The East Atchison Cross Country Teams traveled to Shenandoah, Iowa, September 29, 2022, to compete in the Shenandoah Invitational. The EA girls got 6th place as a team and the EA boys got 11th. Both the girls’ and boys’ teams broke their own team time records for EA. Lady Wolf Jayla Irvine medaled with an 11th place finish and broke the EA girls’ record, again, by 12 seconds with a time of 21:45.17. The EA runners also saw improvement with 14 of 16 running new, all-time personal bests.

Individual EA statistics follow:

Boys’ 5K – 29th, Cole Anderson, 18:32.09; 49th, Ian Stepp, 19:29.70; 65th, Daniel Lesher, 19:59.23; 71st, Jarrad Jamison, 20:17.18; 73rd, Cowen O’Riley, 20:29.75; 75th, Quin Staten, 20:33.28; and 96th, Connor Morton, 22:21.13

Girls’ 5K – 11th, Jayla Irvine, 21:45.17; 40th, Brooklyn Wennihan, 23:59.08; 51st, Kierra McDonald, 25:17.88; 58th, Alexis Bywater, 26:07.05; 60th, Kendal Straub, 26:42.55; and 81st, Emmy Laur, 32:39.86