Below are fun facts noted while updating Mocorunning's XC County Championship Meet Record Book for next year. See this year's record book (which reflects last year's results). Ideas for next year's record book are always welcome.
Team Tidbits
B-CC swept boys and girls varsity team titles for the second time in meet history. B-CC did the same in 2013. Walter Johnson (2009), Quince Orchard (1994), Churchill (1978-1980), and Whitman (1986, 1988-1990, 1992) are other schools to sweep boys and girls varsity team titles at a county meet.
B-CC swept the boys and girls Montgomery County varsity and junior varsity races. This had not happened in a single county meet (note: JV results have been reported consistently since 2007 and the JV classification split into four races in 2009). No boys team had ever won both JV races before this year. Only the 2010 girls of Whitman swept varsity and junior varsity girls races in the years since the JV split. B-CC likely had never won a boys junior varsity race at the County Championship before this year.
The B-CC girls varsity team score of 63 points ties the highest winning girls team score since 2008; however, the team depth was undeniable. B-CC could have won without its top two runners. It scored a nearly perfect 16 points in the JV 11-12 race and an impressive 23 points in the JV 9-10 race. B-CC's 16 points in the JV 11-12 girls race was the lowest score in any race in county championship history. [all writing beyond this point refers to varsity races/stats only]
The B-CC boys varsity team score of 66 points is the second best winning boys team scores since 2011 behind only the Northwood score of 2018 (64) in that time frame. It was by far the lowest point total in meet history by a B-CC boys team (previously 94).
The B-CC boys 22.0 second top-5 spread was third tightest in meet history among first place teams behind 2016 Northwest (20.0) and 1997 Whitman (21.7).
Sherwood (2nd) had its best boys team finish since 2008. Wheaton (7th) had its best boys team finish since 1993. Seneca Valley (17th) had its best boys team finish since 2006. The Wheaton boys had their lowest point total ever (177).
Blake (10th) had its best girls team finish ever. Blake had its lowest girls point total ever (312).
The Wootton boys maintained an active streak of 16 county meets finishing in the top ten. The next longest active streak is Whitman with 9.
Several girls teams maintained long streaks finishing in the top ten at the MCPS Championship: Whitman (40+), Wootton (23), B-CC (18), Walter Johnson (13)
Individual Accolades
Dimitrios Rementelas is the second Montgomery County XC champion from Sherwood High School. The first was the eventual footlocker national champion, Solomon Haile in 2008 (also coached by Dan Reeks).
Dimitrios Rementelas surpassed Garrett Suhr's 15:43.1 sophomore boys course record with his time of 15:32.0. Ioannis Rementelas (15:48) and Bereket Eshetu (15:59) recorded the third and fifth best times in course history for sophomores. Dimitrios Rementelas's 15:32.0 tied #4 in course history regardless of grade level.
Dimitrios Rementelas is the third sophomore boy to win the Montgomery County XC title. The other sophomore boys to win the Montgomery County XC title were Jarrett Van Tine of B-CC in 1997 and Tjeerd Broekman of B-CC in 1986. Both Van Tine and Broekman repeated as county champs as juniors but did not win as seniors, so no Montgomery County boy has ever won three county XC titles.
Dimitrios Rementelas' 15:32 and Ionnis Rementelas' 15:48 are the top times from Sherwood runners on the county course, surpassing Sean Enright's 16:03 from 2019.
Believe it or not, twins have gone 1-2 at the Montgomery County XC Championship Meet twice before but not in the boys race until the Rementelas twins this year. Halsey and Ashlyn Sinclair of Montgomery Blair went 1-2 in 2003. Lucinda and Claudin Hull of Quince Orchard went 1-2 in 1998.
Brothers and sisters who have shared top ten honors in the same county meet included:
Susan and Mary Kinnecome of Northwood in 1978 (also coached by Dan Reeks)
David and Troy Harry of Quince Orchard in 1992
Paul and Ed Tufaro of Whitman in 1996
Lucinda and Claudin Hull of Quince Orchard in 1997 and 1998
Ashlyn and Halsey Sinclair of Montgomery Blair in 2003 through 2006
William and Andrew Palmer of Whitman in 2006
Jenna and Alex Willett of Walter Johnson in 2009
Olivia and Evan Woods of Whitman in 2014
Joachim and Sophie El-Masry of Richard Montgomery in 2015
Caleb and Daisy Dastrup of Poolesville in 2022
MacKenzie and Megan Raue of Walter Johnson in 2023
Dimitrios and Ioannis Rementelas of Sherwood in 2025
Kindly let me know if I missed any because that is not a list that I typically keep tabs on!
Speaking of sisters, runner-up Eleanor Finnegan surpassed alumni Grace Finnegan's best career county championship time of 18:51 and place (3rd). 18:41 was a freshman course record, the #17 fastest performance all-time, and the best all-time performance on the course by a girl from Wootton High School.
Madeline Quirion was the first female Montgomery County XC champion from Sherwood High School.
Madeline Quirion's 18:30.0 performance was #12 in course history and the fastest ever by a girl from Sherwood High School.
Audrey Wychulis's time of 18:47 was the best time in course history for a girl from Northwest High School.
Madeline Quirion and Audrey Wychulis joined a club of 43 girls with at least three career all-county (top ten) honors. Quirion was the first to do so from Sherwood High School. Wychulis was the third from Northwest.
Santiago Gutierrez from Churchill High School joined a club of 31 boys with at least three all-county (top ten) honors. He is the first Montgomery County boy to do so since 2018.
Got it Wrong...
The biggest positive movers in Mocorunning's Week 7 Boys Rankings after the County Championship Meet were:
1. Bereket Eshetu (Northwood, So.)
2. Benjamin Burckle (Blair, Sr.)
3. Saaim Hamdani (Seneca Valley, Sr.)
4. Ioannis Rementelas (Sherwood, So.)
5. Ian Fisher (Northwood, So.)
The biggest positive movers in Mocorunning's Week 7 Girls Rankings after the County Championship Meet were:
1. Leela Joshi (Einstein, Jr.)
2. Natalie McCarty (Walter Johnson, So.)
3. Anna McCrae (Poolesville, Sr.)
4. Sifen Tusse (Blake, Sr.)
5. Kinjal Kapoor (Whitman, So.)
Also in the got-it-wrong category, I projected this years girls to finish in line with the 2021-to-2024 course average, but this year's girls crushed that. The top fifty finishers fell in line more closely with the all-time course average since 2011. The boys number 10 through 100 finishers were also closely aligned with the all-time course average since 2011, but the top 9 absolutely obliterated Mocorunning's projections. I will keep trying :)
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westner
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 02:25:26 PM
1998 Gaithersburg boys, finished second at County Meet with 5 in top 16 and a 21 second spread
