Wet, but not weakened, Caroline Robbins closes in on her first high school cross country title. Photos by Alan Versaw.
Sometimes it simply works out that no one school dominates the scoring at a meet. The 2015 Ponderosa Stampede was just that kind of a meet.
Deviating from the typical varsity/JV format, Ponderosa divided the races by grade level, with juniors and seniors running together first, followed by freshmen and sophomores later. The freshman and sophomore girls would discover that's not necessarily such a great deal, but more on that later.
To nobody's surprise, either small or great, SkyView Academy's Ben Butler ran away with the JR/SR boys title, by the span of about a minute. Butler barely even seemed winded at the end of a 15:54 tour of the course. Alex Hebner of Chaparral took second, just staying under the one-minute-back position at 16:52. And, at no point in the race was Butler's lead in any sort of jeopardy.
That threw all the mystery of the JR/SR race into the team scori...
Wet, but not weakened, Caroline Robbins closes in on her first high school cross country title. Photos by Alan Versaw.