The girls cross country team traveled to Noble and Greenough School on Saturday to compete in the Division II NEPSAC Championship race. In the varsity race, 114 runners from 17 schools competed. Four team awards were presented, and the Williston girls were able to earn the fourth place trophy, with a score of 133 points, trailing only Thayer, Middlesex, and Westminster. Abigail Touhey (4th overall in 19:45) and Anna Richardson (7th overall in 20:14) ran incredible races and earned All NEPSAC honors. Both girls are invited to participate in the All-Star race next Saturday, which includes the top twenty finishers from all cross country divisions in New England. Personal 5K records in the varsity race were turned in by Abigail, Anna, Jordyn Meunier (21:32), and Madison Hamilton (21:53). In the JV race, 100 runners competed. Williston placed 5th out of 10 teams, with individual awards for top twenty finishes going to Anya Rozario (13th place, 24:00), Pippa Berry (14th place, 24:01), and senior co-captain Rachel Goodman (17th place, 24:08). Personal 5K records were turned in by 10 JV runners: Anya, Pippa, Ava Larkin, Rylie Tirrell, Jenna Perry, Brooke Manfredi, Hannah Roche, Greta Saxe, Ciara Tapanes, and Sasha Kracauer. It was a great way to end a very successful season for the varsity team (13-0 in the regular season) and the JV team (12-1). Full results can be found at the following link: http://www.gsrs.com/results/3924

The girls cross country team traveled to Berkshire School on Saturday for our annual 7-school meet against Suffield, Berkshire, Miss Halls, Westover, Canterbury, and Millbrook. Suffield did not compete, but Williston was able to defeat the other five opponents on a beautiful day for a race. Out of the 56 runners who completed the race, Williston took first, second, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and thirteenth. Abigail Touhey dominated the field, winning the race easily in 20:36, followed by junior co-captain Anna Richardson in 21:29, and Jordyn Meunier in 22:58, all of whom received pumpkins as prizes for their efforts. The rest of the top seven varsity runners (Annika von Schoeler-Ames, senior co-captain Chloe Prouty, Madison Hamilton, and Lily Harris) also had strong runs to lead the team to an undefeated regular season for the third time in the team’s history (1991 and 2008). The JV seven also had a big day, defeating all opponents and ending their regular season with a record of 12-1, with their only loss coming to Northfield Mount Hermon, 26-31. Poojaa Prakash Babu (25:35) and Anya Rozario (25:43) led the way for the JV seven, placing 16th and 17th overall. Berkshire’s course is challenging and was wet in spots, but two runners were able to get PRs – Brooke Manfredi with a 27:00, and Hannah Roche at 27:51. This was an exciting way to end our regular season, and both the varsity and JV teams are looking forward to next week’s Division II championship race at Nobles.

The girls cross country team traveled to Berkshire School on Saturday for our annual 7-school meet against Suffield, Berkshire, Miss Halls, Westover, Canterbury, and Millbrook. Suffield did not compete, but Williston was able to defeat the other five opponents on a beautiful day for a race. Out of the 56 runners who completed the race, Williston took first, second, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and thirteenth. Abigail Touhey dominated the field, winning the race easily in 20:36, followed by junior co-captain Anna Richardson in 21:29, and Jordyn Meunier in 22:58, all of whom received pumpkins as prizes for their efforts. The rest of the top seven varsity runners (Annika von Schoeler-Ames, senior co-captain Chloe Prouty, Madison Hamilton, and Lily Harris) also had strong runs to lead the team to an undefeated regular season for the third time in the team’s history (1991 and 2008). The JV seven also had a big day, defeating all opponents and ending their regular season with a record of 12-1, with their only loss coming to Northfield Mount Hermon, 26-31. Poojaa Prakash Babu (25:35) and Anya Rozario (25:43) led the way for the JV seven, placing 16th and 17th overall. Berkshire’s course is challenging and was wet in spots, but two runners were able to get PRs – Brooke Manfredi with a 27:00, and Hannah Roche at 27:51. This was an exciting way to end our regular season, and both the varsity and JV teams are looking forward to next week’s Division II championship race at Nobles.

