Cardinal Classic Bigger Than Ever

Last Saturday the Cardinal Classic cross country meet took place at Kelly Park.  The Cardinal Classic has become one of the premier races in the state of Idaho.  Teams from all over the state as well as neighboring states always make it a point to attend the event.  This year’s race was as big as it has ever been.  With this race also offering a course for middle school runners the number of spectators was likely in the thousands.  As far as competitors go, here are some numbers.  Including middle and high school the number of schools involved was sixty-four.  Schools ranged in size from 1A all the way up to 6A.  The total number of athletes that participated in the six different races was one thousand seven hundred sixty-nine.

Our local teams had their ups and downs.  Of all the local teams involved the one that did the best was the Soda Springs middle school girls who placed fifth as a team.  A huge shout out goes to Anna Uskoski who not only led the young Lady Cardinals but placed first overall out of the two hundred eighty-eight athletes in the race.

At the high school level with the number of participants being down for both schools but, especially Grace, and the competition being so deep, neither school placed very high in team scoring but several athletes did set season bests.  Leading the way for the Lady Cardinals was Ellie Wood who finished twenty-fifth overall and the best Lady Grizzly was Lily Coleman who came in sixty-third.  Keep in mind that there were well over two hundred athletes in each race.  On the boys side of things Landon Moldenhauer finished at the top of the Cardinals in forty-seventh place and Colt Coleman finished as the best Grizzly in one hundred forty-first place.

The season is still very young and I would expect to see times to start coming down in the next few weeks.  This week both schools are off to another large meet in Idaho Falls the Tiger/Grizz where they will be challenged once again.  With so many involved in the race we have elected to just post the varsity times.  To see all the times for last week’s race you can go to athletic.net.

Grace Varsity Boys

Colt Coleman 19:41.48, Brock Johnson 19:52.82, Jonah Wilkerson 20:44.37, Cutler Andersen 22:05.89, Carter Mecham 22:38.17

Soda Springs Varsity Boys

Landon Moldenhauer 17:54.81, Reuben Uskoski 18:14.11, Jaxson Horsley 18:53.74, Kage Kirby 19:51.44, Dre Lloyd 19:54.11, Jonathan Beutler 20:31.59, James Birch 23:46.72

Grace Varsity Girls

Lily Coleman 22:47.24, Hayden Ball 26:38.49

Soda Springs Varsity Girls

Ellie Wood 21:27.18, Rosie Harris 23:15.84, Mollie Renfroe 23:18.34, Maddie Kempe 23:25.89, Brinley Kunz 23:30.09, Courtnee Gronning 23:55.83, Mylee White 25:56.07