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Here is the third and final installment of the Mercer County cross country rankings! Sectionals and championship meets confirmed some rankings and changed others. Read on for the top girls teams in Mercer County this season.
Mercer County was well represented by 32 athletes at the 2024 XC Meet of Champions today! Highlights include the Princeton girls getting 2nd, Allison Lee (WW-P North) getting 3rd, and other Top 20 finishes from Kajol Karra (Princeton), Zui Chinchalkar (WW-P North), and Shravan Pradeep (WW-P South).
Meet of Champions wildcards were announced today! See the full list of Mercer County auto-qualifiers and wildcards, along with a few more thoughts about yesterday’s Group Championships. And in other action yesterday, Peddie and Lawrenceville runners dropped fast times against their schools’ archrivals.
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NJ.com’s list of girl runners to watch this winter includes Tessa Hughes (Peddie), Sofia Swindell (Lawrenceville), Blair Bartlett (Lawrenceville), and Allison Lee (WW-P North).
Here are the Mercer County girls who made NJ.com’s final ranking of the Top 50 individuals:
#3 Allison Lee (WW-P North, Jr.)
#13 Kajol Karra (Princeton, Jr.)
#14 Zui Chinchalkar (WW-P North, Sr.)
#26 Grace Hegedus (Princeton, So.)
#31 Claire Dumont (Hopewell Valley, Sr.)
#43 Laura Sallade (Wilberforce, Jr.)
#49 Eowyn Deess (Princeton, So.)
The Villa Walsh girls topped Wilberforce for the Non-Public B title. After the race, Villa Walsh’s top runner, Blythe Dudley, was very complimentary of the Wolverine ladies: “The last few years I’ve been here, it’s been either them for Non-Public B or us. They are such nice girls, always say hi to us, always say good luck to us, but there’s that friendly small-Catholic school rivalry, so we appreciate them.”
NJ.com predicts Villa Walsh to win the Non-Public B girls championship over Wilberforce. They say that the Wolverines’ Laura Sallade (one of four “Runners to Watch”) and Adeline Edwards can challenge Villa Walsh’s top two, but “they’ll need their No. 3 through No. 5 runners to outlast Villa Walsh’s pack, who has been extremely reliable in team competitions this year.”
Last week we talked about the top Mercer County teams and the all-CVC individuals for this XC season. Before wrapping up the year, here are a few more teams and individuals that didn’t make either list but still deserve some recognition for their achievements.