{"id":15530,"date":"2017-12-08T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2017-12-08T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:44:14","slug":"north-hunterdons-chloe-gonzalez-is-the-2017-hunterdon-democrat-girls-cross-country-runner-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/north-hunterdons-chloe-gonzalez-is-the-2017-hunterdon-democrat-girls-cross-country-runner-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"North Hunterdons Chloe Gonzalez is the 2017 Hunterdon Democrat Girls Cross-Country Runner of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/ChloeGonzalez2017.png\" class=\"local-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/ChloeGonzalez2017-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/ChloeGonzalez2017-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/ChloeGonzalez2017.png 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Chloe Gonzalez\u00a0competed in three varsity cross-country races last season as a freshman, and all three times were over 21 minutes. This fall the\u00a0North Hunterdon\u00a0sophomore won an individual title, ran under 18:50 twice at Holmdel Park and placed fifth in the NJSIAA Meet of Champions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cWhat I would tell people is, don\u2019t do it if you don\u2019t love it,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cAll I did was, I made my goals, put in the time and dedication, listened to my coaches and trained hard. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">That simple but effective strategy propelled Gonzalez to the front of the Lions\u2019 pack in a season reminiscent of North Hunterdon\u2019s glory days of the 1980s. Thanks in large part to Gonzalez\u2019 emergence, the Lions won section, group and M of C titles for the first time since 1986 when the program won its fourth straight M of C crown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">At the Nike Northeast Regional, held at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Gonzalez placed eighth overall in 19:05 and led the Lions to first place and an automatic bid to the Nike Cross Nationals in Portland, Ore. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Click <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highschoolsports.nj.com\/news\/article\/1795836382351233967\/north-hunterdons-chloe-gonzalez-is-the-hunterdon-democrat-girls-cross-country-runner-of-the-year-2017\/\" class=\"ext-link\" onclick=\"this.target=&#039;_blank&#039;;\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to review the article in the HCDemocrat.com.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chloe Gonzalez\u00a0competed in three varsity cross-country races last season as a freshman, and all three times were over 21 minutes. This fall the\u00a0North Hunterdon\u00a0sophomore won an individual title, ran under 18:50 twice at Holmdel Park and placed fifth in the NJSIAA Meet of Champions. \u201cWhat I would tell people is, don\u2019t do it if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lion-pride-archive","7":"entry","8":"override"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:50:26","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15533,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions\/15533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}