Blanchard, Lee, Jha, Kinsler, Crawford, and Gilligan all post some of the fastest times in Mercer County history.
Mercer County girls will be busy at the Meet of Champions after loading up on medals at the group championships.
Nine individual boys and four relay teams punched their tickets to the Meet of Champions with superb performances.
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
Bartlett, Lee, Blanchard, Jha, Xiong, Casciano, Romanelli, and many others stayed sharp with big results in the break between MOCs and nationals.