Waukon girls cross country team finishes seventh at home invitational


Top-25 finish ... Waukon girls cross country senior Maddy Waters heads toward the finish line at the Indians’ own Waukon Invitational Tuesday, September 22. Waters ran to a 25th-place finish in a time of 23:42.4. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.

The Waukon girls cross country team hosted nine other teams for its home invitational Tuesday, September 22, with nine out of those 10 teams scoring points at the meet. The Lady Indians were fairly generous hosts, running to a seventh-place finish in that nine-team field with 135 team points, just one point behind a fellow Allamakee County distance squad, Kee.

The Indians are next scheduled to compete Saturday, October 3 at the Crestwood Invitational. The distance Tribe will then wrap up its invitational season at South Winneshiek Thursday, October 6 before the Northeast Iowa Conference Meet Tuesday, October 13.

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