New Castle High School

New Castle Boys and Girls Cross country is off to a great start! The season started with a trip to the Pike Hokum Karem. This was a great way to start the season and get the athletes in the competition mind set. This format is a 2 person relay with each athlete running one mile for a total of 6 miles ( 3 miles per athlete ) We had one Boys team in the relay and two Girls teams. The girls teams finished 9th and 14th , and the boys finished 22nd . This was a good learning experience for all these athletes. There was a 3k JV race that both boys and girls participated in. Catherine Willis finished second place in the girls 3k with New Castle girls taking 10th, 16th, 21st, 28th and 49th. The Boys 3k was a big field with athletes finishing 10th, 24th, 32nd, 38th, 45th , 48th, and 50th. Last week New Castle traveled to the Zionsville 4k. This is a great start to working to the 5k distance. This is a huge invite with several big teams! This race is broken down by grade levels. Freshman/ Sophmore girls started out and all of the athletes had strong races. There was 241 girls in this race with 15 teams total. Our girls finished 59th, 124th, 144th, 212th, and 235th. The freshman/ sophomore boys were up next with 349 athletes and 16 Teams. This was a great start for younger athletes. We finished 220th, 274th, 299th, 304th and 327th. We had a smaller group for the Junior/ Senior girls. 177 athletes and 13 teams. We have a good strong group of Junior/ senior girls. We finished 27th, 93rd, 134th and 152nd. The last group to finish in the heat were the Junior/ Senior boys with 240 athletes and 16 teams. We finished 178th , 196th and 220th. This has been a great start to the season and we are looking forward to our first 5k on Wednesday.