Cross Country

     The 2012-2013 cross country season got off to a HOT start, with practice temperatures reaching over 100 degrees. The team started with 40 runners, and finished with 33 brave souls. Of that 33, 13 were returning runners who participated in the sport during 7^th grade.

   

 Our first meet was the Forest Park XC Festival where the athletes ran with teams from all over the U.S. Brooke Robinson (7^th) earned a medal for 15^th place.

     The second meet was the Bowles Invitational and Festus West City Park. Two girls earned medals: Brooke Robinson 11^th and Emma Solovic 13^th. Our girls’ team placed 4^th and the boys placed 11^th.

 The Ed White Invitational (Fox) at Arnold City Park was a meet that we ran in which we competed with only the middle schools in our district. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams took 2^nd place.

Medals were earned by:

Emma Solovic 2^nd 

Kellen Emery 4^th

Brooke Robinson 7^th

Luke Mueller 6^th

Emily Mueller 8^th                  Justin Kahlo 9^th

Joclyn Key 9^th                      Nathan Lee 11^th

Breanna Setchfield 15^th         Ryan Hays 12^th

Courtney Lawrence 20^th        Ethan Berger 17^th

     The Desoto meet resulted in the girls’ team finishing 3^rd and the boys’ team finishing 7^th. There were 4 medals earned by Emma Solovic (12), Brooke Robinson (13), Kellen Emery (5), and Luke Mueller (18).

   

     The Hillsboro meet was cancelled due to storms, but only after the high school teams had ran. The remaining middle school athletes from both Seckman and Antonia had a scary ride back to school. We were all very thankful for Art, our bus driver.

     Brooke Robinson was the only medal in the R-7 meet, which was unique because the 7^th grade and 8^th grade athletes ran separately. It was also the most wooded course of the year.

 Our district meet was held in Forest Park in conjunction with the Suburban-South High School Conference meet. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams took 2^nd with medals awarded to the following:

Emma Solovic 5^th           Kellen Emery 5^th

Brooke Robinson 9^th       Luke Mueller 6^th

Emily Mueller 10^th          Evan Price 11^th

Joclyn Key 11^th              Ryan Hays 13^th

Breanna Setchfield 17^th  Justin Kahlo 15^th

Courtney Lawrence 19^th  Nathan Lee 21^st

Abby Dishner 25^th          William Magee 25^th

     The banquet was held on October 23^rd at the Fox C-6 service center, where we celebrated with our “southside” friends from Antonia, and enjoyed some Detour together.  We definitely enjoyed the break before beginning the Jaguar Running Winter Running Program.

XC Banquet Awards

Title	Description	7th Grade	8th Grade
Team Captain	Someone dedicated to succeeding and organizing the team to believe in the system	Ryan Hays	Megan Steis
Most Valuable	Couldn’t have been a success without as a person and performer.	Brooke Robinson	Luke Mueller
Most Improved	Making huge strides to improve their time along with being a key player for the team	Jacob Stewart	Tyler Creamer Cody Currier
Heart of a Fighter	To over come obstacles without complaining	Evan Price	Kellen Emery
Love You Man	Upbeat attitude that keeps the team going with their loveable qualities.	Maranda Kriese	Joclyn Key