CHOATE CROSS COUNTRY
2000 Founders League Champions

The 2000 Founders League champs.
Champions Again.
The Choate varsity after the Founders League meet with the championship plaque.
 From left: Mark Little '02, Andy Taylor '02, Eric Wolff '01, co-captain Patrick Martha '01,
co-captain Charlie Sussman '01, Walton Ward '02, Dave Desjardins '02.

     Choate won a record seventh Founders League championship in 2000 with an impressive team effort on a long and hilly 5-kilometer course at Hotchkiss School. Senior Patrick Martha won the individual crown with an overpowering performance, 57 seconds ahead of the next finisher, dominating the meet he last won as a sophomore. Three different Choate runners have won the League individual title four of the past five years.
    Pat Martha earned All-Founders League recognition for the fourth time, while co-captain Charlie Sussman earned the same honors for the second year and teammates Walton Ward '02, David Desjardins '02, Andy Taylor '02, and Eric Wolff '01 were named to the All-League team for the first time.
     The Wild Boars varsity earned the team title for the fourth consecutive time--also a record. The Choate JV took its fifth straight race in the League meet with a perfect score of "15," taking fifteen of the top twenty places. Four-year Blue and Gold harrier Diego Long won the junior varsity event.

The Blue and Gold at the line.
At The Starting Line.
The Choate varsity before the race.

Patrick Martha leads the way.
Blazing A Trail.
 Choate co-captain Patrick Martha '01 establishes an early lead en route to victory.

The Choate JV leads the 2000 Founders League race.
JV Juggernaut.
The Wild Boars in control of the race, leading at the mile mark.
From left: Diego Long, John Oster, Nate Gelb (obscured), Geordie MacLeod,
Andrew Zak, Brendan Bansavage, Dan Lamphier, and Dan Schmierer.

Diego Long '01 winning the JV race.
In The Homestretch.
Diego Long '01 (#132) about to cross the finish line
ahead of teammates Nate Gelb '04 (#177) and Geordie MacLeod '01.

Pat Martha '01 with Jonathan Hamilton '98.
Teammates Reunited.
2000 captain Patrick Martha '01 with 1997 captain Jonathan Hamilton '98 after the meet.
Both Choate runners won Founders League meets at Hotchkiss: Jonathan set a course record of 16:57 in 1996.
Patrick broke that record with a time of 16:47 in 2000.

Click here for complete results from the 2000 Founders League Cross Country Championships.

Produced by the Sports Information Office, Department of Athletics, Choate Rosemary Hall.