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South Lakes High School Cross Country Starts Strong
Led by its freshmen girls' team, South Lakes High School cross country teams are off to a competitive start in Reston.
From South Lakes High School:
Led by its freshmen girls’ team, South Lakes High School cross country teams placed in every invitational meet they competed in thus far this season.
The latest success came at the 87-team Oatlands Invitational, Saturday, September 17 in Leesburg, VA. Competing in six divisions, the Seahawks were led by the first-place finish of the JV Underclassman Girls, the third-place finishes by both the JV Underclassmen Boys and Varsity B girls and fourth place in the Varsity A boys division.
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Junior Anna Prater won the JV Upperclassman girls division race in leading the team to an eighth-place finish. The Varsity B boys team was 11th.
Sophomores Jordan Anderson (21:52.00, 4th), Isabelle Gulgert (21:57.00, 5th), Sophie Halkett (22:26.00, 12th) and Nicole Post (22:38.00, 16th) were the top finishers for SLHS in winning the JV Underclassman Girls title. But if was the consistent performances of freshmen Brooke Tobias (22:49.00), Emily Lannen (23:10.00), Marissa Banga (23:17.00), Kelly Bidwell (23:42.00), Frankie Delmolino (25:15.00), Sydney Anderson (25:51.00) and Alyssa Spar (25:53.00) that has had them finish atop the team standings.
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The freshmen girls started off the season winning their division at the =PR= Kickoff Classic August 25 in Manassas. They followed that up with a second place finishes at the Chancellor High School Cross Country Invitational September 3 in Fredericksburg, VA and Monroe Park Invitational September 10 in Burke, VA. SLHS also placed second in the JV girls division of the PTXC 8 Invitational in Kutztown, PA September 10.
Oatlands, which had more than 2,000 runners competing in eight different divisions has proven to be the SLHS teams’ most successful competition thus far this season with additional top 20 finishes by sophomore Calvin Warstler (18:17.00, 5th), junior Katie Bidwell (20:55.00, 5th), senior Morgan LaRow (21:16.00, 8th) and juniors Emily McGrath (21:54.00) and Tara Ravishankar (23:10.00, 18th).
After a conference meet Tuesday, September 20 at SLHS, 52-members of the team will travel to Greensboro, NC to compete in the Hagen Stone Invitational October 1.
For more information, please contact South Lakes High School Head Cross Country Coach Joseph Schuler at JVSCHULER@FCPS.EDU OR 703-715-4629.
Photos by Milestat, Shashi Ravishankar, Wendy Delmolino
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