Wheeler cross country athletes excel at Hoya Invitational

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

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.

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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