Cross-Country Kicks Off Season with Strong Performance at the Mark Ferris Invitational

9/19/2021

Forty-seven Bulldog runners took to the course at Landon for the Mark Ferris Invitational Saturday. Pierre Attiogbe placed first overall with a time of 17:25 to lead St. Albans to a second-place finish behind team champion St. John’s and ahead of 11 other schools. Overall, nine STA runners entered the A race with six finishing in the top-25 of the 100-runner field. Will Strong (4^th, 18:21), Sebi Hume (11^th, 18:44), Aidan Urbina (20^th, 19:21), Jack Thomas (22^nd, (19:28), and Laszlo Wolfe (25^th, 19:45) were the Bulldogs’ other top finishers. Venya Kuzichev (20:56), Joseph Laroski (21:04), and D.J. Heiber (21:08) also turned in excellent performances. Coach Ehrenhaft was pleased with all of the runners and especially impressed that the STA field included four freshmen - Strong, Hume, Wolfe, and Heiber – who all ran with confidence in their first varsity competition. Overall results for the A race can be found here https://www.arrowliveresults.com/MarkFerrisInvitationalVarsityBoysA.

Thirty-eight of the 163 runners in the B race wore St. Albans navy blue singlets and shorts. The STA runners finished first as a team, beating St. John’s by 11 points. Eight Bulldogs finished in the top-30 paced by Peter Donets (5^th, 20:36), Theo Sotoodehnia (9^th, 21:28), Evan Virtue (10^th, 21:32), Sammy Miller (11^th, 21:33), and Henry Tracy (13^th, 21:34). Samuel Reynolds (22:13), Jaylen Wills (22:15), and Matthew Fujiyama (22:19) also ran outstanding races. Overall results for the B race can be found here https://www.arrowliveresults.com/MarkFerrisInvitationalVarsityBoysB.

Coaches and runners alike were excited to see the team in a meet after four weeks of intense training that started August 23^rd. Coach Ehrenhaft was very pleased with the entire team and was especially impressed with the depth of the freshmen class. The Bulldogs travel to Stevenson, MD next Saturday to run in the Spiked Shoe Invitational on the Greenspring Campus of Stevenson University. The Boys Varsity race starts at 9:00am.

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The Bulldogs huddle before hitting the start line.
The 2021 Meet season kicks off!
There are no competitors in sight as Pierre Attiogbe cruises to first place finish.

St. Albans School

Mount St. Alban, Washington DC 20016-5069

Phone: 202-537-6435

Located in Washington D.C., St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.