Ten middle school and high school athletes competed in a cross country meet with King’s Christian School on November 13 and the ACS team won the meet, with 10th grader Tommy Ellison coming in first place overall, finishing the 3.1 mile course in 19:42 minutes.

Ellison also came in 1st place in the category of High School Boys and 9th grader Alicia O’Donnell came in first place in the High School Girls category, with a time of 24:45 minutes (both pictured below left).  8th grader Jayden Sanchez came in 3rd place overall and second place in the category of Middle School Boys, with a time of 21:39 minutes, and 8th grader Taylor Murphy took second place in the category of Middle School Girls, and finished in 10th place with a time of 25:52 minutes (both picture below right).

“This was the first time we had the opportunity to compete against King’s Christian in cross country and our athletes did a great job,” said Athletic Director Pam Hitchner, who traveled with the team to the meet, which was held at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield, NJ. “We have some strong long-distance runners and will be looking for more races to enter in the future to help our athletes improve their skills.” Hitchner said King’s Christian entered seven runners in the meet.

The six other ACS athletes who competed in the meet were:

8th grader Charlie Costello (4th overall, 3rd in MS Boys)
7th grader Calvin Costello  (5th overall, 4th in MS Boys)
8th grader Taylor Murphy (10th overall, 2nd in MS Girls)
8th grader Isabell Alford (11th overall, 3rd in MS Girls)
12th grader Gabriel Catusse-Martinella (13th overall, 3th in HS Boys)
7th grader Marley Odell (14th overall, 4th place in MS Girls)
7th grader Stephanie Valdes (16th overall)