WATCH 4A Girls State Race
Combined girls team results merge from all 4 classifications at the 2016 Maryland State Cross Country Championships at Hereford.
Photo by Debbi Persinger
For the past two seasons, the Walter Johnson girls have started out slow, but by season's end at the state meet have finished out as state champions and Maryland's best overall. The Lady Wildcats won their 4th straight 4A state cross country team title and it was not even close without a real challenge emerging this season in their classification. Led by state runner-up and sub 18 minute performer Abbey Green (17:54), Coach Martin was able to get 4 more of his girls to run under 20:30 at Hereford and finish among the top 25 for a decisive 59 point margin of victory.
The gap in the merge results were even greater as a 78 points existed between themselves and 3A state champions Northern-Calvert. Northern-Calvert had looked like arguably the best team in the state for much of the season, especially with an incredible talented front 3 of Molly Barrick, Abbey Sweeney, and Claudia Dolan all running times like #1 runners on most squads. However, they were not able to match Walter Johnson's time in victory in the 3A race on Saturday with a 20:04 team averaged compared to Walter Johnson's top 5 average of 19:42 in the 4A race.
The 2A state champion Hereford girls had the 3rd fastest team average of the meet at 20:13, while finishing 4th in the merge behind 3A state runners-up River Hill. Having a front runner as fast as Kelly Wesolowski in 18:42 for second place in the 2A race individually helped balance out having a fifth runner over 21 minutes.
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