Seaman High

Last week on October 2, the Lady Vikes ran at their home course at the Shawnee North Community Center. In the JV race there was a total of 8 teams and 70 runners. Big drop from last weeks race at Rim Rock. Finishing first for the Lady Vikes this week was sophomore Carleigh Konrade. She placed 15th overall with an improving time of 18:25. Good job Carleigh! Placing 24th overall and 2nd for the Lady Vikes was sophomore Hannah Bilderback. She ran a time of 19:13. Right behind Hannah was sophomore Savannah Skoch taking 29th and place and a time of 19:37. The last two Seaman runners crossed the finish line in 42th and 57th places.
In the Varsity race there was a total of 10 teams and Seaman placed 7th. Junior Ramsey McCarter started the Vikes off, finshing in 9th place with a time of 16:15. Right behind Ramsey was junior Tracy Lister. She had a time of 17:08 and crossed the finish line in 29th. The next two Seaman runners placed 42nd and 43rd. Junior Kelsi Wenger finshed with a time of 17:42 and freshman Jenna Wilderman finshed with an improving time of 17:53. The last two Seaman runners weren't far behind Jenna and did very well improving both of their times. The Lady Vikes will have tough competiton again next Saturday. Good luck to them!

Rim Rock Farm

Saturday, September 25th the Seaman Lady Vikes cross country team took a trip to the Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence Kansas. This is one of the toughest trails in the country. Starting out for JV was freshman Jenna Winderman taking the place of 28 and clocking in at 18:35. The second Seaman runner to finish was sophomore Carleigh Konrade. She finshed with a time of 19:39 and took 60th. The last three Seaman runners did very well with the places of 77th, 137th, and 159th.

The girls varsity race had 198 runners. Junior Ramsey McCarter took 29th with the time of 16:46. The second runner to finish was junior Tracy Lister who clocked in the time of 18:01 and the place of 105th. The last three runners did very well and tried their hardest to finish the race. Seaman will run on their home course next week! The race will start at 10:00AM so come out and cheer on the cross country teams! (:

Bonner Springs

The Lady Vikes girls cross country team traveled to Bonner Springs on September 19th. In the JV meet, sophomore Carleigh Konrade, took 17th place with a time of 19:08. Carleigh has been suffering from a chest pain this season. She is still having the pain but trying her best to push through it. Freshman Betty Sue White placed 36th with a time of 19:48. Finishing third for Seaman, sophomore Savannah Skoch placed 50th with a time of 20:11. Only three people ran JV this time due to more people moving up to varsity.

As for the girls varsity team, overall, the team placed 9th out of a total of 14 teams. First runner to cross the finish line was junior Ramsey McCarter. She placed 5th with a time of 16:24. Second runner to finish for Seaman was junior Tracy Lister placing 27th. Her time was 17:23. This is Listers first year running and she is still improving each week. Senior Megan Wherrell clocked in with a time of 17:59 and the place of 49th. The last four Varsity runners crossed the finish line and placed 62nd, 66th, 82nd, and 89th. The Lady Vikes have two more meets before City, League, Regionals, and State. Good luck in the next week Vikes!

Topeka West Invitational

The Seaman Lady Vikes Cross Country team just took on their second meet of the season Saturday, September 11. Four runners ran in the Seaman Junior Varsity race and all finished under 22 minutes.Freshman Jenna Wilderman finished in 12th place with a time of 18:52, coming in first for the Lady Vikes. Sophomore Carleigh Konrade finished in 30th place. Carleigh has been suffering a breathing injury since last Cross Country season and is still trying to over-come the pain. The last two Junior Varsity runners finished 44th and 59th out of 130 runners. Good job to the Junior Varsity runners last week!

As for the Varsity race, junior Ramsey McCarter finished 6th place with a time of 16:47. Right behind her was Tracy Lister with a final time of 18:32 and placed 29th place. The last two runners for Seaman placed 34th 41st. The Lady Vikes did not have an overall score since they only ran 4 Varsity runners. They will continue to improve and work hard to get better in their next meets to come.

Manhattan High School Invitation

Early Saturday morning, the Seaman girls cross country team had their first meet of the season. Since it was their first meet, Coach Brading decided to put the younger, inexperience girls on Junior Varsity so they could get their first feel of a high school cross country meet. Freshman, Jenna Wildeman took 15th place in the Junior Varsity race with a time of 19:01. The rest of the team finished the race within 3 minutes after Jenna. As a team, the junior varsity girls place 5th out of 8 teams.

The Seaman Vikes Varsity Cross Country team only had four runners run at Manhattan. They did not place a team score since they didn't have a total of 7 runners run in the Varsity race. Junior Ramsey McCarter finished 12th place with a time of 16:59. Tracy Lister came in behind her in 36th place with a time of 18:21. The last two Seaman runners finished 49th and 51st.

As a whole team, the Lady Vikes have a lot to improve on, but it can only go up from here. With many younger runners, the more experience they get the better off they will be.

Before the First Meet

This weekend on Saturday, September 4, the Lady Vikes girls cross country team will have their first meet of the season. They will be traveling to Manhattan where the meet will be held. A total of 13 teams will be competing in this 2.5 mile race. The Lady Vikes have a very young, inexperinced team this year, with only one senior and two juniors who have never ran Cross Country before. This first meet of the year will show the girls where they're positioned with other schools and what to work on. Good luck to the Seaman Lady Vikes in their first meet!

My name is Shelby Slimmer and I will be blogging about the Seaman Girls Cross Country team. This will go in depth of what the cross country team does during practice, how they do in their meets, and the team meetings they have throughout the season. Please makes comments if you have any suggestions to this topic.