by Blayne Beck
This year's cross country team started the season off with a little bit of a rough start, with many kids being gone due to illness. A little further into the year, they were able to slip into a groove and secured 3rd place out of 16 teams at RPAC.
“I had walked away thinking that we were going to have to run better at districts the next week if we were going to accomplish qualifying for state,” said head coach, Caleb Wall.
At districts, the team was able to put three individuals in the top fifteen of the girls’ race, which was the very first time in Hi-Line history. The girls team qualified for state for the fourth time in the eight years of Hi-Line cross country.
13 out of 23 kids were participating in cross country for the very first time, ten in high school and thirteen in junior high.
When asked about memorable moments this season, Wall said, “Both our high school and junior high girls' teams winning the Maywood-Hayes Center Invite was a pretty cool day. Shows that we are competitive now and will be for quite some time to come. The girls' JH team coming in second place at the state meet was awesome as well. And seeing Reese catching butterflies at every meet the team went to."
Great job to this year's cross country team!