By Jake Hasenauer - NPHS Cross Country Head Coach
It was a great day for the Bulldogs in Grand Island today. After two straight meets where the weather has been 95-100 degrees, today was in the 70s and even rained off and on the whole meet. It was Bulldog weather and the Bulldogs came ready to compete.
Our girls led off the day with another strong meet. Our top five girls all finished in the top six and had the fastest team average in school history. The girls have won all five of our meets this year. This is one of the toughest group of girls I’ve ever seen and they know how to compete for their team. One of their goals this year was to have a better year than last and just go out and run their very best. It’s tough to win a meet and winning each meet going into the end of September is tough to do. The girls were led by Zarah Blaesi coming in first place, followed by Marissa Holm (2nd), Evelyn Blaesi (3rd), Nelia Rivas (4th), and Jada Hothan (6th).
The boys bounced back nicely from a tough past couple weeks. We’ve had some injury and sickness go throughout our boys team the past couple weeks, and this was the first time we had our top boys all back together since the beginning of the year. They were hungry and ready to compete. They lost a close battle to Grand Island by only five points. One of the things we talked about with the boys this week is closing the gap and being competitive and they did just that today. The boys runner-up finish was led by Evan Caudy (2nd), followed by Rian Teets (5th), Quade Lowe (7th), Gabe Jenny (11th), and Rayce Moerke (15th).
Next week we have a very tough meet as we head to UNK for the pre-state meet. It will be great to see several schools are state ranked and the top boys and girls ranked teams in the state there that day.
Results below: https://timerhub.com/