West Windsor-Plainsboro South

The WWP South girls 4×100m team — Anastasia Kudin, Adama Turay, Claire Dumortier, and Logan Mills — talk with the Trentonian’s Kyle Franko after their race at the Penn Relays. They talk about their teamwork and and sense of pride in clocking their fastest time after years of running together.

In the Times of Trenton’s boys XC postseason awards, the runner of the year was Shravan Pradeep (WW-P South). Pradeep talked about his dedication to never missing a day and his strategy of going out hard at the Meet of Champions. The team of the year was WW-P North. The coach of the year was Katie Reilly (WW-P South), who credited her team’s success to the runners’ love for the sport and to her fellow coach Stephanie Pegues’s work developing a strong training plan.

The Times’ All-Area team was Felix Farrugia (Princeton), Luke Ferrer (WW-P North), Tyler Hurst (Steinert), Agrim Jha (WW-P North), Tarun Kovoor (Notre Dame), Shravan Pradeep (WW-P South), and Burke Thompson (Hightstown).

Shravan Pradeep (WW-P South, Sr.) jumps from #22 to #12 in NJ.com’s final ranking of the Top 50 individual boys.

NJ.com previews and predicts the best teams and individuals in each group at Central Jersey sectionals.

Group 2: They predict that Allentown’s boys and girls will both qualify out of Group 2.

Group 3: On the girls side, they list Allison Lee (WW-P North), Zui Chinchalkar (WW-P North), and Claire Dumont (Hopewell Valley) as three of six “Runners to Watch,” and they have WW-P North and Hopewell Valley finishing between 2nd and 5th. On the boys side, Tyler Hurst (Steinert) is one of four “Runners to Watch,” and they have three teams qualifying: WW-P North, Hopewell Valley, and Steinert.

Group 4: On the girls side, Princeton’s Kajol Karra and Grace Hegedus are both on their watchlist, and they predict that Princeton will win it all. On the boys side, WW-P South’s Shravan Pradeep is a runner to watch and is predicted to lead his team to group championship qualification.