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Hills Cross-Country Team The Best Ever?

Girls' team dominates at county championship meet.

 
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From left: coach Bob Bell, Callen Vander May, Caity Wallace, Alyssa Loffredo, Ali Pyper, Lucy Peschel, Jillian O'Donohoe, Steph Bitcon, and coach Chris Monaco.
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 The Wayne Hills girls’ cross-country team won the Passaic County Championship recently.

The team has been called by some as the best the county has ever produced.

The team is ranked number four in the state.

The team dominated at the championship meet.

The team won division championship for the third consecutive year. Steph Bitcon won the division race. The team averaged a time of 19:33 for the meet, the ninth fastest average time in the course's history.

Alyssa Loffredo, a junior, finished the championship meet with a personal best of 20:07, NorthJersey.com reported.

The team broke the county cross-country record with 21 points and six runners finished in the top 10.

Six rummers were named first team all-county. 

The head coach is Robert Bell.

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Anna Lisa

8:08 am on Friday, October 26, 2012

Fabulous. Congratulations girls and coaches.

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Ron

10:33 am on Friday, October 26, 2012

Congratulations girls, you are awesome! Good luck in the State and regional meets!!

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Wayne's World

11:44 am on Friday, October 26, 2012

A fabulous achievement regarding of where they rank all-time. Just as food for thought, I believe the WV girls cross-country teams were at least as accomplished. If memory serves, at least 2 if not 3 of the runners were invited to a prestigious national race in San Diego, and they swept all honors at the conference, county and state level. I think they had something like a 90 meet winning streak from about '84-89 or so. Several of them ran in college and did pretty well. As good as WV football was at that time and WH football has been in recent years, I believe that group of cross-country runners may have been the most accomplished sports team of all time from Wayne.

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Ron

1:17 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012

Lots of important meets left to continue their glorious successes and next year same group minus one will be in place. There is no stopping them from not only beating the county record but winning major upcoming meets making history beyond. Very dedicated, tight-knit, hardworking group. Averaging 19:33 as a team is a remarkable feat. Lets all support our Wayne girls - top 5 in the whole STATE (including ALL groups) WOW..

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Beth

5:54 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012

You go girls! The county record is amazing - the best in the county in history is a big deal. You make all of Wayne very proud!

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