From Cross Country Coach Chad Craghead:

On 08-26-17 the North Callaway Cross County High School teams competed at the Mexico Invitational there first 5K race of the season.

The first race of the day was the Varsity Girls race.  There were 69 runners in the race along with 9 full teams competing in the race.  The Lady Birds were led by Kaleigh Moore, who for the second week in the row finished 2^nd place individually.  She finished the race in 21:18.  The Lady Birds had three other runners in the top 5, Kyla Bertschinger 3^rd place – 21:24.97, Daelyn Schmauch 4^th place – 21:25.73, Reyna Schmauch 5^th place – 21:37.88 5.  Other finishers for the Lady Birds were Brianna Douglas 44^th place -26:54.24 41, Olivia Isaaks 46^th place – 27:32.03 43 and Alyssa Rinehart 50^th place – 27:49.66 45.  For the second race in a row the Lady Birds came out on top as the Team Champions with Mexico placing 2^nd, Centralia 3^rd, and Bowling Green 4^th rounding off the top 4.

The second race of the day was the Varsity Boys Race.  The Thunderbirds finished 6^th place in the field of 65 runners.  Placing 14^th for the boys was Khobi Kellerman who finished with a time of 19:18.55 11.  Other finishers for North Callaway was Ean Rohrbach 37^th place – 21:34.86 24, Josh McCowan 43^rd place – 22:30.92 28, Grant Eichman 45^th place – 22:43.89 30, Jospeh Crawford 51^st place – 23:51.29 34, Noah Scrogum 54^th place – 24:23.38 36 and  Josh Craghead 59^th – place 25:14.29 39

The last race of the day was a combined Junior Varsity Race.  The girls were led by Julisa Moreno who earned the only medal for North Callaway, placing 4^th in the girl’s race.  She finished with 26:11.16.  Other finishers were Brooke Fischer 13^th place – 28:52.85, Christa Gilman 18^th place – 32:32.43.

The boys were led by Jared Bailey who finished 23rd – 25:03.09.  Other finisher was Justin Coffman 26^th place – 26:12.36

The entire NCXC competes again on 09-05-17 at Van Far