UMS Track & Cross Country

Coach Stacey Ayers

[Coach Hurt @CoachMeiners]

Viola Johanson earns All-Metro designation bestowed by the St. Louis Post Dispatch!!

Awesome job, Viola!!

https://t.co/oedTBwVuOw

[Coach Hurt @CoachMeiners]

Congratulations to Viola Johanson!

What a way to end her sophomore season—4th Place in Class 4, All-State, an 18:40, Highest State Placement in Union Girls & Boys History and beating out her own school record!

[Coach Hurt @CoachMeiners]

Girls won 1st place in the Four Rivers Conference for the 2nd time in school history! Last time was in 2002!
🥇🏆🥇

1st Team All Conference:
Taylor Meyer (4th)
Viola Johanson (2nd)

2nd Team All Conference:
Abby Spurgeon (8th)

Honorable Mention:
Cordelia Schreck (13th)

[Coach Hurt @CoachMeiners]

Congratulations to Shelby Robinson for her middle school Four Rivers Conference Championships WIN!

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

Great day for us at Nee Haven Invitational. Girls placed 2nd and Shelby Robinson brings home 5th place medal. Boys also placed 2nd and Cameron Garlik medals at 10th place. Congrats, Wildcats!

[Union Middle School @UMSWildcats]

Great evening for our first UMS Track meet of the season at Owensville tonight. Nice job Wildcats! #UMSWildcats

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

Season starts Monday! Let’s go!

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

@CoachMeiners Great photo. Congrats, qualifiers!

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Cross Country is a great metaphor for life.

From the outside, it looks like an individual sport. A bunch of people running their own race.

But in reality, it's a team sport. The sooner we embrace the team aspect, the better we perform, and the more joy and connection we create.

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

Great showing by our XC teams yesterday!
☑️ UMS places 2nd in BOTH team divisions
☑️ Our TOP 15 finisher medals go to Fisher Hayes, Kaylen Hansel, Logan Newman, Keely Otto, Shelby Robinson.
☑️ Strong, competitive effort by all 20 UMS racers at the St James Invite! @CoachMeiners

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

https://t.co/aG7eYMLVqO

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

They were even more excited with the results today at Belle. 2nd place girls, 3rd boys! Great job running as team!!

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

This team is excited for a new adventure! Belle invite is about to start!

[Tyler Rathke @Coach_Rathke]

PSA: please take your children outside and play with them. Time them. Measure their throws and jumps. Challenge them. Ask them to compete. Make them do things with hands and feet. It will serve them for LIFE!

[Coach Hurt @CoachMeiners]

Our record boards have been updated to include our 2022 record setters: Bryson Pickard (800m Run), Natalie Miner (Pole Vault), and Izzy Zagarri (Javelin).

We also made room for our cross country 5k record holders at the bottom of the board: Gabe Hoekel and Ella Coppinger!

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

Great race in Steelville, wildcats! Congrats to the boys team with a 3rd place finish & to the girls with 4th! Earning top 20 medals today were Fischer Hayes-2, Elija Johanson-12, Walker Kriete-14. Shelby Robinson-10, Kaylen Hansel-11 & Emily Meek-20. Love to see this team race!

[Beaufort Elementary @Beaufort_Elem]

🏃‍♀️Girls On The Run has officially started🏃🏻‍♀️

[Coach Luke Scribner @CoachScribner]

The schools that are continuously successful at the state level in Cross Country / Track every year have a well developed Junior high team.

Why is this important? ⬇️

[Coach Hurt @CoachMeiners]

Our UMS XC teams ran to 5th place overall finishes at the Sullivan meet. Congrats to Keely Otto, Kaylen Hansel, Olivia French, Helen Harvey & Elija Johanson who dropped time, earning a PR. Congrats to our medal winners Fischer, Elija. Keely, Kaylen & Olivia

[UMS Track & Cross Country @umsxc]

Good first race for Union MS!Keely Otto and Fischer Hayes are today’s top 10 medal finishers at the New Haven Invitational. Boys place 3rd and girls pace 5th.