Beecher boys cross country runner Grant Nykaza finished second overall at the Class 1A state meet Saturday morning at Peoria's Detweiller Park.
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BEECHER | Tired of not being on the guest list, Larissa Swanson and her Beecher teammates invited themselves to the year's biggest cross country event.
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The Illiana Christian boys and girls cross country teams are starting to get used to this trip.
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As a seventh grader, Lexi Schatz was one of the top small-school runners in Indiana, finishing seventh in her division at the middle school cross country meet in Carmel.
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TERRE HAUTE | Pizza, a team sleepover and a medal.
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TERRE HAUTE | A state medal would've been better, but a $1,000 check for his school and a plaque were a nice consolation prize.
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ST. JOHN | It was supposed to be awesome. A train ride to downtown Chicago on a Saturday, dinner with your high school friends at a swanky grill and some shopping on the Magnificent Mile.
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CALUMET CITY | Anyone scanning a list of finishers at the South Suburban Conference Blue girls cross country meet wouldn't have seen a T.F. North runner listed.
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When: Today, noon (boys), 12:45 p.m. (girls).
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Thankfully, Latin was no longer a requirement by the time I became an altar boy at St. Bridget's ages ago.
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It took a while for Megan Cassidy to find a place for running in her busy schedule.
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NEW CARLISLE | There's strength in numbers in all sports, but maybe none more than cross country.
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NEW CARLISLE | The glory days of Hobart boys cross country pre-date all of the current Brickies runners.
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LANSING | For the Illiana Christian girls cross country team, Saturday's 2A Illiana Christian Regional at North Creek Meadow was a run through for what the girls wants to do next week at the Nazareth Academy Sectional.
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When: Today, 10:30 a.m. (boys), 11 a.m. (girls).
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GRIFFITH | Taylor Austin isn't just a cross country runner. The Griffith junior is a cross country runner who often has her hips pop out of the socket.
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LANSING | Ask Alexa Beezhold to describe herself and you may hear the following:
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CEDAR LAKE | Highland's Jacob Baranowski knew his friendly Lowell rival, Kyle Eller, would be on his heels at the hilly course at Lemon Lake in Saturday's Crown Point Regional.
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LANSING | T.F. South senior Dylan Angell feels pretty nice to be a champion.
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NEW CARLISLE | It's an ill wind that blows no good.
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When the sun is shining bright you don't need to wear a sweater. When the birds are chirping you don't need to sing the blues. And when everything is going right what is there to question?
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There's an aw-shucks, golly-gee innocence about Alison Mundell.
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CEDAR LAKE | The heat and the hills were two obstacles at Tuesday's Crown Point Sectional held at the postcard-like setting at Lemon Lake. But the sudden-death format of the IHSAA postseason was another — or the biggest.
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LIBERTY TOWNSHIP | A season clouded in doubt is gaining clarity for Katelyn DeVries.
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HAMMOND | Mention "Griffith," and football immediately comes to mind. Taylor Austin is working like the dickens to change that.
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RENSSELAER | Hebron girls coach Mike DeFries knew it was going to take a concerted effort from his cross country team to knock off favored Kankakee Valley at Tuesday's Rensselaer Sectional.
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OLYMPIA FIELDS | Consider this the coming out party for the Thornwood boys cross country team.
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PORTER TOWNSHIP | Hebron, the top boys and girls team in the Porter County Conference in the dual season, on Tuesday capped its perfect run in the PCC Championships.
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MOROCCO | Kyle Nurse sprinted through the chute Tuesday to finish first in the Greater South Shore Conference boys meet, and Wheeler's top runner then made a quick left turn to grab a bottle of water from a table.
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HOBART | She pushed, pulled, dragged, and dug.
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Wind, cold, mud. It might as well have been a day at the beach for Valparaiso's Ari Coulopoulos in Saturday's Duneland Athletic Conference Championship.
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MERRILLVILLE | Becca Conley started running with the Andrean cross country team when she was in sixth grade. Talk about culture shock.
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When Mya Rodriguez and Sarah Steinhilber first met in fifth grade, they didn't exactly hit it off.
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CULVER | Last spring, Alec Kostelnik got a taste of competing with the big boys at the IHSAA state finals in track and field.
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BREMEN TOWNSHIP | Illiana Christian's Matt Hall loves the course at Midlothian Meadows, and that explained his time Saturday morning.
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HIGHLAND | Andrean coach Rick Torres aptly stated Lowell's Kyle Eller is running in his own world right now.
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With six varsity races over a span of three hours, the New Prairie Invitational cross country extravagnza makes for a long start to a Saturday work day.
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NEW CARLISLE | Right after finishing the Class AA race in Saturday's New Prairie Invitational, Taylor Austin headed to the nearby trainer's table.
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LANSING | Illiana Christian's Matt Hall certainly knows that with the cross country season in full swing, running times will be getting lower in the coming weeks.
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Lane Lewallen went to a basketball game at Kankakee Valley last winter, the school where he is the girls cross country coach.
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When she was a second-grader whipping through the mile well ahead of any of her South Central female classmates, Kyleigh Werner never gave much thought to cross country.
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LANSING | Illiana Christian's Tony Wondaal summed up Saturday's Rich Dust Invitational nicely.
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LANSING | For Highland's Fanny Davalos, Saturday's Rich Dust Invitational was all business and no pleasure.
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MicKayla Jones will never get caught napping.
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HAMMOND | It's gotta be the shoes.
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CROWN POINT | The host school didn't have an individual champion in either race at the Crown Point Invitational on Tuesday at Lemon Lake, but the Bulldogs' runners were close enough to the front to have C.P. claim both team titles.
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LAPORTE | Rain delayed the Jack Bransford Classic for an hour, but that wasn't enough to stop two LaPorte runners from crossing the finish line first.
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CROWN POINT | It was the fall of her sophomore year. That's when the hopes and dreams and flashes of brilliance finally broke through for Crown Point's Lauren McCarroll.
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When Tara Hamstra's head hits the pillow at night, it doesn't take her long to fall asleep.
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