High School Cross Country

The high school track season may have ended early this year, but that won’t stop Carson High School’s top senior long distance runner from continuing his running career. On Monday, Zach Sever signed a letter of intent to run cross country and track for Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn.

CARSON CITY — Saturday morning five seniors from Carson High School’s Cross Country team celebrated the end of the school year and their sports seasons with a 20.20 mile touch-less relay run. They began on the westside of Carson, ran up through Lakeview to loop around Franktown Road and finished at Bower’s Mansion State Park.

At the NIAA State Championships, Zachary Sever closed out his stellar run with the Carson High School cross country program on Saturday with an eighth-place performance at the NIAA State Cross Country Championships in Reno.

The Sierra Lutheran High School Cross Country Girls Team made up of all Freshman and Sophomores finished fourth in the 2A State Championship Meet Saturday at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno.

Carson High School cross country runners logged 18 personal record times on Saturday at the 41st annual Asics Clovis Invitational on Oct. 4 in Fresno, Calif. This meet featured Great Oak, the top boy's team in the country, and Nico Young of Newberry Park, top boy runner in the country

Zach Sever and Walker MacKenzie cracked the top five to lead the Carson High School cross country team captured third-place as a team on Saturday at the fourth annual Truckee Invitational.

CARSON CITY — Sierra Lutheran High School's Teagan Hansen continued his undefeated season Senior season on a beautiful cool Saturday morning in Truckee, Calif. Hansen won the 5K race in a time of 17:07, outlasting Zach Sever of Carson who was second in 17:15.

The Carson High School cross country team returned home with several personal record times and personal goals achieved Saturday during the 10th annual Pacific Tiger Cross Country Invitational in Stockton, Calif.

Thursday provided the Carson High School cross country team with a good look at the rest of the Sierra League and a little change of pace Thursday afternoon in Washoe Valley.

Teagan Hansen won the Small School Race in a time of 14:04. Andreas Gilson was 20th in 15:42 and William Webster was 38th in 16:42. In the Girls Small School Race Kailey Fitzpatrick was 14th in 21:23, Sierra Carranza was 19th in 23:34, Ava Zimmerman was 20th in 23:35, and Christi Kennedy was 21st in 24:10.

The Falcons next meet is September 13 in Tahoe City.

The Sierra Lutheran XC team kicked off the 2019 XC Season at Lampe Park in Gardnerville. The Falcons got solid performances from Christi Kennedy (36th Girls Freshman), Sierra Carranza (38th Girls Sophomore), Aaron Waite (47th Boys Sophomore), Will Webster (39th Boys Sophomore), Andreas Gilson (47th Boys Junior), and Jacob Tack (50th Boys Junior). Sierra Lutheran will run next Friday at the Nevada Twi-light Classic in Reno. Andreas Gilson is the runner pictured.

Led by an experienced nucleus of runners, the Carson High School cross country program has good reason for optimism for the start of a new season.

CARSON CITY — Saturday, Nov. 3 was the State Cross Country Meet in Boulder City, Nevada at Veteran's Memorial Park. Sierra Lutheran had a successful day. The 1A/2A girls race was the first race of the day.

The Sierra Lutheran High School Cross Country team team attended the 2017 Bob Firman Invitational Cross Country Meet in Boise, Idaho this past weekend for the first time. The meet is named after Bob Firman, an icon in the XC community who has attended this meet for the past 43 years, handing out the awards.

This week is the official Nevada Week of Respect. The purpose of this week is to promote respect as an antidote to bullying and cyberbullying. Here is what is going on at CHS to celebrate the Week of Respect:

• The American Sign Language club is going to be signing songs at lunch on Thursday.
• The Gay-Straight Alliance is going to be putting up a respect wall - a giant poster for people to write what they respect about someone else.
• There will be a daily announcement with a tip on being an upstanding young adult.

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