Beechwood’s Lily Parke won the Class A, Region 4 cross country race by nearly two minutes, leading her team to their third straight victory, while Villa Madonna’s Mark Antrobus won the boys’ race, leading his team to a 29-55 win over St. Henry.
Category: Cross Country
Posted inCross Country
Sheets, Parke top state cross country rankings
Kentucky’s top two cross country runners live about 2.3 miles apart. Covington Catholic senior Will Sheets and Beechwood junior Lily Parke are not only the fastest in Northern Kentucky so far. The latest ky.milesplit.com times list Sheets and Park first overall. Sheets covered the 3.1 miles in 15 minutes, 3.50 seconds at the Springboro (Ohio) […]
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Fort Thomas Tower Park revamp to enhance athletic facilities
Brian Alessandro, a former track and cross-country coach at Highlands High School, has been using the Tower Park Athletic Complex since 1992. That year, as a 7th grader at Highlands Middle School, Alessandro said he scored his first junior varsity goal for the Bluebirds junior varsity soccer team. As a runner, Alessandro participated in countless […]
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Alessandro’s long and successful run is done at Highlands High School
Highlands Middle School language arts teacher Brian Alessandro is in a jumbo jet. He’s traveling with his wife while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. The newly retired high school track and cross country coach is on his way to see his wife’s relatives in the United Kingdom. Helping himself into a British state of mind, […]
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NKY running community rallies around St. Henry coach
The Northern Kentucky community came together for the Hurm Dawg 5k fundraiser in support of Jeremy Hurm and his family, raising over $80,000 for Jeremy and his treatments.
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My first year at LINK nky
This was my first year as a full-time professional reporter, and I’m happy to say that I’ve had a chance to work on a variety of meaningful stories with a great team of people. Here are five stories that were most meaningful to me. They’re stories that gave me a chance to report on something […]
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Beechwood’s girls cross country runners are masters at running it back
This story originally appeared in the Dec. 1 edition of the weekly LINK Reader. To get these stories first, subscribe here. Members of the Beechwood High School girls cross country team tightened their shoes and affixed numbers to their red tiger-striped uniforms as they prepared for action at the Trimble County meet in Bedford. They jogged […]
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Covington Catholic cross country rules Class 2A for first state championship since 1994
It turned out not to be a matter of if, but a matter of who ran for the Covington Catholic cross country team in the state cross country meet at the Kentucky Horse Park. The Colonels saw a number of different runners step forward throughout the season, battling injuries on their way to their first […]
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Cooper boys runner-up, Van Laningham, Strong post top five finishes at 3A state meet
Cooper cross country coach Eric Van Laningham knew it was going to be a good day when he saw what starting box his team would be running out of at the KHSAA Class 3A state cross country meet. The No. 33 means a lot to Van Laningham. It starts with his favorite basketball player Larry […]
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Beechwood, Brossart win Class A titles; Brossart’s Ruth takes individual gold
A canopy of other runners’ arms serenading Beechwood’s girls cross country team seemed befitting. The Tigers were small-school royalty at Saturday’s KHSAA Class A state meet at the Kentucky Horse Park. They won their second straight team title over Lexington Christian, 41-69. Was Beechwood the only Northern Kentucky squad to win a team title? Well, […]