South Florida's Fastest 5 Girls
Tsion Yared (Freshman, Pine Crest)
Tsion Yared, from Pine Crest is our top performer for this week's top five performances in south Florida. Yared ended up leading a strong pack of her teammates early on at the Pine Crest Cross Country Invitational. She ended up leaving the pack and opened up a gap to win the race a minute faster than everyone else. Yared ended up crossing the line at 18:11.19, which is her fastest time of the season. Her personal best is 18:08.31, so for Yared to only be three seconds away from breaking her PR seems like she'll continue to return to the top five.
Yared and her Pine Crest teammates just missed out on having a perfect score but she definitely helped them stay a strong pack early on. The team place first and then second through seventh, scoring 19 points. Here's what Yared had to say about the race "Coming into this race I thought I would've had a little more competition but less than half a mile I knew it was just going to be an alone race. So I just had the truck to motivate me and I just kept on throwing surges". Yared is looking forward to running at the Flrunners invite so be sure to look out for her this weekend.
Jinah Mickens-Malik (8th Grade, Mater Academy)
Next to make the top five performance list this week for south Florida is, Jinah Mickens-Malik, from Mater Academy. Mickens-Malik was the second best performer of the week with a time of 19:10.82, where she came in second place at the Pine Crest Cross Country Invitational. Last week she ran her personal best time of 19:07.50 last week at the Spanish River invite. She has been in the front for all her races and Mickens-Malik most likely will continue to do that.
Maya Beleznay (Freshman, Pine Crest)
Coming up next on the top five performance list for south Florida is, Maya Beleznay, from Pine Crest who places third. Beleznay came in third as well at the Pine Crest Cross Country Invitational. There she was the second runner from Pine Crest high school to cross the line, which she did in a time of 19:16.05. Running that time set a new personal best for her and was a about a minute drop from her last race that she ran at the King of the Hill meet.
Simone Vreeland (Senior, Pine Crest)
The fourth fastest performance this week is, Simone Vreeland, who is also a runner from Pine Crest high school. Vreeland came in fourth at the Pine Crest Cross Country Invitational and ran a time of 19:25.29. She set a new personal best by running that and dropped her time by 17 seconds from her last race at the King of the Hill meet.
Rahyah Andressohn (Freshman, Southridge)
For this week's south Florida top five performances our fifth best performer is, Rahyah Andressohn, from Miami Southridge high school. Andressohn came in first place at the Junior Orange Bowl Invitational and won with a time of 19:28.59. She won a race earlier this season at the Miami-Dade County Fair Championship.