The girls cross country team traveled to Berkshire School on Saturday for our annual 7-school meet against Suffield, Berkshire, Miss Halls, Westover, Canterbury, and Millbrook. Suffield did not compete, but Williston was able to defeat the other five opponents on a beautiful day for a race. Out of the 56 runners who completed the race, Williston took first, second, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and thirteenth. Abigail Touhey dominated the field, winning the race easily in 20:36, followed by junior co-captain Anna Richardson in 21:29, and Jordyn Meunier in 22:58, all of whom received pumpkins as prizes for their efforts. The rest of the top seven varsity runners (Annika von Schoeler-Ames, senior co-captain Chloe Prouty, Madison Hamilton, and Lily Harris) also had strong runs to lead the team to an undefeated regular season for the third time in the team’s history (1991 and 2008). The JV seven also had a big day, defeating all opponents and ending their regular season with a record of 12-1, with their only loss coming to Northfield Mount Hermon, 26-31. Poojaa Prakash Babu (25:35) and Anya Rozario (25:43) led the way for the JV seven, placing 16th and 17th overall. Berkshire’s course is challenging and was wet in spots, but two runners were able to get PRs – Brooke Manfredi with a 27:00, and Hannah Roche at 27:51. This was an exciting way to end our regular season, and both the varsity and JV teams are looking forward to next week’s Division II championship race at Nobles.

The girls cross country team traveled to Berkshire School on Saturday for our annual 7-school meet against Suffield, Berkshire, Miss Halls, Westover, Canterbury, and Millbrook. Suffield did not compete, but Williston was able to defeat the other five opponents on a beautiful day for a race. Out of the 56 runners who completed the race, Williston took first, second, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and thirteenth. Abigail Touhey dominated the field, winning the race easily in 20:36, followed by junior co-captain Anna Richardson in 21:29, and Jordyn Meunier in 22:58, all of whom received pumpkins as prizes for their efforts. The rest of the top seven varsity runners (Annika von Schoeler-Ames, senior co-captain Chloe Prouty, Madison Hamilton, and Lily Harris) also had strong runs to lead the team to an undefeated regular season for the third time in the team’s history (1991 and 2008). The JV seven also had a big day, defeating all opponents and ending their regular season with a record of 12-1, with their only loss coming to Northfield Mount Hermon, 26-31. Poojaa Prakash Babu (25:35) and Anya Rozario (25:43) led the way for the JV seven, placing 16th and 17th overall. Berkshire’s course is challenging and was wet in spots, but two runners were able to get PRs – Brooke Manfredi with a 27:00, and Hannah Roche at 27:51. This was an exciting way to end our regular season, and both the varsity and JV teams are looking forward to next week’s Division II championship race at Nobles.

The girls cross country team traveled to Berkshire School on Saturday for our annual 7-school meet against Suffield, Berkshire, Miss Halls, Westover, Canterbury, and Millbrook. Suffield did not compete, but Williston was able to defeat the other five opponents on a beautiful day for a race. Out of the 56 runners who completed the race, Williston took first, second, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and thirteenth. Abigail Touhey dominated the field, winning the race easily in 20:36, followed by junior co-captain Anna Richardson in 21:29, and Jordyn Meunier in 22:58, all of whom received pumpkins as prizes for their efforts. The rest of the top seven varsity runners (Annika von Schoeler-Ames, senior co-captain Chloe Prouty, Madison Hamilton, and Lily Harris) also had strong runs to lead the team to an undefeated regular season for the third time in the team’s history (1991 and 2008). The JV seven also had a big day, defeating all opponents and ending their regular season with a record of 12-1, with their only loss coming to Northfield Mount Hermon, 26-31. Poojaa Prakash Babu (25:35) and Anya Rozario (25:43) led the way for the JV seven, placing 16th and 17th overall. Berkshire’s course is challenging and was wet in spots, but two runners were able to get PRs – Brooke Manfredi with a 27:00, and Hannah Roche at 27:51. This was an exciting way to end our regular season, and both the varsity and JV teams are looking forward to next week’s Division II championship race at Nobles.

