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Saturday, October 2, 2021

Abbey Griffin and Asa Swope were spectacular at the SportsPlex

Florida State University's Rec SportsPlex is located on the far west side of Tallahassee, Florida. Leon County Schools has held two middle school cross-country meets there--the Falcon Invitational in 2020 and the inaugural Mabry Invitational on Friday night, 1 October 2021. Deerlake's Abbey Griffin has won her race in both meets, most recently taking first in the Mabry Invite girls' 3K, running 12:13. Asa Swope isn't undefeated at the SportsPlex, but he still won the boys' 3K at the Mabry Invitational, going the distance in 11:10. Deerlake took first in the teams standings of the girls' 3K with 25 points; Montford was the top boys' team, scoring 39 points.

Asa Swope
Asa Swope

When the 2020 Falcon Invitational was at the FSU Rec SportsPlex, Leon County Schools athletic director Scott Hansen realized that the lighting at the facility would make a night meet possible. Acting on that idea, he added the 2021 Mabry Invitational to the 2021 middle school cross-country calendar, scheduling the meet for a 7:30 PM start at the SportsPlex.


That 7:30 race was the girls' 3K. In her four winning runs at Leon County Schools middle school cross-country meets, Abbey Griffin has established a pattern of close finishes. In her first win at the SportsPlex, the Falcon Invitational, Griffin beat Montford's Sophia Youngberg by inches, both runners clocked in 12:30. Griffin's first win of the 2021 season came at Montford's Mustang Stampede, where the eighth-grader squeaked by Annabelle Wiktorski of Montford, 11:55 to 11:56. The Falcon Invitational was likewise decided on the homestretch, with Griffin just ahead of Deerlake's London Mellen, 12:07 to 12:10.


And at the Mabry Invitational?


"Abbey got me in the last 400 meters," said Montford seventh-grader Annabelle Wiktorski, the runner-up.

FSU Rec SportsPlex
FSU Rec SportsPlex

It had still been close. Griffin ran 12:13, Wiktorski 12:14. Deerlake sixth-graders Honesty Daniel and Chloe Molen took the next two places, Daniel third in 12:47 and Molen fourth in 12:52.


Deerlake put two more runners in the top ten--Seventh-grader Chloe Houge placed seventh in 13:19 and eighth-grader Madeline Morris was tenth in 13:54. That gave the Deerlake girls 25 points and another Buck victory.


Montford and Wiktorski scored 35 points, taking second. Cobb edged the Raa girls for third, 101 to 105. Cobb's first finisher was seventh-grader Mallory Brown (12th, 14:37), Raa's was eighth-grader Kennedy Bell (8th, 13:32).


2021 Mabry Invitational Girls' Team Standings
  1. Deerlake, 25
  2. Montford, 35
  3. Cobb, 101
  4. Raa, 105
  5. Swift Creek, 125
  6. Fairview, 131
  7. Griffin, 222
  8. Fort Braden, NTS
    Woodville, NTS

Top Ten Girls, 2021 Mabry Invitational
  1. 12:12.05, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake) 8
  2. 12:13.94, Annabelle Wiktorski (Montford) 7
  3. 12:46.96, Honesty Daniel (Deerlake) 6
  4. 12:51.23, Chloe Molen (Deerlake) 6
  5. 13:01.00, Savannah Stanley (Montford) 7
  6. 13:17.53, Haley Heitmeyer (Montford) 7
  7. 13:18.06, Chloe Houge (Deerlake) 7
  8. 13:31.47, Kennedy Bell (Raa) 8
  9. 13:51.52, Andi Vilardo (Montford) 7
  10. 13:53.40, Madeline Morris (Deerlake) 8

There were no close finishes for Asa Swope in the boys' 3K. In the sixth meet of the season, it was Swope's fifth race and his fourth win. Other runners led early, but by the end of the first kilometer the Swift Creek eighth-grader was ahead of everyone. Swope wasn't challenged after that and went on to win by over 100 meters in 11:10. Another Swift Creek eighth-grader, Kingsley Knispel, grabbed the runner-up spot with a 11:34. Fairview seventh-grader Jack Koon held off two Montford runners--seventh-grader Gavin Poucher and eighth-grader Matthew Hauser--to take third in 11:43. Poucher was fourth and Hauser fifth, both in 11:44.

