Congratulations to the Cross Country Team!
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November 24, 2009
Filed under Sports
Congratulations to the boys and girls cross country teams on their participation in last weekend’s State 3A Cross Country Championships held at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City.
In the girls meet, Chiles placed three runners among the top ten overall and all five scoring runners among the top twenty-six as they scored a meet low 40 points and captured the 2009 CLASS 3A STATE TITLE! With this win the girls cross country team finished perfect by winning every meet they competed in this season. In the past two years they won every meet except one and finished second in that meet. They joined a small list of schools in Florida that have won consecutive state titles. Since 2003, they have finished first or second on five different occasions.
Sophomore Carly Thomas picked a great day to capture individual honors for the first time this season. She place first overall among the 179 runners with her time of 18:20 for the 5000 meter course. Carly’s individual state title win was the first ever for a Chiles female cross country athlete. She edged out teammate, sophomore Lily Williams, who finished second in 18:21.
Other members who represented Chiles in the win were: Senior Kendall Andrews-10th (18:55), Junior Jodie McGuff-13th (19:13), Junior Kelley Bahn-26th (19:55), Sophomore Jessica Gillard-112th (22:01) and Junior Stephanie Reynolds- 169th (24:21).
Win this win, the team has been extended an accepted an invitation to compete in this weekend’s Nike Southeast Regional in Cary, North Carolina where they will compete against state champion teams representing 13 states. At stake is a trip to the Nike Team National Championships which will be held in Portland, Oregon on December 5. The top two teams and the top five individuals will earn an all expenses paid trip to compete in the championships. Last season the team placed 7th overall among the 13 state champion teams that participated.
In the boys meet, the “WOLVES” did not have the meet that they would have liked. After improving in each meet this season and entering the meet seeded eighth, the team finished in fifteen place among the twenty four participating schools. Senior Branden Lingerfelt recorded the highest finish overall for the team as he placed 46th (16:50) overall among the 186 runners.
Other members of the team who competed in the meet were: Sam Sutton- 63rd (17:05); Taylor Buzzard-86th (17:25); Patrick O’ Bryant-136th (18:10); Crawford Conrad-140th (18:14); Joey Vannoy-145th (18:17) and Andikan Eno-182nd (19:58).
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