Girls Team Of The Week: River Hill Girls
This Week's Nominees:
- Centennial Girls - Winners of the large schools division and overall at the Brunswick Invitational taking 4 of the top 5 places among large schools behind only race champ Brit Lang with Kara Taylor (2nd, 20:06), Jessica Jiang (3rd, 20:16), Devin McIntyre (4th, 4th, 20:35), and Ashley Mazer (5th, 20:43) to average 20:42 as a team on challenging 3 mile course and tally 30 points. Appear to be one of River Hill's top challengers for the 3A state title.
- C. Milton Wright Girls - Winners of their home invitational on Friday in the Mustang Invitational as they had two of the top three girls in the two mile race including race winner Pam Koga (12:27) and third place finisher Jessica Rogers (12:38). Their remaining top 5 was all among top 10 places and under 14 minutes.
- Good Counsel Girls - Winners of a very competitive invitational in Virginia at the Chancellor Invite by a margin of 46 points with race champ Claudia Wendt leading the way in a time of 19:32 and senior captain Megan Crilly in third place at 20:37. Remaining top 5 scores all among the top 25 places. Looking every bit ready to challenge Bishop O'Connell in Virginia this fall and try to end their streak of WCAC titles.
- Northern-Calvert Girls - Winners of the Seahawk Invitational, which few could have projected and predicted that as not even among the top 50 fastest returning teams in the state. Despite a top five spread over two minutes, top four was rock steady all among the top 20 places and under 21 minutes with Hope Connell (9th, 19:51), Sarah Deresky (11th, 20:04), Adrianna Wilder (12th, 20:04), and Claudia Dolan (18th, 20:20). A new challenger now in 3A certainly.
- River Hill Girls - Speaking of 3A challengers in Centennial and Northern-Calvert, the defending 3A state champs from River Hill took care of business in Clear Spring at the Interstate Classic winning the large school division and best team overall putting their entire top 5 among the top 15 places for the large schools. Averaging 20:56 as a squad on the difficult three mile course, River Hill was led by top 5 finishers Jasmine Tiamfook (4th, 20:00) and Anna Latzko (5th, 20:26).
- Smithsburg Girls - The reigning 1A champions raced actually head to head against the large schools, but results separated them as the small schools champions at the Interstate Classic. They edged out their new 1A challengers in Boonsboro (who raced without their #1 runner Haley Wright) by 3 points with four girls among the top eight finishers among small schools led by Erica Lindsay as the small schools individual winner in 21:29.