Parsippany Express Cross Country Race 5 for 2018

Photo courtesy of Sara Chebishev. Photo is of Top 20 finishers for week 5:

Back row: Emma Lipsky, Albin Mullan, Amanda Hoffman
Front Row: Desmond Whelan, Eesha Vavilala, Sohan Kondru, Anina Mullan, Harry Trella

During the first week of October, week 5 of the season, Parsippany Express Cross Country had 55 runners . The hot weather and humidity didn't stop 28 PECC runners from attaining new personal best times! The team also had 8 top twenty finishes, along with a first place victory from Albin Mullan.

Girls 13-14 3970 Meter Run Mile
20 Lipsky, Emma 8:23.0 20:40.81 - First time on course

Boys 13-14 3970 Meter Run Mile Pace Final Time
1 Mullan, Albin 5:41.3 14:01.87 First time on course
31 Hoffman, Justin 7:09.4 17:39.28 (17:16 2017)
53 DeMarco, Dominick 7:57.3 19:37.42 First time on course
61 Seemakurti, Nagakishan 8:29.1 20:55.81 First time on course
67 Leander, Zachary 8:43.6 21:31.56 First time on course
73 Lanza, William 9:00.3 22:12.81 First time on course
82 Lui, Larry 10:04.7 24:51.58 First time on course
The Boys team(Albin, Justin, Dom, Kishan and Zach) placed 5th with 123 points with a total time of 1:33:45.94 achieving a new boys team record!

Girls 11-12 2977
10 Chebishev, Kira 6:53.0 12:43.98 - personal best by 59 seconds!
38 Lui, Shyanne 8:04.3 14:55.76 - personal best by 63 seconds!
41 Metz, Meghan 8:06.5 14:59.79 - personal best by 39 seconds!
60 Estilo, Catherine 8:55.8 16:31.13 - personal best by 116 seconds!
62 Chithambaranathan, Harita 9:02.7 16:43.84 (16:22 week 3)
81 Negi, Shreeya 10:40.3 19:44.40 - personal best by 17 seconds!
83 Pierce, Kelly 11:02.4 20:25.32 (19:49 week 1)
The girls team placed 8th out of 11 teams with 162 points and a team time of 1:15:54.50! The team of Kira, Shyanne, Meghan, Cate and Harita broke the team record by 89 seconds!

Boys 11-12 2977
13 Trella, Harry 6:38.7 12:17.38 PB by 32 seconds!
34 Metz, Brian 7:32.5 13:56.93 (13:26 2017)
46 Gajjar, Ishan 7:51.5 14:32.20 (14:14 2017)
51 Becher, Christopher 8:11.4 15:08.86 (14:17 2017)
54 Kosovich, Mason 8:16.3 15:17.92 (15:05 week 3)
71 Varughese, Nathaniel 9:07.7 16:53.15 (14:49 2017)
72 Katta, Neil 9:20.3 17:16.34 (16:52 week 4)
83 Smith, Andrew 10:09.7 18:47.84 (17:15 week 1)
85 Tracey, Frankie 10:20.7 19:08.06 (18:01 2017)
88 Rhodes, Silas 10:52.6 20:07.17 (19:42 week 3)
94 Parlapall, Tanish 13:07.6 24:16.82 (19:28 2017)
The boys team of Harry, Brain, Ishan, Chris, Mason and Frankie placed 5th with 125 points. They finished in a fourth place tie with Randolph, so they went to the sixth runner tie breaker and Randolph’s sixth runner beat Nate by one place and four seconds, breaking the tie by just one point!

Boys 9-10 2270
26 Lipsky, Daniel 7:14.0 10:12.14 - personal best by 8 seconds!
47 Kosovich, Chase 7:52.3 11:06.12 (10:26 week 1)
63 Sims, Trevor 8:15.1 11:38.35 - personal best by 11 seconds!
67 Kaplan, Tyler 8:23.3 11:49.83 (11:06 week 3)
78 Neito, Alec 8:44.4 12:19.59 - personal best by 31 seconds!
85 Smith, Davey 9:05.6 12:49.46 (12:33 week 2)
88 Naik, Ishaan 9:11.0 12:57.17 (12:25 week 4)
103 Sharma, Rajveer 9:47.0 13:47.91 (12:50 week 4)
The boys team (Daniel, Chase, Trevor, Tyler and Alec) placed 9th out of 11 with 224 points. The team was one point ahead of Chester.

Girls 9-10 2270
17 Vavilala, Eesha 7:24.9 10:27.47 (10:15 week 3)
18 Mullan, Anina 7:25.5 10:28.35 - personal best y 18 seconds!
53 Vavilala, Medha 8:27.2 11:55.35 - personal best by 12 seconds!
6 Hadawale, Nihira 8:38.3 12:11.04 - personal best by 23 seconds!
58 Korrapati, Deetya 8:41.4 12:15.42 (11:55 week 4)
62 Verrone, Giuliana 9:01.8 12:44.22 (12:19 week 3)
69 Gaviria, Clara 9:20.4 13:10.41 - personal best by 52 seconds!
The girls team (Eesha, Anina, Medha, Nihira and Deetya) placed 6th out of 10 with 137 points, and were two points ahead of Mountain Lakes.

Girls 7-8 1561
34 McGee, Emily 8:43.9 8:28.17 - personal best by 11 seconds!
35 Duff, Ciera 8:47.4 8:31.48 (7:58 2017)
36 Varughese, Miranda 8:48.1 8:32.20 (8:19 week 3)
37 Thormann, Emily 8:50.9 8:34.94 - personal best by 18 seconds!
39 Nair, Riya 8:55.8 8:39.65 - personal best by 11 seconds!
51 Boscarino, Alicia 9:26.8 9:09.73 - personal best by 13 seconds!
58 Sabharwal, Pranjal 10:24.6 10:05.82 - personal best by 49 seconds!
The girls team (Emily, Ciera, Miranda, Emily and Riya) placed 5th with 101 points.

Boys 7-8 1561
14 Whelan, Desmond 7:22.0 7:08.70 - personal best by 2 seconds!
19 Kondru, Sohan 7:31.0 7:17.41 (7:05 2017)
44 Lavu, Sujit 8:36.7 8:21.17 - personal best by 13 seconds!
47 Novitskie, Franklin 8:39.3 8:23.66 - personal best by 6 seconds!
50 Frei, Andrew 8:46.4 8:30.55 (7:46 week 3)
58 Jasinski, Dylan 9:02.1 8:45.77 (7:59 week 3)
63 Duff, Craeg 9:25.7 9:08.70 (8:39 week 3)
The boys (Desmond, Sohan, Sujit, Frankie and Andrew) finished 4th out of 8 teams with a score of 115 points!