Boys' 3K
Boys' 3K

Two more Montford athletes made the top ten, with seventh-grader Trent Parsons eighth in 11:59 and eighth-grader Jackson Beener ninth in 12:01. Once Montford eighth-grader Edward Bass was across the finish line thirteenth in 12:31, the Mustang boys had 39 points and first place, their fourth straight win.


Swope's Swift Creek Wolves were second with 58 points. Fairview and Jack Koon tallied 62 points to take third in the field of nine teams.


One meet, the seventh, is left in the 2021 Leon County Schools middle school cross-country season. That final event is the Leon County Schools League Championship at Apalachee Regional Park on Thursday, 7 October 2021. The girls' 3K will start at 6:00 PM with the boys' 3K following at 6:30 PM.


2021 Mabry Invitational Boys' Team Standings
  1. Montford, 39
  2. Swift Creek, 58
  3. Fairview, 62
  4. Deerlake, 90
  5. Raa, 148
  6. Cobb, 153
  7. Fort Braden, 226
  8. Griffin, 231
  9. Woodville, 233

Top Ten Boys, 2021 Mabry Invitational
  1. 11:09.54, Asa Swope (Swift Creek) 8
  2. 11:33.80, Kingsley Knispel (Swift Creek) 8
  3. 11:42.17, Jack Koon (Fairview) 7
  4. 11:43.30, Gavin Poucher (Montford) 7
  5. 11:43.88, Matthew Hauser (Montford) 8
  6. 11:52.50, Emari Thomas (Fairview) 6
  7. 11:56.13, Thoren Knispel (Swift Creek) 8
  8. 11:58.20, Trent Parsons (Montford) 7
  9. 12:00.66, Jackson Beener (Montford) 8
  10. 12:12.15, Antonio Clements ( Cobb) 6

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Sunday, September 26, 2021

At the Fairgrounds Abbey Griffin and Asa Swope take prizes in the Falcon Invitational

The North Florida Fairgrounds in Tallahassee was an unfamiliar site for a Leon County middle school cross-country meet, but the winners were familiar enough. There, on Thursday, 23 September 2021, at the fourth annual Falcon Invitational, Deerlake eighth-grader Abbey Griffin won the girls' 3K for the second time in the 2021 season, running 12:07. Asa Swope picked up his fourth win in the boys' 3K, where the Swift Creek eighth-grader ran 11:05. The Deerlake girls scored 21 points for their fifth straight win of 2021, and the Montford boys won for the third week in a row, putting up 47 points.

Abbey Griffin
Abbey Griffin

In 2018, Fairview Middle School hosted the first Falcon Invitational at Phipps Park. The meet moved to the FSU Rec SportsPlex in 2020. The 2021 Invitational moved again, this time to a venue almost on the doorstep of Fairview--the North Florida Fairgrounds. It was a new location for Leon County Schools' middle school cross-country, and a new location for Tallahassee distance running in general. Two decades earlier the Tallahassee Turkey Trot had finished at the Fairgrounds, but no race had ever been run entirely on the property. At the fourth annual Falcon Invitational, the Fairgrounds was the scene of two races.


The first was the girls' 3K. The starting gun fired at 6:00 PM. After the first kilometer, Deerlake eighth-grader London Mellen led the race, followed by Montford seventh-grader Annabelle Wiktorski. Also wearing Deerlake green, sixth-grader Chloe Molen and eighth-grader Abbey Griffin were a few steps further back. Of the first four races of the season, Molen, Mellen, Griffin, and Wiktorski had each won one. At the Fairgrounds one of them could break that tie.

London Mellen
London Mellen

The leaders lost Molen during the second kilometer. Mellen still led with 500 meters to go, but Griffin had passed Wiktorski. Griffin grabbed the lead during the final 200 meters and charged for home, getting there first with a 12:07. Mellen was second in 12:11 and Wiktorski third in 12:12. Andi Vilardo, a Montford seventh-grader, placed fourth in 12:27.


The next three places belonged to Deerlake Bucks. Eighth-grader Kyra Swart was fifth in 12:41, Molen was sixth in 12:43, and sixth-grader Honesty Daniel was seventh in 12:46. Their fifth runner across the finish line, the Deerlake girls had 21 points and first place in a field of eight teams. It was the fifth win of the season for the girls in green.

