If you have a CC shirt, please wear it tomorrow to the assembly!!!
WOW!!!!!
What an
amazing rainy and muddy final meet!!
Every runner
beat their personal record AND 5 runners beat school
records!!!
In celebration, we are having a cross country team breakfast
tomorrow morning at 7:30 in Ms. Gailliez’s room! Coaches will be
providing breakfast, so runners, you just need to show up!!!!!!
Thank you all so much for such an awesome season!! J
Press Release - AMAZING!!!
It was a rainy, muddy day in Eudora for Wheatridge Middle School Cross Country runners, but they didn’t let the conditions put a damper on their last meet of the season! WOW is the best word to describe the performances of all the runners! EVERY single runner ran a PR (personal record) and WMS now has FOUR new school records!
Kenzie Gust is the new seventh grade girl record holder with a time of 6:21, which also earned her a medal and sixth place in league. Mitch Lumley shaved off 18 seconds from his previous seventh grade boy record-breaking time with a run of 5:37, which earned him a medal and fourth place in league. Jamie Gaither had a great last middle school race and broke the eighth grade girl record with a time of 12:54, which earned her a medal and ninth place in league. Timothy Stuart ran his best race of the season and broke the eighth grade boy record with a time of 11:24, which earned him a medal and eighth place in league.
Other medal-worthy performances were run by three of the runners. Rodolfo Berrum, who also broke the previous eighth grade boy record with a time of 11:34, earned 11th in league. Shelby Baldwin ran a 6:47 and placed tenth in league. Skyler Bartels ran a 13:19 and placed thirteenth in league.
The runners did a great job of wrapping up their season with great performances. Seventh graders pushed themselves in their last one mile run. Erin Smith ran a 9:22, Chase Eccles ran a 6:07, Sebastian Wingfield ran a 7:07, Kole Edwards ran a 7:19, Jackson Edwards ran a 7:32, Logan Kleinsorge ran a 8:02, and Ryan Blackwell ran a 9:05. Eighth graders ended their middle school season with fantastic two mile runs. Haley Meyer ran a 14:30, Noah Spencer ran a 12:34, Josh Lopeman ran a 12:55, Trenton Bilhimer ran a 13:55, and Taylor Lindburg ran a 17:55. WMS coaches are incredibly proud of all the hard work and dedication that the runners gave this season and they look forward to next year!
Eudora Update!
It looks like we're going to be lucky and have a small time slot this afternoon to have our last meet!
Due to the inclement weather that is predicted for later in the afternoon, there is NOT going to be a medal ceremony at the end of the meet. Medals and ribbons will be given out in the chute, which will help us all get on the buses before the bad weather hits!
We look forward to seeing everyone there!
Happy Running,
Coach Gailliez & Coach Kost
Due to the inclement weather that is predicted for later in the afternoon, there is NOT going to be a medal ceremony at the end of the meet. Medals and ribbons will be given out in the chute, which will help us all get on the buses before the bad weather hits!
We look forward to seeing everyone there!
Happy Running,
Coach Gailliez & Coach Kost
End Of The Season Information
We have the opportunity to raise money for Cross Country this Saturday, October 11th. This money will help us buy materials and needed items for next season. There is a volleyball tournament at WMS that day, and Cross Country has signed up to work the concession stand. This is a great fundraising activity for us. We need at least one parent volunteer to be present, and at least three runners. We currently have adults helping out from 7:40am - 10:30am, but am in need of a few more adults who could volunteer their time from 10:30-1:30. Ms. Gailliez will be taking tickets and Ms. Kost will be doing the book, so we will be close by if any questions arise. We will both be there to help clean up and close down the concession stand. Please let us know if you would be available to help out. Concession stand working is fairly simple and easy, so we hope we can make this work for the team!
Eudora - Thursday, October 9th
Please check out the information for our last meet of the season!
7th grade girls race @ 4:00 PM
7th grade boys race @ 4:15 PM
8th grade girls race @ 4:30 PM
8th grade boys race @ 5:00 PM
All times are approximate.
The following schools will be competing: Eudora, Lexington Trails, Ottawa, Paola, Pioneer Ridge, Spring Hill, Trail Ridge, Tonganoxie, Wheatridge
7th graders will run 1 mile and 8th graders will run 2 miles.
If there is inclement weather, girls and boys will be combined by grade level.
Invitational medals will be awarded to the top 15 in each division (7G, 7B, 8G, 8B)
There IS a medal ceremony at this meet, medals are not given out in the chute.
Press Release 10.1.14
Luckily the thunderstorms held off long enough for the Wheatridge Cross Country team to run their second-to-last meet at Celebration Park on Wednesday. The runners had amazing times, with twelve of them setting personal records (PR) and one of them setting a new school record! Seventh grade girls fared well with Kenzie Gust earning an 8th place medal by running a 6:38 (PR), Shelby Baldwin getting place 16th with a time of 7:07 (PR), and Erin Smith getting 42nd place with a time of 9:50 (PR). Mitch Lumley ran a fantastic race and set a new record at Wheatridge Middle School for seventh grade boys with a time of 5:55 (PR)! Chase Eccles earned 30th with a time of 6:45 (PR), Jackson Edwards earned 56th with a time of 7:59 (PR), Triston Gibson earned 57th with a time of 8:11 (PR), Kole Edwards earned 59th with a time of 8:22 (PR), and Logan Kleinsorge earned 60th place with a time of 8:37 (PR).
The eighth grade girls and boys races were run together to ensure all runners were done before the inclement weather hit. Jamie Gaither earned 14th place with a time of 14:34 (PR), Skyler Bartels earned 22nd place with a time of 15:09, and Haley Meyer earned 31st place with a time of 15:51. Timothy Stuart led the pack and took a first place medal, for the second time this season at Celebration Park, with a time of 12:02 (PR). Rodolfo Berrum earned a fourth place medal with a time of 12:23, Noah Spencer took 25th place with a time of 14:01 (PR), Trenton Bilhimer took 48th place with a time of 16:18, and Taylor Lindburg took 69th place with a time of 21:47. Wheatridge runners looks forward to rounding up their season next Thursday at Eudora!
The meet is on!! :)
It looks as though the weather will be giving us a time slot of good weather for our races today!
However, the storms are supposed to come back later in the evening, so the 8th grade girls and boys races are going to be combined in an effort to beat inclement weather.
The NEW race schedule is below:
However, the storms are supposed to come back later in the evening, so the 8th grade girls and boys races are going to be combined in an effort to beat inclement weather.
The NEW race schedule is below:
Race Schedule: (Times other than 7th grade girls are approximate)
7th grade girls – 4:00 p.m.
7th grade boys ~4:15 p.m.
8th grade parent recognition ~4:30 p.m.
8th grade girls and boys ~4:40 p.m.
***Note: Races will run ahead if time allows!***
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