Haddonfield, now ranked 16th in the U.S., ready to take on the nation’s best at Nike Cross Nationals!!!!!!

The Haddonfield boys have a chance to prove they’re one of the top teams in the country Saturday at the Nike Cross Nationals in Oregon.

Haddonfield, ranked 16th nationally by DyeStat, placed 2nd in the Nike Northeast Regionals two weeks ago, earning an auto berth at Nike Nationals.

The Bulldogs will race at 10:05 a.m. Saturday at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland, Ore. The field includes 22 full schools and 45 individuals.

Haddonfield is the 5th New Jersey boys team and first from South Jersey to qualify for Nike Nationals.

The Kingsway girls made it in 2017 and placed 22nd at Nationals and the Cherokee girls qualified in 2021, although the national meet was cancelled.

Here’s a look at Haddonfield’s team:

Ben Andrus: Has run 4:13.60 and 9:08.27 on the track and was the state Group 2 XC champ last fall. Has an all-course 5,000 best of 15:34 and a Holmdel best of 15:43.

Luke Andresen: Was the state Group 2 indoor 1,600 champ at 4:17.56 at the Bubble and then ran 4:10.82 for 3rd at the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze. This fall took 3rd at states and 5that the Meet of Champions with a Holmdel PR of 15:42.

Peter Simpson: State Group 2 champ last spring at 3,200 meters with a PR 9:14.76 and ran sub-4:15 twice, including 4:14.44. Won Group 2 sectionals this fall with a 15:39 at DREAM Park.

Ryan Gibson: Won South Jersey Group 2 last fall and Camden County and Colonial Conference titles this fall.

Michael Sinnes: Placed 12th at states as Haddonfield’s 5th man and ran a 5,000 PR of 15:46.58 at Pennypacker Park.

Brandon Stoner: Camden County champ placed 3rd at sectionals at DREAM Park with an all-course PR of 16:15. On the track, a three-time sectional medalist at 800 meters.

Andrew Blum: The only junior in Haddonfield’s lineup, Blum won the Colonial Championship race and placed 3rd at sectionals with an all-course PR 16:29.

FDU’s Darien Cade from Timber Creek leads 1-2-3 South Jersey shot put sweep at Midweek Clash season opener!!!!!!

Darien Cade, a Fairleigh Dickinson junior from Timber Creek, opened his indoor track season with a win at FDU’s Knights Midweek Clash at the Bogota Savings Bank Center in Hackensack.

https://milesplit.live/meets/719218/events/3/results/F/M

Cade threw 49-7 ¼ on his first throw of the new season, missing his PR by just over an inch. Cade threw 49-8 ½ when he placed 6th in the Northeast Conference Championships in Easton, Mass., in May.

Cade missed his indoor PR of 49-8 ¼ from a meet at the Armory in January by one inch. He also had second throw over 49 feet, hitting 49-3 ¾ on his 3rd attempt.

He led a 1-2-3 FDU / South Jersey sweep and a 1-2 Timber Creek sweep. Jayson Ross, a freshman from Timber Creek, opened his career with the 16-pound shot with a throw of 47-7 ¾ on his 1stattempt. It was his only legal throw but good enough for 2nd place.

Another FDU freshman, Justin Banks from Willingboro, placed 3rd with a 44-10 ½ in his collegiate debut. He had a 44-10 on his 2nd attempt and a 44-9 on his 4th. Banks was indoor state Group 2 champ last winter and threw 52-7 with the 12-pound shot to win the Burlington County Open at Lenape.

Liliah Gordon set to race at USATF Senior Nationals in Oregon this weekend!!!!!!

Northern Burlington’s Liliah Gordon, who just finished her freshman XC season at Penn State, is entered in the USATF Senior Nationals Championships this weekend in Oregon.

Gordon is the only South Jersey high school graduate entered in either the men’s or women’s race.

The women’s race over 10,000 meters is scheduled to start at 4:50 p.m. EST Saturday at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland.

Gordon only ran four races as a true freshman at Penn State, all over 6,000 meters, with a best time of 21:28.9 in the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon Township.

She did not race after Big Ten Championships in East Lansing, Mich., on Oct. 31.

