Near perfect race conditions were in effect on Friday night for the 3rd annual Friday Night Lights meet in Kernersville at Ivey Redmond Sports Complex. This group of harriers took advantage of the well-maintained course and cooler temperatures to accomplish an amazing team performance. Attitudes were very positive Thursday afternoon and that helped to translate to top notch performances on Friday night.
Our fine young men finished second/runner-up to 3A power Marvin Ridge in the invitational race. Considering the type of high profile meet FNL is considered this was a signature performance in the history of LCS XC. I was taken back by the sheer look of hunger and determination on the boy's faces during the race. I definitely saw the hollow, hungry, eye of the tiger on full display.
Senior Kenny Schild ran a seasons best time and was the best I have seen him in a long time. Definitely looked like you were having fun again Mr. Schild! Drew Zink improved slightly on his school record and PR. Nice job Drew! Freshman Patrick Rice had his first big performance of the season with a PR of 18:12. Kinser Hudson had a very solid run clocking a PR by 14 seconds. Jalen Ward and Ryan Wiltshire both made their JV cut. Travis Mullis and Davis Reed both had solid runs. Travis dropped almost a minute off of his previous best. Cutter Law continues to look very consistent and Curtis Herms showed up in a big way setting a personal record still is the early parts of the 2017 season.
For our ladies, Wow! The girls also had a signature performance finishing 4th in the women's invitational race. Senior Emily Elliott led the way finishing with a PR of 21:27. Emily leadership role as captain has translated to enormous results on the course this fall as she has taken ownership of this girls team. Junior Caity Born had a tremendously gutsy performance after dealing with a few set backs this week. Caity showed tremndous maturity and heart in "getting her head right" to race and threw down a PR of 21:45. Senior Maggie Hoey had a tough race but battled through adversity after rolling her ankle to finish with a SB of 21:54. Sophomore Emma Lasarsky had a solid first performance only 10 seconds off of her PR from 1A states last season at Ivey Redmond. Sophomore Alyssa Wright is quickly showing much improvement this season and ran a PR 80 seconds faster than two weeks ago at McAlipine Park. Last but not least. Oh, you Megan Minaudo! First meet of the season, PR of better that 1:21. Broke 23 minutes for the first time ever. What an amazing performance! Megan is showing her potential of being an "X factor" on the girl's squad this year.
WOMEN PR/SB
Caity Born PR 28 seconds
Grace Cary SB
Emily Elliott PR 37 seconds
Maggie Hoey SB
Emma Lasarsky SB
Megan Minaudo PR 1:21 seconds, 1st meet
Alyssa Wright PR 1:20 seconds
MEN PR/SB
Thomas Cruz PR
Curtis Herms PR
Kinser Hudson PR 14 seconds
Cutter Law PR
Travis Mullis PR 58 seconds
Davis Reed SB
Patrick Rice PR 43 seconds
Kenny Schild SB
Jalen Ward SB, JV cut
Ryan Wiltshire SB, JV cut
Drew Zink PR, School Record
MEN- LINCOLN CHARTER ALL RESULTS
EVENT PLACE ATHLETE RESULT
M 5000m 8 Drew Zink 17:00.38
M 5000m 32 Kenny Schild 17:56.11
M 5000m 47 Patrick Rice 18:12.64
M 5000m 52 Curtis Herms 18:19.87
M 5000m 53 Cutter Law 18:21.52
M 5000m 57 Jordan Hudson 18:27.71
M 5000m 107 Davis Reed 19:13.62
M 5000m 146 Jonas Guffey 19:43.61
M 5000m 148 Thomas Cruz 19:59.14
M 5000m 185 Jalen Ward 20:25.92
M 5000m 221 Travis Mullis 20:57.00
M 5000m 278 Ryan Wiltshire 21:29.99
M 5000m 390 John Renegar 22:49.25
WOMEN - LINCOLN CHARTER ALL RESULTS
EVENT PLACE ATHLETE RESULT
F 5000m 27 Emily Elliot 21:27.68
F 5000m 32 Caity Born 21:45.36
F 5000m 37 Maggie Hoey 21:54.79
F 5000m 45 Megan Minaudo 22:13.30
F 5000m 57 Emma Lasarsky 22:29.52
F 5000m 136 Grace Cary 24:53.04
F 5000m 144 Lottie Pate 25:16.45
F 5000m 127 Alyssa Wright 25:03.13
F 5000m 309 Emily Guffey 29:19.48