Led by Wiktorski, Montford placed second in the teams standings with 39 points. Raa scored 99 points, taking third. Raa's top runner was eighth-grader Kennedy Bell, twelfth in 13:55.


2021 Falcon Invitational Girls' Team Scores
  1. Deerlake, 21
  2. Montford, 39
  3. Raa, 99
  4. Cobb, 113
  5. Swift Creek, 121
  6. Fairview, 147
  7. Nims, 228
  8. Griffin, 232
  9. Fort Braden, NTS
    Woodville, NTS

Top Ten, 2021 Falcon Invitational Girls' 3K
  1. 12:06.81, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake) 8
  2. 12:10.88, London Mellen (Deerlake) 8
  3. 12:11.34, Annabelle Wiktorski (Montford) 7
  4. 12:26.32, Andi Vilardo (Montford) 7
  5. 12:40.39, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 8
  6. 12:42.60, Chloe Molen (Deerlake) 6
  7. 12:45.71, Honesty Daniel (Deerlake) 6
  8. 12:49.43, Savannah Stanley (Montford) 7
  9. 12:55.58, Madeline Morris (Deerlake) 8
  10. 13:02.74, Haley Heitmeyer (Montford) 7

The boys got their turn to race on the Fairgrounds at 6:30 PM. Swift Creek eighth-grader Asa Swope and Jonathan Kiros, a Deerlake seventh-grader, had split the first four races of the season, each winning two. At the Falcon Invitational, the fifth meet of 2021, they were sharing the lead after the first kilometer of the boys' 3K. By the two-kilometer mark, Swope had opened a gap. During the third kilometer the gap only grew wider, as Swope went on to win in 11:05. Fairview seventh-grader Jack Koon moved into third during that final kilometer and had started to close on Kiros, but the Deerlake seventh-grader held on to finish runner-up in 11:30. Koon was third in 11:31. Kingsley Knispel, a Swift Creek eighth-grader, placed fourth in 11:32.

Asa Swope
Asa Swope

Montford seventh-grader Gavin Poucher was fifth in 11:34. For perhaps the first time ever in a Leon County Schools middle school cross-country meet, ten schools had full teams in the boys' race. Led by Poucher's performance, Montford placed first among those ten teams, scoring 47 points. The other Mustang scorers were eighth-grader Matthew Hauser (8th, 11:44), seventh-grader Trent Parsons (10th, 11:58), and eighth-graders Jackson Beener (11th, 12:00) and Edward Bass (13th, 12:15).


Behind Swope and Knispel, Swift Creek was second with 59 points. Kiros and the Deerlake Bucks were a close third with 62. Scoring 78 points, Koon and host school Fairview placed fourth.

Jonathan Kiros
Jonathan Kiros

Leon County Schools middle school cross-country returns to the Florida State University Rec Sportplex on Friday evening, 1 October 2021, for the penultimate meet of the season. The League championship follows on Thursday, 7 October 2021, at Apalachee Regional Park.

2021 Falcon Invitational Boys' Team Scores
  1. Montford, 47
  2. Swift Creek, 59
  3. Deerlake, 62
  4. Fairview, 78
  5. Cobb, 144
  6. Raa, 164
  7. Griffin, 218
  8. Woodville, 253
  9. Fort Braden, 255
  10. Nims, 261

Top Ten, 2021 Falcon Invitational Boys' 3K
  1. 11:04.51, Asa Swope (Swift Creek) 8
  2. 11:29.11, Jonathan Kiros (Deerlake) 7
  3. 11:30.64, Jack Koon (Fairview) 7
  4. 11:31.74, Kingsley Knispel (Swift Creek) 8
  5. 11:33.92, Gavin Poucher (Montford) 7
  6. 11:40.33, Antonio Clements (Cobb) 6
  7. 11:42.35, Thoren Knispel (Swift Creek) 8
  8. 11:43.26, Matthew Hauser (Montford) 8
  9. 11:55.82, Emari Thomas (Fairview) 6
  10. 11:57.72, Trent Parsons (Montford) 7

