2025-26 Year In Review: Spotlighting MCPS Runners' State Championship Success!

CROSS COUNTRY (FALL 2025)

Both the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Barons and the Sherwood Warriors were crowned 2025 Maryland cross country state champions as a team! B-CC brought home the 4A girls’ title while the Warriors claimed the top spot in the 3A girls’ meet. Sherwood’s boys team also had athletes place at the top of the podium while several MoCo athletes medaled as individuals as well. Click this link or scroll down to learn more about the top Montgomery County athletes in last fall’s cross country state championship meet!

2A Boys: Poolesville runners took each of the top three spots from Montgomery County athletes. Junior Ethan Dimmerling, senior Nathan Fielder, and junior Keaton Trouteaud finished in 20th, 25th, and 35th places overall. Dimmerling’s 20th place performance with a time of 17:35.44 was his season best. The Falcons finished third in the 2A class as a team with 134 points as the only MoCo school with a team score

2A Girls: Senior Anna McCrae represented the Falcons and finished 20th in the state in 21:39.17. McCrae’s teammates, senior Ruby Mercer and junior Bhayva Chidambaranathan also finished in the top 30, placing 26th and 29th respectively. Poolesville’s girls also took the bronze spot in the team rankings, scoring 128 points.

3A Boys: Sherwood’s Rementelas twins, sophomores Dimitrios and Ioannis, placed first and second overall in the 3A class, finishing in 16:10.6 and 16:18.5, both marking season bests. Montgomery County completed the sweep of the top three spots with Northwood sophomore Bereket Eshetu placing third in 16:29.16. The Warriors placed second overall in the class, finishing seven points behind Centennial with 84.

3A Girls: Madeline Quirion, a senior from Sherwood, won the state gold medal by 13 seconds, setting a personal best of 18:51.07 in her last high school meet. Wootton’s Eleanor Finnegan placed second at 19:04.38, and after Finnegan’s silver medal performance, MoCo’s next finisher was fellow Patriot Olivia Dickerson. The freshman placed 29th, finishing in 21:10.6. As a team, Wootton finished ranked fourth in the meet with 164 points.

4A Boys: Spots two through four in the state were won by MoCo athletes. Blair senior Benjamin Burckle and Whitman senior Zack Pritts set personal bests as Burckle’s 16:10.29 earned him the silver medal and Pritts’ 16:36.65 placed him fourth. Santiago Gutierrez, a senior from Churchill, set his season best in the state championship, earning bronze in 16:34.62. On the backs of Burckle’s second place finish, the Blazers earned the silver medal as a team with 81 points while Bethesda-CC earned bronze with 94.

4A Girls: Montgomery County runners earned each of the top three spots in the 4A girls meet. Bethesda-CC’s Nya Stoian won gold in 19:44.02, closely followed by Northwest’s Audrey Wychulis, who set her season best of 19:44.33. Clarksburg’s Madeline Kelly finished seven seconds behind Wychulis to win the bronze medal. The Barons won gold as a team, recording just 65 total points. Whitman’s team also saw the podium, placing third with 118.

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INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD (WINTER 2025-26)

Churchill’s boys’ team was the closest in MCPS to winning a state title during last winter’s indoor track and field season, placing second in the 4A class with 38.5 team points. Blair also came close to winning a state title, finishing fourth in the 4A with 32 points on the girls’ side. Click this link or scroll down to learn about which teams from each classification finished with the most points out of their fellow MoCo competition!

2A Boys: Poolesville (2A #17: 4)

The Falcons were led by a pair of sixth place performances, including junior Keegan Slonski in the 300m and Alex Daniels in the 800m. Additionally, Poolesville’s 4x400m relay team placed fifth in the 2A class with a time of 3:33.99.

2A Girls: Poolesville (2A #10: 10.5)

Bucknell commit Teagan Bandholz had the best day of any Falcon, winning the school’s only gold medal on championship day. Bandholz decidedly won gold in the shot put, throwing 41-feet-7.5-inches, almost five feet farther than the silver medalist. Claire Main placed eighth in the 1600m at 5:32.93 while Poolesville’s lone relay team placed seventh in the 4x800m.

3A Boys: Sherwood (3A #8: 19.5)

Dimitrios Rementelas earned a pair of individual medals. The sophomore finished half a second behind gold in the 800m, finishing in 1:59.81, but that was followed by a gold medal performance in the 1600m at 4:22.54. Isaiah Bobo-Amang was the only other Warrior to participate in the finals, as the senior placed fifth in the high jump at 6-feet-2-inches.

