Amelia ran the third and last leg for Mercer Team 16 with Olivia Gross (leg 1, 8:49) and Andie Roch (leg 2, 9:06). When she took over at 17:55 the race was close: Hickory Team 2 was just 3 seconds behind (17:58) and Hickory Team 1 15 seconds back (18:10). Her 9:18 anchor was the fastest closing leg in the race. Hickory's two anchors ran 9:52 and 9:38, so Mercer finished in 27:13, 35 seconds ahead of Hickory Team 1 (27:48) and 36 ahead of Hickory Team 2 (27:49). Mercer's other K-3 girls team (Kylie Jackman, Mila Ramirez, Gabriella Sealand) was 5th in 29:44.
The results page labels the split columns "Mile 1 / Mile 2 / Mile 3" but doesn't state the leg distance. "Of 20 legs" leaves out two legs that weren't real race times: a 55:48 opening leg (clearly a timing error) and a 24:41 leg on an incomplete team. A relay has no individual place, so this race is in the record table but not in the field-share charts.
A tight finish: Sharon's Sadie Bell (gr 3) was one second ahead in 79th — at Big Red two weeks ago Sadie was 28 seconds ahead — and Joanna Gottron (gr 3, Trinity) and Luci Mancuso (gr 6, Quaker Valley) crossed in the same 8:11. Teammate Emma Rubeo was nine seconds back in 92nd. Mercer's 7th scorer, Emma Lindey, finished ten seconds ahead of her.
Same park as the Sep 8 Mercer @ Sharpsville meet (8:36 that day), but runhigh doesn't list a distance for either race, so I can't confirm it was the same course.
| Date | Meet | Time | Pace/mi | Place | 3rd graders | On Mercer | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Mercer @ Commodore Perry Hadley, PA · 1.25 mi | 12:13 | 9:46 | 15 of 28 | 1st of 3 | 11 of 20 | Won 15–50 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Lakeview @ Mercer Mercer, PA · distance not listed | 8:19 | 7:33 | 12 of 33 | 1st of 4 | 8 of 21 | Won 19–42 |
Sep 15: she finished one second behind Commodore Perry's Piper Anderson (14th, 12:12), ahead of Mercer 3rd graders Gabriella Sealand (18th) and Mila Ramirez (23rd). Sep 21: 12th, five seconds ahead of teammate Emma Rubeo (13th, 8:24) — the same runner she edged by one second at Big Red.
The two times aren't comparable: the Sep 15 page states 1.25 mi, the Sep 21 page gives no distance (its pace column works out to about 1.1 mi). Pace is as printed by runhigh. In both meets Mercer's first seven runners filled the scoring places, so no one after them scored.
She crossed in a knot: Brinley White (gr 1, Portersville Christian) took 84th with the same 10:12, and teammate Emma Rubeo (gr 4) was one second back in 86th. Rosabella Cales, the Mercer runner ahead of her, finished 33 seconds up the course.
| Place | Score | Runner | Gr | Time | Behind Amelia |
|---|
Score is the team-scoring place (only runners on full 5-runner teams count). Top 5 scorers make the team total; 6th and 7th displace other teams' scorers.
Eight races across two seasons — seven individual, plus the Oct 10 relay. Times aren't comparable between courses (only the Sep 15 page states a distance), so the charts use her position in the field instead.
| Date | Meet | Gr | Time | Place | Field beaten | Her grade | On Mercer | Mercer team |
|---|
| 2025 (gr 2) | 2026 (gr 3) | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | 11:33 | 10:12 | −1:21 (−11.7%) |
| Overall place | 110th of 159 | 85th of 168 | bottom third → median |
| Gap to winner | 4:24 | 2:36 | −1:48 |
| Gap to field median | +1:08 | 0:00 | caught the middle of the pack |
| Field median | 10:25 | 10:12 | −0:13 — the course/day were similar |
| Within her grade | 5th of 11 | 13th of 29 | same percentile, field 2.6× bigger |
| On Mercer | 14th of 18 | 5th of 13 | non-scorer → scorer |
| Mercer team | 3rd of 13 · 93 pts | 8th of 14 · 178 pts | 2025's top six were all 6th graders, now moved up |
Mercer runners who ran both Big Reds: Gabriella Sealand −1:45, Amelia −1:21, Carla Craig −1:11, Mary Craig −0:56, Emma Lindey +0:27. Her grade-mates from other schools: Sadie Bell −1:31, Alina Plyler −0:55.
All three Eastmans ran Hermitage's big Thanksgiving race at Buhl Park. Millie (8) covered the full 5K in 34:53 — 9th of 35 in the girls 8-11 group and the second-fastest eight-year-old in it, behind only Kennedy Cirillo (34:28). Dennis finished in 35:43 and Paula in 46:50. Several of Millie's cross-country rivals were in the field too — Bailey Dudash, Sylvia Telesz, Jersey Rearick and Emma Lindey all ran it.
Winner: Joseph Stern (Greenville) 18:24. This is a recreational Thanksgiving fun-run with 1,000+ finishers and many walkers, so finishing times run long and overall place reflects the whole crowd. Timed by Smiley Miles, not runhigh — which is why it was missing from the earlier sweeps.
These results are listed under "Millie Eastman" — Amelia's other name (confirmed by Dennis, Sep 12, 2026) — age 4 in 2022 and 5 in 2023, on the same pages as Dennis and Paula.
| Date | Race | Age | Time | Place | Age group | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2022 | Dam Race — Kids Half Mile, Sharpsville | 4 | 5:34 | 28th of 36 | 3rd | 11:08/mi pace |
| Aug 17, 2022 | Ice Cream Race — Kids Half Mile, Grove City (Quad #4) | 4 | 8:36 | — | — | Ran it with Paula (also 8:36); field size not listed on the standings page |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Strawberry Days 5K, Grove City | 5 | 51:21 | 211th of 212 | 1st | 16:34/mi · Dennis 32:23, Paula 46:42 |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Dam Race 5K, Sharpsville | 5 | 50:35 | 195th of 198 | 1st | 16:19/mi · Dennis 30:37, Paula 43:45 |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Fredonia 5K | 5 | 47:24 | 217th of 222 | 1st | 15:17/mi · Dennis 31:55, Paula 44:43 · her fastest 5K by nearly 4 min |
| Aug 3, 2023 | Twilight Quad standings (3 of 4 events) | 5 | 2:29:19 | 121st of 122 | 1st | Three 5Ks in five weeks at age 5; Dennis 76th, Paula 116th |
Net times where the page gives both clock and net. Nothing under either name appears in 2021 or 2024.
Everything on this page was read from runhigh.com result pages on Sep 12, 2026; the Sep 15, Sep 21 and Sep 26 races on Sep 26, 2026; and the Oct 10 relay on Oct 12, 2026. Places and percentages were computed from the full finisher lists on those pages.