Ridgewood Sweeps, Camryn Wennersten & Jin Woo Song Win BMOC

Nov 02, 2019

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Ridgewood boys and girls swept the team titles for the second straight year, the boys their third straight. Camryn Wennersten of Ridgewood and Old Tappan's with Jin Woo Song both picked up their first cross country individual BMOC titles!

In the boys race Jin Woo Song wowed the crowed with his Bergen County Meet of Champions win running a course PR of 16:12. He led the way with a six second lead over the field and this is just the second individual victory of his career, the other coming during a Big North batch meet in September.

Congrats to Jin Woo Song. XC BMOC Champ. First in school history. pic.twitter.com/DOFnpsesEs
-- Old Tappan Track & Field (@FieldOt) November 3, 2019

Jin Woo Song battled with the leaders early before taking sole possession of the lead about midway through the race. He was 34th at this race in 2018, a year plagued by injuries, and he's worked hard to come back stronger.

"It really means a lot to me to win the county champs," Song stated post-race, "I had been suffering a few injuries a while back and I knew I had to step up this season and it feels great to be back."

He also stated he did it for his team and his teammate Steven Hatano who fell in the pack at the start of the race, he's okay other than some bruises, and didn't finish the race.

Boys Race Video / Girls Race Video

If you move to second place you'll find Aidan Sheridan who ran 16:18 to start the maroon wave of Ridgewood runners who scored 30 points for their third straight BMOC victory. Ridgewood finished three in the top five and had their fourth in by eight place. Jay Boogaert was second at 16:20, Sean Fortunato fourth 16:21, Taylor Barnabic eighth at 16:29, and bringing in their fifth was Frank Orlando in 21st at 16:45.

All together they split a mere 27 seconds and averaged 16:26!

Running second as a team was Hackensack at 118 points followed by Hasbrouck Heights with 128.

The girls race was led by a familiar face with Camryn Wennersten out front early, the star sophomore posted a red hot 17:42 holding a 30 second lead over second place Corinne Barney of Indian Hills at 18:12 and third place Shannon Clancy of Bergen County Tech running 18:15.

Wennersten's one card led a strong Ridgewood attack that saw their entire scoring five in the top ten. Eating up fourth to sixth was her teammates Olivia Shattuck, 18:26, AnnaMarie Tretola, 18:27, and Lily Williams, 18:28, who are all sophomores as well. Their fifth scorer was junior Sarah Policano running ninth with a time of 18:49.

This all came to a dominating 25 points and impressive 18:22 average. After a long season of training to get to this point the squad, and Wennersten, is excited to unload all that work during championship season. The Ridgewood girls have ranked NJ#1 in our state rankings poll since the pre-season.

Running second in the team scores was NJ#8 Indian Hills with 64 points, Northern Highlands third at 115.