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!