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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.
Email Head Coach Andrew Houghtalen
Where we train:
Schedule
Schedule
Opponent | Date | Time | Location | Advantage | Type | Details | Result | Score | Status |
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Miss Porter's School
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Home | Details about Girls' Cross Country - Varsity | Win | 26-33 | |||
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Choate Rosemary Hall
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Home | View Recap | Win | 25-32 | |||
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Loomis Chaffee School
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Loomis Chaffee School | Away | Details about Girls' Cross Country - Varsity | Loss | 43-20 | ||
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Hotchkiss School
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Loomis Chaffee School | Away | Details about Girls' Cross Country - Varsity | Win | 23-36 | ||
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Williston Northampton School
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Home | Details about Girls' Cross Country - Varsity | Win | 20-39 | |||
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Sacred Heart Greenwich
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Kent School
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Founders League Tournament
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New Englands
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Hotchkiss School | Details about Girls' Cross Country - Varsity |
Roster
Roster
# | Name | Position | Class | Hometown |
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Crystal Alcantara De La Rosa | 2028 | Waterbury, CT | ||
Lucy Atwood | 2028 | Nashville, TN | ||
Manuella Bawuah | 2028 | Bronx, NY | ||
Farren Camp | 2026 | Los Gatos, CA | ||
Olivia Cavalier | 2028 | Cornwall, CT | ||
Tess Celebi | 2027 | Roxbury, CT | ||
Mercer Forshaw | 2028 | Middlebury, CT | ||
Lalin Hasoglu | 2027 | Istanbul | ||
Sally Higgins | 2025 | Yarmouth, ME | ||
Electra Kazanas | 2027 | Locust Valley, NY | ||
Olivia Kim | 2028 | Southbury, CT | ||
Torie Korenha | 2026 | Novovolynsk | ||
Tatsha Kumthampinij | 2025 | Tenafly, NJ | ||
Vi Lapham | 2027 | Waterbury, CT | ||
Eleanor Lemon | 2026 | Singapore | ||
Ada Lu | 2028 | |||
Estelle Magnan | 2026 | New York, NY | ||
Charlotte Murphy | 2025 | Southbury, CT | ||
Andrea Poon | 2027 | Hong Kong | ||
Louisa Prentice | 2026 | New York, NY | ||
Chelsea Soetemo | 2027 | |||
Kendall Theiss | 2028 | West Palm Beach, FL | ||
Titania Wang | 2028 | Farmington, CT | ||
Eleanor Williams | 2027 | New York, NY | ||
Maya Woodhall | 2027 | Bethlehem, CT | ||
Molly Wynne | 2025 | New York, NY | ||
Mandy Xu | 2028 | |||
Kaia Yeung | 2028 | Mid Levels | ||
Bernice Zhang | 2027 | Farmington, CT | ||
Sophia Zhao | 2027 | Shanghai |
Coaches
Coaches
About Head Coach Andrew Houghtalen
Drew earned his BA in English literature from Sacred Heart University, where he ran cross country and indoor and outdoor track, and his MAT from Union Graduate College. He spent six years at the Canterbury School where he taught third form English and upper form electives, coached cross country and outdoor track, and served as a dorm parent. Most recently, he spent two years teaching ninth, eleventh, and twelfth grade English at the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware.
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