Thompson Park Top Performers for 2024

Thompson Park isn’t located in Mercer County, but it’s still the most important XC course for many Mercer County runners! The course hosts the CVC Championships and NJSIAA Sectionals, along with popular regular-season meets like the Thompson 2 Miler, the Thompson Park Class Meet, and the XC Fall Classic. Not to mention the course is super spectator friendly, and it’s always motivating to run well in front of coaches, friends, and family!

With all those meets in the books for 2024, let’s look back at which Mercer County runners covered the course most quickly. I’ll also highlight which runners moved up or into the top tier of their school’s all-time leaderboard for Thompson Park.

A note about the all-time Thompson Park leaderboards: the lists are based on results available on MileSplit (except for WW-P North and Hopewell Valley, who gave me their Thompson Park lists). That said, these lists seem generally accurate, since the current course layout has only been around since 2007 — when the new Monroe HS was built on the lower field — and MileSplit’s records are mostly complete going back that far. But if your school has an official Thompson Park list, please send it to me at trackmercer@gmail.com!

Girls

Here were the top 30 Mercer County girls at Thompson Park this season:

Rank	Time	Name	Grade	Team
1	17:46.20	Allison Lee	11	WW-P North
2	18:38.60	Kajol Karra	11	Princeton
3	18:49.60	Grace Hegedus	10	Princeton
4	18:52.60	Claire Dumont	12	Hopewell Valley
5	18:55.40	Zui Chinchalkar	12	WW-P North
6	19:11.60	Eowyn Deess	10	Princeton
7	19:38.70	Laura Sallade	11	Wilberforce
8	19:40.60	Teagan Walker	12	Ewing
9	19:43.80	Izzy Meth	10	Lawrence
10	19:44.90	Phoenix Roth	10	Princeton
11	19.48.40	Florica Eleches-Lipsitz	12	Princeton
12	19:52.30	Rosemary Warren	9	Princeton
13	20:01.60	Siena Rivera	9	Hightstown
14	20:02.30	Sydney Young	10	Hopewell Valley
15	20:03.90	Maddie LaChance	11	Hopewell Valley
16	20:06.10	Alaina Sabo	9	Notre Dame
17	20:07.60	Sevanne Knoch	9	Princeton
18	20:24.50	Emilia Wroblewski	12	Allentown
19	20:25.60	Adeline Edwards	12	Wilberforce
20	20:34.40	Juliette Halpin	9	WW-P North
21	20:38.80	Sara Secora	10	WW-P North
22	20:42.20	Yana Chheda	10	WW-P South
23	20:52.50	Anna Wilson	10	Hopewell Valley
24	20:52.70	Madeline Ruchelman	12	Allentown
25	20:54.50	Kellianne White	12	Robbinsville
26	20:56.60	Elsie Rey-de-Castro	10	Hopewell Valley
27	20:56.70	Sophia Pellegrino	10	Hopewell Valley
28	21:16.20	Risha Rao	10	WW-P South
29	21:19.20	Lisette Zamichieli	11	Steinert
30	21:26.50	Lilly Ludewig	11	Princeton

Here are some notable girls that matched or improved their rank on their school’s all-time Thompson Park leaderboard:

School	Runners
Allentown	#11 Emilia Wroblewski
Ewing	#1 Teagan Walker
Lawrence	#1 Izzy Meth
Hightstown	#1 Siena Rivera
Hopewell Valley	#2 Claire Dumont, #9 Sydney Young, #11 Maddie LaChance
Notre Dame	#3 Alaina Sabo
Princeton	#1 Kajol Karra, #2 Grace Hegedus, #5 Eowyn Deess, #15 Phoenix Roth, #17 Florica Eleches-Lipsitz
Trenton	#9 Rachael Ogungbangbe
Wilberforce	#1 Laura Sallade, #2 Adeline Edwards
WW-P North	#1 Allison Lee, #3 Zui Chinchalkar, #18 Juliette Halpin, #19 Sara Secora

Boys

Here were the top 30 Mercer County boys at Thompson Park this season:

Rank	Time	Name	Grade	Team
1	15:51.70	Shravan Pradeep	12	WW-P South
2	16:23.10	Burke Thompson	12	Hightstown
3	16:36.10	Tyler Hurst	11	Steinert
4	16:36.40	Finn Wedmid	10	Princeton
5	16:43.20	Luke Ferrer	12	WW-P North
6	16:46.30	Agrim Jha	9	WW-P North
7	16:47.00	Felix Farrugia	12	Princeton
8	16:51.00	Tarun Kovoor	12	Notre Dame
9	16:52.50	Silas Allevik	10	Hopewell Valley
10	16:53.60	Kevin Lang	12	WW-P South
11	16:56.10	Aditya Deshpande	12	WW-P South
12	16:57.40	Finnegan Curley	10	Hopewell Valley
13	16:58.40	Braedyn Capone	11	Princeton
14	16:59.20	Veejhay Roy	11	WW-P North
15	17:05.00	Jordan Andrade	12	WW-P North
16	17:12.30	Subomi Allison	12	WW-P North
17	17:13.50	Max Whittle	12	Notre Dame
18	17:16.30	Paul Wittenberg	10	WW-P North
19	17:16.60	Grayson McLaughlin	11	Princeton Day
20	17:16.90	Joseph Maddalon	12	WW-P South
21	17:18.00	John O'Leary	11	Allentown
22	17:20.00	Edward Letko	10	Princeton Day
23	17:22.30	Felix Yu	10	Princeton
24	17:24.50	Landon Kent	12	Allentown
25	17:26.10	Mohamed Toure	12	Nottingham
26	17:31.90	Mason Johnson	11	Hightstown
27	17:32.00	Sean Maina	9	WW-P South
28	17:34.00	Nathanial Bigger	12	Steinert
29	17:36.20	Ethan Darst	12	Hopewell Valley
30	17:36.60	Andy Chi	11	WW-P North

Here are some notable boys that matched or improved their rank on their school’s all-time Thompson Park leaderboard:

School	Runners
Allentown	#9 John O'Leary, #13 Landon Kent
Ewing	#3 Jayden Studivant, #5 Shazad Singh, #7 Landyn Loesch
Hamilton West	#11 Franklin Pineda-Ramirez
Hightstown	#1 Burke Thompson, #19 Mason Johnson
Hopewell Valley	#11 Silas Allevik, #13 Finnegan Curley
Notre Dame	#7 Tarun Kovoor, #13 Max Whittle
Nottingham	#4 Mohamed Toure
Princeton	#11 Finn Wedmid, #15 Felix Farrugia
Princeton Day	#2 Grayson McLaughlin, #3 Edward Letko, #5 Alexander Chia, #9 Michael Zhou
Steinert	#1 Tyler Hurst, #10 Nathanial Bigger, #13 Nihar Kolachalama
WW-P North	#17 Luke Ferrer, #19 Agrim Jha
WW-P South	#7 Shravan Pradeep