The 2024 Class 5 State Championships lived up to the billing once again.
Parkway Central High School sophomore Gabrielle Moresi talks after her victory at the St. Louis Suburban Public High School Athletics and Activities Association Cross Country Championships at McNair Park in St. Charles where she not only took 1st in the Green Pool, where she led her Colts to the team title, but she took the overall title in 18:41 with a come-from-behind win over-taking Eureka senior Daphne Bishop in the final 300-400 meters. The sophomore only began running as a freshman, so just over a year ago, though she has been watching her big brother Alexander Moresi run for the last 4 years for the Colts, where he earned All-State Honors a year ago as a junior. Gabrielle just missed as a freshman with an impressive 37th-place finish in the 2023 Class 4 state race. Gabrielle also has a twin sister. Her coaches at Parkway Central are head girls cross country and track coach Ryan Banta, Jim Cary, Shane Murray, and Sarah Burgess
The Parkway Central Colts captured the Green Pool Title at the 2024 St. Louis Suburban PHSAAA Championship in St. Charles Saturday, October 19 at McNair Park. The Class 4 squad did it with one of the state's top freshmen fighting through 5,000 meters while battling illness for two weeks and not having recovered all of his strength. The Colts got their usual strong finish from their returning All-Staters in Alexander Moresi and Brenan Alfonso as the seniors placed 5th and 8th in the overall conference competition and while fellow senior Beckett Friedman set a PR running 16:41 to place 20th overall and make it a 1-2-3 sweep of the Green pool's Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals.Amador battled to a 48th place finish in 17:31, good for 7th in the green pool, while Lucas Padratzik was 10th in the Green Pool and 62 overall to give the Colts 142 points overall and just 23 in the Green Pool for the 5th and 1st place finishes.
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