CALDWELL – Thrall High School and Granger High School had their cross country programs make the trip on Aug. 19 to Top Tier Training Camp near Caldwell to compete in the Mud, Sweat and Cheers relay to open the 2023 season.
Entries for boys and girls divisions were also divided into large (5A6A) and small (1A-4A) school groups as Thrall and Granger competed as four-member relay teams with each varsity athlete racing one 1.5 mile loop. Runners had to charge over small obstacles such as log jumps, whoop-t-do’s, large hay bales and shallow mud pits.
THRALL TIGERS AND TIGERETTES The Thrall boys took the course first as the quartet of senior Steven Fournoy-Walker, senior Ben Schmidt, sophomore Alejandro Estrada and senior Ethan Dahl placed eighth in their division with a time of 44:50.00. The Tigerettes’ first group also competed hard with senior Avery Koonce, freshman Gracie Webb, freshman Kayla Pouncey and junior Sarah Laurence placed ninth with a mark of 55:58.00, while the B team of freshman Carolyna Neiheser, sophomore Addison Ward, sophomore Cynthia Flournoy-Walker and senior Ashlyn Jarosed were right behind them in 10th with a time of 56:01.00.
