United Way results -- Lots of PRs

It was great day (and evening) to run.
Boys Championship:  Ben Huffman of Providence Day broke Ryan Hill's course record with a time of 15:11.  Watauga came in 3rd.  Bryan 14th with 16:13 PR, Josh 16:19, Michael 16:30PR, MattO 17:00 PR, Drew 17:01 PR, Luke 18:16.
Girls Championship:  Darby and Madison cruised to 1st and 2nd, and the Girls won their race.  (Kathleen and Lynde would have come in 4th and 5th, with the times they ran in the later race.)  Riley and Celia came in 13th and 15th with PRs, almost breaking 20:00.  Lily PRed by more than a minute and a half.  Shelby and Jordan got PRs also.
Boys Invitational: Carson is back!  He ran a PR17:17 for 4th.  Jacob was not far behind for 10th and his first time under 18:00.  Joe, ZackS, Dylan, ZackC, and Ryan all came in under 18:30.  Watauga was 2nd as a team.
Girls Invitational:  Kathleen and Lynde led the race with 19:37 and 19:39.  The team came in 2nd, as Jesse, Sidney and Carson all beat 22 minutes for the first time.  TaylorM and Brook both beat 23 minutes for their first time.  Watauga was 2nd.
Boys Developmental:  MatthewH, Justin, and CalebZ ran sub-19s, while Devin and Cam just missed 19:00.  The team was 5th.
Girls Developmental: Watauga came in 3rd in this race, led by Rachel.  Rachel, LaurenW, Savanna, Sophia, and Addie beat 24 minutes, while Grace just missed.  Barbara got a PR 25:24.
Mixed Open Race: 

News reports: 
Hickory Daily Record on Huffman -- "“It was just perfect weather and a real fast course. When I turned to come down the stretch people were yelling times at me and at the time it didn’t mean anything until I could see the timer and knew I was so close to a sub-15, I just told myself you’ve gotta go and just took off down the final straightway.”"
"Watauga won the girls’ championship with 59 points, with the Pioneers’ Darby Middlebrook (18:09.66) and Madison Harman (18:33.24) taking the top two spots.
“I was pacing one of my best friends, Madison, so I wasn’t all out racing it but it was fun,” Middlebrook said. “We have a really deep team and have looked good all year.”"
"Wednesday’s meets included 33 schools and more than 1,000 runners."