Pre-State Meet – August 28th, 2008

Number of schools: 32

Girls Varsity - 24th place

Name	Final time	Place	Letter pointsLetter Pts.
Jessica Shoop	24:18	121/200	15	6th Course
Audra Bergman	24:27	125/200	15	7th Course
Grace Norris	24:29	127/200	15	8th Course
Karisa Sabisch	24:43	133/200	15	9th Course
Katherine Bergman	29:19	194/200	15

Number of teams competing: 26

Boys Varsity - 14th place

Name	Mile 1	Mile 2	Mile 3	Final time	Place	Letter pointsLetter Pts.
Nick Wilson	6:00	8:20	5:28 (6:04)	20:24	137/208	15
Jack Sexton	6:27	8:25	5:33 (6:09)	21:01	153/208	15
Sean Zimkas	5:53	7:33	5:05 (5:38)	19:04	91/208	18
Paul Gallogly	5:38	7:28	4:56 (5:28)	18:34	67/208	20
David Powers	5:48	7:27	4:59 (5:32)	18:47	77/208	20
Ben Gallogly	5:50	7:24	4:50 (5:22)	18:36	69/208	25	PR
Luke Wall	5:31	7:23	4:54 (5:26)	18:20	56/208	30	PR

Number of teams competing: 31

Boys JV

Name	Mile 1	Mile 2	Mile 3	Final time	Letter pointsLetter Pts.
Anthony Erker	7:04	7:27	7:17 (8:05)	22:36	5
Robby Giese	7:27	7:33	7:17 (8:04)	23:04	5
Josh Cooper	7:29	7:25	7:43 (8:33)	23:27	5
Connor Brewer	8:21	9:27	11:01 (12:13)	30:01	5

Team highlights

-The top four boys were separated by only 27 seconds. The top 5 boys were only separated by 44 seconds!
-The top four girls were separated by only 25 seconds!
-The boys team placed 14th out of 31 schools. Almost half of the 4A teams in the state ran in the meet.
-Six runners (Audra, Karisa, Kat, Anthony, Robby, and Connor) completed their first high school cross country race!
-Luke Wall and Jessica Shoop were the top finishers on the team, a first for each of them.
-Luke Wall and Ben Gallogly both set new PR's. Ben broke his old PR by 2:27! Luke set his new PR by 8 seconds. David Powers was within 17 seconds of his PR, Sean Zimkas was within 4 seconds of his PR, and Nick Wilson was within 2 seconds of his PR!