MECHANICSVILLE, Va. – North Carolina, South Carolina, and now Virginia.
Christ School won its third major invitational in as many states Saturday morning, this time returning home with the Virginia Cross Country Showcase championship.
Goals beyond the Carolinas Athletic Association compel this Christ School cross country team.
The duality could be seen Wednesday afternoon – the Greenies gave proper respect to hosting the CAA Championship Meet but also conserved some energy in winning their fourth straight title with a perfect score (15 points).
Christ School cross country’s runners finally got to race the same grounds they train on Tuesday – the team’s first home meet of the season was Senior Night for Noah Clancy ’26 and Lansing Lewis ’26. And the stakes were relatively low-key, considering some of the competition the team has seen since August.
CARY - Another epic weekend race, another head-turning milestone win.
Many who follow the sport consider the Great American Cross Country Festival’s Race of Champions to be the Southeast’s premier meet. Christ School won it Saturday for the first time in school history with 150 points, edging second-place Jesuit (156 points) out of New Orleans.
From the competition to the course, Saturday became essentially a preview of next month’s N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 4-A state meet. Christ School cross country gave every other team fair warning with an equally impressive showing of balance and speed.
The Greenies comfortably won the Hare & Hounds Invitational with 40 points, defeating last year’s NCISAA 4-A champion Cary Academy (98 points) by virtue of seven runners completing the 3.1-mile McAlpine Creek Park course in under 16 minutes.
Christ School’s nationally-ranked cross country team lived up to all preseason accolades and plaudits Saturday, winning one of the Carolinas’ biggest and oldest meets for the first time in the program’s history.
CARY – Sophomores Brooks Barbee ’27 and Dallas Reeves ’27 broke through with all-state performances Friday, meaning a level of personal satisfaction and medals as the ultimate take-home souvenir.
Christ School cross country will grow from every positive at the NCISAA 4-A meet after a season that was badly fractured by Hurricane Helene.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Months of intense training and a notoriously fast course added up to a morning full of personal records for Christ School cross country on Saturday.
Six turned out to be the magic number: the Greenies (255 points) placed sixth out of 44 teams in the International Boys division of the Eye-Opener Meet with a half-dozen individual PRs.
Symbolism on point: 24 college sports recruits from Christ School’s Class of 2024.
Following an extended assembly Friday, boys taking part in Spring Signing Day were joined by their family and Greenie brothers for a ceremony in Mebane Field House.
Dawson Reeves ’24 has been named the Western North Carolina Runner of the Year for the 2023 cross country season by the Asheville Citizen-Times. It is the third straight year that a boy from Christ School has won the award and the sixth time in the past seven years.
SWANNANOA – Dawson Reeves ’24 had some intent in his eyes Wednesday, surging into the lead from the very beginning of the Carolinas Athletic Association Championship cross country meet.
Dawson won the conference meet four years ago as a freshman and never gave anyone else a chance as a senior.
KERNERSVILLE – Christ School was the third-place team in the NCRunners Elite Cross Country Invitational held Saturday morning at the Ivey Redmon Sports Complex.
CHARLOTTE - Christ School cross country sized up some of its stiffest competition for a possible three-peat Tuesday, less than a month out from the NCISAA 4-A state meet.
The Greenies have something positive to build on, from a team and individual perspective.
Rocky Hansen ’23 was the top finisher for Wake Forest cross country in his first college meet Saturday, coming in fifth overall (23:30.90) at the Virginia College and Open Invitational.
