Seton Conquistadors
Seton School Athletics
CoEd Varsity Cross Country
Game Summaries & Headlines.
1 year ago @ 6:10AM
- Game Date
- Nov 1, 2023
On Wednesday, we went once again to Burke Lake Park for our Conference Championship Meet and what an amazing performance in our last meet with the entire team! The *average* time drop for all our runners from the previous race at Burke Lake in October was over a minute and a half! (97.8 seconds, to be exact!) This is a testament to all the hard work and many long runs, hill repeats and quarters that you have done. Coach Gross estimated that you all have put in at least 350-400 miles since the start of the season!
Leading the way with biggest time drops were, for Middle School runners, John Paul with a drop of almost 6 minutes and Chiara with a drop of 4:27. For the high schoolers, Noah (4:29), Ben (4:03) and Andrew (2:59) had the biggest drops for the boys, while Colette (2:20) and Cora (1:32) had the biggest improvements for the girls. Among the notable improvements for the varsity runners were: Dan (2:22), Patrick K (1:34), Monica (1:21) and Max (1:12). Also dropping by more than a minute were Lily, Penny, Nick, Gabriel and Robert. We had an astounding 27 Personal Best times set on Wednesday!
Michael Brand earned All-Conference honors, placing 10th with a team best time of 17:16.31. Following close behind were Jerome Kramer (18th) and Dan Jackson (22nd), with all three of those under 18 minutes. That is the first time we have had 3 runners under 18 in a VCAC conference meet. Rose Waldron was the top Seton girl, placing 15th with a time of 21:29.70, followed by Lily Griffin and Penny Kramer. Patrick Kay had an exceptional race, dropping a minute and a half from his previous PR to finish as the seventh Seton runner, earning the final spot on the VISAA State meet team. Peter Russo was recognized as a top finisher for the Middle School race, finishing 12th with a time of 22:45.20.
Here is the link to the milestat results, and a summary of the statistics:
https://va.milesplit.com/meets/579208-vcac-championship-2023/results
Athlete | Time | Note | Drop from previous time at Burke Lake, Oct 3 | |
Rose Waldron | 21:29.70 | Personal Best, 15th place | 0:51.6 | |
Lily Griffin | 22:23.26 | Season Best | 1:03.2 | |
Penny Kramer | 23:48.27 | Personal Best | 1:00.3 | |
Monica Hartung | 23:52.92 | 1:21.1 | ||
Mary Catherine Munsell | 25:18.21 | 0:31.7 | ||
Philomena Kay | 26:29.99 | Personal Best | ||
Cora Kramer | 26:35.61 | Personal Best | 1:32.5 | |
Noemi Rodriguez | 27:27.95 | Personal Best | ||
Colette Kramer | 29:11.41 | Personal Best | 2:20.5 | |
Chiara Ghering | 31:52.16 | Personal Best | 4:27.3 | |
Michael Brand | 17:16.31 | Personal Best, 10th place | 0:42.6 | |
Jerome Kramer | 17:41.94 | Personal Best, 18th place | 0:42.9 | |
Daniel Jackson | 17:49.37 | Personal Best | 2:21.8 | |
Peter Konstanty | 18:17.85 | Personal Best | 0:51.7 | |
Patrick Gross | 18:19.84 | 0:12.3 | ||
Max Wilson | 18:35.53 | Personal Best | 1:12.4 | |
Patrick Kay | 19:10.73 | Personal Best | 1:34.2 | |
Joseph Dwane | 19:21.70 | Personal Best | ||
Kieran Kelly | 20:06.79 | Personal Best | 0:36.9 | |
Christian Ghering | 20:41.76 | 0:40.7 | ||
Nick Vaughan | 21:03.59 | Personal Best | 1:17.7 | |
Michael Brox | 21:04.57 | |||
Noah Vaughan | 21:10.67 | Personal Best | 4:29.0 | |
Gabriel Dwane | 21:20.22 | Personal Best | 1:05.7 | |
Peter Hartung | 22:11.75 | Personal Best | 2:08.2 | |
Luke Griffin | 22:29.86 | Personal Best | ||
Ben Ellis | 23:14.51 | Personal Best | 4:03.5 | |
Andrew Ghering | 24:32.68 | Personal Best | 2:58.7 | |
Peter Russo | 22:45.30 | Personal Best, 12th place (MS) | 0:12.8 | |
Robert Chiappetta | 23:30.80 | Personal Best | 1:42.0 | |
Grayson Shambaugh | 23:43.92 | Personal Best | 0:24.9 | |
Joey Lynch | 24:04.68 | Personal Best | 0:54.7 | |
John Paul Hartung | 27:54.45 | Personal Best | 5:58.6 |
The team for the VISAA state meet was finalized after the meet, as Patrick K earned the final spot on the boys team. We were blessed with a wealth of fast runners this year, with every one of our active high school runners meeting the minimum time thresholds of 25 minutes for boys and 30 minutes for girls. We are restricted to only 10 runners per gender for the state meet, though, and competition for those ten spots on the boys team was very intense. In the end, we are taking a team of ten runners, nine of whom have personal best times under 20 minutes, with 6 of those under 19 minutes and 3 of those under 18 minutes! This is probably the deepest team that we have ever sent to the state meet.
Here are the runners who will represent Seton School at the 2023 VISAA Cross Country State Championship:
Girls:
Lily Griffin, Sr (Captain) |
Rose Waldron, Jr |
Monica Hartung, Soph |
Mary Catherine Munsell, Soph |
Colette Kramer, Soph |
Penny Kramer, Fr |
Philomena Kay, Fr |
Cora Kramer, Fr |
Noemi Rodriguez, Fr |
Boys:
Peter Konstanty, Sr (Co-Captain) |
Patrick Gross, Soph (Co-Captain) |
Joseph Dwane, Sr |
Jerome Kramer, Jr |
Max Wilson, Jr |
Michael Brox, Jr |
Kieran Kelly, Jr |
Michael Brand, Soph |
Daniel Jackson, Fr |
Patrick Kay, 8th |
To all the athletes, I thank you for letting me be part of your season and congratulate you all for your efforts, endurance and accomplishments!
Coach Konstanty