Menlo-Atherton’s Tatum Olesen competes in the Central Coast Section Division I girls’ cross country race Saturday at Crystal Springs. For the second straight year, Olesen paced the field to win the Division I individual title.
For the second straight year, Menlo-Atherton’s Tatum Olesen paced the girls’ Division I race at the Central Coast Section championships.
In 2022, Olesen claimed the Division I championship by running nearly 11 seconds faster than anyone else in the field. Saturday at Crystal Springs Cross Country Course, the senior was over 30 seconds faster than the second-place finisher in the event. Olesen hit the tape 17 minutes, 54.8 seconds, obliterating her personal record on the 2.95-mile course. She had never cracked the 18-minute mark before, with a previous best of 18:09.
Olesen fronted M-A’s second-place finish in the team element. The Bears totaled 66 points — including third-place by senior Annie Pflaum (18:29.9) and 10th-place by senior Sofia Melani (19:45.2) — as Evergreen Valley captured the team championship with 55 points. Carlmont took third place with 76 points. Sophomore Daniela Cuadros led the Lady Scots in 19:39.3.
Crystal sweeps Division V boys’ and girls’ titles
With junior Benjamin Bouie winning the boys’ Division V individual title, and Anna Salter, Allie Willis and Liliana Kaludzinski finishing two-three-four in the girls’ race, Crystal Springs Uplands captured each the boys’ and girls’ team championships Saturday.
Bouie dominated the field with a first-place time 15:11.6, improving his personal record by over 12 seconds. Crystal’s other top finishers were junior Tarik Baker (third place, 16:09.3); junior Oliver Boesch (fifth, 16:33.3); senior Dean Wu (seventh, 16:37); and senior Jack Flynn (17th, 17:40.8).
Nueva sophomore Ryan Fitzpatrick took fourth place in 16:23.1.
Menlo School took second place in the team element, led by junior Landon Pretre’s second-place finish of 16:08.3. Nueva School took seventh place, Oceana took seventh and Desigh Tech finished eighth.
Menlo sophomore Ariya Kaushek won the girls’ Division V individual title in 18:33.4, topping her previous personal record set a week ago at the West Bay Athletic League Championships by over 20 seconds.
Salter, a sophomore, paced Crystal with a second-place time of 18:46.1, followed by the two freshmen, Willis (third, 19:26.5) and Kaludzinski (fourth, 19:32.4). Also scoring for Crystal was sophomore Kira Dye (seventh, 20:05.4) and sophomore Heidy Avina (eighth, 20:09). Crystal senior Maya Wohl took 12th place, scoring in 10th, in 20:48.3, giving the Gryphons six of the top-10 scorers.
Individual competitors whose schools do not participate in the team element are counted as individual placers, but not as team scoring placers. Hence, the discrepancy between place standing and scoring standing.
Nueva School took third place in the team element; Menlo took fourth; Oceana sixth; Design Tech seventh; and Summit Shasta ninth.
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Burlingame relied on two underclassmen to claim the CCS Division III team title. The Panthers ran for three top-10 finishes, paced by sophomore Stella Newman’s third-place finish in 19:01. Junior Victoria Kolmsee followed up in seventh place in 19:51.2, and freshman Elizabeth Carroll took ninth in 20:06.6. Two seniors shored up the title, Ava Gonzalez (13th, 20:22) and Lauren Gonzalez (20th, 20:43.7).
Prospect junior Kylie Hoornaert took the individual championship in 18:29.2.
Division I boys
M-A senior Aidan Doherty took second place in photo finish in the boys’ Division I race. Doherty finished in 15:46.5, just a half second off the first-place time of 15:46 by individual champ Shrey Chettiar, a Bellarmine junior. Bellarmine took the team championship.
Division IV girls
Mills senior Jackie Pan took third place in the Division III girls’ race with a time of 18:47.7. Sacred Heart Prep junior Sophie Cheung took fifth in 19:20.7 and Capuchino senior Kira Forsberg took sixth in 19:25.5. Mills took third place in the team element; Cap took fourth; and SHP took fifth.
Scotts Valley took the team title, paced by Ashlyn Boothby’s individual championship time of 17:52.2, the 194th best time in history on the 2.95-mile course at Crystal Springs.
In other divisions …
St. Francis took the boys’ and girls’ Division II title championships. Palo Alto senior Grant Morgenfeld took the boys’ individual title in 15:05.2. Mitty junior Evie Marheineke took the girls’ individual title in 18:05.2. Serra finished seventh in the boys’ team standings. Hillsdale took eighth in the girls’ team standings, while Aragon took 10th.
In the boys’ Division III race, San Mateo junior Andrew Song took sixth place in 16:04.8. St. Ignatius took the team title, while Pioneer junior Carson Hedlund took the individual title in 15:11.9.
In the boys’ Division IV race, Half Moon Bay took third place in the team element. Scotts Valley won the team title, and Santa Cruz junior Eli Fitchen-Young claimed the individual title in 14:55.1, the 72nd fastest time in the history of the 2.95-mile course at Crystal Springs.
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