HS XC Fares Well in Season Opener
Varsity Boys - 2nd (Ike May 7th, William Doak 15th)
Varsity Girls - 4th (Bennet LeMaster 12th, Sophia Jelsma 16th)
The high school cross country teams successfully started their 2010 campaigns at the Brooks XC Invitational in Florence, Alabama. On the varsity level, the girls finished fourth and the boys finished an impressive second. Kicking off the day in the 2-mile junior varsity races (in Alabama, that means grades 7-9), Courtney Carmichael finished in second place, while Allie Spetalnik took eleventh in the girls race, while fellow ninth graders Natascha Heckers, Bomani Gupton, Kenyon Carpenter, and Bob Minton all cracked the top thirty.
In the girls' varsity race, our small team of six raced their hearts out, see-sawing their positions throughout the 5k distance. By race's end, first-time cross country runner Bennet LeMaster was the team's top runner in twelfth place, followed by Sophia Jelsma in sixteenth place, with Wren Womack and Larkin Johnson also in the top 30.
While the varsity boys could not overtake a powerful Randolph School (Alabama) squad, they raced impressively, demonstrating their depth. Ike May led the way in seventh place, followed by a fast-finishing William Doak in fifteenth place, Gregory Shemancik in sixteenth, John Coogan in seventeenth, and Trey Manning in twentieth. The Tigers' other top-seven runners, Mitchell Lutz and Joey Kaminsky, placed in the top thirty. The boys' team also featured some fine debuts of Ben Keffer, Reid Dickerson, and John Spence, who all ran well in their first HS cross country endeavors.
The coaches are very pleased with the efforts and results from this season opener.
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