12/06/2025
What’s a season off?- MVHS cross country team…
Instead of lying around until summer, our team is hard at work competing for the distance team for indoor AND outdoor track. Right now, it is indoor track❄️🥶⛄️( still practice outside, but meets are indoors and workouts are on the track)
Today, was the first meet of the season and the team did not disappoint!
To start: Some teammates, INCLUDING our very own Rachel Vann, were given the opportunity to race at Virginia Beach in the BEAST Invitational. Rachel raced very well today! She took 1st place in the 3200 with a time of 11:49-16 laps around a 200m track- AND took 4th with a time of 5:40 in the 1600🥇
-Back in Arlington, most of the team raced at the first district meet!
Overall, girls took 2nd and the guys took 1st!
Some notable showings:
- 🥇Christian Deal took 1st overall in the 500 with a time of 1:18
-🥈 Lacey Lussier took a VERY close 2nd with SPEEDY time of 3:33 in the 1000, running neck and neck with 1st to the very end
-🥇🥈BACK TO BACK Majors: Oliver Raak took 1st place in the 1000 with a time of 2:54 AND right behind him was Yohanes Aparicio took 2nd with a time of 3:07
-🥇🥈Matthew Brown took 1st in the 3200 with a time of 11:04 and Matthew Britton took 2nd with a time of 12:55
-🥈🥉BOTH of Mount Vernon’s girls 4x400 teams took 2nd and 3rd with times of 4:56 and 5:39
-🥇🥈BOTH of Mount Vernon’s boys 4x400 teams took 1st and 2nd with times of 4:07 and 4:23
-Some MASSIVE PRs in the 1600, 1000, 500, and the 400!
A SUPER optimistic start to a great season!! It’s going to be great!
(Some pretty competitive card games and snacks to pass the time)
