Whitefish High School

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Boy's XC (Read 283 times)

Jacob Fern


    what happened to the boy's cross country team? only 7 runners? At least you won't have to wonder who will be on varsity...
      The boys cross country team is alive and well. There are 12 boys out, and there looks to be quite a bit of potential this season. We are just going to have to use the entire season to get to our best. We've had such large senior classes the past two seasons. That has finally come to haunt us, as with the graduation of 22 runners on the boys team in the past two years, we are at a point where we are a bit skinny with numbers. But, as you may remember, cross country is a fun sport. New kids have already come out, and are realizing that it's a pretty fun group to be part of. Today, Thursday, is the Ronan meet. There will be four new runners beginning their racing experience. At the beginning of the season I felt that we ranked tied for fourth in the conference (with Libby). This may because Bigfork doesn't have enough to field a full team, or we would have been tied for fifth. Since then we've moved up to take over the fourth position. Ronan and Polson have proven to be a bit better than us right now, but I don't think that it's out of reason for us to think that we may improve our way past them. Columbia Falls is pretty deep, and they have quite a few good runners. This may be their year to lead the boys side of the conference. Bill