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Parsippany Express Cross Country Regional Competition for 2018

Some members of the team progressed onto regionals in Pennsylvania. Of that group, select Parsippany teammates qualified for nationals!

Photo courtesy of PECC. 8 of the team's qualifiers are featured in the photo. Callie Sisco, Anina Mullan, Albin Mullan, William Duffy, Meghan Metz and Amanda Hoffman.

On November 18, 17 Parsippany Express Cross Country runners participated in the regional competition.

8 of the team qualified based on their individual running scores to progress to nationals; 5 more runners qualified due to participation on a top 5 team. Overall 13 of Parsippany's own qualified for the national meet.

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2018 PECC Regional Results on November 18th, 2018 at Belmont Plateau, Philadelphia

2000 Meter Run CC 8 & Under Division Boys
19th Kondru, Sohan 9:51.9
Sohan’s Lakeland Team finished in 1st place! He qualified individually for nationals

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3k Run CC 9-10 Division Boys
28th Bakas, Gabriel 13:50.8 - He qualified individually for nationals
29th Duffy, William 13:53.1 - He qualified individually for nationals
Gabe and William’s Lakeland Team finished in 1st place!

3K Run CC 9-10 Girls
23rd Vavilala, Eesha 14:32.8 - qualified individually for nationals
28th Mullan, Anina 14:39.8 - qualified individually for nationals
29th Sisco, Callie 14:41.2 - qualified individually for nationals
Eesha, Anina and Callie’s Lakeland Team finished in 2nd place; only two points away from first place Nittanny Lion Club!

3k Run CC 11-12 Division Boys
41st Trella, Harry 12:44.3
60th Metz, Brian 13:56.0
Harry and Brian’s Lakeland team finished in 5th place! They both qualified for nationals as part of a top 5 team!

3k Run CC 11-12 Division Girls
32nd Chebishev, Kira 13:21.5
35th Duffy, Elizabeth 13:30.6
54th Metz, Meghan 14:50.6
Kira, Elizabeth and Meghan’s Lakeland Team finished in 2nd place, one point ahead of the Auburn Track Club. Meghan was Lakeland’s fifth runner and she beat Auburn’s fifth runner by one spot securing the second place! All three girls qualified for nationals for being on a top 5 team!

4k Run CC 13-14 Division Boys
4th Mullan, Albin 14:56.1 - qualified individually for nationals
38th Hoffman, Justin 18:30.0
45th Cukrow, Brandon 20:15.0
47th DeMarco, Dominick 20:17.0
48th Leander, Zachary 20:18.9
4k Run CC 13-14 Division Girls
17th Hoffman, Amanda 17:41.3 - qualified individually for nationals

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