Falcon Invitational Champions
2018 - 2021
Girls
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2018Swift Creek, 3411:27.82, Maya Tang (Deerlake) 8
26 September 2019Swift Creek, 4412:30.55, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 6
23 October 2020Montford, 3012:29.07, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake) 7
23 September 2021Deerlake, 2112:06.81, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake) 8
Boys
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2018Deerlake, 359:49.60, Wyatt Townsend (Deerlake) 8
26 September 2019Fairview, 3010:10.03, Patrick Koon (Fairview) 8
23 October 2020Deerlake, 6311:21.44, Neal Porter (Montford) 8
23 September 2021Montford, 4711:04.51, Asa Swope (Swift Creek) 8
The Falcon Invitational was in Phipps Park in 2018 and 2019, at the
FSU Rec SportsPlex in 2020, and at the North Florida Fairgrounds in 2021.


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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Abbey Griffin and Asa Swope race like thoroughbreds at the Mustang Stampede

Abbey Griffin placed second in the girls' 3K at the 2020 Mustang Stampede Middle School Cross-Country Meet. Asa Swope finished fourth in the boys' 3K at the same meet. Both Griffin and Swope were back at Montford Middle School on Tuesday, 7 September 2021 for the ninth annual Mustand Stampede, the third meet of Leon County Schools' middle school cross-country season. Griffin, now an eighth-grader at Deerlake, won the girls' race this time around, running 11:55. Swope ran 11:02 to take first in the boys' event. The Deerlake girls successfully defended their team title, scoring a mathematically unbeatable 22 points. Racing on their home course, the Montford boys captured their first team win of 2021, putting up 45 points.

Abbey Griffin
Abbey Griffin

The humidity was high but cloudy skies had kept the temperature down when the girls' 3K started at 6:00 PM. After a kilometer of racing, London Mellen had the lead, closely followed by Kyra Swart, both Deerlake eighth-graders. Five days earlier, Mellen had won the girls' 3K at the Fort Braden Run, the second meet of the season. Swart had won the Mustang Stampede in 2021. Abbey Griffin was a few steps behind the two leaders when the race turned into the woods.


Coming out of the woods a kilometer later, Mellen was still leading and Griffin had moved into second. Swart had fallen back, replaced by two Montford seventh-graders--Annabelle Wiktorski and Andi Vilardo.


Griffin broke away on the homestretch. She looked back over her shoulder as she charged for the finish line, then looked again, but she made it there first in 11:55. Behind Griffin, Wiktorski was challenging Mellen for the runner-up spot. Wiktorski had the better kick that day and finished second in 11:56, while Mellen was third in 11:57. Vilardo finished fourth in 12:04.

Deerlake Girls
Deerlake Girls

The next three finishers were all Deerlake Bucks--sixth-grader Chloe Molen was fifth in 12:31, seventh-grader Kaia Ables was sixth in 12:35, and sixth-grader Honesty Daniel was seventh in 12:37. Once Daniel was safely home, the Bucks had 22 points and the first place in the eight-team field.


Led by Wiktorski, Montford was second with 40 points. Swift Creek placed third with 102 points; their top runner was eighth-grader Emily Bullough, fourteenth in 14:02.


2021 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Girls
  1. Deerlake, 22
  2. Montford, 40
  3. Swift Creek, 102
  4. Raa, 112
  5. Cobb, 136
  6. Fairview, 137
  7. Nims, 202
  8. Griffin, 238
  9. Woodville, NTS
    Fort Braden, NTS

Top 10 Girls, 2021 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 11:54.02, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake ) 8
  2. 11:55.64, Annabelle Wiktorski (Montford ) 7
  3. 11:56.76, London Mellen (Deerlake ) 8
  4. 12:03.05, Andi Vilardo (Montford ) 7
  5. 12:30.98, Chloe Molen (Deerlake ) 6
  6. 12:34.85, Kaia Ables (Deerlake ) 7
  7. 12:36.44, Honesty Daniel (Deerlake ) 6
  8. 12:38.91, Savannah Stanley (Montford ) 7
  9. 12:42.57, Madeline Morris (Deerlake ) 8
  10. 12:53.96, Haley Heitmeyer (Montford ) 7



Gavin Poucher, a Montford seventh-grader, was leading the boys' 3K at the end of the first kilometer. During the second kilometer, though, Asa Swope and Jonathan Kiros took over. Swope, a Swift Creek eighth-grader, and Kiros, a Deerlake seventh-grader, had tangled in the two earlier meets of the season, the ARPXC Invitational and the Fort Braden Run. Kiros had won their first match and Swope the second. At the Mustang Stampede, Swope made it two out of three, running away from Kiros late in the third kilometer to take first in 11:02. Kiros finished runner-up in 11:10. In a battle to the finish line, Nims seventh-grader Celestine Rwamptie edged Fairview seventh-grader Jack Koon for third, 11:12 to 11:13.

