{"id":91241,"date":"2017-08-08T08:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=91241"},"modified":"2017-08-08T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:02:55","slug":"crestview-cc-teams-ready-to-roll-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/08\/08\/crestview-cc-teams-ready-to-roll-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview CC teams ready to roll in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n

CONVOY — Coming off Northwest Conference runner-up finishes in 2016, big things are expected from Crestview\u2019s Cross Country teams this season.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s due to a wealth of returning talent and some promising newcomers.<\/p>\n

On the girls side, head coach Jeff Bagley lost just one letter winner to graduation, and has six others back from a team that finished second to Columbus Grove last year — Ashley Bowen, Ragen Harting, Elizabeth Mitchener, Lydia Saylor, Savannah Smith and Lauren Schumm.<\/p>\n

Bowen and Mitchener are two of the three seniors on the squad, along with Janie Boroff.<\/p>\n

Bowen\u2019s 2016 honors include all Northwest Conference individual champion, all-District and all-Regional teams and a State Meet Qualifier. She\u2019s also a school record holder (18:55).<\/p>\n

As a freshman last season, Harting was first team all-NWC and made the all-District team, and Saylor lettered as a freshman.<\/p>\n

Along with the impressive returners, the Lady Knights have other runners ready to contribute, including junior Lizzie Bowen, and freshmen Adalynn Longstreth and Kenzie Leeth.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur focus will be on keeping our attitudes, efforts and actions above the line, so we can maximize our potential,\u201d Bagley said.<\/p>\n

Switching to the boys side, after last year\u2019s NWC runner-up finish to Lincolnview, Bagley lost only two letter winners to graduation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix out of our top eight runners are returning,\u201d Bagley explained. \u201cWe also have five out of the seven runners that raced in the regional meet last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six returners are seniors Gabe Smith and Tyler White, junior Collin Puckett and sophomores Danil Lichtensteiger, Wyatt Richardson (Honorable Mention all-NWC) and Jace Vining.<\/p>\n

Also expected to contribute in 2017: senior Nick Springer, junior Josiah Updegrove and freshman Dayton Schuerman.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to string together a large number of consecutive quality workouts so that we can perform at our best in the October races,\u201d Bagley said.<\/p>\n

Bagley is assisted by Randy Grandstaff.<\/p>\n

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SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY — Coming off Northwest Conference runner-up finishes in 2016, big things are expected from Crestview\u2019s Cross Country teams this season. That\u2019s due to a wealth of returning talent and some promising newcomers. On the girls side, head coach Jeff Bagley lost just one letter winner to graduation, and has six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 15:58:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}