Cross Country stops short

The Aragon girls cross country team finished in second place for and the boys team finished third in the Peninsula Athletic League. Though the season is over, two individuals have qualified for state.

Junior Katherine Chinn says, “Our team has performed pretty well this year. For the most part we’ve had minimal injuries so we are staying strong as a team.”

Senior Francisco Vargas says, “My favorite part of cross country is the long runs. The atmosphere of it all is the best. Everyone is open, and it’s like nothing else. Place, time, PR’s…none of that matters. All that matters is that you push yourself farther then before – to have no regret. To look back and say, ‘I went there, and now I am here.’”

During CCS playoffs, the two varsity teams competed. Chinn says, “The weather at CCS on Saturday was pretty good. It had been raining the day before so the course was mushy at some points, but for the most part it was good. Our team did not do very well; we kind of just had an off day. We gave it our all though, and that’s all we could do.”

Vargas says, “The course was the same as always. Crystal Springs is always hard. We all went 110 percent and left it all out there. I am very proud of my team’s performance.”

This year, the teams both had legitimate chances to move even further in the playoffs, but only Lauren Croshaw and Rory Beyer made it to the state championships as individuals.

As the season closes out, Vargas says, “We expected to go to state but that doesn’t matter. All that matters is that we tried, and we had no regrets. We left it all out there.”