Wichita Trinity Race Article

Wichita, KS — Wichita Trinity Race Article Wichita, KS — Wild Wind XC Festival Wichita Trinity High School October 12, 2024 "Bigger, Better, Stronger, Power!” The weather was perfect and the music was bumping creating a perfect environment for fast race times! Today the Goddard Cross Country team raced in their 6th race of the season at the Wild Wind XC Festival! The Lions had an excellent week of practice leading up to Wichita Trinity and it really showed today with our race times! Us coaches are so proud of how the team competed and gave it everything they had to run a new season best or personal record individually! With the amount of growth that can be seen in our race times today, I hope your jaws drop just like ours did! The kids ran great and we should be immensely proud of our performances! GO LIONS! Link to Official Race Results: https://results.blacksquirreltiming.com/meets/57470 Link to Photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCx9YU Today Highlights: 1. 22/28 Lions ran either a Season Best or Personal Record Today! The improvement across the entire team today was tremendous! 2. We had 17/28 runners run a new personal record today good for 61% of the team! This means we had 5 season bests ran on the day! 3. All Varsity Girls ran either a season best or a new personal record! We had 5 personal records ran and 1 season best ran at the Varsity Girls level! 4. Varsity boys had 3 personal records ran and 2 season bests ran out of 7 runners. Benji Kouns tied his PR of 19:51. 5. JV girls saw Isla Block run one of the best races of the day destroying her previous personal record! Her old personal record was a 31:34 and today she ran a 29:32 (2 minutes and 2 seconds faster!) 6. JV boys saw 8 boys run personal records and 2 run season bests out of 11 runners! This means 10/11 JV boys had a personal record or season best time ran! Cooper Stelling came away with our lone medal on the day with a 20th place finish in the JV boys race! Varsity Girls (Personal Bests/Season Bests) 1. Jillian Eck 24:05 PR Beat 24:46 (41 seconds faster) 2. Brooklyn Jones (She tied her PR of 24:19 and ran a season best) 3. Autumn Weaver 24:39 PR Beat 24:58 (17 seconds faster) 4. Giselle Avitia 25:10 PR Beat 25:24 (14 seconds faster) 5. Ava Mantanona 25:24 PR Beat 25:51 (27 seconds faster) 6. Zalie Brewster 26:11 PR Beat 27:23 (1 minute 12 seconds faster) Varsity Boys Times (Personal Bests/Season Bests) 1. Levi Brownell 18:17 SB Beat 18:59 (42 seconds faster) 2. Harlan Harkman 19:22 PR Beat 19:46 (24 seconds faster) 3. Benji Kouns (He tied is PR today of 19:51) 4. Eli Griffith 19:57 SB Beat 20:43 (46 seconds faster) 5. Ellis Martin 20:28 PR Beat 20:59 (31 seconds faster) 6. Brendan Martling 20:42 PR Beat 21:08 (26 seconds faster) JV Girls (Personal Bests/Season Bests) 1. Isla Block 29:32 PR Beat 31:34 (2 minutes 2 seconds faster) JV Boys (Personal Bests/Season Bests) 1. Cooper Stelling 20:37 PR Beat 21:01 (24 seconds faster) 2. Riley Johnson 20:42 PR Beat 21:25 (42 seconds faster) 3. Drake Maples 21:34 PR Beat 21:40 (6 seconds faster) 4. Ethan Stephenson 21:42 PR Beat 24:20 (2 minutes 38 seconds!) 5. Cooper Jordan 21:56 PR Beat 22:18 (22 seconds faster) 6. Efren Bravo-Bautista 23:38 PR Beat 23:41 (3 seconds faster) 7. Connor Howard 23:38 PR Beat 23:58 (20 seconds faster) 8. Kyle Horschel 24:43 PR Beat 26:18 (1 minute 35 seconds faster) 9. Zach Montgomery 24:44 SB Beat 26:27 (1 minute 43 seconds) 10. Jordy Doornbos 24:52 SB Beat 25:32 (40 seconds faster)