Gordon placed 2nd last fall in the Under-20 XC Championships in Lubbock, Texas and then took  5th last spring at 5,000 meters on the track at the USATF Under-20 Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., with a PR 16:38.54, a South Jersey record and 4th-fastest in New Jersey history.

USATF XC Nationals are run at Glendoveer Golf Course in conjunction with Nike Cross Nationals.

The Haddonfield boys qualified for Nike Nationals by placing 2nd in the Northeast Regionals two weeks ago in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. They are scheduled to run on the same course over 5,000 meters at 10:05 a.m. Saturday.

Cherokee soph Jack Tindall places 14th at Brooks Northeast Regionals, just misses qualifying for nationals!!!!!!

Despite missing a week of training with a lingering illness, Cherokee sophomore Jack Tindall placed 14th in the Brooks Northeast Regional in Boston Saturday morning, missing a qualifying spot for the National Championships by just 12 seconds.

Tindall ran 15:43.8 over 5,000 meters at Franklin Park. The top 10 runners qualify for the national meet in San Diego next month, and 10th place was 15:31.8.

Brooks is the continuation of the Foot Locker and Kinney meets, which began in 1979.

Tindall won the state Group 4 XC title at Holmdel earlier this month but fell ill soon after the race and was still sick when he ran Meet of Champions to help the team. He wasn’t certain he was going to run Brooks until late in the week and is still well below peak form. So running 15:43 on a challenging course and placing 14thamong some of the best runners in the entire northeast is remarkable.

Tindall was the first sophomore finisher and the only soph in the top-30.

Tindall goes into the indoor season with PRs of 4:14.92 in the 1,600 and 9:11.73 in the 3,200.

He was the only runner from a New Jersey high school in the boys race and the only South Jersey runner in either the boys or girls race.

Here’s a look at all the South Jersey top-20 finishers at Kinney / Foot Locker / Eastbay / Brooks:

2025
Jack Tindall [Cherokee], 14th [15:43.8]

2024
None

2023
Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 5th [15:08]
Nick Kuenkel [Cherokee], 12th [15:40]
Aiden Williams [Audubon], 21st [15:59]

2022
None

2021
Not Held
2020
Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 12th [15:42.3]

2019
Kevin Antczak [Mainland Reg.], 4th [15:24.0]
Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], 22nd [16:07.4]

2018
Kevin Antczak [Mainland Reg.], 16th [16:02.8]
Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], 23rd [16:16.3]

2017

None

2016

Josh Clark [Highland], 4th [15:28.4]

2015

None

2014

Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2nd [15:33.4
Shawn Hutchison [Bishop Eustace], 10th [15:45.7]
Dominick Munson [Timber Creek], 23rd [16:03.3]

2013

Lou Corgliano [Hammonton], 9th [15:40.7]

2012

Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 3rd[15:42.5]
Stephen Maine [Highland], 21st [16:12.5]

2011

Nick Costello [Delsea], 19th [16:26.5]
Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 21st [16:31.1]

2010

Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 15th [16:03.5]
Paul Szulewski [Williamstown], 20th [16:19.1]

2009

Paul Szulewski [Williamstown], 13th [16:23.2]
Michael Rankin [Paul VI], 24th [16:37.4]

2008

Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 8th [15:50.1]
Dave Forward [Shawnee], 16th [16:09.7]

2007

Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 25th [16:07.8]

2006

None

2005

None

2004

None

2003

Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 7th [15:30.4]
Greg Hughes [Mainland Reg.], 17th [16:04.1]

2002

Keith Krieger [Cherokee], 12th [15:55.7]
Greg Hughes [Mainland Reg.], 23rd [16:12.9]

2001

Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 6th [15:40.1]
Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 19th [16:08.8]

2000

Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 9th[15:50.1]
Mike Myers [Eastern], 14th [15:58.3]
Chad Lyons [Overbrook], 25th [16:04.5]

1999

None

1998

Nate Miller [Highland], 5th [15:49]

1997

Murad Campbell [Overbrook], 2nd [15:27]

1996

Matt Ruhl [Triton], 18th [16:37.0]

1995

None

1994

Kurt Wayton [Mainland Reg.], 16th [16:07.1]

