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82nd Midwest XC Invitational ![]() |
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The Start: Kate Kopotic [#1703] from Sun Prairie took an early lead. |
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| Hinsdale Central [Illinois] runner Emma Watcke [Second in 18.35.7] and Sun Prairie's Kate Kopotic [First in 18:35.5] staged a furious finish |
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| Over 1,000 runners competed at the 82nd Annual Midwest Invitational Cross Country Meet. 238 runners ran in the girls varsity race which included 36 teams. Hinsdale Central won the meet with 85 points followed by Homestead [109], Arrowhead [119], Sun Prairie [150] and host Janesville Craig [188]. |
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| Course layout at the Blackhawk Golf Course-Janesville |
Fans await the finish |
Wisconsin Dells athletes walking the course at 7:30 AM |
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| Coach Stan Druckery [above center] is in his 48th year of coaching track and field and cross country for the Rockets of South Milwaukee High School. The WIAA began sponsoring Girls Cross Country in 1975. In 1977 a sister of one of the boys on Stan's XC team asked him to start a Girls Team. He did and from that time on South Milwaukee has fielded a Girls team. Above left: South Milwaukee runner Susanna Bernovich. Above right. Samantha Hernandez from Houston [Texas] MacArthur High School. | ||
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| Meet officials L-R: John Hegge, Dick Lambrecht, and Bill Semmens. |
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| Runners In Midrace Above left L-R: Lucy Duchac [Arrowhead], Brittani Meis [Platteville], Jane Stracka [Arrowhead], and Greta Trapp [La Crosse Logan]. Above right L-R: Anna Pies [Arrowhead], Madalyn Arrowood [Janesville Craig], Emily Leipold [Kimberly], and Monroe's Jacie Hayes. |
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| Midrace leader Kate Kopotic [Sun Prairie] |
Sophie Scopp [DSHA] and |
Homestead's Leane Willemse and Hinsdale Central [IL] runners Emma Watcke and Mckenna Revord [765] |
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| Wisconsin Dell's runner Laura Beghin |
Kylie Finger from Oconomowoc |
Alyssa Nielsen from Arrowhead |
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Top Runners In The Varsity Race At The 82nd Annual Midwest XC Invitational |
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| 1 Kate Kopotic - Sun Prairie |
2 Emma Watcke - Hinsdale Central [IL] |
3 Mckenna Revord - Hinsdale Central [IL] |
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| 4 Brooke Edwardson - Kimberly |
5 Leane Willemse - Homestead |
6- Sophie Scopp - DSHA |
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| 7 Laura Beghin - Wisconsin Dells |
Hinsdale Central's Louisa Brorson [9th] |
10 Kylie Finger - Ocoonomowoc |
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| 11 Raina Rice - Warren Township [IL] |
12 Alyssa Nielsen - Arrowhead |
13 Clare Pitcher - Franklin |
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| 14 Brittani Meis - Platteville |
15 Taylor Latza Warren Township [IL] |
16 Emma Bertz - Waunakee |
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| 17 Savannah Fraley - Homestead |
18 Grace Jenny - Stoughton |
19 Lauren Fitzsimmons - Homestead |
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| 20 Hannah Ray - Sun Prairie |
21 Annika Cutforth - Madison Memorial |
22 Anna Nguyen - Homestead |
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| 23 Presley Hansen - Arrowhead |
24 Ellie Lorenz - Janesville Craig |
25 Molly Balch - Kenosha Indian Trail |
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| 26 Lindsay Cunningham - Wisconsin Dells |
27 Lucy Duchac - Arrowhead |
28 Judith Meister - Darlington |
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| 29 Alice House - Madison Memorial |
30 Jane Straka - Arrowhead |
31 Emma Vorpagel - Arrowhead |
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| 32 Jacie Hayes - Monroe |
33 Peighton Nelson - Monona Grove |
34 Greta Trapp - La Crosse Logan |
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| 35 Teal Coil-Otto - Monona Grove |
36 Gabby Allard - Kimberly |
37 Rylee Coleman - Janesville Craig |
Top Three Runners In The Blue Race at the 82nd Annual Midwest XC Invitational |
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| 1 Emily Austin - Janesville Craig |
2 Kennedy Schaefer - Sun Prairie |
3 Reagan Zimmerman - Sun Prairie |