Rebel Girls' Race recap: The 2011 XC Season kicked off with the 2nd Annual Rebels Northwoods Invitational. Coon Rapids once again showed their depth with four of their varsity runners finishing in the top 5. Rebel Cassidy Soli finished 3rd and Capt. Maria Trescony finished 6th to break up the CR top 7. Big drops for returning runners was the theme of the day. Hannah Lorentzen dropped 2:11 and Shannon Wald dropped 1:51 respectively from last years race. Senior Ashley Holman dropped 1:13 and Soph Hannah Rorvick dropped 33.
8th Grader Dani Johnson led the JV runners to a 1-4-9 finish. Dani winning with a time of 13:45, Katherine Novak, 4th and Alex Goldsberry 9th..
Rebel Boys' Race recap: Monticello Varsity Boys' team repeated as team champs, with a team total of 25 points. The Rebels were led by Derek Wachowiak's 4th place finish with 3 Rebels finishing in the top 10. Wachowiak dropped 68 seconds from last season. Finishing 7th was Capt. Brandon Johnson. Spencer Nelson, new to the squad finished 10th. The biggest drop came from Peter Simon who dropped 1:28 from 2010. Winning his 1st high school XC race was sop Alec Bierker winning the JV Boys' race with a time of 13:00. Alec was followed by Derek VanVoorhis's 3rd place finish with Tyler Sayles finishing 13th and Michael Johnson 14th.
2011 Results Link: Here