1993

*Kurt Wayton [Mainland Reg.], 223rd [16:23]

1992

None

1991

Tom Keefer [Paul VI], 11th  [16:20.0]
Keith O’Brien [Shawnee], 21st [16:33.2]
Pete Fixler [Vineland] 23rd [16:34.6]

1990

Pete Dougherty [Paul VI], 9th [16:16.5]

1989
Mark Sivieri [St. Augustine], 11th  [16:23.0]
Joe Cranston [Paul VI], 19th [16:29.6]
Vince Cieslik [Paul VI], 25th  [16:38.3]

1988

Jason DiJoseph [Paul VI], 1st [15:17.6]
Jason Fiscus [Haddon Twp.], 12th [15:58.3]
Urie Ridgeway [Bridgeton], 13th [16:00.0]
Dave Donohue [Haddon Twp.], 20th [16:10.7]

1987

Jason DiJoseph [Paul VI], 4th [15:46.7]
Eric Lorenz [Holy Cross], 8th  [15:49.4]
Urie Ridgeway [Bridgeton], 11th [16:03.0]
Joe Shanahan [Haddonfield], 13th [16:08.9]
Joe Magre [Paul VI], 25th [16:22.1]

1986

Jason DiJoseph [Paul VI], 6th  [15:55]

1985

Kevin Pumphrey [Highland], 2nd [15:25.6]
Ron Faith [Paul VI], 6th [15:46]

1984

Jeff Davis [Cumberland Reg.], 13th [15:50]
Chris Hageman [Paul VI], 18th [15:56]
Kevin Pumphrey [Highland], 20th [15:59]
George Steinhoff [Paul VI], 23rd [16:03]
Ron Faith [Paul VI], 25th [16:07]

1983

Bill Stewart [Cherry Hill East], 11th [15:53]

1982

None

1981
None

1980
Dan Owens [Absegami], 12th [16:06.3]

1979 [qualifying held at St. John’s Invitational]
Jerry Andrews [Highland], 1st [15:34.0]
Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 3rd [15:48]

Cherokee’s Jack Tindall to go after national qualifier at Brooks Northeast Regionals!!!!!!

There will be a very small South Jersey contingent at Brooks Northeast Regionals Saturday, and it’s possible it will consist of just one runner.

There is no entry list available on the Brooks web site, and based on who ran at Nike Northeast Regionals last wekend and who we know isn’t running, it’s possible that Cherokee sophomore Jack Tindall will be the other South Jersey representative in either of the championship races Saturday in Boston.

Tindall won the state Group 4 title in 15:54 at Holmdel but got sick soon after the race, missed some training camp and was still under the weather when he gutted out a 16:29 at the Meet of Champions, actually a remarkable performance for a runner at well below peak form.

But Tindall, while still not 100 percent, is healthy enough to take on the top runners in the Northeast U.S. over the 5,000-meter course at Franklin Park in the Roxbury section of Boston.

Brooks Northeast traces its lineage to the Kinney XC Nationals, which ran from 1979 through 1992 before becoming Foot Locker, which continued through 2019. After a year without a race in 2020, the event resurfaced in 2021 as East Bay and then changed to Champs in 2022 before returning to the Foot Locker name for the 2023 and 2024 races.

It was announced in August that the series had been cancelled, but Brooks took over a few weeks later with the same format of four regional races leading to a national championship at Balboa Park in San Diego.

The top 10 runners in each region qualify for the championship race, which is scheduled for Dec. 13.

The Northeast region includes Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, D.C., in addition to New Jersey.

The boys race is scheduled for 10:50 a.m. Saturday, with the girls race following at 11:30 a.m.

Two previous Cherokee runners, Marc Pelerin in 2001 and Shawn Wilson in 2012, both reached nationals. The last South Jersey runner to make nationals was Peyton Shute of Woodbury in 2023 and before that Kevin Antczak of Mainland Regional in 2019.

Ethan Wechsler from Cherokee, Brett Milden of Clearview have big races at Philly Marathon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Former Cherokee runner Ethan Wechsler placed 15th in  his marathon debut Sunday morning.

