Wellington, KS — It was a beautiful morning for Goddard Cross Country as we participated in our second meet of the season! Wellington is a much different course with more inclines and hills in comparison to ClearWater. Going into this meet we wanted to improve on our times last week in ClearWater and compete at a high level as a team. Today we improved, were extremely competitive, and ran some exceptional race times! This was very impressive for our team as today's course was much more difficult! Improvements will continue to be made with the Lions wanting to run their best races at the end of the season. If you did not improve upon your race time today remember so many different factors go into running a good race and sometimes it is just not our day. There will be plenty of opportunities as our season progresses! The Lions will have a quick turnaround as our next race will be Thursday in Buhler! Race itinerary will be coming out soon. Link to Final Race Results: https://ks.milesplit.com/meets/566387-wellington-high-schoolmiddle-school-invitational-2023/results/954831/raw Today we had 8 runners medal, 15/24 run faster than Clearwater, our Varsity Boys team took 3rd place overall, and Cole Bennington ran a PR today with a time of 23:48 in the 5k! Top finishes include Olivia Brownell on the women's side with a 3rd place finish and Luke Griffith on the boys side with a 4th place finish! Today our Varsity boys were 2 points away from 2nd overall and 12 points away from 1st! If any of our top 5 runners could have placed a spot or two ahead of another runner we would have been the 2nd best team there! We are right in the mix Lions! We will look at the results closer as a team and evaluate where we need to go. Let this be motivation going forward! Valley Center and Arkansas City will be teams we see again at League and future meets. Mens Varsity 5k Results 1st - Valley Center 63 2nd - Arkansas City - 73 3rd - Goddard - 75 4th - Andale - 86 Race Times Womens 5k 3rd - Olivia Brownell 23:19 (46 seconds faster/Medal) 21st - Emma Deck 25:49 (1 minute 44 seconds faster!/Medal) Mens 5k 4th - Luke Griffith 17:56 (30 seconds faster/Medal) 13th - Nathan Lewis 19:03 (10 seconds faster/Medal) 18th - Nathan Harkman 19:27 (21 seconds faster/Medal) 20th - Ayden Smith 19:33 (35 seconds faster/Medal) 27th - Levi Brownell 20:23 (Medaled) 30th - Sam Brown 20:37 (8 seconds faster/Medal) 45th - Lucas Jahay 21:38 50th - Eli Griffith 22:33 52nd - Hudson Donaghue 22:44 57th - Cooper Hudson 23:03 (17 seconds faster) 58th - Brendan Martling 23:12 60th - Alex Aguilera 23:47 61st - Cole Bennington 23:48 (NEW PR!) 62nd - Cohen Fyfe 24:10 (2 minutes and 18 seconds faster!) 68th - 25:26 (51 seconds faster) 2 Mile (Girls) 18th - Adeline Hudson 18:37 20th - Zoe Liedl 18:45 (2 minutes and 14 seconds faster!) 32nd - Morgan Ralstin 22:28 (1 minute and 22 seconds faster!) 33rd - Rachel Povall 24:10 2 Mile (Boys) 42nd - Drake Maples 17:26 (1 minute 51 seconds faster!) 50th - Jordy Doornbos 19:51 51st - Kyle Horschel 20:46 (Major improvement!)