SALT LAKE CITY-Wednesday, all Utah High School Activities Association schools and classifications conducted their state cross country championships at Sugarhouse Park. This included various Mid-Utah Radio Sports Network schools and athletes who competed against the best in their respective classifications.
3-A Boys
12:30 pm
The Carbon Dinos won their first boys cross country title in state history, netting a score of 57. Richfield placed second, with a score of 90. North Sanpete finished seventh with a score of 153. Juab placed eighth, with a score of 180 and Manti finished 10th with a score of 212.5.
Grantsville senior Porter Whitworth (15:43.70) took the individual state title. Richfield star senior Hayden Harward (16:13.70) placed fifth overall. Dason Day of Juab (16:36.40) placed 11th and Matt Hindes of North Sanpete (16:45.10) finished 13th.
Delta’s John McLaws (16:55.20) placed 16th and North Sanpete’s Gage Cox (17:05.00) finished 18th.
Richfield’s Nick Woolsey (17:05.30) finished 19th, with his teammate, Cannon Anderson (17:09.30) finishing 21st.
Dallin Taylor of Juab (17:21.70) placed 25th and Richfied’s Tyler Johnson (17:27.50) finished 29th.
North Sanpete’s Orange Peel (17:32.60) placed 32nd and Richfield’s Richard Crane (17:33.70) finished 33rd.
Sam Cox of Manti (17:42.20) finished 36th while Tyler Saunders of Richfield (17:48.30) placed 37th.
Tyler Taggart (18:01.70) and Hunter Powell (18:02.80) of Manti finished 43rd and 44th respectively, with Mason Solt of Richfield (18:02.80) tying Powell for 44th.
Tyler Dinkel of Juab (18:09.30) placed 49th overall with North Sanpete’s Cayler Cook (18:09.90) finishing 50th overall.
Talmage Day of Juab (18:23.80) placed 57th while Manti’s Kaystan K. Larsen (18:27.90) and Ben Johnson (18:29.00) finishing 58th and 59th respectively.
Jared Strait of North Sanpete (18:42.10) placed 62nd and Juab’s Jared Braden (18:43.70) finished 63rd.
Levi Bowles of North Sanpete (18:44.40) finished 64th and Trevor Steck of Manti (18:44.70) placed 65th.
Juab’s Joseph Petersen (18:46.00) finished 67th and Morgan Bowles (18:52.20) placed 70th for North Sanpete.
Finally, Trevor Taggart of Manti (18:55.30) placed 72nd and Juab’s Thomas Covington (19:10.70) finished 77th.
2-A Boys
12:00 pm
The Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s Winged Lions won their third all-time state title (2010, 2013, 2019) by posting a score of 49. Millard placed second with a score of 52. Kanab placed fifth with a score of 114.
Rowland Hall junior Carson Burian (15:51.70) won the individual state title. Wasatch Academy’s Christopher Korir (15:55.30) placed second while Nathan Bowman of Kanab (16:44.30) finished fourth.
Shade Woodard of Millard (17:19.80) placed seventh and his teammate, Michael Ralphs (17:25.80) finished ninth.
Jason Cardon of Beaver (17:30.70) finished 10th while Millard’s Camden Moat (17:38.00) and Morris Maxfield (17:43.20) placed 13th and 14th respectively.
Clay Shakespear of Kanab (17:45.70) finished 16th, with North Sevier’s Kelby Bosh (17:49.60) finishing 17th.
Marcor Maxfield of Millard (17:50.30) finished 18th and Kanab’s Jake Church (18:08.30) placed 20th.
Keaton Hallows (18:26.50) of North Sevier finished 27th. Nathan Despain of Millard (18:36.60) finished 31st with Owen Josse (18:51.40) of Millard placing 36th.
Justin Reidhead of Kanab (19:24.50) placed 43rd and his teammate, Zalan Foldes (20:05.50) finished 53rd.
Wasatch Academy’s Ben Sparks (20:49.40) placed 65th and Kanab’s Daxton Jones (20:52.50) finished 66th.
Jackson Clark of Kanab (21:11.20) placed 70th to round out the standings for Mid-Utah Radio Sports Network athletes in this event.
1-A Boys
11:30 am
For the first time in school history, the Wayne Badgers took a state title. The Badgers netted a score of 33. Panguitch placed second with a score of 53. Piute placed third, netting a score of 56. Valley placed fifth with a score of 91. Bryce Valley finished sixth with a score of 106 and Milford placed seventh with a score of 114.