On Saturday, the girls hosted the annual Shaler Invitational. In the varsity race, 72 runners from 11 schools competed, and Williston was able to earn the first place trophy with a score of 46 points, over second place Loomis with 65 points and third place Suffield with 68 points. Individual awards went to Abigail Touhey, who placed 2nd overall, missing first place by only six seconds to Neala Sweeney from Loomis. Abigail’s impressive time of 20:18 broke, by almost a full minute, her own Williston record for our 5K course. Three other Williston girls placed in the top 15 and won individual awards: junior co-captain Anna Richardson in sixth place in 21:12, Madison Hamilton in twelfth place in 22:16, and senior co-captain Chloe Prouty in 14th place in 22:30. Jordyn Meunier (#16, 22:40), Annika von Schoeler-Ames (#18, 22:43), and Lily Harris (#31, 24:00) all had PRs on our course and rounded out one of the best top seven performances of the season. In the separate JV race, the Williston girls were also able to capture the top spot, with a score of 40 points over second place Loomis with 43 points. Senior co-captain Rachel Goodman blasted onto the Honor Roll at #13 with a time of 24:34, her best race this season, finishing third in a field of 36. After Rachel, the top five in the JV race were Poojaa Prakash Babu, Rylie Tirrell, Greta Saxe, and Jenna Perry. This was another big team effort with either home course PRs, or overall PRs turned in by 18 runners: Abigail, Anna, Madison, Chloe, Jordyn, Annika, Lily, Rachel, Ava Larkin, Anya Rozario, Rylie, Greta, Ciara Tapanes, Brooke Manfredi, Hannah Roche, Sasha Kracauer, Carly Goodman and Hollis Mann. The girls continue to rise to the occasion every Saturday, and the team is confident going into the final two races of the season.

The girls ran their second of three home meets in a row, facing Division I Taft. We sent 22 runners to the line, the closest we have been all season to having our full team run in a race. Abigail Touhey continued her impressive season, earning a home course PR for the second week in a row, with a time of 21:17. With a big push in the second half of the race, Abigail pulled away from the field and finished first out of 39 runners, 42 seconds ahead of teammate Anna Richardson, who also had a home course PR and cracked the 22 minute mark at 21:59. Madison Hamilton completed the top three sweep with an excellent run of 22:35, one second off her best. Jordyn Meunier had her best race of the year, placing 4th for the team and 5th overall with a time of 22:59, cutting 1:05 from her previous race on our course. Senior co-captain Chloe Prouty got up from a tough fall in the middle mile to recover and place 5th for Williston, and Annika von Schoeler-Ames returned to competition with an impressive and courageous run, placing 6th for Williston with a time of 23:54. Senior Lily Harris rounded out the top seven varsity team, with a home course PR of 24:26. The Honor Roll changed again with Abigail at #1 with a new Williston course record, Anna at #2, Jordyn at #6, and Lily at #12. The JV seven also had a big day, with Ava Larkin and Pippa Berry leading the way. Jenna Perry, Ciara Tapanes, and Hannah Roche earned 5K PRs. The varsity beat Taft 18-40, putting their season record at 7-0, and the JV won 21-34, putting their season record at 6-1. The Shaler Invitational is next up for the team.

The girls cross country team returned to our home course on Saturday, after three weeks on the road. Both the varsity and the JV teams continued their strong competitive performance with victories against Division I Miss Porters School. With two runners from our top five missing from the race, the rest of the team knew they had to step up, and they did so in dramatic fashion. Sophomore Abigail Touhey stayed with Alexandra Poole from Porters for as long as she could and eventually took second place out of 34 runners in a personal best time on our course of 21:20. Filling in crucial spots behind Abigail were senior co-captain Chloe Prouty and junior Madison Hamilton, both with home course PRs. Our second varsity pack was also impressive, with Ava Larkin (her first time in our top five), Lily Harris, and Pippa Berry all earning PRs on our course. For the second week in a row, Anya Rozario placed in our top seven, this time with a PR of 25:38. Finishing at #8 for the team, Rylie Tirrell led the JV seven with a PR of 25:45. The home course PR list or the overall PR list for the day was a long one: Abigail, Chloe, Madison, Ava, Lily, Pippa, Anya, Rylie, Brooke Manfredi, Greta Saxe, Jenna Perry, Shez Zangmo, Sasha Kracauer, Hannah Roche, Isabel Baxter-Paris, Linnea Rhodes, and Hollis Mann. Congrats to Ciara Tapanes for finishing her first-ever 5K race for Williston. The score in the varsity race was 22-38 and in the JV race it was 15-46. This was a very encouraging day for the entire team, giving us confidence for next Saturday’s race against another Division I opponent, Taft.