Jonathan Kiros, Asa Swope
Jonathan Kiros and Asa Swope

Montford's Poucher placed fifth in 11:20. He was only the first Mustang in the top ten--seventh-grader Trent Parsons was sixth in 11:35 and eighth-grader Edward Bass was tenth in 11:55, both wearing Montford maroon. Montford's remaining scorers were seventh-grader Parker Smith (11th, 12:03) and eighth-grader Matthew Hauser (13th, 12:07), giving the Mustangs 45 points and the boys' team title.


Swope and Swift Creek placed second with 69 points. Deerlake, led by Kiros, took third with 69 points. The Deerlake boys had won the first meet of the season and Swift Creek the second, but the third meet belonged to the Mustangs.

Montford Boys
Montford Boys

The fourth meet on the schedule of Leon County Schools' 2021 middle school cross-country season is the Everhart Invitational at Gretchen Everhart School on Wednesday morning, 15 September 2021. The season coninues with the Falcon Invitational at the North Florida Fairgrounds on 23 September 2021, the Mabry Invitational at the FSU Rec Sportsplex on 1 October 2021, and the LCS League Championship Meet at Apalachee Regional Park on 7 October 2021.


2021 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Boys
  1. Montford, 45
  2. Swift Creek, 64
  3. Deerlake, 69
  4. Fairview, 77
  5. Cobb, 162
  6. Raa, 186
  7. Nims, 196
  8. Fort Braden, 206
  9. Woodville, 232
  10. Griffin, NTS

Top 10 Boys, 2021 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 11:01.06, Asa Swope (Swift Creek ) 8
  2. 11:09.12, Jonathan Kiros (Deerlake ) 7
  3. 11:11.30, Celestine Rwamptie (Nims ) 7
  4. 11:12.21, Jack Koon (Fairview ) 7
  5. 11:19.31, Gavin Poucher (Montford ) 7
  6. 11:34.06, Trent Parsons (Montford ) 7
  7. 11:34.28, Thoren Knispel (Swift Creek ) 8
  8. 11:41.73, Kingsley Knispel (Swift Creek ) 8
  9. 11:48.83, Emari Thomas (Fairview ) 6
  10. 11:54.24, Edward Bass (Montford ) 8

Mustang Cross-Country Stampede Champions
2013 - 2021
Girls
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Swift Creek, 37 points13:42, Saige Kemeny (Montford) 7
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 3412:46, Lawton Campbell (Deerlake) 8
30 September 2015Swift Creek, 4312:25, Emily Molen (Deerlake) 8
28 September 2016Montford, 4313:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 6
28 September 2017Swift Creek, 2013:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 7
20 September 2018Montford, 4011:45, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 4013:03, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 6
14 October 2020Deerlake, 1812:50, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 7
7 September 2021Deerlake, 2211:55, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake ) 8
Boys
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Montford, 56 points11:56, Jacob Dodson (Raa) 8
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 6612:14, Tavaris King (Griffin) 8
30 September 2015Deerlake, 4311:56, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2016Swift Creek, 3911:28, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2017Deerlake, 4211:15, Ben Kirbo (Montford) 8
20 September 2018Deerlake, 349:43, Wyatt Townsend (Deerlake) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 3610:54, Patrick Koon (Fairview) 8
14 October 2020Deerlake, 4311:31, Danny Mauldin (Deerlake) 8
7 September 2021Montford, 4511:02, Asa Swope (Swift Creek ) 8
From 2013 to 2017, the race distance at the Mustang Stampede was two miles. In
2018 the distance was changed to three kilometers.


