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CHS Girls Varsity CC Team Wins 1st Place In Guilford At 9-27-23 Meet
The Cheshire High School Girls Varsity Cross Country Team Are The Housatonic Divisional Champions For The 3rd Consecutive Year.
CHS GIRLS VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY TEAM WIN 1ST PLACE AT SCC DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN GUILFORD ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2023.
ARTICLE & PHOTOS BY FRANK LOGIUDICE
The Cheshire High School Girls Varsity Cross Country Team are the Housatonic Divisional Champions for the 3rd Consecutive Year as a result of their 1st Place Victory at the SCC Divisional Championships on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 in Guilford. The score was CHS 16, Amity( 2nd) with 55, Shelton(3rd) 66, Lyman Hall(4th) 115.
Senior & Tri-Captain Alexa Cicone finished first with a time of 18:35, finishing second was Senior & Tri-Captain Mia Vientos 19:35, Eva Curran third 19:48, Emily D’Souza fourth 19:54, sixth Ava Ciccone 20:22, seventh Sage Falcon 20:39, eleventh Sarah Curran 20:56 and twelfth Julia Gonzalez 20:57.
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Head Coach Rob Schaefer commented about his team’s first place finish at the SCC meet in Guilford on September 27th. “We have never had such depth. Many teams hope to have two or three runners under 21:00. Really good teams will have four girls under 21:00. Today we had eight girls beat the 21:00 mark. This is such a good team! Although we were not competing against Mercy, they were in our race. They are a tough, top-ten team. We had our hands full with them. We beat them, but not by much. The SCC Championship is going to be a challenge to say the least.”
Schaefer singled out Tri-Captain Mia Vientos who returned to the team after a brief illness by stating “Mia Vientos was our heroine of the day. Her hard-earned finish came after a long duration of no running because of a cold. She rose to the occasion like a champion. We rely on her so much!”
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At this meet Schaefer ran two of his frosh athletes Sage Falcon and Sarah Curran in the varsity race competition he explained the reason for doing so. “Of course freshmen run varsity. It all depends on talent. They are very very talented freshmen runners."
The next event for the CHS Girls Cross Country Teams will be a meet with Foran, Lauralton Hall and East Haven High Schools in Milford on Tuesday, October 1o, 2023. Race time 4 p.m.
