What Would True MD/DC Private School States Have Been Like?

2014

Photo by John Roemer

The Winners - Individuals

Large School Boys: Jack Wavering (Good Counsel)

Small School Boys: Harry Wandersman (Charles E. Smith)

Large School Girls: Taylor Knibb (Sidwell Friends)

Small School Girls: Sami King (Field)

The Winners - Teams

Large School Boys: Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

Small School Boys: The Field School

Large School Girls: Georgetown Day School

Small School Girls: St. Andrew's Episcopal School

Top runners who did not compete

Michael Wegner (Loyola-Blakefield) - 15:45 5K, MIAA champion

Mikey Singer (McDonogh) - 15:32 5K, second at MIAA Championships

Dalton Hengst (McDonogh) - 15:54 5K, third at MIAA Championships

John Podles (Calvert Hall) - 15:47 5K, fourth at MIAA Championships

Kenny Rowe (Loyola-Blakefield) - 16:12 5K, fifth at MIAA Championships

Frankie Legambi (Loyola-Blakefield) - 15:59 5K, ninth at MIAA Championships

Taylor Hare (McDonogh) - 18:55 5K, third at IAAM Championships

Maggie Seybold (McDonogh) - 18:47 5K, fifth at IAAM Championships

Noemie Noullet (McDonogh) - 19:14 5K, sixth at IAAM Championships


The MIAA was stocked full of top-end talent in 2014, and Archbishop Spalding's Ronan O'Shea was the only top-ten finisher from the meet to compete at the MD/DC Private School state meet. Both Wegner and Singer likely would have given Jack Wavering (15:42 season best 5K at the Paul Short Invitational) even more of a challenge than he got from Georgetown Day's Aidan Pillard. Both Loyola and McDonogh, who averaged 16:15 and 16:23, respectively, on the three-mile course at the conference championships, would have been right in the thick of the team race with Good Counsel and Georgetown in what could have been one of the best four-team battles in meet history.

The McDonogh girls put four runners in the top ten at the IAAM Championships (scoring just 34 points) and would have likely won the large school girls team title. The 2014 girls race, however, was one of the most well-attended meets by the area's top female runners throughout the decade.