Forty-one individual boys and ten relays teams earned medals, including several sectional champions.
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.
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.
Justin Feil for Town Topics interviews Princeton’s Rosemary Warren and Finn Wedmid — along with coach Jim Smirk — about their thrilling performances at groups, the PHS girls earning a wild card to the Meet of Champions, the boys’ trio of individual qualifiers, and how both athletes have grown into confident, race-savvy leaders driving Princeton’s postseason push.
From NJ.com’s individual girls rankings:
#4 Allison Lee (WWP North, Sr.)
#19 Sydney Young (Hopewell Valley, Jr.)
#23 Kajol Karra (Princeton, Sr.)
#26 Laura Sallade (Wilberforce, Sr.)
#27 Grace Hegedus (Princeton, Jr.)
From NJ.com’s individual boys rankings:
#13 Agrim Jha (WWP North, So.)
#16 Paul Wittenberg (WWP North, Jr.)
#24 Finnegan Curley (Hopewell Valley, Jr.)
#37 Saboor Qureshi (Princeton, Sr.)
From MileSplit’s top 20 girls teams:
#5 Princeton
#19 WWP North
”Bubble” Lawrenceville
From MileSplit’s top 20 boys teams:
#12 WWP North
#20 Lawrenceville
”Bubble” Princeton
Eight individual girls and two relay teams won sectional titles, with WWP North taking the team championship in Central Group 3.