The Southeast Valley cross country teams took on a tough course, tough competition, and tough weather conditions when they competed at the Panorama Invite in Panora on Thursday, Sept. 19^th, 2024. Both teams finished 11^th overall in the 16-team field. The girls scored 284 points and the boys scored 286 points. 

On the boys’s side Class 1A #3 ranked Ogden was 1^st with 66 points followed by class 1A #9 ACGC with 99 and Kuemper was third with 101. The girls’ race was won by class 2A #1 Van Meter with 41 points, followed by class 1A #1 Earlham and #11 ACGC who scored 62 and 90 points respectively. 

Lincoln Akins was the top finisher for the boys in 25^th place with a 19:48 and Katie Field led the girls’ team finishing 45^th in 26:38. Both were course PRs from the previous year. Owen Nuss (54^th, 21:12), Autumn Jones-Popp (48^th, 27:08) and Evan Kuhn (81^st-JV, 27:48) also ran course PRs at Panora. Kaleb Klein running in his first 5k of the year, took over 2 minutes and 30 second from his previous career best as a freshman running 37:22 (98^th-JV)

Carver Peterson (71^st, 22:43), Drew Dorsey (75^th, 23:13), Grant Farnham (76^th, 23:20), Logan Bintz (78^th, 23:58) and Kayden Showers (88^th, 25:55) competed in the boys race along with Lincoln and Owen on Thursday. Joining Katie and Autumn in the girls’ race was Meia Hefley (63^rd, 30:23), Hailey Rees (64^th, 30:37), Abbi Tucker (74^th, 35:10) and Amelia Christensen (79^th, 37:37).

In the JV race Kyeo Augustine (46^th, 24:18), Oliver Riehl (57^th, 25:11), Carter Ganoe (72^nd, 26:22), Caden Kaltschnee (82^nd, 28:22) and Ben Wanat (90^th, 32:22) competed with Evan and Kaleb. The JV boys finished 7^th with 196 points. 

The Jaguars will compete this Thursday night, September 26^th at Story City in the Norseman Invite before getting a 10 day break and traveling to Pocahontas Area on Saturday, October 5^th.