Kate Wiser Wins Talented Girls Field At NE HS Club Champs


Southbury Pomperaug's Kate Wiser, a senior in the Class of 2021, won the Northeast HS Club Cross Country Championships on Saturday in Montgomery, New York, producing a winning time of 16:46.8. 

A massive PR by nearly 50 seconds, Wiser broke 17 minutes for 5K for the first time and in doing so took down nationally-ranked runners like No. 4 Brooke Rauber, Sydney Masciarelli -- who was ranked as high as No. 11 in Week 5 of the MileSplit50 -- and Karrie Baloga. Wiser's time is the eighth-fastest of the fall season thus far. 

Rauber finished second overall in 17:00.3, while Masciarelli was third in 17:20.1 and Baloga was fifth in 17:49.3. New Windsor's Chloe Scrimgeour was fourth overall in 17:43.7.

Wiser, however, is no surprise. 

The Connecticut harrier is a two-time All-Ameican at Foot Locker Nationals who finished ninth and seventh at the championship in back-to-back years, respectively. 

Her performance on Saturday once again showed a talent not to be slept on, as Wiser also picked up a 164 speed rating, the highest of her career and fourth-highest in 2020 so far. 


Girls Champ/Seeded Merge (Champ & Seeded Merge)                                                Speed Rating
   1 WISER, Kate             12  570 Pomperaug-CT                       16:46.8        ---     164.40   164 ******
   2 RAUBER, Brooke          12  559 Tully-NY                           17:00.3       13.5     159.90   160 *****
   3 MASCIARELLI, Sydney     12  551 Northbridge-MA                     17:20.1       33.3     153.30   153 ***
   4 SCRIMGEOUR, Chloe       12  563 West Hartford-CT                   17:43.7       56.9     145.43   145
   5 BALOGA, Karrilynn       10  534 New Windsor-NY                     17:49.3     1:02.5     143.57   144
   6 IELFIELD, Hannah        12  548 South lewis-NY                     17:52.3     1:05.5     142.57   143
   7 ALTIERI, Kathryn        12  533 Staten Island-NY                   18:05.6     1:18.8     138.13   138
   8 FIELDING, McKinley      11  543 Carthage-NY                        18:07.4     1:20.6     137.53   138
   9 NOBLE, Mari             12  556 Greenwich-CT                       18:07.7     1:20.9     137.43   137
  10 BERNARD, Brynn          9   536 Boonville-NY                       18:09.8     1:23.0     136.73   137
  11 COATS, Rose             10  539 Brooklyn-NY                        18:14.7     1:27.9     135.10   135
  12 DOE, Alexa              11  542 South Jefferson-NY                 18:16.6     1:29.8     134.47   134
  13 BANINO, Daphne          11  535 Sleepy Hollow-NY                   18:18.6     1:31.8     133.80   134
  14 STEFFEN, Anna           12  484 Madison-CT                         18:20.4     1:33.6     133.20   133
  15 TOTH-RATAZZI, Emily     11  566 Rome-NY                            18:23.7     1:36.9     13