By: Hagan Elliott

Week 3 of Cross Country for the Rebels and what is a better place to have a meet up at Capitol View in Frankfort Kentucky. The Cross Country team for the boys came in with a returning member who hadn’t ran competitively since 8th grade. Sophomore Colton Coffman has made a comeback and is ready to run his first high school race. The XC team had a good week of practice coming in for this hilly course as the Rebels haven’t run this course since 2023.

The Boys team now finally coming in at 6 runners now would start the race off first at 9:00 AM. The Race would start off with Runner Adam Cooper immediately getting ahead of the pack. Adam would maintain a lead throughout the entire race and at the end would have to go head to head with Tyler Cammack from Owen County. Adam was able to sprint ahead placing first with a time of 17:12.34.

 Senior Runner Adam Cooper said “It was a tough course, but we were ready. All of the hill training we’ve done this season paid off.” Placing 16th in the Meet was Junior Runner Kyle Whitsell with a time of 20:12.11. Sophomore Runner Miles Cappelli placed 30th with a time of 21:04.42 and Sophomore Runner Hayden Godsey placed 56th with a time of 23:37.21. Freshman Runner Mason Ball placing 63rd for the Rebels with a time of 24:51.44. Our final runner, Sophomore Colton Coffman ran a time of 26:09.62 without stopping at all despite no previous training, showing perseverance and strength!     

The Boys team placed 6th out of 9 teams with 121 points as the Rebels will look to continue to place higher in future meets! 

The girls race would start at 9:45 AM. Going into this race our girls felt very prepared by Coach Mary Lou Pittman. Senior Runner Aubrey White said “The girls did really good, we all got good times. All the girls worked up each and every hill. Everyone got a medal and we placed 2nd overall”. 

The girls team did show up today with lots of high placements, with freshman runner Siddalea Gray placing 9th with a time of 24:18.96. All of the girls stayed together in a pack together with senior runner Aubrey White placing 14th with a time of 25:03.10 and Sophomore Lexi Preston placing 17th with a time of 25:11.19. Sophomore Runner Mckenzy Neyhouse placed 19th 25:27.84 and Freshman Runner Analeigh Whitis placed 21st with a time of 25:55.98. Senior Runner Lilly Kurtz placed 26th with a time of 26:52.31. The Other Two Sophomore Girls Abigail Whitis placed 29th with a time of 27:09.69 and Adeline Germann placed 33rd with a time of 27:35.64. The girls team placed second overall with a total score of 51 points. The Rebels will be racing at the Berea Community Invitational in Berea Kentucky this weekend on the 20th.

By: Hagan Elliott

Admiral Football stadium is not the place you would expect a Cross Country Meet but that is where your rebels were at on the first Saturday of this month. The EG Plummer invitational which cross town rival Danville was at would be there competing in as well.

The girls started off the race at noon with lots of rain pouring down on the course. This was not an unfamiliar course as the Cross Country team had been training for this moment during the summer. Freshman Siddalea Gray placed the highest for the team and placed 24th out of 73 girls with a time of 23:56.48. The other girls placing points for the team Izzy Phillips (28th Place), Aubrey White (31st Place), Lexi Preston (34th Place), Analeigh Whitis (42nd place), Abigail Whitis (44th Place), Lilly Kurtz (48th Place), Mckenzy Neyhouse(52nd), and Adeline Germann (55th Place). The girls team placed 6th place out of 7 teams earning 141 points.

The boys started after the girls with a full team. As a senior Adam Cooper is doing his first race this season. Adam finished 4th place with an amazing time 17:21.74. Junior runner Kyle Whitsell finished 22nd with a time of 19:27.54. Other runners on the team placed Miles Cappelli (30th), Hayden Godsey (44th), and Mason Ball (71st). The boys team placed 5th out of 9 teams with 142 points.

Be sure to cheer on our Cross Country athletes for their next meet on September the 13th, in Frankfort.

While our cross country team did not win state, they did put up their best fight to win. Last weekend, Boyle County Cross country teams ran at state with the girls team coming in 16th and the boys team coming in 17th. Both teams put in fights on and off the course, for example one of the boys runners, Hagan Elliott, ran at state despite being injured with a strand hip. Through this athlete, he represents one small part of his team. You can see how hard these athletes push themselves and how much this sport means to them. 

This is just what one athlete has to share ¨I think as a team, we did amazing. The boys team placed 17th and the girls team placed 15th out of 30 teams! We had a great finish to the season¨ says Izzy Phillips, she and her other teammates have truly shown what they are made of and what a great way to end their season.

Last Saturday, October 29th our boys and girls cross country team had a meet at Monticello, with the girls finishing in 2nd and the boys finishing in 4th at Regions. Now both teams will be  advancing to state. 

To put a cherry on top of the whole meet, Adam Cooper placed 4th and Micah Brown placed 8th, they both received medals. Micah Brown says “Saturday our team performed very well. We ran the same course the weekend before Regions to prepare, and got our minds and bodies ready during the week. When we got there we all got warmed up and got the placements we needed to advance to start the next weekend. We are looking forward to state this weekend and another great team performance”. 

Congratulations to all of our cross country team runners and their advancement to state!