Wheeler cross country athletes excel at Hoya Invitational

Photos and text submitted by Meggan Muller of the Wheeler cross country coaching staff:

Pooja Kanyadan, Wheeler cross country
Pooja Kanyadan

We had a great showing at the Hoya Invitational this weekend with many new runners and returning.

Pooja Kanyadan (Freshman) led the Girls Open pack with a 4th place win. Overall, Wheeler scored 4th as a team.

With new runner Morgan Yankowsky, Wheeler was awarded 2nd place overall. A freshman, Yankowsky came in 1st place of the Boys Open. We are thrilled that this new runner had such a successful showing. Elliott Brown and Drew Marshall, also a freshman at Wheeler, pulled in 10th and 14th places respectively out of 210 runners.

Morgan Yankowsky, Wheeler cross country
Morgan Yankowsky

JV Boys came in 5th place overall, with Josh Musser (junior) taking 8th place and John Bunch (junior) coming in 12th out of 146 runners.

Senior Daniel Reis ran a 10:50.10 2 mile. Sophomore Haden Drake led the girls JV, registering 14th place out of 110 with a time of 14:35.77.

Varsity Girls was watching newcomer Jada Dixon (freshman) followed by Virginia Miller (sophomore).

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Wheeler cross country runner wins Cobb County championship

Wheeler runner wins Cobb cross country, Alex Dyck

Thanks to Meggan Muller, a French teacher at Wheeler High School, for the photos and info about the Cobb Cross Country Championship over the weekend at Allatoona Creek Park in Acworth.

The individual boys winner was Wheeler’s Alex Dyck (pictured at right, above, with teammate Daniel Reis). Alex’s winning time was 16:05.72, and the week before that he was the winner at the Run at the Rock race in Cartersville.

Reis finished in 10th at the Cobb meet and was second at the Run of the Rock. Pictured below is Virginia Miller, a Wheeler freshman who was ninth in the Cobb junior varsity race, also over the weekend.

In the team standings, the Pope boys and the Walton girls finished second.

Virginia Miller, Wheeler cross country

 

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