NCAA Cross Country Championships

The NCAA Championships are this Saturday at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, IN.  Emily Stites (WHS '12) will be competing at 1:15.  Emily won the Southeast Regional last Friday and her William & Mary team qualified for the second consecutive year.  If you are interested in going to support Emily please let me know sometime early this week.

Also, Fall Sports Awards are tomorrow evening.  Hopefully everyone can attend!

Fall Sports Awards

Come celebrate our successful season at the sports awards ceremony on Tuesday, 11/19.  We will begin in the Pendery Auditorium at 7pm.

Uniform Return

If you have not already turned in your cross country jersey, please bring it to my classroom asap!

State Results

The boys team capped an amazing fall with team and individual record-breaking performances on their way to a 4th place finish in Saturday's state meet at National Trail Raceway!  This was the best team performance in school history, and Ben Stites was the highest-placing individual in program history, finishing in 6th place. The team climbed from 13th at the mile mark (309 points) to 12th at mile 2 (220 points) all the way to 4th at the finish with 184 points.  In all, our athletes combined to pass 190 team and individual runners between mile 1 and the 5k finish line.

Full results, including mile splits and finish line videos, are available at Finish Timing.  

Congratulations to everyone on our boys and girls teams for an incredibly successful season!

State Championships -- 11/2

The varsity boys will participate in the 85th OHSAA cross country state championships at National Trail Raceway on Saturday.  The DII race is at 2:15.  Check out this link for a complete race schedule, course maps, and directions.  We hope many of you can come support the guys!

Regional Results

Our runners had a fantastic day at the Troy Regional as the girls had a top 10 showing and the boys qualified for their second trip to state in the past 3 seasons!

Terra Forsythe and Katie Spray highlighted the girls race as they both moved into the top 15 on the school's all performance list.  You can see the updated times on the individual records list.  Monica Unzueta and Madeleine Johnson also added career best marks as the girls finished the season with back-to-back exceptional performances at the District and Regional meets.

Led by a top 5 finish from Junior Ben Stites, the boys will return to the State Championships at National Trail Raceway next Saturday.  Tanner Anthony entered the Wyoming boys all-time top 20, leading our tightly packed 2-4 group with Max Hoffman and Ian Goertzen.  Evan Cramer, Cullen O'Brien, and Jonah Engelhardt completed our scoring.  Just over 30 points separated the top 4 teams who will all move on to Columbus from a field at Troy that included 7 teams rated in the state top 20.

Check out full results at Finish Timing.

Next:  State Championship @ National Trail Raceway, 11/2!

District Photos

If anyone has photos from this past Saturday's action / awards ceremony at VOA, please forward them to glendenningt@wyomingcityschools.org.  Thanks in advance!