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NJSIAA Track & Field Meet of Champions: West Windsor North’s Allison Lee signs off with another silver in the 3200 meters – Trentonian
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NJSIAA Track & Field Meet of Champions: West Windsor North’s Allison Lee signs off with another silver in the 3200 meters – Trentonian.PENNSAUKEN — One of the finest distance-running careers in Colonial Valley Conference history has come to a close.West Windsor-Plainsboro North star Allison Lee signed off on her senior season with a second straight silver medal in the 3200 meters at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions on a hot Wednesday afternoon at Pennsauken High.Lee actually broke the previous meet record that had stood since 2013 by a good 12 seconds, but so did Ocean Township sophomore Leah Starkey, who pulled away over the last 600 meters to run a sub-10 minute time for her second straight gold in the event.“It wasn’t the fairytale ending I was hoping for,” said Lee, who is bound for the University of Pennsylvania in the fall.“If anything I think I’m going to look at this in retrospect and be really grateful for how it turned out because I don’t have any regrets about the way I did it.” The 3200 meter showdown between Lee and Starkey was billed as one of the must-see races of New Jersey’s showpiece event of track and field.Lee and Starkey had run two of the top three times in the event this spring — the fastest belongs to the Lawrenceville School’s Blair Bartlett — and were head to head on the same track for the first time since last season’s MoC.“It’s crazy the amount of talent in New Jersey right now,” Starkey said.Both runners shattered the previous MoC record of 10:15.02 set in 2013 by High Point’s Sara Disanza.Starkey finished in 9:48.88 and Lee in 10:03.58.But it was Starkey’s big move with 600 meters to go that put the race away after Lee had set the pace up to that point.“I kind of expected her to take the pace because she’s always very much a frontrunner and I respect her for that,” Lee said.“I think when I noticed it was kind of bunching up a little bit, and if this was the race we were going to do I wanted to make it honest because this was my last high school race.” Said Starkey: “Allison pushed me the whole way and I knew when I made that move I had to make it and really commit.From there I worked on my kick so much this year, it’s really improved and I had to trust it and go for it.” Even without a first-place finish at the Meet of Champions, Lee will still go down as one of the finest distance runners in Mercer County with all of her accomplishments.It’s a legacy she’s rightfully proud of.“The legacy I want to leave is that running can be fun,” Lee said.“You can find a balance between focusing on running but also finding fulfillment in the people who are around and the relationships you build through running.” That’s exactly what she did.“I’m grateful for what happened (in my career),” Lee said, “but still hungry for more.”