Wehsler, 23, ran 2:37.18 at the Philadelphia Marathon and was 8th in the 20-24 age group .

Wechsler finished his eligibility at Syracuse last spring. He ran 14:14.02 and 29:22.69 while he was at Syracuse. He was 4th in the 2019 XC Meet of Champions and ran 15:41 at Holmdel. He ran 9:10.90 on the track for Cherokee.

Brett Milden of Mullica Hill, who attended Clearview but played soccer and never ran track or XC after middle school, ran 2:36.26 and was 41st overall and 13th in his last year in the 25-29 age group. His marathon PR is 2:34.52 in Boston in 2023.

Also in the top 100 were Leonard Bustos of Mays Landing [2:38.18, 49th overall, 10th in 20-24], Matthias Ngo of Galloway Township [2:39.16, 60th overall, 11th in 20-24], Nicholas Simila of Wenonah [2:41.34, 82nd overall, 23rd in 25-29] and Griffin Weiner of Haddonfield [2:43.09, 97th overall, 24th in 20-24].

Bustos ran and played soccer at Oakcrest and ran at Jefferson. Ngo ran at Absegami and ran at Stockton. Simila ran at St. Augustine and Rowan. And Weiner ran at Haddonfield and Rochester.

Here’s a crazy guess: Considering that Mays Landing and Galloway Township are just a mile apart and Bustos and Ngo live near each other and are in the same age group and ran nearly identical times, maybe they’re training partners?

The results site is down now so I can’t get anything from the weomen’s race but I will eventually!

Shawnee alum Jason Richwall finishes 6th in 25-29 age group, top-20 overall at Philly Half!!!!!!!!

Former Shawnee runner Jason Richwall placed 6th in the 25-29 age group and 18th overall out of more than 5,000 runners Saturday morning at the Philadelphia Half Marathon.

Richwall, 27, covered the 13.1-mile course in 1:12.46. He placed 16th out of 5,193 men and 6th out of 1,164 in the 25-29 age group.

Richwall graduated in 2016 from Shawnee, where he had PRs of 4:36.97 and 9:50.82, and ran for Muhlenberg, where he ran 8:34.90 for 3,000 meters in Lancaster and 15:02.58 in Collegeville.

Jacob Shoemaker of Haddon Township, 41, ran 1:16.58 and placed 3rd out of 448 runners in the 40-44 age group and 40th overall. Shoemaker ran for Dartmouth, where he ran 9:16.26 in the steeplechase in a meet at Princeton. He ran scholastically at Lincoln-Sudbury in Sudbury, Mass.

Also among the top 100 men were Omar Abdelhamid of Cherry Hill [2nd in 45-49 in 1:1.39, 7th overall] and Patrick Storti of Cinnaminson [2th in 20-24 age group, 84th overall].

There’s no record I could find of Abdelhamid running in high school or college, although he may have. Storti, a 2023 Cinnaminson graduate, was on the 2022 Cinnaminson XC team that placed 2nd at both South Jersey Group 2 sectionals and Group 2 states and 12th at the Meet of Champions. He currently runs for Stockton University in Galloway Township.

Top South Jersey woman was Erin Guilfoyle of Burlington, who was 14th in the 20-24 age group in 1:30.28 (nearly 16 minutes faster than her clock time!). Rancocas Valley graduate Abby Boggs ran 1:32.56 and placed 22nd in the 20-24 division.

Guilfoyle graduated in 2020 from Burlington Township and attended West Chester. If appears she didn’t run at either school. Boggs was 2021 South Jersey Group 4 pole vault champ at 11-6 and a conference medalistt in both the vault and heptathlon and pentathlon at Monmouth.

HADDONFIELD BOYS ARE OFF TO OREGON AFTER ASTONISHING RACE AT NIKE CROSS REGIONALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ben Andrus, Luke Andresen, Peter Simpson and Ryan Gibson ran within five seconds of each other and led Haddonfield to 2nd place in the Nike Northeast Regional Saturday and a berth at the Nike Cross Nationals.

Andrus placed 18th in 16:06.4, Andresen 20th in 16:09.1, Simpson 21st in 16:09.6 and Gibson 23rd in 16:11.6.

