's latest boys rankings include the following teams from Mercer County and NJ Central groups:
#3 Colts Neck (up from #5)
#20 South Brunswick (down from #11)
Bub. Cinnaminson (up from NR)
Bub. Princeton (up from NR)
Bub. West Windsor-Plainsboro South (down from #17)
Girls New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 2nd
MileSplit NJ's girls rankings have two local schools in the top 20:
#5 Princeton (up from #9)
#13 Wilberforce (no change)
Boys New Jersey Top 20 Cross Country Teams - October 2nd
MileSplit NJ's boys rankings have two local schools in the top 20:
#16 West Windsor-Plainsboro North (up from #20)
#17 West Windsor-Plainsboro South (previously unranked)
Hopewell Valley Sweeps TCNJ High School XC Invite
Hopewell Valley’s sweep at the TCNJ Invitational gets it a nice featured article on MileSplit, with results and a team trophy photo.
VOTE: Boys NJ Athlete of the Week - September 16th - 22nd
Shravan Pradeep (WW-P South) was voted MileSplit NJ’s athlete of the week for his win at the Thompson 2 Miler. He received 45% of the 96,000+ votes cast.
Boys Preseason Top 20 New Jersey XC Team Rankings 2024
Hopewell Valley is listed as a bubble team, just outside the top 20 but within the top 25.
