Fall

Cross Country – Girls Varsity

The Girls Varsity Cross Country aims to compete at the highest levels, both on the course and in the classroom, building skills that will help students succeed in school and beyond.

Team Highlights

2025 Team Captains: Scarlett Hawkins, Cailan MacDonald, Lexi Nicholas

2024 All ISL: Scarlett Hawkins, Griffin MacDonald, Leila Blake
ISL Honorable Mention: Naomi Hammerschlag

Scarlett Hawkins ’27: ISL MVP, Boston Globe All-Scholastic, Boston Herald All-Scholastic

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Record
Coaches

Date	Opponent	Home/Away	Result
11/8/25	@
10/31/25	@		– P
10/25/25	@ Multi-Opponent	Winsor School	2-0 W
10/18/25	vs. Brooks School	Home	18-44 W
10/11/25	@ Multi-Opponent	Brooks School	2-0 W
10/4/25	@ Multi-Opponent	Governor's Academy	0-2 L
9/27/25	@ Multi-Opponent	St. George's School, Middlesex School	1-2 L
9/20/25	@		– N
9/13/25	@

Charles O’Rourke

Bus Driver, Head Varsity Cross Country Coach

Coach Charlie O’Rourke began coaching Cross-Country at BB&N in 1987. He has led the Knights to the ISL Championship in 1997 and to numerous top three finishes at the New England Championships. He is the Head Coach of both Boys and Girls XC Teams and Coach of the Boys Track Teams. He has coached 2 National Track Champions, the latest was Kitso Paulson (BB&N) who won the Javelin at the New Balance Nationals at the University of Pennsylvania in June of 2023. Coach O’Rourke restarted the BBN Boys and Girls Spring Track Teams in 2019 and after two seasons the Boys team finished with a 13-7 record and the Girls Track Team was 20-0. Since the restart of the Spring Track Program the Boys Team has broken every record that was previously set in past years. O’Rourke was inducted into the Massachusetts Track Coaches Hall of Fame in was also Boston Globe Coach of the Year in 2010. He is a USA Track & Field Level 1 and M.I.A.A. certified Track Coach. O’Rourke is on the Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Track Coaches Association, member of the Massachusetts Track Coaches Finance Committee and the Meet Director of the Indoor State Coaches Meet. He has been the Meet Director of the NEPSTA XC All Star Meet since 2011.

Rachel Hyland

Spanish Teacher, Athletic Coach

Matthew Turnbull

History Teacher, Athletic Coach

Hannah Muse

Middle School Spanish Sub Teacher Ay 2024 – 2025 / Coach

hmuse@bbns.org

Devin Toro

Coach

dtoro@bbns.org

The Girls Varsity Cross Country team look forward to the end of the season and are currently sitting undefeated in the ISL. They are looking forward to doing better than the year before in ISL’s and D2 New Englands with this talented team of runners. We finished 4th in the ISL’s and 3rd in D2 New Englands in 2023.

Season Recap

The Girls Varsity Cross Country team is looking forward to another successful season full of camaraderie and competition after posting a 9-5 record in 2022. Through building the skills they learned in previous seasons and learning new techniques, our athletes are prepared to compete at the elite levels offered in the ISL and NEPSAC.