Sounds incredible really. What team has their 16 year old girl athletes running alone, even for a portion, at 5 am in pitch black?
If it happened, it's terrible, and I don' t doubt there are plenty of creeps out there ready to do stuff like that, but sounds a bit hard to believe the way you described it. I think in these MeToo times, women can just make stuff up off of the top of their heads and because of their psychological makeup, they can actually believe it as though it happened.
As for me (a male jogger), women barely ever say hello, usually just looking at me with disgust if I so much look up at them. I also get frequent abuse from women and girls walking past. Just yesterday a group of Spanish teens passed me as I was jogging along and one of the girls made a point of looking down at my groin area and then turned to the others sniggering. I wasn't wearing compression shorts, just loose winter jogging bottoms.
I also run in quite busy running/cycling paths/trails, and often see a male jogger give a cheery hello to a female jogger and then blank me, lol.