Another year brings another warm and hilly race at the St. Francis Retreat Center for the Michigan Catholic XC Invitational! Our girls varsity was led off by senior captain Lainey Roth. She ran a 22:28 and took advantage of the packs she was in to not slow down! Also for senior captains, Nathalie Strockis was 2nd position for the varsity with a 23:12! Abby Druelle followed with a 24:14 and a great finish! Also joining the varsity were Audrey Mckeiver and Bree Hoffer who kept focus the whole time and ran hard fought races! Claire Smith faced some adversity, but didn’t let it get in the way of finishing her race hard! 

Following the girls race was the 2 mile race where we had three girls compete! It was an awesome race for them as each of the three Liz Richmond (2nd place), Paige Clinger (3rd place), and Katherine Klooster (4th place) received top place medals! Nice work girls!

We’ll have a lot of good training until the Ottawa Hills Invitational on Friday September 16th. That is the race where the training wheels are off and everyone runs a 5k! The girls are a resilient group and even fighting through some things early will not deter us at all the rest of the way. We’ll continue to work on those basic fundamentals of the sport, keep improving our pacing, while fine tuning the elements of starting and finishing a race. We have a tight group of kids that will push each other to help reach their goals! Can’t wait to see how it takes shape!