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Saturday, September 4, 2021

London Mellen and Deerlake, Asa Swope and Swift Creek lead the fray at Fort Braden

Outrunning a pair of charging Montford harriers, Deerlake eighth-grader London Mellen won the girls' 3K at the Fort Braden Run Middle School Cross-Country Meet on Thursday evening, 2 September 2021. Mellen's 12:54 led the Bucks to a 25-point score and the team title. Asa Swope, a Swift Creek eighth-grader, won the boys' 3K in 11:29, where the Swift Creek boys took first with 25 points.

London Mellen
Annabelle Wiktorski and Andi Vilardo chase London Mellen

Hosted by Fort Braden School at Fort Braden Park in Fort Braden, Florida, the Fort Braden Run had been an annual fixture on Leon County Schools' middle school cross-country schedule since 2010. In 2020, the meet was canceled due to COVID-19. Because of the cancellation, only a few eighth-graders at the 2021 meet had ever raced on the course before. In fact, of the first ten finishers in the girls' 3K, only one had experience racing at Fort Braden. That one was London Mellen.


The girls' 3K started just before 6:00 PM. After a few hundred meters in Fort Braden Park, the course took the athletes across a narrow footbridge to Fort Braden School for a circuit of the schoolyard. London Mellon and fellow Deerlake athlete Chloe Molen, a sixth-grader, led the field across the bridge. Another Deerlake sixth-grader, Honesty Daniel, was a few steps behind, followed by two Montford seventh-graders--Annabelle Wiktorski and Andi Vilardo. Druing the lap around the school, Mellen broke away from everyone except for Wiktorski and Vilardo. The two Montford Mustangs clung to Mellen around the school, back across the bridge to the park, and onto the homestretch. But Mellen beat them both to the finish line, running 12:54. Wiktorski was secon in 12:55 and Vilardo third in 12:56.

Kaia Ables
Kaia Ables and Chloe Molen

The next three spots belonged to Deerlake, with Buck seventh-grader Kaia Ables fourth in 13:28, sixth-grader Chloe Molen fifth in 13:34, and sixth-grader Honesty Daniel sixth in 13:40. When Deerlake eighth-grader Madeline Morris crossed the finish line ninth in 14:30, the Bucks had 25 points and first place. For the Deerlake girls, it was the third team win in the history of the Fort Braden Run.


Wiktorski and the Montford Mustangs were second with 37 points. Swift Creek was third in the eight-team field with 105 points. Swift Creek's Eighth-grader Emily Bullough was the first runner home for Swift Creek, placing twelfth in 15:07.


2021 Fort Braden Run Team Standings, Girls
  1. Deerlake, 25
  2. Montford, 37
  3. Swift Creek, 105
  4. Raa, 113
  5. Cobb, 131
  6. Fairview, 149
  7. Nims, 192
  8. Griffin, 243
  9. Fort Braden, NTS
    Woodville, NTS

Top Ten Girls, 2021 Fort Braden Run
  1. 12:53.61, London Mellen (Deerlake) 8
  2. 12:54.64, Annabelle Wiktorski (Montford) 7
  3. 12:55.84, Andi Vilardo (Montford) 7
  4. 13:27.76, Kaia Ables (Deerlake) 7
  5. 13:33.52, Chloe Molen (Deerlake) 6
  6. 13:39.34, Honesty Daniel (Deerlake) 6
  7. 13:53.46, Haley Heitmeyer (Montford) 7
  8. 14:04.06, Savannah Stanley (Montford) 7
  9. 14:29.87, Madeline Morris (Deerlake) 8
  10. 14:50.33, Chloe Houge (Deerlake) 7

Out fast early on his home course, Fort Braden eighth-grader Hunter Lovett led the boys' 3K across the bridge from the park to the school. Right behind him, though, were eighth-grader Asa Swope of Swift Creek and Deerlake seventh-grader Jonathan Kiros. Racing around the school, Swope and Kiros overtook the fading Lovett. Kiros led. Then Swope. Then Kiros again. Kiros had beaten Swope a week earlier, winning the boys' 3K at the ARPXC Invitational, but this time the Deerlake Buck couldn't shake Swope. Swope took over after crossing the bridge back into the park, and ran away from Kiros to take first in 11:29--his first LCS cross-country win. Kiros was second in 11:35. Jack Koon, a Fairview seventh-grader, placed third in 12:24.

