The second invitational of the season yielded impressive results, with many athletes achieving new personal best time or setting a high level of achievement in their first try at the fairly flat Wrentham Developmental Center layout. The 9th grade races went first and were the only ones without rain. Everyone got to experience a delightful north wind that blew consistently at 10-15 mph with gusts over 20 mph. The ground had become quite dry over the previous month or so of dry weather and was soaking up the rain like a sponge. As the day wore on the footing got a little slippery but on the whole wasn't too bad throughout.
There were multiple WHS athletes who won a medal by finishing in the top 25 overall. Mia Rent took the top spot overall in the 9th grade girls race, winning convincingly over two other athletes who comprised a trio far ahead of the rest of the field. The 9th grade boys race featured four medal winners, led by Ryan Foley in 3rd. Brandon Hopps, Grady Spence and Ryan Young also won medals. This is the most medal winners ever for a Wayland team in a single race at this meet.
There were 3k races for both 10th and 11th graders as well, in the boys 10th grade race Mustafa Kheir and Iniyan Gandhi both raced well in their first time on this course. Cassie Sun ran a strong race in the 11th grade girls race passing multiple runners in the middle portion of the race, while Jamie Markey raced well in his first run on the 3k Wrentham course. Edge Wheeler improved on his previous best time from last year.
In the Girls Championship 5k, co-captains Arya Samaratunga and Naomi Rice both had solid races in what was probably the heaviest rain of the entire day. The Boys Championship 5k had over 200 finishers and was front to back a very competitive and deep field. There were tightly bunched packs throughout and plenty of back and forth in the latter stages. Moving up steadily throughout the race, the duo of Luke Chisum and Will Jackson worked their way into the top 20 and picked off multiple runners (including the entire Concord-Carlisle top five) in the second half of the race. Matthew Tan raced with metronomic consistency to set a personal best by over 20 seconds, with Leo Ciccarelli and Morgan Fallace rounding out the team which finished 19th out of 23 teams.
The Wrentham site has been in use in its current configuration since 2010, with a two loop 3k course and a three loop 5k course. As of today, there's a new top WHS performance for three of the four all-time lists. The link to those lists is below.
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