District 8 Team Preview: Allderdice look to represent the district at states

Boys

Taylor Allderdice ran a competitive invitational schedule last season, winning the district championship and earning an 18th place finish at states. The brothers Ryan and Zach Weirchowski have moved on and Allderdice enter the season with a capable squad that return to states and improve on that finish. They have 3 sub 18 minute runners led by Amadou Diallo compared to Carrick's zero.

1Taylor Allderdice (PA)17
1) Amadou Diallo17:12.001
2) Tavonne Davis17:37.002
3) Bart Taormina17:49.003
4) Jonah Berger18:10.004
5) Yoni Eglash18:42.007
Average Time: 17:54.00 Total Time: 1:29:30.00 1-5 Split: 1:30.00
6) Willem deBoer18:47.708
7) Peter Ganovsky18:59.7010


Girls

The Taylor Allderdice girls will look to make a return trip to the state meet in 2015. They only graduated top runner from the state meet Meredith Tipper from last year's team. District champion Dighan Kelly lead the way for most of last season and will be tasked with doing it again this season. Moving up the state meet ladder would be a good goal for this group after finishing 18th last year.

1Taylor Allderdice (PA)15
1) Dighan Kelly20:41.301
2) Maive Bellios-Fees21:28.002
3) Emma Harvey21:50.803
4) Elizabeth Smith21:59.004
5) Abby Paytas22:05.005
Average Time: 21:36.82 Total Time: 1:48:04.10 1-5 Split: 1:23.70
6) Lydia Freeman24:43.208
7) Meg Cummings26:58.3010