Day 2-MSHSAA 2022 State XC Championships Highlights

Before Burns' win, teammate Alexandra Volkart won the Class 3 girls race, completing a Southern Boone County High individual Class 3 sweep. The junior was in first or second that entire race to claim the Class 3 title. 

St. Charles West easily claimed the Class 3 team title, scoring just 74 points. The Warriors margin of victory over the field was 63 points, and more.West put 5 underclassman in the top 38, with Genevieve Wacker and Claire Horstmann taking 7th and 16th for all-state honors.

In the penultimate race, Platte Valley won the Class 1 girls title with just five runners. A 3-4 finish by Mya Wray and Andrea Riley aided the northwest Missouri school to the title. The MSHSAA results list the school as South Nodaway, but it is a co-op with Jefferson.


Freshman Mallory Shaw passed six runners in the final kilometer to secure the title in 20:38. She is the school's second champion and joins four-time champion Jamie Vest, who won Class 1 titles from 2001-2004. Vest went on to be a standout steeple chaser at Missouri state and was on hand to see Shaw win, which gave the freshman a chance to match Vest's amazing accomplishment. 


In the final race of the day another Riley made it two "Riley"s to win titles on the day. Riley Blay from West Nodaway but wearing a black and green Nodaway Valley uniform, repeated as a champion, winning the class 1 title. He ran 16:28 and got nearly a 33-second win, after Smithon's Riley Bryan won the opening race of the day, the girls Class 2 race. 

Class 1 had two repeat champs as Hermitage won the title again, like Blay did individually. Junior Bennett Mantooth took third, one of four Hornets in the top 25. Justin Horn, Justus Yates and DeJuan Chambers also joined him on the podium.