Cedar Invite

Cedar Invite is always a key race for our team.  Not only does it finalize our Varsity rosters for Region and enter us into the championship season, the race is a great comparison to one of our first races of the season on this same course.
Many of our Youngsters had great races.  Our girls took places 2-5.  And we saw great races from Sarah Snow (2nd), Jessica Hill, Pyper Holt and many others.  The boys also ran very well.  Leading the team were Alex Klein and Scottie Bushar.
The JV Girls may have seen some of the best Season Records and improvements of the day.  The JV girls took 4th - just 10 points off of Cedar.  Carli Kimzey ran an outstanding race and placed 7th overall.  Other great races included Macey Widdison, Annelise Burr and Irene Salinas.
The JV Boys were locked in a great team race with DHells.  After Hellians took 2 and 3rd, Skylar Abel  outsprinted Logan Hirschi to the line for a 4 and 5 for PV.  We then placed 7 (Zach Crowell), 8 (Mitch Price) and 12 (Macen Walker) to come up 2nd in the race by a score of 33-36.  Many of our JV Boys ran great races and showed great improvement from the first of the year.
The Varsity Girls ran the race of the day.  Using our team depth, we were able to break up Cedar's scorers much better than last week at Nebo.  The girls ran with confidence and determination and placed 7, 11, 14, 17, 19, 29, 32 (Josie, Nicole, Caroline, Alli, Ellie, Meskerem, Jacey).  Winning the title by a score of 67 to 74.  The long-term consequences of this race are going to be huge to our team.  This race shows us what it takes to win Region and State Titles.  Congrats to all the girls who ran so well and accomplished times that may have seemed unrealistic at the beginning of the season.  But in doing so… they not only won the meet title, but they set the PV team record for the Cedar course - 54 seconds faster than our 2011 team which took 2nd in State and ran our fastest team time at State by over 4 minutes!
The meet ended with our Varsity Boys taking 3rd place to strong DHells and Page teams.  Nick Hill was our leading runner, once again, placing 9th in 15:32.