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PREDICTIONS: 2024 NXR Northeast Championships

  • Writer: Donald Speas
    Donald Speas
  • Nov 22, 2024
  • 2 min read

Predictions by Donny Speas, edits via Garrett Zatlin

This year's Northeast region has been highlighted by some incredible performances from New Jersey squads. This regional also features a handful of top individuals, many of whom have a realistic shot at taking home a podium finish at NXN in a couple of weeks time.


Due to our limited amount of time for writing and editing, we won't be offering any written analysis for these NXR prediction articles. We are, however, expanding our predictions to feature the top-20 individuals and the top-10 teams.

Girl's Individual Race

  1. Paige Sheppard (Union Catholic)

  2. Brooke Strauss (Glastonbury)

  3. Liliah Gordon (Northern Burlington)

  4. Chase Gilbert (Old Lyme)

  5. Lillian DiCola (Hatboro Horsham)

  6. Abigail Hennessey (Westford Academy)

  7. Mikita Barry (Bedford)

  8. Cayleigh Kaiser (Union Catholic)

  9. Mackenzie Skelly (Penn Charter)

  10. Virginia Kraus (Saucon Valley)

  11. Sophia Thompson (Union Catholic)

  12. Madeleine Lane (Hopkinton)

  13. Zoe Mosher (Park View)

  14. Allison Lee (West Windsor-Plainsboro North)

  15. Sadie Honig (Manalapan)

  16. Zoe Carroll (York)

  17. Haley Kavanagh (Oyster River)

  18. Estella Laird (Green Mount Valley)

  19. Megan Faris (Hanover)

  20. Greta Hammer (Needham)


Boy's Individual Race (5k)

  1. Joe Barrett (Christian Brothers Academy)

  2. Soheib Dissa (Newton)

  3. Marshall Vernon (La Salle)

  4. Tamrat Gavenas (Phillips Academy)

  5. Sean Gray (Portsmouth)

  6. Alex Fisher (Loomis Chaffee)

  7. Sullivan Sturtz (Keene)

  8. Magnus Manley (Ridgefield)

  9. Carter Smith (Mifflin County)

  10. Luke Pash (Ridgewood)

  11. Matthew Giardina (Bishop Guertin)

  12. Vinay Raman (Hershey)

  13. Jonathan Hess (Lewisburg Area)

  14. Brenden McMahon (Ridge)

  15. Clay Stevens (Manalapan)

  16. Sean McCauley (East Lyme)

  17. Luke Cushing (Amity)

  18. Isaac Oppermann (State College)

  19. Maximus Bonilla (Elizabeth)

  20. Theo Oppermann (State College)


Girl's Team Race

  1. Union Catholic Vikings (NJ)

  2. Champlain Valley Union Redhawks (VT)

  3. Cumberland Clippers (RI)

  4. Oyster River Bobcats (NH)

  5. Princeton Tigers (NJ)

  6. Ocean City Raiders (NJ)

  7. Weymouth Wildcats (MA)

  8. Wellesley Raiders (MA)

  9. Lexington Minuteman (MA)

  10. Billerica Memorial Indians (MA)


Boy's Team Race

  1. Union Catholic Vikings (NJ)

  2. Ridgefield Tigers (CT)

  3. Haddonfield Memorial Bulldawgs (NJ)

  4. East Lyme Vikings (CT)

  5. St Johnsbury Hilltoppers (VT)

  6. State College Lions (PA)

  7. Brookline Warriors (MA)

  8. Cherokee Chiefs (NJ)

  9. Ocean City Raiders (NJ)

  10. Cherry Hill East Cougars (NJ)

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