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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood boys #XCTFMaroons are 6th in the nation!
In a distance medley race representing the best from the United States, the Ridgewood team took home 6th place and was named All-American! Losing only to the best team from Oregon, Florida, California, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. DJ Murphy, Gavin Kim, Jack McKenna, and Luke Pash teamed up on this great accomplishment
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JUNE 26, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY MATTHEW BIRCHENOUGH
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
One final race last Friday night provided the perfect ending to the careers of two Ridgewood High School girls track legends: one who served as the founder and leader of the team for the past 44 seasons, and the other a relative newcomer to the sport whose performances over the past two years electrified the program and rewrote the record books.
Senior Carleen Jeffers capped her abbreviated yet spectacular Ridgewood career as an All-American, taking fourth place in 16:58.19 in the 5,000-meter race at New Balance Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, N.C., to make longtime RHS girls head coach Jacob Brown’s final meet a memorable one.
“It doesn’t even feel real right now,” said Jeffers in a phone interview Monday night. The senior became the first Maroon girl to earn All-America status since 2012 when the 4-x-800 and distance medley relay teams both won their races at Nationals.
But Jeffers, who didn’t begin running track until her junior year, heaped much of the credit upon Brown, who started the RHS girls track and field program in 1972 and whose retirement from the head coaching post went into effect at the end of the season.
