It was our first time participating in the SACC, South Atlantic Coast Conference, and today we made a big first impression. Our girls team is the Conference Champion and we also placed 5 of our girls on the All-Conference Team. Those girls are Layna Roycraft, Kara Gahagen (pictured), Emily Carlson, Circe Burnett and Kayla Cochran. Great job as we start building momentum towards our District meet. Conference Champion was Layna Roycraft with a time of 21:42. She was followed by Kara Gahagen who finished 3rd with a Season Best time of 23:55. Other outstanding performances were turned in by Kayla Cochran, PB time of 25:12 and 7th overall, and Brittany Carey who also ran a PB time of 25:35 finishing 8th. All in all we placed 7 girls in the top 10. What a great accomplishment!
Congratulations to the boys team who ran an outstanding race. They finished as Conference Runner-up by only 5 points, but continue to impress and get faster. Christian Wackes, 2nd overall in 19:30 and Teddy Hess, 6th overall in 20:28 were named to the All-Conference Team. Outstanding performances were turned in by Michael Luzinski who went out in 6:17 only to follow it up with a 7:27 and finish the last 1.1 mile in 7:41 to run a Season Best time of 21:26 and finish 9th overall. Dylan Burns also ran a PB time with 21:46 while Timmy Moses and Mark Newsom both turned in WA Personal Best times running 22:41 and 22:45 respectively. Those two also were among the 8 WA runners that finished ahead of the #5 Coral Springs Christian runner.
Congratulations to the boys team who ran an outstanding race. They finished as Conference Runner-up by only 5 points, but continue to impress and get faster. Christian Wackes, 2nd overall in 19:30 and Teddy Hess, 6th overall in 20:28 were named to the All-Conference Team. Outstanding performances were turned in by Michael Luzinski who went out in 6:17 only to follow it up with a 7:27 and finish the last 1.1 mile in 7:41 to run a Season Best time of 21:26 and finish 9th overall. Dylan Burns also ran a PB time with 21:46 while Timmy Moses and Mark Newsom both turned in WA Personal Best times running 22:41 and 22:45 respectively. Those two also were among the 8 WA runners that finished ahead of the #5 Coral Springs Christian runner.
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Clarification from Coach Key
--Historically, not quite accurate. Yes, this is our first year in this version of the SACC, but, you see, we were members of the SACC from 1972 through the middle or late 1980s. We won the first SACC Conference Cross Country Championship in 1973,with Fred Roccanti as conference champion and MVP as a freshman, and then the boys won it for about 8 more years in a row. Mr. Schwab and I were talking about that today. Steve Carlson and Paul Wackes were part of several of those conference championships in the late 1970s. The girls won every conference meet we ever ran in, if I recall off the top of my head, (several times with Bonnie Brown Thompson and Julie Carlson as champions, or captains, or team leaders) until we left the conference for "greener pastures", or more precisely, for the ability to schedule a more difficult schedule, against more challenging competition, in the 1980s somewhere. The conference continued without us, until! we ret urned this year.
Congratulations to all on a great RETURN to the SACC Championships. I'll see if I can get even more accurate details in the next week or two.
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