NJ MileSplit All-State Team Selections | Cross Country 2016

Alyssa Aldridge Career Stats

Alyssa Aldridge won seven straight meets in the 5K this season including the Group 3 title, Meet of Champions, and Foot Locker Northeast regional meet. This was her second straight Meet of Champions win and her second straight National meet appearance. Her win at Regionals was the first by a New Jersey girl since 1988! The time of 17:55 she ran at the Meet of Champions is the 12th best performance recorded all-time at Holmdel Park.

Briana Gess Career Stats

Briana Gess closed out her high school cross country career with another great state season. She won the South Jersey Group 2 section running 18:02 all alone, then the Group 2 title at 18:43 all alone, and finally finished second at the Meet of Champions with an 18:35.

Rachel Vick Career Stats

Rachel Vick won the Gloucester and Tri County championships for the third straight season. From there she showed she meant buisiness during the state meets. She placed second at her Sectional meet, third in Group 4, and third at the Meet of Champions. She also set a Holmdel PR of 18:29. She finished 2016 with a sixth place finish at NXN Northeast Regional, just one spot from advancing to Nationals.

Ellie DiMarcello Career Stats

The only sophomore to make the first team this season Ellie DiMarcello won four races this season and finished top ten in four more. She won her North 2 sectional race, placed fifth at Group Championships, and was fifth at the Meet of Champions. She also ran to eighth at NXN Northeast Regionals, advancing with her North Hunterdon team to the National Championship meet.

Niamh Hayes Career Stats

Hayes won her Monmouth County Championship race this season after finishing second in 2015, she also placed third at Shore Conference Championships running 17:53. Her Holmdel PR was set at Group Championships when she ran 18:30 for fourth place in a talented Group 4 race, she followed that up with a sixth place finish the next week at the Meet of Champions.

Chloe Wong Career Stats

Wong ran to nine top ten finishes this season including a sixth and seventh place finish at the Group 4 Championships and Meet of Champions. Just to add to that great stat line, she advanced to Nike Cross Nationals by finishing fourth overall at Northeast Regionals.

Olympia Martin Career Stats

Olympia Martin unfortunately was struck with a bug heading into the weekend of the Meet of Champions and missed the meet, but before that she had constructed a great senior season. She won five straight meets including her second straight Group 4 championship which was won with an exciting kick to the line at 18:28. She also secured her first Bergen County MOC win this fall with a 17:56 at Darlington Park.

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