Photo by Yash Sharma
Saturday, November 2 brought the Freshman Sophomore Cross Country City Championships to Van Cortlandt Park. The THHS boys cross country team was joined by runners from all over the city. Despite some great finishes from the THHS team, the results were less than satisfactory.
Fences blocked the usual starting line of the race, so PSAL officials led the runners to a new starting point further up, shortening the distance of the race course. Hence, the boys finished with faster times.
In the freshman 1.5 mile, Muhamed Bicic led the team, placing 1st with a new PR of 8:43. Justice Williams followed afterwards with a time of 10:06 and 38th place. Isaac So finished the race at 11:05 with a nice sprint along the straightaway.
Justice Williams was disappointed in himself, saying, “I don’t think I did well. I didn’t kick in the straightaway towards the end.”
Before the sophomore 2.5 mile race, sophomores Matthew Sullivan and Benjamin Chang claimed, “I feel pretty good. It’s a little hot out, and I prefer colder weather.”
Notable finishers from this race were Matthew McAndrew and Matthew Sullivan. McAndrew attained 43rd place with a time of 16:01, gaining momentum as he finished the last straightaway. Sullivan passed one person to earn 48th place with a new PR of 16:08. Fahim Nousad ran the whole race with a time of 18:14, a new PR for him as well.
Fahim says, “I was just worrying about beating my PR before the race.” He did this successfully, beating his original PR by 40 seconds.
Neither the freshmen team nor the sophomore team placed high overall. McAndrew explains, “Two of our top sophomore runners, Abdoulaye Diallo and Noah Silversmith, were not able to compete today.” Freshman Matan Zeigel, considered one of the faster runners on the freshmen team, also did not complete the freshman race.
Flo • Nov 7, 2013 at 8:20 pm
I don’t know why everyone is jumping on her. Many members of the team thought they could have done better which is why she wrote that. Calm down.
Catherine Ng • Nov 5, 2013 at 10:18 pm
The “less than satisfactory” was not meant to be that way, I meant it in another way, but I used the wrong word. Please do not mind that too much.
Flo Driken • Nov 3, 2013 at 11:13 pm
Who are you to judge if the results were “less than satisfactory”?
Hailey Lam • Nov 3, 2013 at 9:32 pm
There are practically no articles on the girl’s track team. 🙁 sigh
Feedy McFinnigan • Nov 3, 2013 at 8:32 pm
As a member of the boys XC team, I feel that this article does not portray our team in the best manner. While we are a very good well-rounded team that consistently runs good races, you fail to see that we are among the top teams in Queens, but in the top 10 in the ENTIRE CITY. Let’s say each team has about 7 runners on their team, and we’re around the 8th best team, so there are about 60 runners who should be better than us. However, we finished top 50 and top 60, so we came in above the average. You fail to realize how good our team is, and how this article makes us look as if we came in and ran a terrible meet even though this was not a regular meet; this was against the best of the best in the city. So next time, please write a better article that correctly portrays our team in a better light.