Katie Brennan qualifies for State Meet, Kee cross country girls just miss team berth at Class 1A State Qualifying Meet; Kee boys have season brought to an end
Kee girls cross country sophomore Katie Brennan charges toward the finish line ahead of Central Elkader freshman Jasmine Mueller at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet at Cedar Falls Thursday, October 20. Brennan and Mueller claimed the final two individual State Meet qualifying spots within the top 15 individuals at the meet, Brennan placing 14th overall in a time of 21:18 to lead the Hawk girls to the brink of State Meet qualifying as a team with their fourth-place team finish. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The 2016 cross country season came to a close for all but one member of the Kee cross country team at the Hawks’ Class 1A State Qualifying Meet at Cedar Falls Thursday, October 20. That one member is Kee girls sophomore Katie Brennan, who finished just within the brink of top-15 individual State Meet qualification to lead the Kee cross country girls to their own brink of team qualification for the State Meet with a fourth-place finish just beyond the top-three finish required for team qualification. Brennan’s State Cross Country Meet qualification is believed to be the first for the Lady Hawks of any kind since the 1996 season when the Kee girls qualified as a team.
That Kee girls’ fourth-place team finish came with a team score of 118 points, just beyond three teams ranked within Class 1A’s top 15 that included fellow Upper Iowa Conference team and defending Class 1A State Champion Central Elkader. Meanwhile, the Kee boys ran to an 18th-place team finish in a field that also featured three top-15 ranked teams, scoring 435 team points.
The Kee cross country boys fielded just enough runners to compile a team score, but none of those results came close to extending the Hawks’ season. The distance Hawks racked up 435 team points to finish 18th in the final 18-team Class 1A State Qualifying field.
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