Cross Country Teams Win at Caldwell Invitational!

The Girls Cross Country teams competed at The Caldwell Invitational Cross-Country Meet on Saturday, September 17. The Varsity Girls and JV Girls both had outstanding performances and each won their division, bringing back lots of medals! Top 15 in each race earned medals.

The Girls Varsity squad was led by Sophomore Alessa King, who took the Individual 1st place title out of a field of 55 runners! She had an outstanding race and recorded a personal record time of 12:13 over the 2-mile course. Senior Hiede Tiliakos and Junior Emely Aleman had nice races battling it out at the end, placing 3^rd and 4^th, respectively. They each ran personal record times of 12:32 and 12:34. Sophomore Melanie Dominguez was the next Ram to cross the finish line, placing 5^th with a personal best time of 12:48.  Senior Lexi Torbit finished right behind in 6^th place, running a time of 12:49.  Senior Shelby Sears finished in 7^th place running her best time, 12:54. Rounding out the Varsity squad was Junior Paulette Low. She placed 19^th with a time of 13:39.

The Varsity squad finished the meet with 19 points, which was an impressive 51 points ahead of second place. These girls were ready to compete and bring home the win and that is exactly what they did!

The JV Girls team was led by Senior Andrea Vo, who had a strong performance over the 2 mile course winning the individual title out of 53 runners.  She ran a personal best time of 13:10.Freshman Jennifer Ervine also had an outstanding race and was the next Ram to cross the line in 2^nd place, recording a PR time of 13:44. Freshman Noor Naghi had a nice race and ran a time of 14:25, good for a 6^th place medal and PR. Freshman Kyra Holifield had her break out race and finished with a personal best time of 14:38, placing 8^th.  Rounding out the top 5 was Sophomore Jackie Gonzalez, placing 9^th with a time of 14:42. Freshman Iliana Velez finished strong and ran a PR time of 14:49 and finished in 11^th place. In her best race, Sophomore Azlynn Zuniga was the next Ram to cross the line in 13^th place running a time of 15:01, securing the last medal for the Rams. In their first ever cross country race, Sophomore Shannon Dixon, Juniors Liliana Garcia and Kate May and Sophomore Nadia Makhloufi, each had a nice race and placed 18^th, 27^th, 31^st and 35^th recording times of 15:21, 16:25, 16:59 and 17:19, respectively.  Sophomore Samantha Rhodes had a finishing time of 18:56, placing her 46^th.

All of the Mayde Creek Cross Country girls competed extremely hard and there were many personal bests. It was especially nice being able to bring back the Championship Plaques and 13 medals from my hometown meet!  The girls will be back in action on Thursday, September 22^nd, when we travel to Sugar Land for the Cougar Classic Cross-Country Invitational.