The Wheatridge Cross Country team had an amazing second-to-last meet of the season! They traveled across town to Pioneer Ridge’s meet at Celebration Park and the cool weather provided the perfect conditions for many top-ten medals and a lot of personal records!
The seventh grade girls’ team took first as a team out of the five schools running! Hannah Elliott led and won the race with a time of 6:15 (PR). Two other seventh grade girls ran medal earning races; Natalie Yarbrough took fifth place (6:40 PR) and Natalie Claycamp took seventh place (6:42 PR). Other awesome performances were Charli McGill (6:51 PR), Olivia Hinck (7:11), and Taylor Dryden (7:13 PR).
The seventh grade boys’ team had wonderful races as well! Gage Graham earned a medal for his tenth place race of 6:19 (PR), Kyler Leadbetter (7:07), Trevor Hamilton (7:17), Tyler Utter (7:38 PR), Will Korosec (7:42 PR), and Sam McQueen (8:45 PR).
The eighth grade girls’ team all earned medals and ran personal records. Jillian Velasquez took third place with a time of 13:25 (PR), Zoey Edwards took fifth place with a time of 13:28 (PR), and Sadie Helms took ninth place with a time of 15:03 (PR).
Donald Chambers represented the eighth grade boys with a personal record setting race of 13:24 (PR).
The Mustangs are starting their taper as they prepare for their last meet of the season in Eudora on Thursday, October 5th.