Dara Marquiz and Sarah Mauser- Staff writers
After earning their Semi-State first place title, the boy’s cross country team headed to State in Terre Haute. They faced against 24 teams, earning 13th place.
“We had an off day and we didn’t run as well,” Daniel Zelaya (11) said. “Our goal was to place in the top five.”
Regardless of the intimidation that Columbus North, Chesterton and Carmel had on them, the boys gave their best effort as they had throughout the season, but it was not enough to reach their goal.
“We were Semi-State, Regional, Sectional and NLC champions… but in State we didn’t achieve the goal,” Zelaya said.
The team came back defeated but not skeptical about becoming better.
“He [the runner] has to be mentally tough and a hard-worker during the physical workouts,” Zelaya said. “He has to have talent too.”
Back home, the team will have to work harder for their next season and come back from state as winners.
“We will lose half of the varsity team and one of our primary goals is to replace them,” Zelaya said. “I want to go back to state as an individual racer or as a team, and win.”
Notes from JLab140 
Posted on November 9, 2009 by jlab140
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