Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1998, Page 71

Description:	by«rcFinishin StrongGirls cross country finishes one place short of making stateGamer1 Junior Alison VanDerWegewas the only team member tocompete in the State crosscountry meet, held at the IUcourse. She placed 61st out of 173.It was awesome running withgirls who are top runners in thestate. It was a great experience,being able to run with such toughcompetition, VanDerWege said.4\| A The number of miles that theIB team ran to collect money fortheir trip to the ManchesterInvitational. They ran from BryanPark to Griffey Lake and back.It was pretty easy to collectpledge money; we asked friendsand teachers to pledge 50 cents forevery mile. If every girl gets 10people to sponsor her then it reallyadds up, senior Rachael Beekersaid.3 The number of stressfractures that hamperedthree team members.Tendonitis also afflicted two ofthe teams members.It is really annoying howinjuries can affect a teamsperformance. Our team wasstrong though, even with theinjuries we faced, sophomoreNicole Brassell said.35-40The number ofmiles the girlscross countryteam members ran each week.We would do differentworkouts on different days. Onsome days we would run 8-10miles. Other days we would dospeed drills and only run 5 miles,freshman Mackenzie Smith said.Front Row: Jennifer Beemer,Megan Creek. Rachel Shiffrin,Jennifer Evans. AmberMartindale. Alison VanDerWege.Second Row: Coach Mary BethHannah-Hansen, Alissa Gerrish,Mackenzie Smith, EmmyMalinovsky, Nicole Brassell, AnnaConkle, Rachael Beeker. BackRow: Betsie Edgeworth, MollieLemon, Georgette Stauffer, KatieMartin. Courtney Edgeworth.Katie SheehanVital StatisticsOpponent Place Out of OpponentPlace Out ofBloomington North 1 mW m\Martinsville/Col. N.3 11Rushville Invit.4Manchester Invit.7mm\Jl*mW^kY<2mm\N. Central/Southport3Conference Indiana4Patriot Invit.1Sectional2Columbus East Invit.4Regional2BHSS Invit. 2Semistate6Southport Invit. 4 WMLWKatie Sheehantter finishing a race, seniorMollie Lemon gets a hug fromformer team member AnneFreeman. Lemon was one of thetop two runners, along with juniorAlison VanDerWege.girls cross country 7fj
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