Cross Country Competes as a Team,

For the first time in a long time, JCSD cross country fielded a FULL high school boys team. The team consisted of: Ethan Hjelmeland (senior), Alex Oltmann (senior), Seth Gregorsok (freshman), Aidan Little (freshman), and Jason Westendorf (freshman).

There were also 5 middle school athletes who crushed it this year. They include: Maggie Heidemann (8th), Izzy Foelske (8th), Noah Gansen (8th), Nicolas DeHart (7th), and Kayla Cox (7th).

The season brought many highlights. Coach Molly Ludwig would like to give recognition to a few members…special shoutout to Seth Gregorsok for the team's best time so far this season, which he ran at conference with a 20:55, special shoutout to Aidan Little for starting the year with a 36:00 3.1 mile race, and last week beating his goal of breaking 30:00 and running a 29:03, and special shoutout to the 2 senior leaders for leading the way at every single practice, including a few practices on the trails where they ran 5+ or 6+ miles. At the conference meet, every high schooler had a Season Best time (PR), and 3 of them (the freshman) were all lifetime best runs for a 5k.

The middle school cross country team had several highlights as well. During a middle school meet we had 4 out of the 5 runners PR for their 2 mile race, and all 5 placed in the top 10. At conference, all 3 middle school girls placed in the top 10 and received ribbons.

Coach Ludwig states, “Team highlights are harder to breakdown because even though we're scoring points as a team, we're not exactly winning meets... So a celebration there is just that we've been able to score points as a team at every single meet so far this year!”