Wellington, KS — On the 20th year anniversary of 9/11 Goddard High School XC competed in our second meet of the Fall 2021 Season! There was a brief moment of silence before the beginning of our first race in remembrance of 9/11, then it was race time! Pictures: The following link will take you to pictures taken today during the meet. Pictures were taken by my Mother Becky Andrews. Parents please feel free to post photos on Blast Athletics and tag. https://bandrews.smugmug.com/Goddard-Cross-Country Girls 5K Olivia Brownell came into the Wellington Meet ready to race and posted a wonderful time today and took 2nd Place Overall! She ran a 22:42 (7:47 Mile Average). She will look to improve next week in Buhler. Boys 5K As a team the Boys Varsity 5K runners took 4th place! This was a very positive meet for the boys and a wonderful result for such a young team. We will look to improve next week! Team placements/race times posted below. 1. Ark City - 30 2. Goddard Eisenhower - 41 3. Valley Center - 67 4. Goddard - 121 5. Andale - 125 6. Belle Plaine - 147 Boys 5K Times 27th - Luke Griffith (21:03) 29th - Ayden Smith (21:14) 31st - Nathan Harkman (21:22) 32nd - Nathan Lewis (21:24) 39th - John Esparza (21:49) 43rd - Conner Huddleston (22:20) 47th - Hudson Donaghue (22:39) Girls 2 Mile Piper Hartzler had a wonderful race today and beat her previous 2 mile time and set a personal record! Today she ran a 21:25 2 Mile. Boys 2 Mile Today the Boys 2 Mile team took 6th place. Our top performance today came from Jacob Kittrell who ran a 14:02 2 Mile and beat his previous time. We had a lot of Personal bests today in the boys 2 Mile! Jacob Kittrell, Cooper Hudson, Adam Vincent, James Alexander, and Caleb Blackwood all ran better times today compared to their 1st meet! 11th - Jacob Kittrell (14:02) 26th - Owen Granados (15:34) 27th - James Alexander (15:36) 30th - Caleb Blackwood (15:51) 28th - Cooper Hudson (16:43) 46th - Adam Vincent (18:09) GO LIONS!