UNDEFEATED BOYS CROSS COUNTRY TEAM 2007
Suburban One League Champion, District One Champion
PIAA AAA STATE TEAM CHAMPION
Head Coach Ronald Jaros
Assistant Coach Ernest Perilli
Captains: Zack Hoagland and Zack Montijo
Team Members in Picture:
Front Row: Brian Kuntzmann , Tim Stauring, Brad Miles, Zack Montijo, Zack Hoagland, Brian Quintrell, Dom Camasso
2nd Row: Steve Eastlack , Mike Wesolowski, Brian English, Brandon Rothenberger, Mike Duggan, Nick Swan
3rd Row: Coach Jaros, Alex Dello Buono, Jon Kim, Justin Keen, Chris Yang, Zach Heimer, Coach Perilli
Team Members not in Picture: Josh Schmid, Abu Saddique, Cory VanGalen, Julian Pei, Jake Sapon,
PIAA ALL-STATE: Zack Montijo 1st Team, Brad Miles 2nd Team
Dual Meets 11 – 0
North Penn 15 Quakertown 50 North Penn 15 C.B. South 50
North Penn 15 Pennsbury 50 North Penn 15 Christopher Dock 50
North Penn 15 Wissahickon 50 North Penn 15 Abington 50
North Penn 15 Neshaminy 49 North Penn 15 Bensalem 48
North Penn 15 Pennridge 49 North Penn 15 Upper Perk 50
North Penn 15 Truman 47
Championship Meets:
1st PIAA AAA STATE CROSS COUNTRY TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 1st in North Penn history
1st DISTRICT ONE AAA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP
1st SOL NATIONAL DIVISION CROSS COUNTRY CHAMP
1st Manhattan Collage H.S. Invitational – Best Team of Meet watches
1st Salesianum Invitational 1st Briarwood Invitational
1st Carlisle Invitational 1st C. B. East Invitational
North Penn PIAA AAA State Championship 90pts.:
1st (6th) Zack Montijo 46th (101st) Dom Camasso
3rd (10th ) Brad Miles 62nd (124th) Brian Quintrell
12th (24th ) Zach Hoagland 67th (135th) Brian Kuntzmann
28th (61st) Tim Stauring
Inducted NPAAA Hall of Fame - 2015
2007 had special meaning for the North Penn Boys Cross Country team. Members knew it from the day each picked up their summer workout packet from Coach Ron Jaros and Assistant Coach Ernie Perilli. The first page contained the reminder that ten years had passed since the last District title and a challenge to match that goal. The “Zack/Zach Attack” of seniors Zack Montijo and Zach Hoagland made it their mission to bring the team together and complete the summer workout program. Along the way they picked up a soccer player, Brad Miles, and a basketball player, Dom Camasso. Rounding out the varsity would be returning Juniors Brian Kuntzmann, Brian Quintrell, and Tim Stauring. Most of these runners knew what training would be like having been with Coach Perilli in Winter Track and Coach Jaros in Spring Track. And so, it began.
The September 29th posting of PennTrackXC.com gave an ominous warning to cross country teams in Pennsylvania. It stated “Ignore North Penn at your own risk this year. A track power excels at cross, too.” That statement was considerably different from how North Penn was seen at the beginning of the 2007 season. In the August 15th pre-season report, we weren’t listed in the top ten Northeastern U. S. Boy’s teams. We weren’t even listed as one of the ten next bubble teams. We were on no one’s radar and with good reason. In 2006 we finished 14th in the District 1 XC Championship and our only two runners who made it to states finished in 33rd, 74th places. But, by the third week, North Penn had jumped to eighth in the Northeast after a crushing win at Briarwood and 63 points over second place. Zach Hoagland placed 2nd but beat the old meet record. In week four we jumped to fifth place in the Northeast by virtue of a 28 point win at Carlisle. The 60 point win at the Salesianum Invitational, with five North Penn runners placing in the top 11, moved us into 4th place in week five. Zach Hoagland finished 1st and recorded the 4th best time ever on the course. The Manhattan Invitational in week six came next. North Penn boys won the “D” race upsetting the second best team in the Southeast by a score of 44 to 98 and, with well over a thousand schools competing, won the top team of the meet watches with the best team time of the day and the second best team average time in the history of the meet. The Knights 12:58.0 was the only sub-13 in the meet. We moved to first place in the Northeast rankings.
Scoring in Cross Country is different from most sports in that the lowest score wins. The best achievable score is 15, if your runners place 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. If you also get 6th and 7th the best score your opponent can have is 50. (Only the first seven runners count). In dual meet competition North Penn won ten of eleven meets with a score of 15. Six opponents had scores of 50, two had scores of 49, one of 48, one of47, and one of 43.
At the Suburban 1 National League Championship Meet, North Penn placed first with 19 points with the second place team scoring 69. Finishing in the top 10 were Zack Montijo 1st, Brad Miles 2nd, Zach Hoagland 3rd, Dom Comasso 6th, Brian Quintrell 7th, and Tim Stauring 8th. Awarded first team all-league were Zack Montijo, Brad Miles, and Zach Hoagland, second team all-league were Brian Quintrell, Dom Camasso, and Brian Kuntzmann, and third team all-league was Tim Stauring.
At the PIAA District One meet North Penn placed first with 92 points, 78 points ahead of second place. Scoring for the Knights were Brad Miles 4th, Zack Montijo 6th, Zach Hoagland 16th, Brian Quintrell 30th, and Tim Stauring 36th (with at time spread of 40 seconds).
The PIAA State Cross Country course would be something different for most of our runners since only Zach and Zack had been there previous year. There were long steep hills both up and down with hard turns and flat sprints but the Knights put another first place into the record book. Our 90 points was the only team score under 100 and the 2007 Team became the first North Penn Cross Country State Champions – Boys or Girls. State Meet scoring (team place/meet place) was Zack Montijo (1st team All-State) 1st/6th; Brad Miles (2nd team All-State and the second fastest underclassman of the meet) 3rd/10th, Zach Hoagland 12th/24th, Tim Stauring 28th/61st; Dom Camasso 46th/101st; Brian “Quintrell 62nd/124th; and Brian Kuntzmann 67th/135th. Zack Montijo was named to the first team All-State with Brad Miles being named to the second team All-State. Coach Jaros was named PIAA 2007 Cross Country Coach of the Year.
At the end of the season the North Penn Boys Cross Country team was ranked first in the State and Northeast and seventh in the Nation. In the final week edition of the PennTrackXC.com Cross Country coverage the headline read “No one picked North Penn, except North Penn.”
End of the year awards …Zack Montijo – Co-MVP & Outstanding Senior; Zach Hoagland – Co-MVP & Team High Scorer; Brad Miles – Most Outstanding Underclassman; Brian Quintrell – Outstanding Junior; Brian Kuntzmann – Most Improved; Dom Camasso – Outstanding Rookie.