Charger Sports
Runners in short shorts sprint unpursuedLeigh Ivey, Editor-in-Chief CHS’s cross country teams are continuing
to improve as the season rolls on. At the meet at Rippa Villa Plantation
on Sept. 14, the men’s team placed second out of ten teams,
and the women placed first. Cookeville’s Justin Birdwell placed
first in the men’s race with an outstanding time of 16:23,
while freshman Emily Earles’ time of 22:40 in the women’s
race helped her to a third place finish. Following Birdwell were seniors Spud Flatt
with a sixth place finish, Jesse Dalton in seventh place, Neal Jackson
coming in eleventh, and freshman Wes Flatt finishing sixteenth.
In the women’s race, Earles was followed
by Karen Green and Rachael Crook, capturing the eighth and ninth
place finishes, Sarah Kmet placing twelvth, and Marie Lee with a
thirteenth place finish. The women’s B-team, including Meagan
Franklin, Anastasia Shinbeckler, Mary Bowen, Kayla Bean, and Prija
Mahajan, got a perfect score of fifteen at the meet, while the men’s
B-team managed for all five runners to place in the top ten. Coach Bill Wrasman commented, ‘Doing
well at this meet showed me that we have potential, but we still
have a long way to go. We have to work harder if we’re going
to win regionals.” Freshman runner Wes Flatt agreed, saying,
“The team’s going well, but all of us could definitely
improve.” The team is still striving for perfection.
Wrasman said, “We’ve got to get three guys running the
race in under seventeen minutes, and all the top five need to be
finishing in less than eighteen minutes. The younger girls are beginning
to figured out what cross country is all about, and I took for us
to continue improving throughout the year.” Daily practices aren’t discouraging
the runners. The teams are working hard to reach their full potential.
The Tennessee Classic held at Steeple Chase
on Sept. 21 gave the men’s team a 22nd place finish out of
47 teams, and the women placed 24th out of 35. The Ryan Burnett Memorial Invitational will
be held at the CHS course on Oct. 12. The Mid-State meet is to be held on Oct. 24, also at home Come support CHS’s fantastic cross country teams!
Article prepared for web by Joy Wheeler |