Thursday, September 1, 2016

AND SO IT BEGINS...CROSS COUNTRY RACING


Excitement was in the air as we arrived at the 2016 Pepsi Challenge at Lawrence Co High school! 


It was the first XC meet of the season and these athletes have logged some serious time and miles over the summer getting ready for this year’s season! 


Hard work pays off as evidenced by 3 of our runners receiving recognition for placing in the top 15. 

They are Chase Prater with a photo finish 2nd place, 


Chance Bailey with 7th place in boys race and 


Claudia Allen with an 11th place finish in the girls race. 


The boys team placed 5th out of 16 teams and individual results are as follows: 
Chase Prater – 17:30.69 (2nd place) 
Chance Bailey – 18:30.02 (7th place) 
Luke Little – 20:26.10 
Tiyler Walts – 21:26.34 
Brantley Hammock – 21:59.73 
Alex Armstrong – 22:34.26 
Noah Sharp – 23:13.36 
Christian Smith – 23:14.63 
James Walts – 23:37.46 
Tee Boyd – 23:53.08 
Jonah Smith – 24:44.23 
JonMikel Owens – 24:51.80 
Van Hamlin – 25:15.45 
Jeffrey Payne – 28:40.26 


The girls team placed 7th and individual results are as follows: 
Claudia Allen – 23:29.24 (11th place) 
Melanie Hernandez – 29:11.86 
Kaylee Varnie – 29:13.13 
Nikki Ristau – 29:13.63 
Brianna Barnett – 29:52.54 
Jazmin Ristau – 30:15.44 
Ariel Hernandez – 30:41.59 
Britney Clem – 32:05.49 
Emma Guthrie – 32:42.09 


Great job by all the running Red Devils! Our next meet is on Tuesday, August 30 at the Brooks Invitational which will be held at McFarland Park in Florence.

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