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Peter Morris won the state title in 2016, and Natalie Morris won it in 2017. Both ran for Loudoun Valley.
Bethany Hasz won MN girls AA state title in 2013 and 2015. Megan Hasz won it in 2014
Austin and Keely Weaver for FRA in Tennessee. The Yoders in Indiana.
Sally and David Glynn in Maryland.
Madison West's Olin Hacker ran to an even paced 14:59 on the challenging Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids yesterday afternoon which not only scared Chris Solinsky's seemingly immortal 5000 meter course record of 14:54 but nearly returned the all-time state meet record for cross country back to the family name.
Olin's win marked the 7th individual victory for the Hacker family in Class A/Division 1 state championships competition. Like Olin, Tim (father) and Jeff (uncle) were consecutive state champions. Here's a brief overview of the Gen X champion Hacker's of Menomonee Falls North high school:
2014 - Olin '14
2013 - Olin '14
1984 - Bill '85
1980 - Tim '81
1979 - Tim '81
1977 - Jeff '78
1976 - Jeff '78
Non-winning Hackers: Mike Hacker '76 (9:39 2-miler), Dave Hacker '80 (4:14 miler, 15:40c guy), Sam '11 (4:17/9:27), Wilson '13 (4:19)
First cousins: Cathy Hacker married 1984 Olympian Steve Lacy of McFarland, WI who between he and his son Andrew bring four more Class C/Division 2 cross country state titles to the table (1972, 1973, 2004, 2005)
Hack me wrote:
Madison West's Olin Hacker ran to an even paced 14:59 on the challenging Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids yesterday afternoon which not only scared Chris Solinsky's seemingly immortal 5000 meter course record of 14:54 but nearly returned the all-time state meet record for cross country back to the family name.
Olin, who recently finished 56th for 8th-place Wisconsin in the NCAA XC Championship, didn't run his 14:59 "yesterday afternoon". It was 2014 (his second state meet XC win in a row, when he was a high school senior).
Here are the top four 5k XC runners in Wisconsin high school history, on all courses:
1 14:39.40 FINN GESSNER (running now for Wisconsin)
2 14:40.50 CHRIS SOLINSKY (retired pro runner, now a coach)
3 14:51.60 DREW BOSLEY (high school senior this year)
4 14:55.21 OLIN HACKER (running now for Wisconsin)
The Hacker family legacy is impressive, no doubt about it.
Catarina and Marcelo Rocha were both state champions in Massachusetts.
Catarina in 2011 and 2012.
Marcelo in 2016.
Both went on to run for Providence College as well.
Scott Patterson and Caitlin Patterson, though for cross country skiing, not cross country running. Both became Olympians earlier this year in skiing. They are great mountain runners too.
Cut and paste error? wrote:
Olin, who recently finished 56th for 8th-place Wisconsin in the NCAA XC Championship, didn't run his 14:59 "yesterday afternoon". .
Sorry, it was a quote pasted from the thread I posted. Guess I should have used quotes.
Yes.
Remember the Kaltenbach sisters who went to Smokey Hill High School in Colorado? Think both sisters both won a few titles a piece in the early 2000's and Footlocker too if I'm not mistaken. Whatever happened to those two?
I think the Schumachers might’ve
Fiona and Olivia O'Keeffe both won state xc titles in California -- Fiona twice
Graydon and Gracie Morris are both twins and they are in their junior year
For XC Graydon has done this
2016 - 3rd (15:15)
2017 - 1st (14:58)
2018 - 1st (15:03)
While Gracie has done
2016 - 5th (18:07)
2017 - 3rd (17:46)
2018 - had a stress fracture all season
While in track they've accomplished
Graydon -
2017 - 2nd in 3200(9:21), fell in mile at region and DNF'd
2018 - 1st in 3200(9:14) and mile(4:15)
Gracie -
2017 - 1st in 800(2:14) and 2nd in mile(4:55.7) to London Culbreath(4:55.06)
2018 - Injured
Graydon placed second at foot locker nationals last year while Gracie has been injured a lot of the time and that shows the amount of workload they put on their body through training.
Cut and paste error? wrote:
Hack me wrote:
Madison West's Olin Hacker ran to an even paced 14:59 on the challenging Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids yesterday afternoon which not only scared Chris Solinsky's seemingly immortal 5000 meter course record of 14:54 but nearly returned the all-time state meet record for cross country back to the family name.
Olin, who recently finished 56th for 8th-place Wisconsin in the NCAA XC Championship, didn't run his 14:59 "yesterday afternoon". It was 2014 (his second state meet XC win in a row, when he was a high school senior).
Here are the top four 5k XC runners in Wisconsin high school history, on all courses:
1 14:39.40 FINN GESSNER (running now for Wisconsin)
2 14:40.50 CHRIS SOLINSKY (retired pro runner, now a coach)
3 14:51.60 DREW BOSLEY (high school senior this year)
4 14:55.21 OLIN HACKER (running now for Wisconsin)
The Hacker family legacy is impressive, no doubt about it.
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Honorable mention to Ron and Francie Larrieu.
Ron was a 10 000m Olympian in 64 and Francie was a 5 time Olympian.
Francie didn't even have a team in high school.
New York State 1977 8th grader Laura Whitney won the Section 11 State XC Championships, older brother and 12th grader Mark won the boy's race while 10th grade brother Andy finished 4th. In the NYS Federation xc meet including all school's Laura again finished 1st and Mark was 3rd. Andy won in 1978 and Laura won three more.
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Graydon placed second at foot locker nationals last year while Gracie has been injured a lot of the time and that shows the amount of workload they put on their body through training.
So they DON’T qualify since Gracie didn’t win state?
BackInTheDayInTheCO wrote:
Remember the Kaltenbach sisters who went to Smokey Hill High School in Colorado? Think both sisters both won a few titles a piece in the early 2000's and Footlocker too if I'm not mistaken. Whatever happened to those two?
We spell it Smoky Hill, as the school is located near the Smoky Hill Trail, one of the pioneer trails that led settlers into the west.
You’re correct...Megan was a four time state xc champ in Colorado. In fact she only ever lost one high school cross country race in Colorado her whole career. She was a three time Footlocker All-American as well.
Katelyn won state her junior year (and Footlocker too), but was injured for state her senior year, and thus didn’t run. However, she healed enough to qualify for Footlocker and then lead the Smoky girls to 2nd place at the inaugural NTN (now NXN) Meet.
They both ran at North Carolina. Megan had a solid career, running on a couple NCAA championship DMR’s and I believe an All-American nod in the 1500 outdoors and possibly the 3000 indoors.
Katelyn, sadly, continued to be felled by injuries while at UNC.