Waukon girls cross country team ends four-year team absence from State Meet, claims final third-place qualifying spot by just two points
All-District pacesetter in top-10 ... Waukon girls cross country freshman Miriam Downing maintains a lead over this fellow front-running individual at the Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Monticello Thursday, October 24. Downing led the Indian effort at the meet with her ninth-place individual finish, both overall and for team scoring, in a time of 20:20.7. View and find out how to purchase this photo and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this webpage.
It’s been a quest five years in the making, and the Waukon girls cross country team made it happen by nearly the narrowest of margins at the Class 2A State Qualifying Meet hosted by Monticello Thursday, October 24. Competing in a 14-team field that featured five teams ranked within the top-20 of all Class 2A squads in the state of Iowa, the 12th-rated Lady Indians were tied even with the 13th-rated Monticello squad hosting the event through four scored runners, with the distance Tribe’s number-five and final scored runner finishing just ahead of the host Panthers’ final two scored runners, helping provide the Indians’ 85 team points that edged out Monticello’s 87 points for the third and final State Meet qualifying team finish.
The Lady Indians are now scheduled to compete in the Class 2A State Meet at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course near Fort Dodge this Saturday, November 2, beginning at 2 p.m. Competing for the first time in five years at the season grand finale as a full team, the distance Tribe will start Saturday’s race in grid box number five out of 21 starting line grid boxes that will feature more than 130 runners representing both team and individual State Meet qualifiers from across the state of Iowa.
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