3A Girls: Northwood (3A #16: 10)

The Gladiators’ 16th place finish was carried by junior Addison Finlay, who set a personal best in the 55m hurdles at 8.27 seconds. No other Northwood athletes participated in the finals in any event, but the team was still the highest placing MCPS school in the 3A championship.

4A Boys: Churchill (4A #2: 38.5)

Santiago Gutierrez set a personal best of 9:39.49 in the 3200m, earning second place and the Bulldogs’ best finish of the day in an individual event. In the field, however, junior Jacob Breitstein and senior Bakari Taylor both earned gold medals. Breitstein’s 55-foot-11.5-inch shot put and Taylor’s 6-foot-9-inch high jump was good enough to earn both the two the top spot in their events. Additionally, Churchill’s 4x200m team earned a silver medal in 1:32.47.

4A Girls: Blair (4A #4: 32)

The Blazers were strong in mid-range track events. Anayimi (Cori) Emah won silver in the 500m, finishing in a personal best 1:18.07, while sophomore Clare Saboe also finished second, taking the silver medal in the 800m in 2:19.27. Saboe also had a strong 1600m, placing fourth while setting her personal best. Blair’s best event of the day was the 4x800m, as the Blazers won gold without a single senior, beating second place by 17 seconds.

OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD (SPRING 2026)

On the backs of a trio of golds from Dimitrios Rementelas, the Sherwood Warriors captured their second running state championship of the school year, claiming gold in the 3A boys’ competition. The most impressive feat of the day belongs to Springbrook’s Funmilola Ayoku who won four total gold medals! Click this link or scroll down to learn about which teams from each classification finished with the most points out of their fellow MoCo competition!

2A Boys: Poolesville (2A #13: 18.5)

Junior Keegan Slonski won the school’s lone gold medal, setting a personal best of 37.88 seconds in the 300m hurdles to win gold. Slonski also finished fourth in the 110m hurdles before participating in the field, tying for fifth place in the high jump at six feet.

2A Girls: Poolesville (3A #8: 30)

All 30 of the Falcons’ points were won in the field as Poolesville athletes won gold in three events. Bucknell commit Teagan Bandholz won the shot put by six feet, setting a personal best of 44-feet-3-inches, before also taking gold in the discus at 129-feet-10-inches. Brynn Congdon won the team’s third gold medal, jumping 10-feet-6-inches as a sophomore in the pole vault.

3A Boys: Sherwood (3A State Champion: 79)

Unsurprisingly, the Warriors were led by the Rementelas twins en route to earning the state title. Dimitrios won three gold medals in three long distance events, placing atop the podium in the 800m, 1600m, and 3200m runs. Ioannis won a pair of medals, finishing second in the 1600 to win silver and third in the 3200, earning bronze. Sherwood also won the gold medal in the 4x800m relay. Jefferson Serkfem contributed in the field, finishing second with a 148-feet-2-inch discus throw.

3A Girls: Wootton (3A #21: 12)

Distance runner Eleanor Finnegan was the lone Patriot to finish a finals event in the top ten. The freshman’s best race was the 3200m, finishing second in 10:48.22. Finnegan also ran the 1600m, placing fifth in 5:05.89.

4A Boys: Blair & Churchill (4A T#3: 39)

Blazer senior Benjamin Burckle earned gold in the 1600m, setting a personal best of 4:15.04 and claiming the title by .28 seconds. Blair did well in the relay races, claiming third in the 4x100m, second in the 4x200m, and fourth in the 4x400m. Burckle’s sixth place finish in the 800m and Evan Winters’ sixth place finish in the 100m dash also contributed to Blair’s third place overall finish.

Santiago Gutierrez set a personal best in the 3200m, finishing in 9:16.74 for a comfortable spot in third place with several seconds on either side. Bakari Taylor won the school’s lone gold medal, reaching six and a half feet in the high jump. Junior Jacob Breitstein also had a pair of fourth place finishes in the shot put and discus throws.

4A Girls: Springbrook (4A T#2: 51)

The Blue Devils were led by junior Funmilola Ayoku, who finished on the podium in both hurdles events. Ayoku set a personal best and finished third in the 110m hurdle before setting a second best in the 300m hurdles, winning gold in 41.9 seconds. Ayoku then went on to win three more gold medals in the field, claiming the top spot in the high jump (5-feet-6-inches), long jump (19-feet-1.5-inches), and triple jump (40-feet-6.25-inches), two of them marking personal bests for Ayoku.

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