After being kicked off the cross country team in the fall after States for "racing" at the meet, Molly Pezzulo has moved to the Saratoga Springs district and will soon be competing with the team. For a team that finished 2nd at Nationals, surely they already had enough talent, but now they have one more wonderful piece to their ever-glowing puzzle.
Toga Power wrote:
After being kicked off the cross country team in the fall after States for "racing" at the meet
Uh, what?
doubt it
She goneeeeeeeee! She didn't even run at their big meets that just happened (Suburbans and Great Dane). Toga just likes to keep on adding talent
0/10 LMFAO
Now, THIS is hysterical. She's gonna run for Toga?!?!?!?! But...she won't be the number one runner! What could she be thinking???????
LMFAO2
molly quit her team. sad. i wonder if her new coaches will put up with her signing up for individual races and abandoning her team?
Yea, RIGHT! Are you SURE she's just not injured? Again?
yea, right. are u SURE she's not just injured? Again.
OK, I just checked and her brother Sean ran suburbans and great dane for BH. She must still be at BH.
runninandlovinit wrote:
OK, I just checked and her brother Sean ran suburbans and great dane for BH. She must still be at BH.
Two kids from the same family can go to different schools dummy...Her parents would just pay tuition for her to go to Toga
toga does not allow you to just pay tuition. you must live in district.
Thanks, lalalala. Whose the dummy now, Toga Power? Think you should know your school's rules LOL
Huge pickup for Saratoga! They could win this next year... but they will have some competition from CA with Saugus HS... underperformed this year but returning a lot of key runners for next year.
fm>saratoga with pezzulo. and fm>saugus
Do you know anything about Toga? First of all, these girls aren't going to welcome an established runner from 10 miles away. Can't blame them. Who can trust that?
Second, with her or without her they will still maintain their #2 national status. Pezzulo would run, at the very best, 4th or 5th on their squad. Wouldn't make a bit of difference to their national status. FM will still take them and so will Saugus. Not belittling Toga, just stating the facts as I see them.
The whole thing reeks. Something is definitely up with this one.
I have to agree with most of what you have said. Even if the Pezullos happen to buy another or new home in the Saratoga school district it will be really hard to not see this as an athletically motivated transfer. (Although perhaps no more than Murdock going from Toga to Shen in 2006 or Roxanne Henningson going from Stillwater to Greenwich in 2007.)
Pezzulo did run around 10:05 for 3K this winter and I believe has a slightly faster PR so if healthy (and given her career to date this may be a big if) I could see her contributing to Saratoga's top 3. But I still agree that their overall team caliber will probably be more defined by:
-how Keelin Hollowood continues to progress will she be able to mix it up at all with FM's top 3?
-how much improvement they get from their current group Borroughs, Hungerford, Freestone, and Treichel are all having good indoor seasons.
-Driscoll, and Morin both took about 90 seconds of their 3K times from last year (to get down to 11:05 range). They also have a 7th grader who went sub 11 any of these three girls could continue to improve and be a major factor in the fall
than the presence or absence of Pezzulo on the team.
FM has a solid 3 in Chapman, Fanning and Sischo in some order and barring catastrophes Martin and Malone should be enough for them at 4-5. I think Saratoga's chance against FM is to have a big advantage at 4-5 (and I'm not sure Saratoga really will have that). Saugus should also have a solid top 3 since I believe they return their top 3 and more Saratoga might have the advantage at the 4-5 spots against them depending on how both teams run on the day.
You guys just wait...Little Molly is going to be dropping some pretty sick times once the Kranicks begin giving her them daily vitamin supplements
"Little" Molly has a hard time running through her injuries and has a long history of having injuries that sideline her for a long stretches time. Judging from the shape she's come back in after an injury, she doesn't believe in doing a whole lot of x training while on the sidelines, either.
Kranick's philosophy is to run through it. Hence Nicole Blood's and Caitlin Lane's split from Toga.
It will be very interesting, if all of this is indeed true, to see if "Little" Molly can suck it up and run through it. You've got to be all kinds of tough to run on that team.