Girls Black and Gold Team Preview
Notable Teams - #1Thomas Wootton, #2 Hereford, #3 McDonogh, #4 Severna Park, #6 Notre Dame Prep, #7 Dulaney, #9Towson, and #10 Northern Calvert. Honorable Mention teams: Winston Churchill, Richard Montgomery, and Walt Whitman
Thomas Wootton comes in as the favorite. They have looked extremely strong this year at Both Bull Run and Oatlands Invitationals, winning both of them. While they don't have a dominant number one runner they have a very strong 1-5 that can all run either under 20 minutes or close to it. The battle for second place should be fun to watch as Hereford has 3 runners who can place top 10, however, their success is largely placed on how their 4-5 runners finish. Severna park will be trying to redeem themselves a little after finishing 5th in the Bull Run Merge. They have one of the deepest teams in the state, however, the question remains if their pack can be up far enough to finish in the Top 3.
Northern-Calvert may be a surprise team to watch in this race as they have yet to have a race in which their full Varsity has run together. If that can happen this weekend look for them to place high in the results!
The private school battle between Notre Dame Prep and McDonogh will be fun to watch as both teams have looked strong for the first half of the season. McDonogh edged them at the Barnhart Invitational earlier in the year but Notre Dame has a strong number 1 in Olivia Sobkowicz and recently won the Spiked Shoe Invitational.
Prediction: Thomas Wootton
Girls' Black and Gold Top 10 Virtual Team Scores (5K)
| PLACE | TEAM | POINTS | SCORERS | SPLIT | AVERAGE | |
| 1 | Thomas S. Wootton High School | 56 | 5+7+10+16+18 (50+74) | 42.00 | 19:58.80 | |
| 2 | McDonogh School | 91 | 9+13+21+23+25 (40+49) | 47.30 | 20:22.58 | |
| 3 | Notre Dame Prep High School | 108 | 6+22+24+26+30 (43+56) | 1:09.70 | 20:31.50 | |
| 4 | Dulaney High School | 124 | 2+12+29+39+42 (60+66) | 2:34.10 | 20:31.40 | |
| 5 | Towson High School | 125 | 17+20+27+28+33 (45+64) | 53.80 | 20:41.62 | |
| 6 | Winston Churchill High School | 180 | 8+11+48+54+59 (63+65) | 2:12.30 | 21:08.20 | |
| 7 | Severna Park High School | 203 | 15+32+47+51+58 (67+69) | 1:56.81 | 21:20.44 | |
| 8 | Walt Whitman High School | 212 | 4+41+52.5+52.5+62 (68+71) | 2:46.00 | 21:22.40 | |
| 9 | Richard Montgomery High School | 235 | 1+34+57+61+82 (84+93) | 4:03.00 | 21:25.00 | |
| 10 | Northern-Calvert High School | 235 | 35+37+38+55+70 (87+92) | 1:16.96 | 21:35.53 | |
Girls Black and Gold Individual Preview
The individual battle in the Black and Gold race looks to be a 3-way race between Grace Finnegan from Richard Montgomery, Catherine Campbell from Dulaney, and Evelyn Rogers from Elizabeth Seton. All 3 girls boast 5k PRs this season under 19 minutes. Finnegan ran 18:50 for 6th place 2 weeks ago at the Oatlands Invitational in VA. She also won the Bull Run Large race a week before that. Catherine Campbell Ran ran 18:56 at the Carlisle Invitational 2 weeks ago, and Evelyn Rogers ran 18:42 at the Georgetown Prep Invitational last week.
After the top 3, the race for the rest of the top 10 is wide open as there are 10 girls whose 5k season PR are within 29 seconds of each other ranging from 19:36 to 20:05. Runners such as Cameron Glebocki, Alexa Avila, Mary Gorsky, Olivia Sobkowicz and Maya Gottesman will all be in that chase pack behind Finnegan.
Prediction: Grace Finnegan (Richard Montgomery)
Girls Black and Gold Virtual Top 50 (5K)
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