Articles Tagged: Cross country

A watch list of top Gazette-area teams and individuals for the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ cross country season.

State cross country (Class 3A): Washington’s Micah Rees hangs with the front pack for nearly 2 miles, finishes 4th. Mount Vernon-Lisbon girls are runners-up.

Class 2A and 3A cross country teams raced at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023.

Shortly after Mid-Prairie’s Danielle Hostetler was denied her fourth consecutive Class 2A girls’ state cross country championship, schoolmate Emmett Swartzentruber claimed the boys’ title.

In her final day as a Calamus-Wheatland student (she will open-enroll at Tipton on Monday), Noelle Steines pulls away from North Linn’s Meghan Wheatley and wins her third Class 1A state cross country title.

Class 4A and 1A cross country teams raced at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023.

Led by Adam Gray’s sixth-place run, Cedar Rapids Kennedy settled for fourth place in the Class 4A boys’ team race at the state cross country championships Friday morning at Lakeside Golf Course.

Three months after the death of teammate Aidan O’Neil, the resilient, determined Iowa City Regina boys’ cross country team is peaking ahead of Friday’s state meet.

Capsules for the 2023 Iowa high school state cross country meet Friday and Saturday at Lakeside Golf Course.

Results from Thursday’s Class 2A and Class 1A Iowa high school state-qualifying cross country meets that included area teams.

Running step-by-step, side-by-side with Tipton’s Clay Bohlmann throughout the race, Vinton-Shellsburg’s Alex Torres had the decisive push at the end and captured the boys’ individual title at Thursday’s Class 2A state-qualifying meet at Monticello High School. Quite a departure from last year, when he didn’t qualify.

Mount Vernon-Lisbon won the girls and boys team titles in a Class 3A state-qualifying cross country meet Wednesday night at Solon.

Results from Wednesday’s Class 4A and Class 3A Iowa high school state-qualifying cross country meets that included area teams.

A volleyball player last year, Marion’s Addison Dabroski switched fall sports to cross country, and is duly rewarded with an individual title at Wednesday’s Class 3A state-qualifying meet at Solon.

Cross country state-qualifying meets are Wednesday (Class 4A and Class 3A) and Thursday (2A and 1A) throughout the state. Here are four things to keep an eye on in the area.