Asa Swope
Jonathan Kiros and Asa Swope

Swift Creek's Thoren Knispel, an eighth-grader, was fourth in 12:28. The Wolves had one more top-ten finisher--Swift Creek eighth-grader was seventh in 12:37. The two remaining scorers for the Wolves seventh-graders Cooper Rideout (23rd, 13:35) and Zakaria Hemenway (26th, 13:40). That gave Swift Creek a narrow 60 to 62 victory over runner-up Deerlake. Montford placed third with 65 points, led by seventh-grader Gavin Poucher (9th, 12:41). Fairview was also in the hunt, fourth with 70 points.


The Fort Braden Run was the second meet on Leon County Schools' 2021 middle school cross-country schedule. The season continues on 7 September 2021 with the Mustang Stampede at Montford Middle School, the Everhart Invitational at Gretchen Everhart School on 15 September 2021, the Falcon Invitational at the North Florida Fairgrounds on 23 September 2021, the Mabry Invitational at the FSU Rec Sportsplex on 1 October 2021, and the LCS League Championship Meet at Apalachee Regional Park on 7 October 2021.


2021 Fort Braden Run Team Standings, Boys
  1. Swift Creek, 60
  2. Deerlake, 62
  3. Montford, 65
  4. Fairview, 70
  5. Cobb, 158
  6. Raa, 175
  7. Fort Braden, 193
  8. Nims, 216
  9. Griffin, 255
  10. Woodville, NTS

Top Ten Boys, 2021 Fort Braden Run
  1. 11:28.20, Asa Swope (Swift Creek) 8
  2. 11:34.21, Jonathan Kiros (Deerlake) 7
  3. 12:23.12, Jack Koon (Fairview) 7
  4. 12:27.77, Thoren Knispel (Swift Creek) 8
  5. 12:29.01, Antonio Clements (Cobb) 6
  6. 12:34.82, Celestine Rwamptie (Nims) 7
  7. 12:36.78, Kingsley Knispel (Swift Creek) 8
  8. 12:38.63, Thomas Emari (Fairview) 8
  9. 12:40.71, Gavin Poucher (Montford) 7
  10. 12:46.88, Trent Parsons (Montford) 7

Fort Braden Cross-Country Meet Champions, 2010 - 2021
DateBoysGirls
22 September 201012:26, Sukhi Khosla (Raa) 815:01, Rebecca Clendinen (Raa) 8
14 September 201112:16, Evan Francis (Raa) 814:45, Zoe Sheldon (Swift Creek) 7
12 September 201212:40, Matthew Cashin (Raa) 813:58, Audrey Dogan (Raa) 8
4 September 201312:15, Jacob Dodson (Raa) 813:51, Saige Kemeny (Montford) 7
3 September 201413:00, Bryant McKnight (Montford) 813:13, Lawton Campbell (Deerlake) 8
9 September 201513:08, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 713:26, Alyson Churchill (Swift Creek) 8
14 September 201611:50, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 814:05, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 6
14 September 201711:51, Filippo Reina (Deerlake) 813:48, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 7
6 September 201811:07, Wyatt Townsend (Deerlake ) 812:51, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 8
5 September 201910:27, Patrick Koon (Fairview) 812:58, Skye Williams (Montford) 8
2 September 202111:29, Asa Swope (Swift Creek) 812:54, London Mellen (Deerlake) 8


Fort Braden Cross-Country Meet Team Titles, 2010 - 2021
DateBoysGirls
22 September 2010Raa (15 points)Raa (33 points)
14 September 2011Montford (55 points)Swift Creek (47 points)
12 September 2012Swift Creek (54 points)Montford (48 points)
4 September 2013Montford (38 points)Swift Creek (44 points)
3 September 2014Swift Creek (60 points)Swift Creek (36 points)
9 September 2015Deerlake (44 points)Swift Creek (38 points)
14 September 2016Swift Creek (23 points)Deerlake (42 points)
14 September 2017Deerlake (41 points)Swift Creek (22 points)
6 September 2018Deerlake (39 points)Swift Creek (35 points)
5 September 2019Deerlake (32 points)Montford (46 points)
2 September 2021Swift Creek (60 points)Deerlake (25 points)


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