With three meets down and two to go before the District 9 6A Championships, the Coppell Cross Country Team continues to hold their own with the best.   Saturday they competed in the Flower Mound Invitational with over 15 other teams for the 5K races at Gerault Park.  First on the course were the Varsity Girls who came in 4^th place overall against 9 other 6A schools.  Maddie Hulcy who has been consistently leading the Coppell girls team was the top finisher again this week coming in 7^th place overall in 19:08.2, followed by another steady runner for Coppell,  freshman Sydney Rowe in 20^th place in 19:58.99.  Izzy Iseley, Cali Westervelt and Jimena Benavides also led the cowgirls to the finish in 25^th, 28^th and 29^th place respectively. 

The Varsity Boys race was a close one with Coppell coming in 2^nd overall for 6A teams behind host team Flower Mound.  Nathan Sims led Coppell again this week with an impressive 5^th place finish in a time of 16:10.81. Teammates Jacob Turman, Alan Huo, Grant Reese and Marcos Bohn crossed the line close behind in 10^th, 11^th, 15^th and 16^th place. 

In the JV girls division, Coppell also brought home the 2^nd place trophy just edged out by Marcus High School.  It was a tight race for the top 4 runners for Coppell all finishing within 12 seconds of each other.  Freshman Gracie McKethan came in 4^th place with a time of 20:56.58 followed closely by Taylor Peltier in 5^th, Shelby Spoor in 6^th and Joni Goh in 7^th.  Catie Kimball rounded out the top five in 16^th place. 

The JV boys also ran a close race pushing each other to sprint to finish.  AJ Rothwell  was the top finisher for the Cowboys coming in 6^th place followed brothers Troy and Tyler Briscoe and Justin Chow with less than a second separating them for 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th place.   Fabian Lugo finished close behind in 15^th place helping his team to third place overall.

Coppell’s runners have an off week from competing before the Varsity Team travels to Old Settler’s Park in Round Rock, TX on Saturday Oct 1^st for the Mc Neil Invitational.  The JV teams will compete in the Dallas Jesuit Classic at Norbuck Park in Dallas that same weekend.