Decatur High School Cross Country - Decatur, Al

10/22/2026

Our team has had three races in the past 10 days. Today was the NW Championship that marks the end of the regular season for us. Good performances and improvements by our boys and girls teams heading into Sectionals, which we will host next Thursday afternoon at Pt Mallard

10/22/2026

10/16/2026

10/08/2026

Our annual XC meet that was scheduled for Saturday, October 10th has been postponed until Tuesday, October 13th due to the inclement weather forecasted for Saturday. Races will now take place in the afternoon from 3-6 PM at Point Mallard Park.

09/27/2026

Good job by our team tonight with several new personal and season best performances. Great job Raiders!

08/29/2026

XC is back! Good start to the season today for our young men and women.

Varsity Girls finished 7th overall, with Sara Reed Thompson leading the girls with a 21st place overall out of 151 runners.

Varsity Boys finished 13th overall with Jack Youngblood scoring the top finish with a time of 18:55. Our JH boys ran later in the morning and gained some great experience today. It was the first ever XC meet for each of them.

Next weekend we travel to Oxford to run in the Yellow Jacket Invitational. Go Raiders!

08/22/2026

Several team runners participated in the Bill J Dukes 7@7 race this morning for one final pre-season tune-up. Six out of top 10 individuals were from our team, and we had the overall female winner. Congrats to our athletes and the improvements they have made since last year!

Sophie-Paige Lamp - 🥇 Female overall, 9th combined overall
Owen Confer - 🥈 overall, 🥇 in 14&U age group
Jack Lamp - 🥉 overall, 🥇 in 15-19 age group
Ben Harney - 4th overall, 🥈 in 14&u age group
Jack Youngblood - 7th overall, 🥈 in 15-19 age group
Grant McRee - 8th overall, 4th in 14&U
Sara Reed Thompson - 11th overall, 🥇 in 14&U
Kitty Ashwander - 🥇 overall in 15-19

Lawson Peters, Zach Weiger, Nathan Matthews and Luke Harney also competed and finished with strong times.

Excited to toe the line next week at the Pepsi Challenge with our entire team.

08/19/2026

Action shots of our boys racing the Run Dirty event recently.

08/15/2026

Our girls team getting some love in pre-season rankings. A lot of upside with a team that the oldest runners are only sophomores.

Alabama Class 5A girls cross country preview 2026: Mountain Brook defends, almost nobody graduated, and five contenders are stuck in one brutal section.

08/11/2026

Photos of our girls in action from the Run Dirty XC event.