What a great start to the season! We have already had a number of memorable team and individual achievements. Girls - no group has shown more improvement throughout the first month of the season than the Varsity/JV Girls. Led by Senior harrier Ashley Judd; who won the Canyon View Tri, and placed high at Hurricane, SUU, Cedar, BYU (where she was the top Region 9 runner), and a top 20 placement at Vegas; the girls have really taken off in the last couple weeks. As the season has progressed, the girls have not only cut into Dixie's 2nd place ranking among Region 9 4A, they have now surpassed them thanks to the excellent running of 2nd and 3rd runners Rachel Heinrich and Cassidy Ferris. The girls have also gotten strong runs out of Senior Kareena Hudson and first year runner Micci Hafen (all 5 have earned Runner of the Week honors - congrats ladies). The girls look to continue to improve and challenge Snow Canyon for the top spot in Region and qualify for State.
The Pine View High School boys' cross country team has also done really great things this season. All three top Panther harriers have led the team at least once this season - Austin Smith (Jr.), Trevor Thompson (So.), and Corey Kimzey (So.) - and have place extremely well at even the largest of the state invitationals. Trevor Thompson (7th) led the Panthers to a 5th place at BYU where Austin Smith also place in the top 25. The Panthers also took 5th at Murray (Thompson 8th, Corey Kimzey 12th, Smith 26th). The day following Murray, PV took 2nd just two points behind American Fork at the Provo Bulldog Invite where Trevor took home a 1st overall, Austin placed 7th and Corey 9th. This same weekend, the JV boys went to the Las Vegas Invite with the girls and fielded a great effort out of our 2nd 7 taking 13th out of 24 Varsity teams in one of the largest invites in Nevada drawing schools from all over Nevada and Southern California. Pacing the Panthers was Devin Gillespie who also ran very well earlier in the year taking 2nd at the SUU Invite JV race and winning the Fresh/Soph race at BYU - closely followed by Sophmores Dyllen Cafferty and Ryan Nielsen - leading PV to a convincing victory.
We are also proud of all the newest members of our team. Since school started, we have had a large group of runners come join us, many who have never run before. Through hard work and dedication, many of these student-athletes are already showing great signs of improvement and really helping us look forward to the future.
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