The Chelsea girls cross country team placed 17th among 22 schools in the medium school varsity race at the Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard (FGR) Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 17, at Hudson-Mills Metropark in Dexter. Highlights:
- Six of Chelsea’s seven varsity runners set a season or personal best. Sophomore Kathryn Dunn led the team, placing 66th among 154 runners in 21:54.0, a season best by 20 seconds. Sophomore Kelsey Burr took more than a minute off her season best with a 23:42.2.
- Senior captains Persephone Berg and Grace Krugh and sophomore Addison Leschuk each ran a personal best. Leschuk (22:11.3) and Berg (22:12.2) ran together and cut 27 and 31 seconds, and Krugh took 37 seconds off her best, finishing in 23:59.9 to break the 24-minute mark.
- In the JV race, junior Emily Xiao met her season goal of running a 5K under 29 minutes, finishing in a personal-best 28:48.2.
Results are below.
Thanks to Coach Laura Lutz for the information in this story.
