A Div Cross Country Review: Raffles and Victoria JC to fight for team title
Reigning A Division champion, Karthic Harish Ragupathy of Hwa Chong Institution, has history on his side, as he has won the C and B Divisions before.
Reigning A Division champion, Karthic Harish Ragupathy of Hwa Chong Institution, has history on his side, as he has won the C and B Divisions before.
Leroi Lee of Nan Hua High has won all the B Division golds at the SAA, Swift and Wings Cross Country meets. At the Wings meet, he finished an impressive 24 seconds ahead of his closest competitor.
Louis Shia of North Vista Secondary is a top contender for the individual title, having won the SAA Cross Country U-15 crown by 13 seconds.
The B Division title looks set to be a contest between 2012 C Division silver medallist, Nah Yi Xin of Cedar Girls' Secondary, and Valerie Lai of River Valley High, who placed fourth last year.
If recent form is anything to go by, it will be a three-horse race between Cedar Girls’ Secondary School, Nanyang Girls' High School and Raffles Girls' School (RGS) for the C Division girls team championship.
The Raffles Institution girls look set to wrest back the A Division champions' shield from Hwa Chong Institution. This season, they have managed to win the team title with a perfect score at SAA, Swift and Wings Cross Country meets, with their runners claiming the top four positions in each meet.
Zachary Ryan Devaraj of Anglo Chinese School (Independent) (ACS(I)) achieved a rare feat when he won the A Division 1,500m on April 10, 2012 — it was his sixth consecutive 1,500m win at the National Schools level across all three divisions since since Secondary One.
Raffles Institution (RI) maintained their dominance in cross country by clinching both the boys' and girls' titles at the Wings Cross Country Championships well ahead of the second placed teams.