Elite Runners Demonstrate Prowess

Despite an extremely limited team that even had to replace one of its members who was absent with freshman Andrew Yoder, the EMHS Cross Country team ran impressively at the EMHS Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. While the precise order of the seventeen teams involved is not yet clear, individual EMHS runners performed very well. Freshman Leah Moore, in her first race ever, ranked seventh in the 3.1 mile varsity race, and Aaron Zook finished eighth, with Matt Layman placing sixteenth; Matt and Aaron both had their best times for the event thus far. Eighth grader Kristi Miller placed eleventh in the two mile middle school competition. A former EMHS student of last year (Dan Nafziger) also placed third in the Varsity race. All this was accomplished despite a very limited pool of runners to draw from, with a desperate need for more, in comparison with much larger schools such as Harrisonburg High.

EMHS's Cross Country team also recognizes students for certain accomplishments at this very specific annual event, and several students performed well enough to warrant notice. Leah Moore joined the ranks  of under twenty four minute performers for varsity girls. Matthew Layman and Aaron Zook (for the second time) achieved an under twenty minute race, and performed very well. Kristi Miller ran her race in under sixteen minutes. Despite the considerable manpower deficiency, captain Aaron Zook and Maria Martin will surely lead their team to great victories, and, in the words of of junior James Souder, it will be "a pretty good season."

- David Jost (Photo by Matt Layman)

Comments

[James Souder]

good article, David!

[Haley]

OMG! LEAH'S INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!