Michael Sinnes ran 17:07.4 for 109th and 74th in team points, giving Haddonfield 133 points – 31 fewer than State College for 2nd place. Also in Haddonfield’s lineup were senior Brandon Stoner [17:47.6] and junior Andrew Blum [17:49.4].

Haddonfield averaged 16:20.8 over 5,000 meters at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls and placed 2nd only to U.S. No. 4 Christian Brothers Academy of Lincroft, who went 2-3-7-9-12 for 33 points.

As top-two team finishers, both will represent the Northeast Region at Nike Cross Nationals Dec. 6 at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland, Ore.

Although Haddonfield didn’t have a finisher in the top 10, their 4th runner – Gibson – finished ahead of the 2nd runner from 25 of the 27 other schools that entered.

Haddonfield is the first South Jersey boys team ever to reach Nike Cross Nationals. The Kingsway girls made it in 2017 and Cherokee girls in 2021.

Andrus, Andresen, Simpson and Gibson ran the 5th, 7th, 8th and 10th-fastest times ever by South Jersey athletes at Bowdoin Park. The sub-16:15 list is below.

It’s been a remarkable season for Haddonfield, which won its 23rd state Group 2 title, ran the 2nd-fastest average time at Holmdel ever by a public school and is now headed to Oregon to face the top schools in the country.

Hadonfield joins CBA, Don Bosco, Westfield and West Windsor-Plainsboro North as the 5th New Jersey school to reach Nike Cross Nationals.

Also Saturday, Cherry Hill East placed 10th and Ocean City 14th .

For Cherry Hill East, Junior Cian Sherlock, senior Alvin Lin and senior Milo Poerner placed 52nd, 60th and 67th in 16:35.0, 16:41.7 and 16:46.5 – they were 31st, 38th and 43rdin team scoring.

Freshman Conan Poerner [17:36.9], junior Aneesh Rajagopal [17:38.4] and senior Colin Moore [17:54.4] also raced for East. Poerner was the 7th freshman across the line.

Ocean City was led by senior Erik Preisner [68th in 16:46.8], junior Nathan Aschmann [90th in 16:55.8], junior Keenan Neuman [105th in 17:05.5] and sophomore Nevin Millstein [121st in 17:12.5]. For team scoring purposes, they were 44th, 60th, 61st and 81st.

Sophomore Benjamin McCarthy [17:52.6], junior Michael Romano [18:03.6] and sophomore Hayden Tarves [18:46.8] also ran for Ocean City.

15:41.5 … Jonathan Vitez [Haddonfield], 2009
15:52.7 … Aaron Groff [Cherry Hill East], 2015
16:02.9 … George Andrus [Haddonfield], 2022
16:05.0 … Jack Shea [Cherokee], 2015
16:06.4 … Benjamin Andrus [Haddonfield], 2025
16:06.9 … Ethan Wechsler [Cherokee], 2019
16:09.1 … Luke Andresen [Haddonfield], 2025
16:09.6 … Peter Simpson [Haddonfield], 2025
16:11.4 … Ben Potts [Haddonfield], 2009
16:11.6 … Ryan Gibson [Haddonfield], 2025
16:12.5 … Patrick Ditmars [Cherokee], 2022

Haddonfield boys, Paul VI girls lead loaded South Jersey contingent to Nike Cross East Regionals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Haddonfield boys and Paul VI girls lead a large South Jersey contingent headed this weekend to Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., for the Nike Cross East Regionals.

Haddonfield is coming off a dazzling performance at the Meet of Champions, where they placed 2nd for the second year in a row and averaged 16:08.54 at Holmdel County Park, fastest ever by any South Jersey school at Holmdel and 2nd-fastest ever by any New Jersey public school.

Seniors Luke Andresen and Benjamin Andrus, who placed 5th and 6th at the MoC, lead Haddonfield, with seniors Ryan Gibson, Peter Simpson and Michael Sinnes also in the top 5 and senior Brandon Stoner and sophomore Augustan Coley also in the lineup.

