Great Team Finish at Canterbury: Third Place

The Westminster thinclads were fired up for a perfect fall day of racing at the 46th Canterbury Invitational. The boys went into the race focused on pushing themselves to post strong times in this early season competition. Right off the line, an impressive pack of 10 or so runners was established and came through the first mile clustered around 5:10. Emmett de Kanter ‘19 was in that group and, by mile two, was solidly in third position which he held onto for the rest of the race. The Loomis runner who has been undefeated for over a season won handily, but de Kanter was under 15 seconds back this time, and he dropped 30 seconds off his best Canterbury time. Dropping over 50 seconds from last season, Kieran Haug ‘21 was closely followed by Justin Schuster ‘19; both of these runners broke 18 minutes for first time this season and on this course. Daniel Pinckney ‘20 was knocking on the door of that threshold and looked strong, but the drop of the week came from Elliott Kennard ‘19, who was over 80 seconds faster than last week to break 19 minutes. Will Rizzo ‘21 also dropped a minute off last week, and Alex Ellis ‘20 was just over 20 minutes. The team was surprised and pleased to learn Westminster was the third-place team, its best finish since Westminster moved into Division 1. A great start to the season! The team thanks the parents who came to support them, and looks forward to its home invitational next weekend.