Category Archives: Cross Country

The Scottsbluff Invite/Panhandle Classic Meet will be held on Thursday, August 25, 2022. We will have 4 races. Varsity Girls, Varsity Boys, 7-8 Girls, and 7-8 Boys. The varsity races will be unlimited runners.

The meet will be held at the Scottsbluff Country Club – North Highway 71. Please inform your patrons that entry to the course will be near the clubhouse. Gate Admission will be charged.

The format for the Scottsbluff Invite/Panhandle Classic for 2022 is:
3:00 PM – 9-12 Girls Division 1 (5K) (25 medals)
3:45 PM – 9-12 Boys Division 1 (5K) (25 medals)
4:15 PM – 7-8 Girls Division (10 medals)
4:45 PM – 7-8 Boys Division (10 medals)

Dustin Brien crossed the finish line in 15th place with a time of 19:31.86 which qualifies him for state cross country! It will be held in Kearney on October 22nd. Good Luck Dusty!

On Thursday September 24th Ava, Julia, Andi, and Ever ran at the Gordon-Rushville cross country meet. All the girls got a challenge this week! Ava competed with the varisty and the jr high girls ran with the jr high boys! They all did great and a few came back with some great personal records!

Ava – 29:12
Julia – 13:16
Andi – 14:24
Ever – 13:57

On Tuesday, September 22nd, cross country participated in the Hot Springs meet. This was probably the hardest course they have run this year and did great!

Ava McKillip placed 6th in the Junior Varsity division — 29:44.08
Parker Wellnitz placed 8th in the Jr. High boys division — 16:19.60
Aubry Anderson placed 8th in the Jr. High girls division — 18:18.57
Julia Russell placed 10 in the Jr. High girls division — 18:26.33
Alaina Raymer was just short of placing in the top 15 with a time of 19:34.36
Ever Peters ran one of her best races with a time of 20:23.16
Andi Twarling also ran hard and gave it her best with a time of 21:09.35

We had a cross country meet in Alliance on Saturday, September 19th. Julia, Andi, and Ever ran for the Jr. high and Ava ran for High School! They all ran hard! Ava came away with 5th place in the Jr. Varsity Division and a new personal record!! Our next meet will be in Gordon on the 24th at 4 p.m. at the golf course. We would love to see you there cheering us on!

Julia: 15:56.41
Ever: 16:52.62
Andi: 17:14.32
Ava: 26:55.08

The kids ran at Chadron on Saturday, September 12th. This is one of the hardest courses they will run this season and they killed it. They all walked away with personal records! The next meet is on Saturday September 19th in Alliance.

Times:
Ava– 28:56:60
Julia–14:02:49
Parker– 13:03:09
Aubrey–14:37:13
Reese–14:23:91
Alaina–15:03:57
Ever–16:42:95

The kids ran at Gering on September 5th. Ava placed 9th in the JV division with a time of 29:07, her personal record to date. All the junior high kids did great and are improving their times!

Cross country is open to boys and girls grades 6th-12th. This fall will be an exciting new year for Hay Springs XC.  We will have small numbers and very young runners that should gain lots of experience this year.

Daniel Hunzeker will be running his first high school meet this year as a freshmen.  Daniel ran in junior high, but now will go against the big dogs running the 5k at high school meets.  Brittany Ferguson, our only returning high school runner, will step up and be our team leader.

We will be selling XC t-shirts as soon as school starts so please contact a member of the team or Coach Mandelko.  Our schedule is also available through the calendar on this site. Please support your XC team…we appreciate it! Coach Mandelko

Consistency! This year’s Cross Country team has done extremely well and almost all of them improved at every meet, in both high school and junior high. The three high school runners worked their hardest to make it to the Best of the West meet on Saturday, October 8. After the Best of the West competition is the district meet. Districts will be on Thursday, October 1. After districts is the state competition. State will be Friday, October, 21.

Mrs. Mandelko said, “Jerilyn is very hopeful and eager to place in the top fifteen at districts.”