Panguitch senior Luke Reeder (17:16.80) placed first. Wayne’s Miles Guerrero (17:21.20) placed second with Panguitch’s Porter Schoppe (17:31.60) finishing third. Reed Edwards of Wayne (18:00.80) finished sixth. Piute’s Oakley Sylvester (18:12.10) placed seventh with Brock Syrett of Bryce Valley (18:13.40) finishing eighth.
Ruger Reeve of Valley (18:21.40) finished ninth and Milford’s Kydon Davis (18:29.80) finished 11th. Wayne’s Jace Edwards (18:30.50) and Riley Edwards (18:32.80) placed 12th and 13th respectively.
Piute’s Jaden Westwood (18:46.90) and Kelby Jessen (18:51.80) finished 14th and 15th respectively. Valley’s Tyler Bonham (18:59.90) placed 18th with Piute’s Daxon Morrill (19:03.50) finishing 20th.
Jacolby Bridges of Panguitch (19:11.30) finished 23rd and Koleman MacInnis of Valley (19:18.90) placed 25th.
Panguitch’s Theron Evans (19:19.90) and Cairo Houston (19:27.00) finished 26th and 27th.
Piute’s Jesse James (19:35.10) placed 28th with Bryce Valley’s Dallen Platt (19:37.50) finishing 29th.
Panguitch’s Thomas Marshall (19:38.10) placed 30th and Bryce Valley’s John Ahlstrom (19:41.90) placed 31st.
Nate Kunze of Wayne (19:42.20) finished 32nd with Piute’s Titan King (19:45.20) placing 33rd. Panguitch’s Dylan Sawyer (19:45.40) placed 34th and Manny Rascon of Wayne (19:50.10) finished 35th.
Kyle Morgan of Piute (19:52.70) finished 37th and Bryce Valley’s Ronnie Nez (19:53.20) placed 38th.
Layton Spencer of Valley (20:00.10) finished 39th while Wayne’s Brandon Diaz (20:34.30) finished 45th.
Valley’s Max Lee (20:35.00) placed 46th and Milford’s Andrew Swanson (20:45.00) placed 49th.
Brayden Fisher of Milford (21:17.80) finished 54th with Bryce Valley’s Ethan Platt (21:45.20) placing 63rd.
Milford’s Talma Harding (22:08.70) placed 73rd and Treyson Roberts of Bryce Valley (22:20.60) finished 75th.
John Rangel of Milford placed 80th (22:40.20) and Chase Beesley of Bryce Valley (23:10.90) finished 81st.
Valley’s Alex Osterhout (23:33.50) placed 84th and Michael Larmore of Valley (25:09.20) finished 90th.
Milford’s Kevin Hernandez (25:15.50) finished 91st and Ben Peterson of Escalante (28:17.80) placed 96th.
3-A Girls
11:00 am
The Morgan Trojans won their second all-time state title and also went back-to-back with the crown, posting a score of 37. North Sanpete placed third with a score of 95. Manti placed sixth with a score of 151 and Richfield finished seventh, netting a score of 173.
Grand County junior Kylah Ricks (18:50.20) won the individual state title. North Sanpete’s Aubry Cook (20:20.90) placed second. Manti’s Fiel Woods placed third (20:21.10).
Keltsy Fowles of Manti placed 11th (21:05.40) with Jamie Holt of Richfied (21:31.50) placing 18th. Tamsin Stewart of North Sanpete (21:33.90) finished 19th overall.
Nora Foster of Richfield (21:46.80) placed 23rd and Rachael Jones of North Sanpete (21:56.30) finished 26th.
Delta’s Kayli Baker (22:06.70) placed 27th and North Sanpete’s Madelyn Christensen (22:12.50) finished 28th.
Juab’s Whitlee Rosquist (22:17.70) placed 29th and Tylee Henrie of North Sanpete (22:48.90) placed 37th.
North Sanpete’s Josclyn Allen (22:52.40) placed 39th and Manti’s Ashlee Johnson (23:25.60) finished 48th.
Richfield’s Melissa Crane (23:27.90) finished 50th with Aspen Workman of Richfield (23:47.40) placed 53rd.
Savannah Withers of Manti (24:02.20) finished 55th while Richfield’s Carli Begay (24:17.20) and Karlee Thomas (24:17.30) placed 57th and 58th respectively.
