WA Home Open #1

What a difference one practice makes! Yesterday we talked about intensity and how when God begins a good work in one He will carry it all the way through. Well that of course proved to be the case yesterday. It also showed that in Cross Country home field advantage makes a big difference. It was also great to see everyone run their fastest or very close to their fastest time of the year and in some cases their fastest time ever. The boys bounced back after Friday's showing to win the meet defeating the next closest team, Miami Country Day, by 25 points. Congratulations to Christian Wackes for his 1st career individual cross country win, 19:29! Other outstanding performances went to Javier Pulido, 7th overall in 21:54, and Josh Longerbeam, 8th overall in 22:03, for running their personal best times and being our #3 and #4 runners.

The girls also had a great day running without Layna and almost defeated a very good Miami Country Day team, losing by just 1 point. On Friday MCD won by 7 points with Layna finishing first. Congratulations to Kara Gahagen (pictured) who ran a season best time of 24:12 to finish 4th overall. Other outstanding performances went to Kayla Cochran, 9th overall in 26:06, Brittany Carey, 10th overall in 26:15 and Tawny Grogin, 10th overall in 27:47, for running their personal best times and being our #4, #5 and #6 runners. Tawny said before the meet she was trying to run 2 minutes faster and she was close running 1:19 faster than friday.