This page: Marcella Flibotte ’17 and Jay Fitzgerald ’20 Opposite page, clockwise from left: Andrew Pearson ’18, Amani Jiu ’17, and Greg Segal ’18
Adam Richins
Photos by Jon Chase
Additional highlights included adding yoga to our workouts for post-training stretching, reuniting with former captains Jamie Thorndike ’14 and Simon ColloredoMansfeld ’15 at the Brooks race, and the fast finishes of our captains. Our varsity squad had nine wins and six losses, and JV had eleven wins and only two losses against our ISL competitors. Groton hosted the ISL Cross Country Championships this season, welcoming 638 runners and their entourages onto our campus on Friday, November 4. Varsity placed sixth out of fifteen teams, and JV placed fifth in the ISL championship. Paul Michaud ’18 came in sixth place overall, and Will Norton ’17 came in fourth. These two front-runners went on to finish in tenth and seventh places, respectively, in
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the New England Championships at Tabor on November 12; they then competed in the New England All-Star Race on November 19, where Paul finished in fourteenth place, and Will finished second. –– Coach John Capen
Girls Cross Country 7–7 The girls varsity cross-country team finished the season with a record of 7 and 7 in dual meets, and finished eighth at the ISL Championships and thirteenth at the Division II New England Championships. The second half of our schedule was tough; after peaking on October 1–– sweeping a quad meet at Brooks — we had five races in a row against the top teams
in our league, and we dropped a series of tough, close races to squads that put their packs just ahead of ours. Along the way, though, we saw lots of impressive individual improvements and, as evidence of the depth of our team, thirteen different girls competed as one of our seven varsity runners at some point during the season. Abby Kirk ’19 emerged as the team’s top runner, finishing thirteenth overall at the ISL Championships before having to miss New Englands due to illness. Co-captain Hanna Kim ’17 battled through injuries all season but ran tough races and finished twenty-first overall at both ISLs and New Englands. Co-captain Verity Lynch ’17 provided tremendous leadership all season, as well as toughness and consistency in the middle of the varsity lineup.