On Saturday, we traveled to the reservoir in Farmington to compete against Kingswood-Oxford and Westminster. The timing was tight due to the SATs, and the course tour was a bit rushed, but the runners made the most of their warm-up time and were ready to run. After a close matchup with Westminster the previous week at the Richard Miller Invitational, we were expecting a tough race, which we got. After a fast first mile (5:58) Abigail Touhey ran stride for stride with Annabelle Smith from Westminster for almost the entire race. They were still together with 100 yards to go, when Abigail outsprinted the Westminster runner to the tape for her third individual victory in three dual meets this season. Anna Richardson turned in another impressive race, with a PR at 21:11, taking 3rd place out of 38 runners. Chloe Prouty (21:42) won the second nail-biter of the day, outsprinting the #2 Westminster girl to take 4th place. Jordyn Meunier, Madison Hamilton, and Lily Harris continued their consistently strong performances as part of our top seven, where they were joined for the first time by senior Anya Rozario, in her best race of the year. The varsity were able to earn a 23-32 win over Westminster, and a 15-47 win over Kingswood. The second seven continued their strong performance, with Pippa Berry, Ava Larkin, and Rylie Tirrell again leading the way to a JV score of 15-50 over Westminster. This was a big day for all 20 runners who competed, with a total of 15 PRs: Anna Richardson, Jordyn Meunier, Madison Hamilton, Lily Harris, Any Rozario, Pippa Berry, Ava Larkin, Rylie Tirrell, Brooke Manfredi, Greta Saxe, Jenna Perry, Shez Zangmo, Hannah Roche, Carly Goodman, and Linnea Rhodes. This was a very encouraging double win for both the varsity and JV, and we are looking forward to three home meets in a row, starting with Division I Miss Porters next Saturday.

On Saturday, we traveled to the reservoir in Farmington to compete against Kingswood-Oxford and Westminster. The timing was tight due to the SATs, and the course tour was a bit rushed, but the runners made the most of their warm-up time and were ready to run. After a close matchup with Westminster the previous week at the Richard Miller Invitational, we were expecting a tough race, which we got. After a fast first mile (5:58) Abigail Touhey ran stride for stride with Annabelle Smith from Westminster for almost the entire race. They were still together with 100 yards to go, when Abigail outsprinted the Westminster runner to the tape for her third individual victory in three dual meets this season. Anna Richardson turned in another impressive race, with a PR at 21:11, taking 3rd place out of 38 runners. Chloe Prouty (21:42) won the second nail-biter of the day, outsprinting the #2 Westminster girl to take 4th place. Jordyn Meunier, Madison Hamilton, and Lily Harris continued their consistently strong performances as part of our top seven, where they were joined for the first time by senior Anya Rozario, in her best race of the year. The varsity were able to earn a 23-32 win over Westminster, and a 15-47 win over Kingswood. The second seven continued their strong performance, with Pippa Berry, Ava Larkin, and Rylie Tirrell again leading the way to a JV score of 15-50 over Westminster. This was a big day for all 20 runners who competed, with a total of 15 PRs: Anna Richardson, Jordyn Meunier, Madison Hamilton, Lily Harris, Any Rozario, Pippa Berry, Ava Larkin, Rylie Tirrell, Brooke Manfredi, Greta Saxe, Jenna Perry, Shez Zangmo, Hannah Roche, Carly Goodman, and Linnea Rhodes. This was a very encouraging double win for both the varsity and JV, and we are looking forward to three home meets in a row, starting with Division I Miss Porters next Saturday.

The girls traveled to Westminster School on Saturday for the 14th annual Richard Miller Invitational. Nine schools competed on a hilly course on a hot day. The varsity team ran a strong, aggressive race, and were able to earn one of the two team trophies that are awarded at the race. Suffield won the meet with 51 points, and Williston took second place with 66 points. Abigail Touhey had her best race of the year, finishing an incredible 2nd out of 51 finishers, and earning an individual award (top ten). Junior co-captain Anna Richardson also had a huge race, battling the #2 girl from Deerfield for the last mile, and finally outkicking her at the end, placing 6th overall and also earning an individual award. Both Abigail and Anna cut off about a minute from last year’s race. Madison Hamilton (#15), senior co-captain Chloe Prouty (#17) and senior Lily Harris (#26) also ran very good races to round out the top five. This was our first team trophy at this race since 2015. The JV girls also had a big day, winning the JV meet with a score of 53 points, over second place Bement (56 points) and third place Suffield (108 points). Individual awards went to Pippa Berry (#4 out of 55 runners) and to Rylie Tirrell (#8), who had their best races of the year. Jenna Perry took a bad fall on a steep downhill in the second mile, and while on the ground, was passed by several runners. Jenna got up and re-passed enough runners to eventually place at #9 overall, and also earn an individual award. Congrats to Hollis Mann and to Linnea Rhodes for completing their first-ever 5K race for Williston, and to Madison Hamilton (24:24), Jenna Perry (28:40), Shez Zangmo (31:30), and Isabel Baxter-Paris (32:23) for turning in personal best 5K races. The team continues to improve week by week, and we are looking forward to getting back to the regular season competitive schedule with a race next Saturday against Westminster and Kingswood-Oxford.

