Topic: Cross Country

Excerpts from Citizen-Times.com

Tanglewood Park - Clemmons - Both Asheville High cross country teams made strong showings at the 2007 NCHSAA 3-A state meet.  The Asheville High girls team (107 points) was tucked behind Roberson and Reagan in third place at Saturday’s meet and paced by senior Cara Hayes (sixth place, 19:49.22).

In the 3-A boys race, the Cougars (63 points) came within seven points of knocking off heavy prerace favorite and defending state champion Mooresville (56).

Sophomore John Harwell was Asheville’s lone all-state performer (fifth place, 16:25.51), but coach Chris Stroup was ecstatic with the overall performance of his team. The second-place finish in 3-A matched the best showing in school history (2001).

“It was an outstanding day,” Stroup said. “To be up there with a team like Mooresville is spectacular.   “Our seniors really came through. And our sophomores ran well, too. I couldn’t have asked for more out of them.”

Congratulations on your outstanding performances!  Asheville High is very proud of you!

Reprinted from Prepalert.com

FRANKLIN - October 18, 2007 - Asheville took their first step in their quest for the 3-A state championship by taking the MAC X-Country Championship at Enloe Park in Franklin on Thursday over runner-up Roberson.  Asheville with 28 points, garnered three of the top four spots with John Harwell (17:21) taking the win over fellow Cougar Isaac Presson (17:23), who was 2.5 seconds behind.   Roberson’s Brad Cookson (17:53) crossed the line in third, 32 seconds behind Harwell and Logan Tarleton (18:09) of Asheville was 4th, 48 seconds behind. Rounding out the last two places for the Cougars were Owen Sheeler (10th) at 18:43 and Ramone Schober (11th) at 18:45.

Roberson came in second with 43 points in the team competition.  With Cookson coming in 3rd, the four other runners to score points were Sho Kitamura (18:10) who finished 5th, Ben Duval (18:30) who came in 8th, Andrey Kossev (18:57) was in 13th and Thomas Humble (19:00) came in 14th. 

North Buncombe finished 3rd with 83 points, with both Nic Carswell (6th) who ran an 18:13 and Matt Pomfrey (7th) running an 18:19 in the top 10.  David McKenzie (19:44) was 25th, Michael Potter (20:12) was 33rd, and Eli Spear (20:20) was 36th.  

Read full article: 'Cougar boys run away with MAC cross country championship'

The 2007 Men's Cross Country Schedule has been released. Click Read Full Article to see the roster.

Read full article: '2007 Men's Cross Country Schedule'

Clemmons, NC -- Congratulations to the 2006 Men's and Women's Cross Country teams o­n another outstanding year. In the State Championships held o­n November 4 at Tanglewood, the Women's team finished second in the state with a total time of 1:42:10.78, and the Men's team finished third with a time of1:25:34.96.  Way to go Cougars!

Check out the complete results from NCPrepTrack.com.

You may also be interested in photos and more information at the Asheville Cross Country web site.

Photos from Asheville High web site and Cross Country web site.

Franklin - October 19, 2006 - The Asheville High boys and Roberson girls won team championships Thursday at the Mountain Athletic Conference cross country meet held at Enloe Farm in Franklin.  The Cougars (42 points) beat the Rams (48) in the boys race for the first time this season and were led by senior Andrew North (third place, 17:13.22).   Roberson senior Josh Dubin took first place (16:34.97) individually.

In the girls race, Roberson (19) beat runner-up Asheville by 51 points.   Rams junior Caroline Kirby also won individually with a time of 20:29.16.

Congratulations Asheville!

Boys results:2006 Boys MAC Results  Girls results:2006 Girls MAC Results