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Loved seeing the fast feet yesterday!

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It’s official! Mindi will be running cross country and track as a Red Tail at Hawkeye next year. Congrats!

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Your Charles City girls placed 13th at the 3A State Meet! Congrats on wrapping up a fantastic season!

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Kiki is a state place winner finishing 8th overall! #secondtime #medalist

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Blown away by the musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Make plans to see it this weekend by going to the school website to get tix. Many XC athletes are part of the talented cast, pit, and crew. Kudos to you all. Busy weekend ahead!

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Enjoying an easy run on this beautiful fall day 🧡🖤

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Here is the information for ordering state cross country gear. Please print this form and turn in with your order and pay close attention to the ordering deadline of Tuesday at noon.

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This season, the boys team set 116 personal bests out of 9 regular season meets.

Among those...

Luke Smith, Breyer Ellison, Tyler Eggers, and John Sibuma PR'd 5 times

Clayton Rand, Mason Holmen, Anders Haglund, Brenant Ferrar, Elliot Sinwell, and Jakob Sindlinger... 6 times!

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Compared to the first meet of the season, they were cumulatively 11 minutes and 6 seconds faster, with Clayton Rand picking up 3minutes and 28 seconds of that total.

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On Thursday, our Comet boys team finished 5th out of 13 teams. Clayton Rand PR'd. This team has the fastest average time of any boys team since 2014, and routinely has a spread (time between 1 and 5 runners) of around 25 to 30 seconds.

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Mack hadn’t ran a race since Sept. 26 due to a knee injury. She’s been working diligently with the folks @ Synergy & was cleared to run Mon. Mack is a GAMER & said she was ready to go. She was right! This gal ran the 2nd fastest time of her career & finished 13th! #ticketpunched

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Lydia ran a lifetime best of 20:08 to place her 9th overall and qualify as an individual. Her time puts her 49th amongst an elite group on the Top 50 All-Time 5K Performance list of CC runners. #ticketpunched

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In a nail biter to the finish, Kiki was the state qualifying meet champion! A mere 1.9 seconds separated the top 3. #ticketpunched

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For the fourth consecutive year, your Comet girls are headed to state! Happy smiles all around! #ticketpunched

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We never take this scene (a caravan through town celebrating a state appearance) for granted. Both girls and boys ran well tonight! Girls will run at state next Saturday!

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Girls qualify for state! A caravan will usher the bus back into town at 7pm starting at the South Grand Kwik Star.

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The road to state is today!

We run at the Independence Mental Health Institute. Girls have a 4:00 start and boys will follow at 4:30.

Top 15 individuals and top 3 teams will qualify. Go Comets!

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Out of the 6 races we had 2 Conference Champions from CC - Xander Graeser (MS Boys) and Kiki Connell (Varsity Girls)!

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On the JV side we took 5 of the top 15 spots! Earning All-Conference honors were:
• Brianna - 4th
• Rylie - 5th
• Liz - 8th
• Selah - 11th
• Makenna - 15th

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We had 3 Varsity All-NEIC athletes on Tuesday night.
• Kiki - 1st (3-time)
• Lydia S - 6th (2-time)
• Mindi - 12th (1st time)

As a team we finished runner-up to a solid Decorah squad.