The girls traveled to Northfield Mount Hermon on Saturday to compete against NMH and Worcester Academy, on a very hot day, on a very hilly course. The top five varsity runners ran an aggressive race against a tough NMH team, beating them on their home course, 26-29. Abigail Touhey trailed the #1 runner from NMH for most of the race, but passed her on one of the last hills and won going away, winning by 15 seconds. In a very strong race that improved her time on the course by 1:30, Anna Richardson took fourth out of 40 runners and second for Williston. Anna was followed by a pack of three runners, Jordyn Meunier, Chloe Prouty, and Madison Hamilton, who held off a strong challenge by NMH’s fourth and fifth runners to secure a closely fought victory. Lily Harris and Ava Larkin, in her best race of the year, rounded out the top seven for the varsity team. In the JV scoring Pippa Berry led the way, followed by Anya Rozario, Rylie Tirrell, and Rachel Goodman. It was a great team effort to get our varsity record for the season to 3-0. We are looking forward to the Richard Miller Invitational next Saturday.

The girls traveled to Northfield Mount Hermon on Saturday to compete against NMH and Worcester Academy, on a very hot day, on a very hilly course. The top five varsity runners ran an aggressive race against a tough NMH team, beating them on their home course, 26-29. Abigail Touhey trailed the #1 runner from NMH for most of the race, but passed her on one of the last hills and won going away, winning by 15 seconds. In a very strong race that improved her time on the course by 1:30, Anna Richardson took fourth out of 40 runners and second for Williston. Anna was followed by a pack of three runners, Jordyn Meunier, Chloe Prouty, and Madison Hamilton, who held off a strong challenge by NMH’s fourth and fifth runners to secure a closely fought victory. Lily Harris and Ava Larkin, in her best race of the year, rounded out the top seven for the varsity team. In the JV scoring Pippa Berry led the way, followed by Anya Rozario, Rylie Tirrell, and Rachel Goodman. It was a great team effort to get our varsity record for the season to 3-0. We are looking forward to the Richard Miller Invitational next Saturday.

The girls opened their regular season on Saturday at home against Kent. We had a very good first race, with a surprising number of PRs, and some new names on the Honor Roll. Abigail Touhey took control of the race from the opening gun and led all the way, finishing in a time of 21:48. Abigail gave Williston its first individual win against Kent since 2015, and set the stage for an impressive performance by the rest of the team. Close behind Abigail were co-captains Anna Richardson with a home course PR of 22:29 and Chloe Prouty with home course PR of 23:03. Both Anna and Chloe moved up on our Honor Roll to #2 and #4. Jordyn Meunier (24:04) and Madison Hamilton (24:27) rounded out the top five varsity runners. New to cross country, Jordyn and Madison made a tremendous impact in their first race, landing on the Honor Roll right away. Jordyn now stands at #9 and Madison at #11. Lily Harris and Poojaa Prakash Babu finished out the varsity sweep of the top seven places. In the JV scoring, Ava Larkin finished at #8 overall, finally outlasting Kent’s number one varsity finisher, after chasing her relentlessly for the last mile. In her first race ever, Ava turned in an inspiring effort to lead our second seven. In total, eleven runners had their personal best 5K times on our course: Anna Richardson, Chloe Prouty, Jordyn Meunier, Madison Hamilton, Ava Larkin, Pippa Berry, Anya Rozario, Greta Saxe, Brooke Manfredi, Hannah Roche, and Carly Goodman. This was a very encouraging start to our competitive season, and we are excited for our next race against Northfield Mount Hermon and Worcester next Saturday.