Paris, Van-Far, CR-6 run for medals at Van-Far

Posted 9/9/24

Paris, Van-Far and Community R-6 all had runners bring home hardware on Monday.

In the Van-Far Cross Country Meet, the Paris boys and girls each won the team championships, with the boys beating …

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Paris, Van-Far, CR-6 run for medals at Van-Far

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Paris, Van-Far and Community R-6 all had runners bring home hardware on Monday.

In the Van-Far Cross Country Meet, the Paris boys and girls each won the team championships, with the boys beating Mark Twain by eight at 40 points. Van-Far had three finish in the top 15 of the runners' respective races to medal, and Community had one medalist.

For Paris, Mairyn Kinnaman won the varsity girls race with a time of 22.47 (personal-best time on the Van-Far course), and Kaylee Johnson (Van-Far PR 24.15) and Ava Crain (Van-Far PR 24.22)  each finished in the top five with respective third- and fourth-place finishes. Mia Kendrick was seventh, Midori Williams (Van-Far PR 26.58)  was 10th and MacKenzie Fryman was 15th out of 18 runners. Landen Chapman won the varsity boys race with a Van-Far PR time of 17.34, Raymond Wilson was 12th, Severeno Olivas was 13th and Owen Buie (Van-Far PR 20.49)  was 14th out of 44 runners.

For Van-Far, Garrett Hopke was the runner-up in the boys varsity race with a time of 18.26 (about 13 seconds off his best time last year), and Slade Keller was eighth after moving up 10 places in the last mile. Erin Childs finished sixth in the girls varsity race with a time of 24.53 (her best time ever at Van-Far's home meet).

For Community, Evelyn Scott finished 13th in the girls varsity race with a personal-best time of 28.36. Despite not medaling in the boys race, Layton Wright ran a personal-best time of 22.1 in 25th and Clayton Crum posted a personal-best time of 27.12 in 41st.


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