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Burlington County Open breakdown!




It is official, the championship portion of the season has begun with the Burlington County Open help Friday October 18th at Mill Creek Park in Willingboro. This course has a lot of history with the BC Open. Though it has been held at a few different locations, it has primarily been held at Mill Creek. So it is safe to say that Mill Creek has some history with our program, but it also has a lot of history of not being exactly the same course. You have the old course, you have the new course, you have the year the course had to be altered due to weather, you have the year the course ran short and the year the course ran long. This year marked the year that the hill was not run due to it being deemed unsafe for the athletes. Despite that, the task was to show up and compete.


The meet started off with our JV race, which saw some pretty stellar performances. Brooke Hibbs and Emily Butler took charge right from the start and never looked back. They finished first and second both running under 22 minutes for the first time ever. Brooke took the gold running 21:48 and Emily was right behind her running 21:53. We had 4 in the top ten with Gabby Urban placing 5th and Chloe Burdette placing 8th. If the JV meet was scored the girls would have finished a close 2nd behind Moorestown 29 to 34.



Next up was the Varsity race. It has become a tradition to rock the vintage puma uniforms for the county meet, and they wore them again this year. This saw our first head to head against Moorestown who was coming off their SJ Open win last weekend at Dream Park. Megan Niglio and Maddie Meder ran controlled the entire race and finished 2nd and 3rd running 19:19. Our next pack ran pretty well together throughout the first two miles. Freshman Erin Healy, Junior Maya Kumar and senior Grace Wojciechowski were running right with Moorestown's #2 runner coming out of the woods. Erin(20:15) and Maya(20:18) finished 8th and 9th with Grace(20:31) finishing 12th. Our 6 and 7 runners were Genisa John(21:20) finished 21st and Sofia Recinto(21:56) finished 26th. The team won withe 31 points ahead of Morrestown which had 49. This marked the 5th time in the last 6 years that the girls have won the County meet and the 8th total in program history. 2004, 2009, 2010, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and now 2024.






Erin Healy's time of 20:15 eclipses Megan Charbeneau's freshman record of 20:26(though the course was altered)


Next up for the team is the Conference meet. This will once again put us against Moorestown in addition to Paul VI and Cherry Hill East.


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