Notes -- Donuts, Chargers, Turkey Trot, Foot Locker

• Donut Run?
• Three runners competed in the Chargers Post-Season Tune-Up in Charlotte Saturday.  It was a 3200m race on a track, so not XC.  Madison finished 8th in a very competitive field, with 11:32.  Dustin Hickernell was 3rd in the Boys Open, with 10:36 PR, and Drew was just behind him for 4th and a PR, with 10:37.
• The Turkey Trot Thursday morning at the Greenway.  5K starts at 9am.
• The Foot Locker meet is next Saturday at McAlpine Park.  NCRunners coverage.  Watauga will have about a dozen runners there.
• Oklahoma State and Oregon won the NCAA D1 Cross Country championships.  One WHS grad's team finished 5th.
• NC PrepTrack survives, but with new web address.

Banquet tonight

The banquet is tonight.  Open at 5:00pm.  Food at 6:00pm.  Alliance Bible Fellowship on the 105 Bypass.
For more details check your e-mail or links in Monday post below.  It looks like things are going smoothly and there will be plenty of food (and events), but especially see Margie Mansure and Susan Anderson about gifts for coaches.
Thanks Dana and the rest of the team. 

Seniors

Let's take another look at the seniors who finished their high school cross country careers last weekend:
Madison Harman
Doria Kosmala
Josh Anderson
Bryan Brackney
Peter Vandenberg
Carson Nguyen

Notes -- Banquet Tuesday evening!

• The Cross Country Banquet is this Tuesday, November 13.
• NC Runners has their pesky rankings again.  This time, for runners returning next year, Watauga is 15th in the Girls 4A and 16th in Boys 4A.  (Access only to top 10s.)
• The college championships are coming up next weekend.

Expectations. A good season anyway.

It seemed that Watauga would get an individual 4A Championship this year and that it would make a serious run at a Boys team championship.  The team worked hard and had a good season, but it's hard to meet those expectations, especially with key injuries.

Brightest spots Saturday:
Michael Holland 37th 16:29.  That's a PR.  A great sophomore season.
Doria Kosmala 27th  18:56.  Also a PR.  A strong finish to her season.
Matt Osborne also PRed at 17:08.

Season-long excellence among runners: Josh Anderson, Bryan Brackney, Madison Harman, Kathleen Mansure, and others.  Four years of Darby and Peter.

It was fun to watch.  Now, the pressure's off, and it's time just to run for fun again for a while.  And if some freshman is heard talking about a state championship, who knows?  It could happen.

Cross Country banquet next week

Next Tuesday November 13!  (By the way, there's no school on Monday.)

Banquet planning.

Banquet sign up and foods.

Boys 11th, Josh 22nd, Madison 23rd, Doria 27th

Watauga finished 11th in the Boys team standings.  Boys results.  Girls results.

Here's NCPrepTrack's summary of the 4A results:
"--- 4-A: ---
Green Hope girls win 4th straight title. Providence 2nd.
Megan Sullivan (Broughton) 17:48.03. Pegah Kamrani (ECH) 2nd, 17:51.21.
Broughton dominates boys 41-111 over Cary 2nd.
Bakri Abushouk (Cary) 15:13.57. Dalton Nickel 15:31.92."

GoBlueRidge --
"22. Josh Anderson 16:15.09
37. Michael Holland, 16:29.07
73. Bryan Brackney, 16:52.53
93. Matt Osborne, 17:08.18
106. Drew Boyette, 17:26.16
109. Peter Vandenburg, 17:32.14
111. Carson Nguyen, 17:35.90"
and
"23. Madison Harman, 18:45.76
27. Doria Kosmala, 18:56.72"

NCRunners has complete results, photos, and video. Josh. 

N&O has photos and an article:
This photo of Abushouk , #56, leaving the pack is striking -- "opponents, in the rear view during a dominating wire-to-wire win."

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/03/2460079/green-hopes-girls-broughtons-boys.html#storylink=cpy

From before the race:
GoBlueRidge
Watauga Democrat
Winston-Salem Journal on Darby's injury