The Paul VI girls, who placed 3rd at the Meet of Champions, are led by junior Grace Gutowski and senior Giovanna Mantuano, who placed 14th and 21st at Holmdel last weekend. Sophomore Morgan Kuzma, senior Macy Huber and sophomore Peyton Blake are also in PVI’s usual top 5 and freshman Isabella Suarez and junior Kara Salamone will also race for the Eagles.

The top two teams in each race automatically advance to Nike Cross Nationals. Additionally, the 3rd- and 4th-place teams in each of the nine regions are eligible for four at-large bids. The top five individuals who aren’t part of a qualifying team also advance to Nationals.

Also entered in the boys race are Cherry Hill East, Ocean City and Glassboro, who placed 7th, 9th and 12th at the Meet of Champions.

Likely lineups: senior Milo Poerner, junior Cian Sherlock, senior Alvin Lin, senior Colin Moore, freshman Conan Poerner, junior Aneesh Rajagopal and senior Adam Billet for Cherry Hill East; Erik Priesner, Nathan Aschmann, Keenan Neuman, Michael Romano, Benjamin McCarthy, Nevin Millstein and Hayden Tarves for Ocean City; and Joe Saicic, Jaeden Wesley, Zacchaeus Harrigan, Aaron Johnson, Gavin Rakitis, Jason Martin and Tyler Santiago for Glassboro.

Joining Paul VI in the girls race will be Cherokee, Cherry Hill East and Ocean City, who placed 4th, 8th and 10th in the Meet of Champions.

Likely lineups: Freshman Ava Guarini, sophomore Erin Healy, senior Maya Kumar, senior Madeline Meder, senior Sofia Recinto, senior Alyssa Suriano and junior Gabrielle Urban for Cherokee; junior Ryleigh Budsock, senior Shaelea Conway, senior Ella Davidson, junior Katherine Grottini, junior Gabriella Pizzo, junior Rebecca Tibbetts and sophomore Emmie Wang for Cherry Hill East; and Bella Cera, Peighton Clemens, Lenna Driscoll, Isabella Edwards, Lillian Flora, Carly Godfrey and Riley Tolson for Ocean City.

Note that sophomore Addison Weiss, 3rd in the Group 3 state meet and 13th at the Meet of Champions, is not listed in Cherry Hill East’s entry, which could mean she’s racing instead the following weekend at Brooks Northeast Championships at Franklin Park in Boston.

Nike Cross Nationals is scheduled for Dec. 7 at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland, Ore.

Brooks Championships, a continuation of the Kinney / Foot Locker / Eastbay series which traces its lineage back to 1979, are scheduled for Dec. 13 at Balboa Park in San Diego. The entry list for East Regionals isn’t available yet.

There are 13 races in all, with the boys championship race scheduled for 1:50 p.m. and the girls race at 2:25 p.m. Full race schedule is here: https://nxrne.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=title&title_id=219&event_id=301

BOYS
Haddonfield
Cherry Hill East
Ocean City
Glassboro

GIRLS
Cherry Hill East
Ocean City
Cherokee
Paul VI

A detailed look at how insanely fast the Haddonfield boys ran at the Meet of Champions!!!!!!!!

Haddonfield became one of the fastest schools ever at Holmdel County Park Saturday at the Meet of Champions, averaging 16:08.54 per scorer at the Meet of Champions.

Only three schools – CBA, Westfield and Union Catholic – have ever had a faster average on the hilly, windy 5,000-meter tour of Holmdel County Park, from the hill just beyond the start to the roller-coasters to the Bowl to the tennis courts to the woods and then the straight open-field finish.

Seniors Luke Andresen and Benjamin Andrus led the way for the Bulldogs in 5th and 6th place in 15:41.22 and 15:42.81, which put them squarely on the all-time Haddonfield top-5 at Holmdel. Several meets fractions of a second weren’t kept, so we have some runners on these lists with fractions and some without, which isn’t really fair, but it’s the best way to do it.

