Charger Sports

Cross Country: off and running

Tiffany Jolly, Charger Staff

The Cookeville High School Cross Country team has an exciting amount of talent this year. The girls record is 45-2 and the boys is 45-9. They participated in three meets, a jamboree, two invitationals, and a mid-state preseason meet. In the Macon County invitaitonal, the girls won and the boys placed fourth.

In midstate, the girls received second and they boys came in fifth.

In the Columbia Invitational, the girls came in second, while the boys came in third.

Coach Bill Wrasman says, “We’re in a really tough region this year, Siegel has five girls that can run 3 miles in under 24 minutes. In Lebanon, one premiere distance runner in the state has a 3 mile time in under 15 minutes.” Although the ranks are high for the other teams, our cross country runners are doing well too. Molly Sasser is ranked twelfth in Midstate, Emily Earles is ranked eighteenth, Sarah Kmet is ranked twenty-eighth, and James Ivey is ranked tenth.

This year the varsity boys team includes seniors Tommy Adams, Andrew Bock, Stephen Bush, and Justin Stanford.

The juniors are John Allison, Ben Anderson, Wesley Flatt, James Ivey, and Justin Lafever.

The sophomores ae Michael Lane and Sean Ochsenbein. This weekend the boys and girls are competing in the Tennessee Classic, which had fifty-four schools attending last year and 378 runners. It has the best schools from not only Tennessee,but Alabama, Kentucky, and Louisiana also.