Last yr’s seniors could also be out of the image, however there are such a lot of high-caliber runners again from 2021 that there must be some frantic finishes within the greatest meets in November.
The season comes all the way down to All-State Saturday on Nov. 19 over the grounds of Fort Devens within the central Mass city of Ayer. By that point harriers ought to have a great style of state-wide competitors with the Bob Glennon Twilight Invitational, Bay State Challenge, Catholic Memorial Invitational and Frank Mooney Invitational — simply among the main meets on the autumn schedule. There’s additionally the massive out-of-state meets together with the Manhattan Invitational, Manchester Invitational in New Hampshire and the celebrated Ocean State Invitational in Rhode Island that provide robust competitors.
Sure, Div. 1 All-State winner Daphne Theiler of Sharon graduated and is now operating at Amherst College, however a whopping 35 of the highest 50 harriers are again. Add Newton South monitor standout Amelia Everett to the combo in her first season of cross nation and the sphere is a loaded one.
Acton-Boxboro’s Catherine Callahan, Andover’s Molly Kiley, Salma Boukhtam of North Quincy, Lily Jin of Wellesley, Barnstable’s Ava Bullock and Katie Sobieraj of Oliver Ames had been within the high 10 at All-States and can be trying to transfer up the ladder, particularly Callahan, who was second in 2021.
There is loads of deep expertise with the likes of Concord-Carlisle’s Jacqueline White, Elizabeth Latham of Acton-Boxboro, Luna Prochazkova of North Andover, Brookline’s Lucia Werner, Marshfield’s Ava LoVuolo and Eleanor Angeles-Whitfield and Plymouth North’s Macey Sheriner.
In Div. 2, Carmen Luisi of Holliston can be trying to defend her All-State crown and must maintain off her teammates Maggie Kuchman, Ella Bosselman and Katie Currie, who completed within the high 10 and led the Panthers to a decisive win within the staff competitors.
There’ll be a slew of runners keying on breaking into the highest 10 within the likes of Adrienne Christy of Martha’s Vineyard, Groton-Dunstable’s Georgia Brooks, Ada Grant of Longmeadow, Holliston’s Annabelle Lynch, Tamar Byl-Brann of Amherst-Pelham, Pentucket’s Kaylie Dalgar and Hailey LaRosa of Newburyport.
Norfolk Aggie’s Madelyn Germain is the early-season favourite to seize the Div. 3 title after putting a strong second final yr as a sophomore. The problem ought to come from Alice Culver of Lenox, Lunenburg’s Lauren Long, Abby Rodriquenz and Breanna Bajko Olivia Jackson and Alessandra Gavris of Weston, Murdock’s Avery Murphy, Grace Malone and Ainsley Abel of Mount Greylock, Lynnfield’s Maddie Daigle, Bailey Ford of Sturgis, Emma Nadolski of Nipmuc, Gardner’s Krista Bettez, Meredith Connor of Upper Cape, Littleton’s Prianka Sarathy, Keegan Butler of Hampshire Regional, Bellingham’s Elizabeth Ragain and Ella Dunbury of West Bridgewater.
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