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All County Cross Country Honors

Nov 20, 2024 11:02AM ● By Jody Reeves

Cally Coleman - 2024 Runner of the Year

If you saw last week's edition of the Idaho Enterprise you saw our very first All County teams for volleyball and football.  We had a great response to those announcements and appreciate the feedback.  

This week we turn our attention to the incredible sport of cross country.  Easily considered one of the most challenging sports offered in our local schools, cross country tests athletes both mentally and physically.  These athletes are sometimes overlooked by the public in favor of some of the more popular and traditional sports.  However those that do follow the sport and its athletes are treated to some amazing performances by some terrific student athletes.

This season only Grace and Soda Springs had cross country athletes.  The two schools were fortunate enough to have the quality of athletes on their teams to qualify both of their boys and girls teams for the state meet.  Compared to team sports where you have multiple players and positions, cross country can seem a little more cut and dry.  We won't get into all of the intricacies of training and strategy that goes along with cross country and there is so much more than many people realize.  For our purposes it will be a simple selection of all county runners.  The largest factor will of course be times.  Fortunately both schools ran at many of the same meets this past season making the comparisons easy ones.  Since they ran the same courses at the same time, in the same weather, on the same day it makes it easy to compare runners one to another.  However there were times when runners would finish in different orders depending on the race.  So with that in mind we also had to take into account consistency over the season as a whole.  We also had to consider injuries that we were aware of and how that may have impacted each athlete's season average.

For this year's All County cross country honors we have decided to select seven boys and seven girls.  The number seven is equivalent to the number of runners that are allowed from each school at the district and state races.  In addition to the seven top boy and girl runners we have decided to also add an overall runner of the year selected from those top fourteen athletes.  Your 2024 All County Cross Country teams are:


Boys

Adrian Mejia-Grace

Landon Moldenhauer-Soda Springs

Kage Kirby-Soda Springs Brock Johnson-Grace

Degan Stoor-Soda Springs

Colt Coleman-Grace

Dre Lloyd-Soda Springs

Girls 

Cally Coleman-Grace

Lizzie Beutler-Soda Springs

Lily Coleman-Grace

India Galloway-Soda Springs

Ellie Wood-Soda Springs

Rebekah Evans-Soda Springs

Lilly Gilbert-Grace


Our Overall 2024 Runner Of The Year Is: Cally Coleman

Cally placed first in districts and state this year earning the first state championship in Grace
school history.

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