Hundreds of runners descended upon Van Cortlandt Park last Saturday for the sixth annual Mayor’s Cup Cross-Country Championships.
The event featured dozens of schools from the Public School Athletic League, Catholic High School Athletic Association, and Association of Independent Schools to compete in the day’s races, allowing a huge mass of runners to convene and vie for supremacy in one of the fall’s most exciting cross-country events.
The 2.5-mile varsity races included several impressive performances from local Bronx high schools. Only the Bronx Science girls team competed in the championship race, which pitted last year’s top teams against each other. They finished 8th out of 15 teams.
In the regular girls team races, the DeWitt Clinton girls team finished second, Bronx Science fifth, High School of American Studies 17th, Kennedy 26th and Evander Childs 30th. Standout individual performances included Alana Menendez of American Studies who placed ninth, and Jakierra Oates of Kennedy, who placed 16th.
Andre Knight, of the Clinton boys team, placed 12th in the boys varsity race. The Clinton guys team finished 10th overall out of 52 teams. Evander Childs finished 25th, American Studies 28th and Kennedy 33rd.
Racers were lucky enough to avoid rain, which had been forecasted for the day. Bronx cross-country teams will reconvene at Van Cortlandt at the end of October for the Bronx Borough Championship, a race that promises another large, but more limited, footrace.
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