Cross Country Teams Finish Dream Season

Photo by Sheryl Germany

Congratulations to all the runners on the SLV High boys and girls cross country teams for another outstanding season.  Both the boys and girls teams finished undefeated in dual meets, won the league and CCS titles and finished 2nd (girls) and 4th (boys) in the State Championships.

For the boys, Junior Cody Johnson  and Senior Nick Hicks were the team leaders with Johnson taking the individual title at both the league and CCS meets. Landis MacMillan, Jacob Hicks, Matt Abernathy, Stephen Bracken and Branden Caldwell also all had great years.

For the girls, Sophomore Anna Maxwell added individual titles at Hawaii, Stanford, Mt Sac., SCCAL and CCS to her impressive resume.  Fellow underclassmen Claire MacMillan (so), Abby Sherman (so), Jessica Germany (fr), Jessica Jensen (so), and Katrina Luque (so) along with senior Hyllery Hershberger joined Maxwell accepting silver medals for their second place team finish in the CIF State Championship.

Here are the final times and finish places for SLV runners at the State Championships:

4 Anna Maxwell 18:06
7 Claire MacMillan 18:45
15 Abby Sherman 19:06
32 Jessica Germany  19:39
58 Jessica Jensen  20:16
82 Hyllery Hershberger 20:54
98 Katrina Luque 21:17


10 Cody Johnson  16:04
13 Nick Hicks  16:17
25 Landis MacMillan 16:34
46 Jacob Hicks  16:51
88 Matt Abernathy  17:26
91 Stephen Bracken  17:28
149 Branden Caldwell 19:01