>The first cross-country invitational meet for high school girls in the State of New Jersey and the only invitational held in the Village of Ridgewood.The starting gun for the 36th annual Ridgewood Invitational will sound off at Veterans Field, where the Ridgewood High School girls cross-country team has hosted every running since 1973.
RHS is one of 15 schools set to take part in tomorrow’s event, which begins with a race for pre-high school youths at 1:30 p.m. The boys varsity start time is 3:15, followed by the girls varsity at 3:35.The Maroon girls,are seeking their first Ridgewood Invitational team championship since 2002, when both the RHS boys and girls swept the team titles. Since that year, Maroon girls coach Jacob Brown’s squad has only finished lower than second once ,which was a third place finish in 2005.