15:36 … Seth Clevenger [2021 Meet of Champions]
15:40 … George Andrus [2022 Meet of Champions]
15:41 … Jon Vitez [2009 Meet of Champions]
15:41.22 … Luke Andresen [2025 Meet of Champions]
15:42 … Ben Potts [2010 Meet of Champions]
15:42.81 … Benjamin Andrus [2025 Meet of Champions[
15:48 … Chris Platt [2001 Meet of Champions]

this is the 7th time two runners from the same South Jersey school have placed in the top 10 at the Meet of Champions and the first time Haddonfield has pulled that off in 24 years. Haddonfield is also the first school to do it twice:

1988: Bridgeton: 3. Urie Ridgeway 15:47, 6. Lance Hess 16:11
1989: Paul VI: 3. Joe Cranston 16:13, 9. *Pete Dougherty 16:32
2000: Eastern: 1. Mike Myers 15:50, 7. **Dan Deichert 16:15
2001: Haddonfield: 2. Chris Platt 15:48, 5. Skip Stiles 15:54, 6. Breton Bonnette 15:55
2003: Mainland Regional: 2. Greg Hughes 15:39, 10. James Wyner 16:06
2022: Cherokee: 2. Patrick Ditmars 15:39 4. Nick Kuenkel 15:41
2025: Haddonfield: 5. Luke Andresen 15:41.22, 6. Benjamin Andrus 15:42.81

Also in Haddonfield’s top 5 Saturday were seniors Ryan Gibson [16th in 16:01.21], Peter Simpson [43rd in 16:34.41] and Michael Sinnes [61st in 16:43.07]. Brandon Stoner [91st in 17:04.32] and sophomore Augustan Coley [132nd in 17:51.44] also raced for Haddonfield.

Simpson ran most of the race with only one shoe after getting spiked soon after the start and losing one of his shoes.  He ran 16:18 a week earlier at states, and with perfect conditions this past Saturday and virtually everybody running faster at M-o-C than states, you can only imagine how fast he would have run with two shoes and how much faster Haddonfield’s record-setting average would have been.

For team scoring purposes, Haddonfield went 4-5-12-30-39-(57) (82) for 90 points and 2nd place, well clear of 3rd-place Union Catholic, which scored 125.

Haddonfield, which was also 2nd in 2024, is only the 3rd South Jersey school and the first in 22 years to place in the top two in conseutive years:

Paul VI: 2nd in 1987, 1st in 1988, 1st in 1989, 2nd in 1990
Mainland Regional: 1st in 2002, 1st in 2003
Haddonfield: 2nd in 2024, 2nd in 2025

Incredibly, Haddonfield has now placed in the top-5 at the Meet of Champions 14 times, including 13 times in the last 25 years and six times in the last eight years (including the 2020 exhibition race):

2025: 2. Haddonfield
2024: 2. Haddonfield
2021: 3. Haddonfield
2020*: 4. Haddonfield
2019: 3. Haddonfield
2018: 2. Haddonfield
2015: 4. Haddonfield
2014: 5. Haddonfield
2010: 2. Haddonfield
2009: 4. Haddonfield
2008: 4. Haddonfield
2007: 3. Haddonfield
2006: 3. Haddonfield
2001: 1. Haddonfield
1989: 5. Haddonfield

Here’s my best attempt at an all-time New Jersey single-race team list:

15:40.13 … CBA, 2025 Meet of Champions
15:42.11 … CBA, 2024 Meet of Champions
15:50 … CBA, 2024 Parochial A
15:51 … CBA, 2023 Parochial A
15:52.2 … CBA, 2013 Meet of Champions
15:55.81 … CBA, 2023 Meet of Champions
15:59h … CBA, 2023 Shore Coaches
16:00.76 … CBA, 2025 Parochial A
16:01 … Westfield, 2023 Group 4
16:01 … Union Catholic, 2021 Meet of Champions
16:01.6 … Union Catholic, 2021 Meet of Champions
16:03.2 … CBA, 2012 Parochial A
16:04.4 … CBA, 2011 Meet of Champions
16:05.0 … CBA, 2013 Parochial A
16:05.8 … CBA, 2010 Meet of Champions
16:06 … CBA, 2022 Parochial A
16:07 … CBA, 2022 Meet of Champions
16:08.4 … CBA, 2011 Shore Coaches
16:08.54 … Haddonfield, 2025 Meet of Champions
16:09 … Westfield, 2023 Shore Coaches