From the trails and track in Arden to footing on a national stage, Christ School cross country has covered some ground recently. 

The statistics are unbiased and well-documented by now. The best individual runner in state history (Rocky Hansen ’23) comes from the same high school as North Carolina’s all-time fastest team (the 2025 Greenies).  

It can’t be a coincidence. The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association agrees. 

The USTFCCCA has named Christ School’s Randy Ashley as its 2025 N.C. Boys Cross Country Coach of the Year. 

PORTLAND – About the time Christ School shook off any lingering jet lag, there was still a matter of a waterlogged course and the stoutest competition the Greenies had seen all season long.  

PORTLAND - Imagine being on the opposite side of the country and still being able to watch a brother have one of the biggest race performances of his career.

In person, nonetheless.

All seven runners on the Asheville Citizen-Times All-Western North Carolina Team?

Nothing less computes with a historic season for Christ School cross country that is stretching into December. 

Cross country takes on a whole new meaning for Christ School in the first weekend back from Thanksgiving Break.

The Greenies will make the trek to Portland for Saturday morning’s Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) meet, by virtue of winning the Southeast regional championship over break.

Announcing the 2025 Fall Sports All-Academic Team, coming on the heels of the best-ever seasons for soccer and cross country, which still has next month’s Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) in Portland. Every one of these Greenies carries a weighted grade-point average above 4.0, exemplifying the true student-athlete experience at Christ School. 

CARY, N.C. - By any name, it’s history in the rear-view with Portland on the horizon.  

Christ School cross country chose the pseudo moniker, “Royal Pines Distance Project” as an homage to the place, and the hard training, the team has put into this program-defining season. 
 

CARY, N.C. – A momentous day for a program which is on the rise not only statewide and regionally, but nationally. 

Christ School cross country continued its undefeated season by winning today's Nike Cross Regionals (NXR) Southeast championship for the first time in Cary, N.C., with 72 points. 

Lowering times and moving up in national rankings. 

Such is the cause and effect of a season that is very much ongoing for Christ School cross country. The newly crowned NCISAA 4-A state champions became only the second team in school history to attain a top-5 national ranking Thursday. 

LOUISVILLE – What was Rocky Hansen ’23 this Halloween?

A runaway ACC champion.

CHARLOTTE – Living up to expectations does not necessarily mean coexisting with the pressure they bring.

Christ School cross country did not look bogged down by any mental or physical inhibitors Friday, completing its first-ever undefeated season in the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association. 

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). 

A change of pace in every sense. 

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. 

CHARLOTTE – What a test run. 

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. 

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Eye Opener, indeed.

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.

Congratulations to William Hughes ’25 on his verbal commitment to run cross country and track for Sewanee: The University of the South. 

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.