Well everyone it was certainly an interesting week!

   I want to start by saying that I am truly grateful for all the efforts put forward this week by the parents to make the Menard Open possible! We hosted over 500 athletes and 35 teams and a coach from St Louis told Coach Wally that it was by far the most organized and best meet they have been to in a couple years and that they would definitely be coming back. That is a compliment to our entire program and to each one of you who helped make the meet happen!!!!

Now down to business: This was a very great week for our runners! Between the Wednesday and Saturday meets we saw 12 Personal Records set in both 3 mile and 2 mile races, along with 8 Season Best runs!!!

Those athletes who improved their PRs and SBs are as follows:

PRs:

3 Mile –

Kannin Cole 21:35 at Cedar Creek

Aaron Cantrell (PR at both events) 20:56 at the Menard Open and then 20:52 at Cedar Creek

Caden Elkins (improved both his 3 mile and 2 mile PR) 23:10 at the Menard Open

Carter Byers 20:00 at Cedar Creek

David Shepherd (improved by almost 1 Minute) 19:47 at Cedar Creek

Eli Watkins (PR at both events) 18:26 at the Menard Open and then 17:57 at Cedar Creek!

2 Mile –

Abbey Scalisi (PR at both events) 16:20 at the Menard Open and then 15:16 at Cedar Creek

Danielle Krill 15:33 at Cedar Creek

Guadalupe Patino 19:43 at Cedar Creek

Caden Elkins 14:05 at Cedar Creek

Those running Season Bests included: Amie Cochran (25:56), Amy Shannon (17:19), Caroline Gremillion (17:10), Emma Derosa (22:25), Meredith Seeling (22:30), Quinn Brown (21:20), Cyrus Cox (16:24), and Max Mallach (19:45)

     We were also very successful as a team this week! We took 1st place in both the Girls and Boys Varsity divisions at the Menard Open! (Complete results for that race can be found here Boys Results    Girls Results) Quinn Brown finished 1st, Aly Jo finished 3rd, and Kannin finished in 7th! Cyrus Finished 2nd, and Braden finished 5th!

     At Cedar Creek we were able to finish 3rd with our boys and 2nd with our girls in the varsity division!!!! (Results can be found here Boys Results     Girls Results)  Cyrus Cox finished in 6th overall o the boys side, and Kannin Cole finished in 10th!!! Congrats to all the runners and the teams!

Update from around the State:

Newman ran their home meet and their top 5 girls are as follows

(19:15)(20:28)(21:38)(22:11)(22:13)(22:28)(22:47)(22:49)(23:44)

Louise McGehee was also at their meet and their results were as follows:

(21:18)(21:25)(21:28)(22:38)(24:21)

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Results here: https://www.arrowliveresults.com/GirlsHSNewmanCrossCountryClassic