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Great results down in North Carolina by Notre Dame, Ewing, Stuart Country Day, and others!
Huge performances by Sofia Swindell in the hurdles, Allison Lee in the 5000m, the Lawrenceville girls 4×400m, and many more.
A couple dozen Mercer County high schoolers competed at this large meet for track clubs.
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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.
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).
Christopher Young (Notre Dame, Sr.) and his coach Jain Ja Williams talk about his journey in the sport — he was primarily a skier before Coach Williams saw some hurdling potential in him. Young says that he’s been able to improve so much by watching people who were ahead of him and copying them.
Samya Jenkins (Lawrence, So.) talks about believing that she could win the 100m/200m double after winning the sprint double at CVCs indoors. He credited her success to inspiring coaches who believe in her, hard work, being motivated by other athletes in Mercer County.
Notre Dame coach Joe McLaughlin talks about the excitement of winning the boys CVC Championship in his 38th and final spring season. He credits his versatile athletes for their willingness to do different events and to focus on where they can score points. Jayden Davis (Notre Dame, Jr.) talks about winning the 4×400m with their A team and the motivational confidence they have.
WWP North’s girls talk after winning the girls championship. Zui Chinchalkar (Sr.) talks about chasing sectional and county titles and about how this win sets them up for success at sectionals. Mahima Bansal (Sr.) talks about checking the team scores throughout the day, and Chloe Song (Jr.) talks about the motivation that comes from hearing her teammates cheering.
See the rankings for the boys teams in Mercer County, based on the Track Mercer leaderboards for this past spring season.