SHS HILLTOPPER SPORTS
BOOSTERS JOURNAL 2022-23
BOYS CROSS COUNTRY
STATE CHAMPIONS!
FRONT ROW: Yash Malik, Grady Borst, Chase Kumpf, Ryan Zagorin, Sam Levington, Alex Campbell, Liam Donnelly, Liam Phelan, Pierre Mondersir-Kiley, Tyler Cahaly, Emre Kusmin SECOND ROW: COACH NEAL SHARMA, Griffin Reinhardt-Hepler, Owen Kwon, Ethan Vela, Gavin Nolen, Oliver Cheney, Sebastiano Vandoni, Trevor Allen, Julian Fishman, Nikita Shevyakov, Derek Shen, Joaquin Gonzalez, COACH JACKIE MATOON THIRD ROW: Carter Herman, Nate Roberts, Andrew Shields, Thomas Formicelli, Lincoln Marsac, Marek Muzyka, Naveen Ghandi, Jonah Malik, Henry Donck, Brian Cheney, Jalen Chiu, Jackson Levine BACK ROW: Jake Weinberg, Dan Cota, Samuel Ard, Jack Barsh, Justin Anderson, Max Semler, John Cho, Max Hendrix, Cooper Nelson, Rahul Shah,
COACH DAMIAN BETANCES
NOT PICTURED: Liam Bernens, Charles Daigle, Gerardo Tambonero, Octavio Rodriguez, Kian Kamdar, Arjun Dev, Brady O'Shea
The team had a historic season capped by the second Group state championship for the program and a 9th place finish in the Meet of Champions. Other season highlights include winning their heat at the Shore Coaches meet for the second straight year, a North 2 Sectional title, selection as the UCIAC Boys cross country team of the year, John Cho, Jackson Levine and Nate Roberts second team All-County and setting numerous school course records, both team and individual, at Cherokee, Oak Ridge and Warinanco courses. Coach Neal Sharma was named NJ.com’s 2022 Coach of the Year.
Both the freshmen and junior varsity cross country teams excelled in their final championship meets this fall. The Freshman captured the county crown and finished 5th overall at the Freshman state championship meet and the junior varsity took 2nd at the country meet and 4th at the JV State championship earlier. With the current strength of the program, and theses performances, the future is rock solid for Summit boys cross country.
Images by John Selmer
