Bloomsburg junior Lexi Tepper from Cherry Hill East was a triple winner at the PSAC Championships this weekend and placed 2nd in a 4th event.
She was named Most Outstanding Athlete and Most Valuable Athlete after the meet at Lehigh.
Tepper, in her first season at Bloomsburg after competing for UMBC from the fall of 2023 through XC this past fall, won the mile and 3,000 and anchored the winning distance medley and also placed 2nd in the 800 at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference meet on the slow, flat track at Lehigh’s Rauch Fieldhouse in Bethlehem.
Tepper won the mile in 4:59.73, closing in 32.88 and finishing eight meters ahead of 2nd-place Riley Trentowski of East Stroudsburg, who ran 5:01.36. And she won the 3,000 in 10:04.50, closing in 34.57 and finishing 10 meters ahead of runner-up Shaela Kruskie of Shippensburg. She anchored Bloomsburg to a 12:11.32 win in the DMR with a 4:58.89 leg, moving getting the stick in 5th and edging East Stroudsburg anchor Trentowski by six meters for the win.
In the 800 she ran 2:16.90, finishing just behind Cassie Nugin of West Chester, who ran 2:16.81.
Tepper has PRs of 2:14.77 from spring of 2024 in Fairfax, Va., 4:54.15 from last month at Ocean Breeze and 9:56.83 from State College in January of 2025. She set her 800 and 3,000 PRs at UMBC and the mile while at Bloomsburg.
She holds Bloomsburg indoor school records in the 800 [2:15.02 last month in Youngstown, Ohio] and mile [4:54.15].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 