Using these polls, we highlight some of the top performances of the past week in New Jersey cross-country action! Who do you think was the best of the best?
Polls will close on Wednesday at 8:00 pm ET.
Last Week's Winner: Andrew Burkitt of Seton Hall Prep brought in 42% of the votes last week to lead the poll! He led the SEC Batch meet at Branch Brook Park in Newark, NJ with a time of 17:39 and a 10-second lead of the field. That was a course PR for the junior distance runner, who's previous best there was a 17:48 from 2023. He followed that up just a few days later with another course PR of 17:26 at Greystone during the Magee Memorial Class Meet, dropping nearly 25 seconds off his previous best. This past week he was 32nd in a loaded Varsity A race at Six Flags Wild Safari running 17:07.
This Week's Boys Candidates:
Listed in no specific order.
- Joe Barrett of Christian Brothers Academy won the Division 2 race in 15:25.5, No. 3 in course history at the Bowdoin Park Classic.
- Clay Stevens of Manalapan placed second in the Division 1 race in 15:56.9 at the Bowdoin Park Classic.
- Julian Rich of Camden Co V/T ran 16:46 to win the South Jersey Vo-Tech Championships at Burlington County Tech.
- Mason Wassell of Highland Reg ran 15:48 to win the B race at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational.
- Shravan Pradeep of West Windsor-Plainsboro South ran 15:34 to win the A race at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational.
- Lamarr Olive of Clifton won the A race in 16:55 at the Brett Taylor Invitational at Darlington Park.
- Marcus Koshy of Pascack Valley won the B race at the Brett Taylor Invitational at Darlington Park.
- Arth Batra of South Brunswick won the Senior Race in 16:51 at the Thompson Park Class Meet.
- Julian Canon of Memorial WNY won the Junior Race in 17:00 at the Thompson Park Class Meet.
- Maddox Paulin of Shore Regional ran 17:27 to win the Sophomore Race in 19:46 at the Thompson Park Class Meet.
- Thomas Amato of Randolph won his NJAC Batch race with a time of 15:47 at Greystone.
- Cleatus Oakes of Pt. Pleasant Boro had the top NJ time of 16:34 at the Ocean State Invitational, third in his race, and led Pt. Boro to the Division 2 Varsity win.