Back to Back to Back District Champions! What a great day for our girls team. Covered in red and blue body paint they went out and took care of business finishing 1st with a score of 43 points. With that win they have now won 3 District Championships in a row (2005, 2006, 2007)! The runner up was Boca Christian who had 66 points. The girls were led by individual District Champion, Layna Roycraft who ran uncontested for the title in a time of 21:35. Running second while chasing down competitors at the finish was Emily Carlson who finished 6th overall in a home course season best time of 23:43. Kara Gahagen finished next in 10th place while leading the next pack of finishers with a time of 24:08. Circe Burnett also had a great day running her fastest time on our course while passing a competitor at the line to finish in 12th place in a time of 24:12. Kayla Cochran was our next finisher, 15th overall, also running a home course personal best time of 24:52 to take the final spot for individual honors. The great thing was that the next finisher was Brittany Carey who also ran a home course personal best time of 25:05. That was very good to place 5 runners in the top 15 and 6 in the top 16! Our 7th runner was Melissa Keightley who ran a time of 26:58 which was also good enough to displace many teams’ top five runners.
Five Girls in the top 15! (Kayla-15, Layna-1, Emily-6, Kara-10, Circe-12) 
Layna running away with the District Championship!
Christian Wackes, 6th overall, and Teddy Hess, 9th overall approaching the 1st hill.
The boys heading up the first set of hills.The boys also had a good day doing what they were supposed to do, go out and qualify for next week's regional meet. They finished 3rd overall with 97 points, 2nd place had 64 points and 4th had 125 points. The boys were led by Christian Wackes who had a great day to finish 6th overall with a time of 19:26 all the while just narrowly out leaning the next competitor. Teddy Hess finished next coming on to the track with a good bit of energy left. His strength and experience helped him to a home course personal best, 9th place finish and the ability to hold off the runner from Sheridan Hills who did his best to pass Teddy only to come crashing at the finish. Teddy finished with a time of 19:40. Finishing 3rd for the teams also running a home course personal best was Thomas Carrie who finished in 21:14. He was followed by Remmy Rickel who had his breakout race of the season running his season best time and also a home course personal best of 21:25. Running 5th for the team was Michael Luzinski who finished with a time of 21:38 and one place ahead of teammate Josh Longerbeam. Josh finished in a time of 21:46 while Dylan Burns finished in 22:43. Now what began as such a great start for those final 3 turned out to be a tough day. Heading into the hills they were running together, but Dylan fell which prompted his fellow teammates to briefly stop to check on Dylan. Dylan turned out ok, but the injury to his ankle seemed costly to him and his teammates who continued the race but with a big concern for their teammate. All in all this was a day that a minor disaster could happen and we would still advance. In the end the guys know as prepared as they were they went away shaken, but hungry. It's a great thing for second chances and the boys have one coming up at Regionals.
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