Goddard, KS — Goddard XC Invitational Lake Afton Link to race results: https://ks.milesplit.com/meets/630073-goddard-cross-country-invitational-2024/results On September 26, 2024 Goddard Cross Country competed in their 4th meet of the 2024 season on our home course Lake Afton! Practice this week the Lions had the opportunity to run out at Afton on our course before the meet allowing us to see it before our race! The Lions had a great week of practice with a high emphasis on performing better than last week at Buhler. It turned out to a nice day to race and we had a lot of excellent results yesterday that I will highlight below! Highlights: 1. 16/18 Runners ran either faster than last week at Buhler, their season best 5k race, or a new personal record (PR)! 2. Olivia Brownell won a medal yesterday in the Women's Varsity 5k taking 6th place overall running her best race of the season with a time of 22:30! 3. 4 Runners ran new personal records yesterday! Cooper Stelling, Efren Bravo-Bautista, Kyle Herschel, and Giselle Avitia all had great races! Varsity Girls 5k 1. Olivia Brownell (Medal): 6th place finish and ran her best race of the season! 2. Adeline Hudson: Ran her best race of the season! 3. Giselle Avitia: Ran a new PR with a time of 26:30 beating her old PR by 30 seconds! 4. Brooklyn Jones: Ran faster than last week at Buhler by a minute! 5. Korrtney Koirth: Ran 36 seconds faster than last week at Buhler! 6. Zoe Liedl: Ran her best 5k race time on the season! Varsity Boys 5k 1. Hudson Donaghue: Ran his best 5k race on the season! 2. Conner Huddleston: Ran his best 5k race time on the season! 3. Cooper Stelling: Ran a new PR today with a time of 22:49 beating his old PR by 59 seconds! JV Girls 5k 1. Rachel Povall ran her best 5k race of the season! JV Boys 5k 1. Cole Bennington ran his best 5k race of the season! 2. Aiden Nance ran 1 minute and 55 seconds faster than last week at Buhler! 3. Efren Bravo-Bautista: Efren ran a new PR today and shattered his old PR by 1 minute and 18 seconds. Efren's old PR was a 27:57 and today he ran a 26:39. 4. Jordy Doornbos: Ran 1 minute and 37 seconds faster than last week at Buhler 5. Zach Montgomery: Ran 1 minute and 21 seconds faster than last week at Buhler 6. Kyle Horschel: Today Kyle ran a new PR beating his old PR by 38 seconds! He ran a 30:35 today beating his old time of 31:13. Thank you parents and everyone for all your help yesterday running our home meet! It was an excellent day and the meet ran smoothly. It takes a lot of effort to run a Cross Country meet and we did it! Next week we look to Halstead! Halstead will be ran on Wedgewood Golf Course where historically the Lions have ran a lot of PR's/Good times! We will look to be competitive next week and improve upon Lake Afton and Rim Rock this weekend! Race itinerary to come soon for Halstead next week. GO LIONS! Blake Andrews/Coach Heim