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BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

Connor Nisbet

Distance Runner
WILMINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
JUNIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-9
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st - 15:37.6

Division 2 State Championship

11th

FL Northeast

1st

New Castle County Championships
“Nisbet was even faster this year than he was last year. He was undefeated against other Delaware runners and he won all the most competitive races.”
Dan O’Connell
St. Andrews School Head Coach
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-9, 140-pound junior raced to his second consecutive Division 2 individual state championship this past season with a time of 15:37.6. The state’s returning Gatorade Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year, Nisbet also won the New Castle County championships. He finished 11th at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional championships, second in the Varsity D race of the Manhattan Invitational and eighth at the Great American Cross Country Festival.

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Academic Achievement

Nisbet has maintained a 4.01 GPA in the classroom. He will begin his senior year of high school this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Also a talented musician, Nisbet is a member of his school’s student leadership committee. “Nisbet was even faster this year than he was last year,” said Dan O’Connell, head coach at St. Andrews School. “He was undefeated against other Delaware runners and he won all the most competitive races.”