Broughton sets new heights!

John Broughton set new heights for the Calvary Cross Country program at the La State XC high school championships held November 17th on the campus of NSU. Not only did John finish as an All-Stater in the 2A classification (8th place) but officials from the LHSAA just informed us that the junior earned a spot on the All-State COMPOSITE top 25 list! John's performance today put him in the 25th spot by .5 seconds making him the first ever from Calvary to make the list and the only 2A boy from mid to North La to qualify. The composite list tallies the best performances from ALL of the classifications (Class B to 5A) over the State Meet course. Over 800 boys participated in the State meet. (Note:On average the race times were about 45 seconds off for every race this year due to the course conditions. )

The boys team finished out the 2A competition 6th out of the 22 full teams that qualified for the State meet. Landon Roach finished 28th (18:39) honorably competing despite being recently diagnosed with mono. Though he was quite disappointed with his time and placement. I am quite impressed with the young man after all he has been through over the last few weeks. (Running only one and a half times in two weeks before the State competition due to the illness.) Landon was obviously not 100% today but gave all he could out there which says a lot about his character. He even explained before the race that he was going to hang on for as long as he could to help John reach his goals. That is selflessness!!! 8th grader Josh Hudson was 33rd (18:43), Sophomore ERic Austin 37th (18:54), 8th grader Dakota Rothell 40th (19:00), Sophomore Jason Sibert 45th (19:10), and 8th grader Austin Grantham rounded out the team finishing 64th (19:55) out of 150 competitors in the 2 A race.
We were hoping for the top five today but we were unaware that a total of 6 more schools had been thrown into the 2 A competition this year as compared with last. That along with loosing 4 of our top six boys from last year (Chase, Zac, Chris,and Hunter), and Landon's unexpected illnesss.... i would say our boys did quite well considering:) We are not disappointed at all. The great news is that no one will be graduating!!!
On the girls side, 6th grader Ashlen Grantham was the highest Calvary finisher of the day with a 14th place! Needless to say Ashlen was the youngest finisher in the top 20. Her time of 21:10 set a brand new school record on the cold, windy, and super muddy course. Freshman Kelsey Wildes and Sophomore Nicole Kosin finished 21st (22:08) and 22nd (22:14) while Senior Lindsey Kosin (22:54) and Junior Avery Watson (23:12) placed 37th and 44th rounding out our scoring card. Junior Kaila Wildes was 74th(24:36) while Sophomore Chandler Falcon was 84th (25:08) in a field of 131 runners.
The girls made a huge jump this year earning 5th place in the STATE!!! They edged out 6th place Newman by only 2 points. This has been thier goal all year so I am extremely proud of them. It was just one year ago that they finished 11th with the highest team finisher earning the 40th spot. 21 full teams were represented on the girls side at the Championships this year.

Thanks to Mr. Guerrero, Pastor Rick, and Ryan Edmonds for making the trip! This meant the world to the kids and to us as coaches to see and feel your support!!!
Thanks to all of the parents for all of your hard work this year. We are very proud of our kids and couldn't ask for a better group of families to be our extended family:)
The Awards banquet for the year will be at the Heberts December 6th at 6:00-8:00pm. More details to come.
We are still awaiting the votes from the final Small School Composite list ! A list of full results can be found at http://www.deltatiming.com/results.aspx

Love, Coach Linzie and Coach Jeremy