Park senior Henry Joa won his fourth cross country race of the season and crept ever so closer to being the Wolfpack’s fastest cross country runner in the process.
Joa finished first in the …
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Park senior Henry Joa won his fourth cross country race of the season and crept ever so closer to being the Wolfpack’s fastest cross country runner in the process.
Joa finished first in the Suburban East Conference Championships Oct. 20 at Tanners Brook Golf Course in Forest Lake. His winning time of 15.40.2 for the 5,000 meters was three seconds faster than his previous best of 15:43 set when he was a sophomore.
Joa also inched closer to the top two on Park’s all-time best performances for the 5K, trailing all-time leader Dieudonne Kwizera by 12 seconds (15:28 set in 1986) and second place Jason Boon by just one second (15:41 set in 1991).
Senior Jana Hafiz led the Park girls, finishing 34th in 20:44.3.
Next up for the Wolfpack runners in the Section 3AAA championships, held again this season at Apple Valley’s Valleywood Golf Course, starting at 3:30 p.m. with the boys' race at 3:30 p.m., followed by the girls' race at 4:15 p.m. Park’s boys finished seventh in the team race a year ago, the girls' team was sixth. Joa was 13th overall last season at sections and Hafiz 16th.
Park finished seventh in the 2026 SEC boys team race and eighth in the girls' competition.
Nolan Bowe of the Wolfpack finished 42nd (17:26.2), Liam Fleming was 48th (17:35.9), Ben Paulsen 58th (17:57.5), Jay Halstead-Delgado 79th (19:51.2), Bentley Heise 83rd (20:35.5), Dominic Kamau 85th (20:51.2) and Will Mann 86th (20:57.8).
On the girls side, after Hafiz were Alli Devine who finished 53rd (21:47.6), Mya Albrecht was 63rd (22:30.4), Chloe Peters 67th (22:48.1), Bella Walker 69th (22:55.7), Alaina Murphy 77th (23:21.2), Ramsey Nelson 78th (24:01.0) and Eva McMorrow 87th (27:35.0).
Mounds View won the boys team event with 43 points, followed by Stillwater 49, Roseville 96, Forest Lake 110, East Ridge 119, White Bear Lake 182, Park 193, Woodbury 202, Irondale 252 and Cretin-Derham Hall, 310.
Host Forest Lake finished first in the girls' team race with 47 points, followed by Stillwater 55, Roseville 80, Mounds View 91, White Bear Lake 107, East Ridge 153, Woodbury 174, Park 231 and Irondale, 269.
