Wellington, KS — Wellington Cross Country Meet Recap/Race Times 9/10/22 It was a beautiful morning for Goddard Cross Country as we participated in our second meet of the season! Going into this meet we wanted to improve on our times last week in ClearWater, go after PRs, and perform well as a team. Today I can say that we definitely met those goals if not exceeded them! Improvements will continue to be made with the Lions wanting to run their best races at the end of the season. Today was definitely a step in the right direction! The Lions will have a quick turnaround as our next race will be Thursday in Buhler! Race itinerary/information will be coming out here soon. Photo Link Courtesy of Becky Andrews: https://bandrews.smugmug.com/Goddard-Cross-Country-Fall-2022/Wellington-91022/n-nkgPtn Today we had 10 runners run PRs, 4 individuals who medaled, 10 runners whom ran better race times than our first meet at Clearwater, and our Varsity boys team took 4th place overall! We were one point short of taking 3rd place overall! If any of our top 5 runners could have placed a spot or two ahead of another runner we would have been the 3rd best team there! This was very encouraging to see and to know that we are right there Lions! Let this be motivation going forward! Mens Varsity 5K Results Team Scores 1st - Arkansas City 31 2nd - Goddard Eisenhower 52 3rd - Valley Center 120 4th - Goddard 121 5th - Wellington 158 6th - Andale 166 7th - Pratt 172 8th - Mulvane 203 9th - Clearwater 207 10th - Belle Plaine 228 11th - Oxford 293 Race Times 10th - Luke Griffith - 18:28 PR/Medaled/Better Race 25th - Nathan Harkman - 19:34 PR/Medaled/Better Race 26th - Nathan Lewis - 19:49 Medaled/Better Race 38th - Ayden Smith - 20:22 41st - Sam Brown - 20:31 PR/Better Race 45th - Hudson Donaghue - 20:42 Better Race 55th - Mason Lott - 21:09 PR/Better Race 66th - John Esparza - 22:08 69th - Brendan Martling - 22:19 PR/Better Race 70th - Cooper Hudson - 22:20 PR/Better Race 75th - James Alexander - 22:44 PR/First Race this season! 84th - Conner Huddleston - 23:24 Better Race 87th - Cohen Fyfe - 24:21 PR/Better Race 91st - Adam Vincent - 26:19 92nd - Owen Granados - 26:38 93rd - Cole Bennington - 26:43 PR/Better Race (Cole Ran over 3 minutes faster compared to Clearwater!) Womens Varsity 5K The Womens Varsity 5k consisted of two runners Emma Deck and Elena Latorre! If it wasn't for an untied shoe I believe Emma would have beat her PR today, but she stayed steady and ran the same race time as Clearwater and earned a medal today! Elena ran her 1st 5k and ran a solid time! She will look to improve on this time next race in Buhler! 12th - Emma Deck - 24:17 (Tied PR) 34th - Elena Latorre - 27:07 (1st 5K race!) Womens 2 Mile Race The Womens two mile race saw Hope Gettings and Bo Xaysana compete! Hope ran a PR today and improved on her last race time! Bo is a newcomer to our team and will look to improve her conditioning and run better on Thursday! 23rd - Hope Gettings - 18:04 PR! Bo Xaysana - Did not finish