Aoife Shovlin demonstrated final fall how an off day doesn’t outline a cross nation runner’s complete season. And she did it on the largest stage of all.
As a Cambridge sophomore, Shovlin completed a considerably disappointing fifth in opposition to a tricky discipline within the Div. 1A meet. But the frustration was short-lived as Shovlin went on to make a press release per week later when she moved laborious with a mile to go to seize the Div. 1 race on the Meet of Champions on the rolling Devens course, main Cambridge to the staff win.
The Div. 1 staff battle needs to be an fascinating come November. Along with Shovlin, Cambridge returns a robust unit together with Eleanor Allan, Eliza Dickie and Sophia Juanes Seto. Wellesley, although, is seeking to transfer up from a runner-up end in 2022 with a crew made up of Abigail Beggans, who was third general, Emma and Charlotte Tuxbury, and Audrey Fitzpatrick.
As for the person title, Shovlin may have her fingers full with Needham’s Greta Hammer, who took second final 12 months. Add Beggans, the bronze medalist, and it needs to be fascinating to see how the race for the gold medal unfolds.
Both Acton-Boxboro and Oliver Ames return skilled crews that ought to very properly be within the combine for the staff title. Catherine Callahan, Elizabeth Latham and Paige McInerney are again for the Colonials, whereas the Tigers have a lineup that features the very proficient Katie Sobieraj, Hannah Dupill and Braelyn Graham. Lucia Werner was eleventh final 12 months for Brookline and the Warriors even have a pair of prime 50 finishers with Dasha Lefaivre and Audrey Seeger.
Div. 1 has a slew of ladies who crossed the end line within the prime 50 together with Ava Bullock of Barnstable, Westford Academy’s Emily Wedlake and Sydney Weiss, Macey Shriner of Plymouth North, Hopkinton’s Elyse Srodawa, Marblehead’s Marri O’Connell, Mia Jilani of Milton, Taylor Partridge of Needham, Weymouth’s Gracie Richard, Luna Prochazkova of North Andover, Bishop Feehan’s Lauren Augustyn, Eleanor Angeles-Whitfield of Marshfield, Central Catholic’s Madeline Courtemanche, Salma Boukhtam and Aluna Googan-Coyne of North Quincy and Westfield’s Megan Moran.
Carmen Luisi of Holliston shall be seeking to seize the Div. 2 title, which might make her the primary three-time All-State winner because the nice Grace Connolly of Natick. The Panthers dominated the staff competitors and have three prime 15 returnees with Luisi, Maggie Kuchman and Annabelle Lynch.
Caroline Collins of Nashoba seems to be to be Luisi’s closest challenger after taking second final fall simply 10 seconds again. Abby Flagg of Whitinsville Christian captured the bronze medal and shall be seeking to transfer up.
The Div. 2 was deep final 12 months and that ought to proceed this time round. Groton Dunstable’s Georgia Brooks is again, as are Dennis-Yarmouth’s Sienna Lauze, Chloe Azoff and Olivia Pendleton. Dover-Sherborn’s Margaret Bowles and Madeline Mahoney of Nauset have been each within the prime 10 in 2022, whereas Whitinsville Christian’s Emma Wierenga and Anna Lonergan of Watertown have been within the prime 20. Medfield has a robust duo returning in Ella Kane and Chloe McCormack, as does Wakefield with Charlette O’Neil and Lily Sallee.
Others again from the highest 50 embody Ella Rogers of Nashoba, Alex Schroeder of Martha’s Vineyard, Northampton’s Maeve O’Neil, Hannah Whalley of Old Rochester, Longmeadow’s Ada Grant, Elizabeth Sawicki of Amherst-Pelham, Bedford’s Addi Poulter, Wayland’s Arya Samaratunga, Emelyn DeWeerd of Whitinsville Christian, Wilmington’s Hannah Bryson, Tea Pagnotti of Westwood, Maddie Hussey of Archbishop Williams and Hanover’s Cameron Bradford.
Defending Div. 3 champion Alessandra Gavris is again together with 9 of the highest 10 finishers. The division in not a deep one with simply 5 returnees who ran beneath 20 minutes on the Devens course, however that solely opens the door for extra surprises coming from the highest 20.
Norfolk County Agricultural’s Madelyn Germain is a fierce competitor and may problem for the highest spot after ending second to Gavris in 2022. The Bromfield School has a pair of prime 10 finishers again in Evelyn Wool and Rosie Bradley. Ella Dunbury of West Bridgewater had a giant junior 12 months and has a robust likelihood at copping the gold medal. The similar holds true for Alice Culver of Lenox. Others within the prime 10 who might make an affect within the prime 5 are Cameron Davis of Oxford, Avery Murphy of Murdock and Hampshire Regional’s Kathleen Barry.
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