Team Info
Girls' Cross Country - Varsity
Overview
Overview
The Taft girls' cross country program aims to be an inclusive program for both competitive and beginning runners. The coaches work to develop each runner to her fullest potential and foster a strong sense of teamwork in what is often perceived to be an individual sport. Workouts are stratified to meet the training needs of each runner, challenging those who aim to be collegiate athletes and encouraging those who are new to the sport. Our daily runs vary in their format, including distance runs, hill repeats, track workouts, and fartlek running, and the team takes one day per week to cross train with weights, yoga, or Zumba. The coaches' overall goal is to instill a life-long love of running in each graduate of the program.
Schedule
Schedule
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Miss Porter's School, Suffield Academy
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Choate Rosemary Hall
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Hotchkiss School, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Loomis Chaffee School
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Williston Northampton School
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Kent School
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Kent School | Away | Details | ||||
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Founders League Tournament
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New Englands
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Avon Old Farms School | Away | Details |
Roster
Roster
| # | Name | Position | Class | Hometown |
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| Katie Bootsma | 2020 | Woodbury, CT | ||
| Logan Clew-Bachrach | 2020 | Warren, CT | ||
| Sinead Connolly | 2021 | Watertown, CT | ||
| Bojana Drca | 2020 | Belgrade | ||
| Mare Gandarela | 2021 | Mexico City | ||
| Lucy Gretsky | 2019 | Westfield, NJ | ||
| Lilly Izmirlian | 2022 | Nassau | ||
| Michelle Lian | 2020 | Beijing | ||
| Kaitlyn Macdonald | 2019 | Southborough, MA | ||
| Stella Oldakowski | 2022 | |||
| Kunchok Palmo | 2020 | West Stockbridge, MA | ||
| Annabel Pick | 2022 | New York, NY | ||
| Maggie Robertshaw | 2020 | Clinton Corners, NY | ||
| Kate Sharpe | 2021 | Southbury, CT | ||
| Caroline Shea | 2019 | Morristown, NJ | ||
| Eleanor Streit | 2019 | Tarrytown, NY | ||
| Tania Tsunik | 2020 | Pershotravensk | ||
| Coco Zhang | 2021 | Beijing | ||
| Kate Zhang | 2020 | Hong Kong | ||
| Catherine Zhao | 2022 | Beijing |
Coaches
Coaches
About Head Coach Lisa Parente
Lisa graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in classical languages. At Davidson, Lisa ran cross country and track and served as a Latin teaching assistant. Prior to coming to Taft in 2014, Lisa spent five years teaching Latin and coaching cross country, track, swimming, and lacrosse at independent schools in Georgia and Maryland. At Taft, Lisa has served as a dormitory head for both Vogelstein Dormitory and Mac House, and she has worked as Dean of Students for the Taft Summer School. In December 2015, Lisa finished her master’s degree in Latin through the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Currently, she serves as a Dean of the Upper Middle Class and teaches Latin. She is the girls' varsity cross country head coach and works as an assistant coach for the track teams, primarily with the girls' middle distance and distance runners. Lisa does dormitory duty in ISP Dormitory and lives on campus with her husband, Ozzie.
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Head Coach
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