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Cross Country State Championship Recap

Posted by Village School Athletics on Nov 01 2016 at 07:24AM PDT
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On Saturday, October 29th, the Viking varsity harriers traveled to Waco for the TAPPS State Championships. This was The Village School’s first foray into the 6A(Large School) classification, moving up from 4A. The teams held their own, with the girls finishing 11th of 17 and the boys finishing 13th of 19.

Individually, Charlotte and Alexandre received Top 10 honors finishing 9th in their respective races. Other notable performances were Fernanda, running 13:56, taking 30 seconds off of her 3200m season best. Kaushal obliterated his 5k PR by 39 seconds, finishing 23rd in 17:36. Evan smashed his 5k PR by almost 30 seconds, running 19:35. Marco was on his way to a new PR but due to his incredible selflessness, stopped to carry a struggling teammate across the finish line. This gesture, for me, was the highlight of the weekend and I can’t say enough about this act. Congratulations to these runners for stepping up at the biggest meet of the year.

Overall, the 2016 season was a huge success with almost everyone improving their times from September and getting a couple of meet wins on the boys side. I thoroughly enjoyed working with every athlete this season and hope to see everyone on the (NEW!)track in February.