Bethany Christensen of Manti (24:22.40) placed 60th and Richfield’s McKenna Alger (24:55.90) finished 63rd.
Finally, Manti’s April Christensen (25:12.80) and Isabella Knudsen (25:34.90) placed 64th and 67th.
2-A Girls
10:30 am
The Millard Eagles won their third all-time state title (2007, 2018 and 2019) and their second consecutive 2-A state championship with a score of 32. Beaver placed sixth with a score of 154. The individual state champion is North Summit junior Elizabeth Zwahlen (18:36.00).
Millard’s Katy Kelly (18:44.80) placed third. Ashley Lagat of Wasatch Academy finished fourth overall (19:15.10).
Audrey Camp of Millard finished fifth (19:43.70) and Wasatch Academy’s Purity Kattam placed seventh (20:09.60).
Millard’s Ember Moat (20:50.30) and Kara Camp (21:12.90) finished ninth and 10th, respectively.
Aimee Thurman of Millard finished 15th overall (21:44.60) and Hannah Koyle of Millard (22:12.20) placed 19th.
Khari Cox of Millard (23:17.90) placed 29th with Cydnee Castagno of Kanab (23:39.90) finishing 32nd.
Beaver’s Haylee Erickson (23:42.00) placed 33rd and her teammate, Chloe Hodges (24:22.90) finished 41st.
Beaver’s Sariah Erickson (24:27.50) finished 43rd and Skylar Spainhower of North Sevier (24:45.30) placed 45th. Tyra Eyre (25:13.60) and Ashtyn Bowles (25:16.00) of Beaver placed 51st and 52nd respectively.
Eryn Wayne of Kanab (25:28.60) finished 53rd and Brooklyn Crum of Beaver (26:17.80) placed 57th.
Myanna Vasquez of Beaver placed 60th (27:28.00) overall.
1-A Girls
10:00 am
The Milford girls won their second all-time state title and second in three years by netting a score of 18. Panguitch finished second with a score of 23. Wayne was third, netting a score of 74. Bryce Valley placed fifth with a score of 90. Escalante placed 11th as the Moquis posted a score of 225.
Panguitch’s Taylia Norris (19:17.40)is the individual state champion concluding her senior season of competition successfully.
Milford’s Kinley Spaulding (19:35.50) placed second. Adelaide Englestead of Panguitch (19:54.60) placed third.
Milford’s Akaydeh Livingston (20:55.30) and Taylor Alger (21:18.50) placed fourth and fifth.
Their teammates, Aliza Woolsey (21:22.50) and Whytney Stoddard (21:50.10) finished seventh and eighth.
Panguitch’s Lacey Marshall (22:08.60) and Mikayla Reeder (22:13.90) placed ninth and tenth.
AnDee VanDyke of Wayne (22:22.30) finished 11th. Camri Fischer of Panguitch (22:26.20) placed 12th.
Natalie Whipple of Wayne (22:49.80) placed 14th with Bryce Valley’s Shandi Syrett (22:58.40) finishing 15th.
Wayne’s Felicity Williams (23:11.20) placed 16th and Joesi Rowley of Milford (23:20.00) finished 18th.
Kristen Stewart of Bryce Valley (23:31.70) placed 19th and DebiJean Henrie of Panguitch (23:58.90) placed 22nd.
Madisen Remund of Piute finished 26th (24:26.40) and Hallie Palmer of Panguitch (24:34.20) finished 27th.
Amanda Chynoweth of Bryce Valley (24:40.10) finished 29th and Kezli Floyd of Bryce Valley (25:25.20) placed 31st.
Wayne’s Shaleen Nelson finished 35th (26:08.50) and Piute’s Saige Remund (26:22.60) placed 38th.
Milford’s Dixie Pierce (26:30.10) placed 40th. Allee VanDyke of Wayne finished 43rd (26:45.50) and Reagan Syrett of Bryce Valley (26:48.60) placed 45th.
Saray White of Wayne (28:03.70) finished 51st. Escalante’s Briannon Woolsey (28:41.60) and Nadia Griffin (28:43.30) placed 53rd and 54th respectively. Bryce Valley’s Annie Mason (29:28.00) and Oakley Johnson (29:34.40) finished 58th and 59th respectively.
Elena Peterson of Wayne (30:08.40) finished 60th. Finally, Escalante’s Ashley Young (34:17.70) and Hope Peterson (36:47.90) placed 71st and 73rd respectively.
