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Boys team
Eric Meleney, Whitman, senior
Dave Petzold, Rockville, senior
Amanuel Asefaw, Blair, junior
Peter Scherr, Walter Johnson, senior
Anthony White, Einstein, junior
Mike Smith, Springbrook, senior
Curt Silbert, Wootton, senior
Girls team
Annie Hoefler, Springbook, freshman
Beth Jacobson, Kennedy, senior
Tammie DeVore, Churchill, senior
Kristine Ogle, Wheaton, senior
Courtney Cathers, Whitman, senior
Erin Green, Rockville, sophomore
Jenny Schucter, Gaithersburg, junior
All-League
Division I Boys
Eric Melaney, Whitman, senior
Dave Petzold, Rockville, senior
Gary Sherman, Whitman, sophomore
Matt Schweitzer, Gaithersburg, junior
Mike Smith, Springbrook, senior
David Norton, Whitman, sophomore
Dale Osborne, Rockville, senior
Division I girls
Tammy DeVore, Churchill, senior
Annie Hoefler, Springbrook, freshman
Courtney Cathers, Whitman, senior
Virginia Mattingly, Whitman, freshman
Jenny Schucter, Gaithersburg, junior
Kristine Ogle, Wheaton, senior
Erin Green, Rockville, sophomore
Division II boys
Amanuel Asefaw, Blair, junior
Esayas Asefaw, Blair, senior
Adam Kiely, Blair, senior
Curt Silbert, Wootton, senior
Tony Dunn, Wootton, junior
Bruce Case, B-CC, junior
Jeff Knabel, B-CC, senior
Division II girls
Beth Jacobson, Kenney, senior
Eileen Thorpe, Kennedy senior
Trish Gill, Kennedy, junior
Tanya Paulson, Kennedy, sophomore
Jennifer Haas, Magruder, freshman
Sars Quinn, Wootton, freshman
Willamijn Van Wageningen, B-CC
Division II boys
Peter Scherr, Walter Johnson, senior
Dave Michaais, Einstein, junior
Anthony White, Einstein, junior
Dave Moldvay, Einstein, sophomore
Terry Rowell, Richard Montgomery, junior
Tim Sonner, R.M., sophomore
Phil Lim, Woodward, junior
Division III girls
Jenny Kraich, Woodward, sophomore
Jessica Kaplan, Woodward, sophomore
Julie Levri, R.M. sophomore
Christina Boyle, Damascus, sophomore
Vanessa McMillan, Woodward, senior
Kim Fleming, R.M. sophomore
Laura Blankenship, Northwood, junior
All-state team
(Selected by Maryland State Track Coaches' Association)
First team boys
Jim Hassenauer, Archbishop Curley
Kirk Young, Central
Eric Melaney, Whitman
John Caldwell, Georgetown Prep
Eric Sierka, Good Counsel
Richard Kastner, North Harford
David Ward, Eleanor Roosevelt
David Petzold, Rockville
Eric Scott, Mergenthaler Tech (Baltimore)
Tom Navs, Middletown
First team girls
Beth Jacobson, Kennedy
Annie Hoefler, Springbook
Tammie DeVore, Churchill
Amy Harden, Westminster
Natalee Kavatski, Bowie
Robin Quinlan, Bowie
Janet Coffey, Atholton
Carol Monaghan, Overlea
Kathy Beresh, North Harford
Sharon Webb, Smithsburg
Second team boys
Bill Almon, Oakland Mills
Neil Cucuzalla, Loyola
Jeff Merkowitz, Eleanor Roosevelt
Anamuel Asefaw, Blair
Tom Dewey, Parkville
John Kipfer, Bowie
Peter Scherr, Walter Johnson
Richard William, Wicomico
Gary Miller, Bowie
Scott Baker, Broadneck
Second team girls
Kim Flannery, North Carroll
Cindy Flannery, North Carroll
Jennifer Amyx, Walkersville
Kim Braksen, Frederick Douglass
Krista Pierpont, Broadneck
Jenny Schucter, Gaithersburg
Ashley Riggs, Severna Park
Alicia Jackson, Suitland
Erin Green, Rockville
Andrea MacIntoch, Towson
Runner of the year
Boys
Jim Hassenauer,Curley
Girls
Beth Jacobson, Kennedy
County dominates All-State team; Jacobson is runner of the year
Special to the Journal
Montgomery County Runners dominated the Maryland State Track Coaches Association all-state cross-country teams. All told, six boys and five girls were nominated to the first and second teams. In addition, Beth Jacobson of Kennedy was voted the girls runner of the year.
Votes cast are based on performance throughout the season with emphasis on the championship portion.
Level of finish and invitational competition is also considered and, finally, a runner's record overall is used in the decision-making process.
Jacobson, a senior, rounder out a near-perfect, four-year stint at Kennedy with her third cross country state championship in a row. Her complete dominance of class A girls distance runners during her four seasons with the Cavaliers and her regional and state performances this year made Jacobson an easy choice for runner of the year.
She is undefeated in class A competition winning, her regional race by almost two minutes and winning the state this year by almost a minute. Her sole losses this year came at the hands of Northern Virginia runners and two county AA competitors.
Those two county runners, Springbrook freshman Annie Hoefler and Churchill senior Tammy DeVore are teammates with Jacobson on the All-State ballot. They are ranked second and third respectively behind Jacobson on the first-team.
Hoefler overcame a less than optimum early season to capture the regional and state AA titles from defending champion DeVore. In doing so, she recorded the fastest times of the day on the A-II and AA-I regional course at the National Bureau of Standards and at the state meet at Hereford. At the latter, she recorded the second fastest all-time time run on Hereford's 2.5 mile course.
The zenith of DeVore's season came at the Georgetown Prep Classic where she finished second to eventual Virginia State champion Langley sophomore Erin Keough in the seeded section. Hoefler was 5th and Jacobson 6th.
Whitman's Eric Meleney was ranked third on the boys first team. His invitational victories included the Spikes Shoe in course record time and prep seeded section. He added to that the AA-I region by over 30 seconds and the state meet.
Right behind him in the pecking order is Georgetown Prep's John Caldwell. Caldwell experienced a bad day at the Prep Classic, but came back in fine fashion. He won the Metro Catholic Championships by almost 30 seconds, finished second by two seconds to St. Albans Duncan Schloss in the IAC's, and finished second again in the State Catholic Championships to runner of the year, Jim Hessenauer of Curley. In pushing Hessenauer the entire three-mile distance, Caldwell recorded the third fastest time ever on the prep course, with Hessenauer recording the second fastest ever.
Good Counsel's Eric Sierka is ranked fourth on the first team.He won his section at Georgetown Prep and captured the WMAC championship by a large margin.
Ranked 7th on the first squad is Rockville's Dave Petzold. The talented senior led the Rams to a 2nd place state finish by coming in 2nd to Central's Kirk Young (second in the all-state voting) in the class A state meet.
Photo caption 1:
The 1984 journal All-County Cross-Country girls team (from left) : Erin Green, Rockville; Courtney Cathers, Whitman; Tammy DeVore, Churchill; Annie Hoefler. More photos at right. Not pictured: Jenny Schuchter, Gaithersburg.
Photo caption 2: Peter Scherr Walter Johnson Curt Silbert Wootton Kristine Ogle Wheaton Beth Jacobson Kennedy
Photo caption 3: The 1984 Journal All-County cross country boys team (back row, from left): Eric Meleney, Whitman; Anthony White, Einstein; Dave Petzold, Rockville; (front row from left) Amanuel Asefaw, Blair; and Mike Smith, Springbrook.
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