The start 0f XC 23

The Cherokee Challenge marks the start to this years cross country team. The team is over 20 girls this year with quite a bit of first time runners. The freshman race was up first seeing Gabby Urban, Alexa Butler, Hafsa Salahuddin and Brooke Garrity all racing cross country for the first time ever. Gabby was our top finisher earning a medal running 14:03 to place 21st.

The sophomore race had our lone runner of Maya Kumar. She ran 13:58 to place 24th. Her time was almost a minute and a half faster than last year. The Junior and Senior races were our largest races. In the Junior race we had Megan Niglio, Grace Wojciechowski, Emily Butler, Grace Gorsline, Sydney Morrison, Selen Arkan and Kaitlyn Repsher. Meg Niglio led the way with a 10th place finish running 12:38 which was her first time under 13 minutes on the home course. First year runner Grace Wojciechowski ran 13:28 to place 30th.

The senior race did not disappoint. Kerry O'Day, Regan O'Shaughnessy, Lainy Bromley, Maddie Van Haren and Alli Rathman all had their last opportunity to race on the 2 mile home course. Kerry had a late surge to move herself into 2nd place running 11:44 which ties Nikki Clifford's best which is #2 AT. Regan had a great 2 mil opener running 13:26 to finish 31st. The team finished 5th in the girls division out of the 38 teams that competed and 2nd in the co-ed division.

Complete team results

	Time	Place
Kerry O'Day	11:44	2nd Sr race
Megan Niglio	12:38	10th Jr race
Regan O'Shaughnessy	13:26	31st Sr race
Grace Wojciechowski	13:28	30th Jr race
Maya Kumar	13:58	24th So
Gabby Urban	14:03	21st Fr race
Lainy Bromley	14:04	51st Sr race
Maddie Van Haren	14:23	60th Sr race
Alli Rathman	14:34	67th Sr race
Emily Butler	14:48	65th Jr race
Grace Gorsline	15:07	78th Jr race
Alexa Butler	16:48	88th Fr race
Sydney Morrison	17:40	148th Jr race
Selen Arkan	17:50	150th Jr race
Hafsa Salahuddin	18:57	116th Fr race
Kaitlyn Repsher	21:26	195th Jr race
Brooke Garrity	22:22	146th Fr race