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Boys Varsity Cross Country vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
3.0 years ago @ 5:03PM
- Game Date
- Sep 25, 2021
Cougar Falcon Invitational
Cool weather, mostly calm
All teams ran together in one race, with team scoring and individual placing separated into 3 divisions. We were in the middle division – Cougar.
Girls Varsity – Taava Johnson (sr) turned in one of the best races of her career to record a SR of 21:15 to place 22nd in our division. She moved up well throughout the race, and had a strong finish in the last 400 meters.
Girls JV – Elise Pfeiffer (so) ran a great race, also moving up well to place 52nd in 24:47. Exchange students Gina Naes, Carol Portelinha, and Amy Perret worked together for most of the race to each record a PR. Hailey Spangle (so) continues to gain experience having a much better start today.
Girls Freshman – Both Rachel Maddox and Shyann Callison ran PRs today.
Boys Varsity- The boys placed 3rd with 82 points. Conor Somers (sr) led the way placing 4th, 16:05. Brennan Schuler ran a great race to PR in 11th at 16:50. Gavin Schuler (sr) placed 16th with a season record. Johnny Christensen (so), Cole Lowery (fr), Henrik Quist (jr) and Carter Sherman (fr) all ran PRs.
Boys JV – Sean Pettis (so) slowly moved from 12th at the mile, to 4th at the 2 mile, and then second at the finish running a big PR and earning a spot on Varsity. Gary Springstead (jr) mirrored Sean’s progress but came from a little further back. He really moved through the field in the second half of the race to finish 3rd in a great sprint finish. Gary also ran a PR and earned a short lived position on Varsity.
Boys Freshmen – Gabe Jones got out a little fast but held on to run a big PR and slip in front of Gary for the last Varsity slot. Luke Bradley continues to get better every race, running another PR.
Results can be found here - https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/187773/results
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