October 29th - IHSA Sectional Going into the toughest Sectional in the state, the Hornets had no illusions about making it to State as a team. Everyone ran well, though, and some P.R.'s were set. In addition, Abby Petersen qualified for State as an individual. This is the third time she has qualified for State, and the only year she didn't make it there was no State meet because of Covid-19.
Varsity Race - Full Results Abby Petersen - 19:26 (30th Place) Abby ran a season P.R. and qualified for State for the third time. She has qualified for State every year it was possible in her high school career.
Anna Wilcox - 20:44 (83rd Place) Anna was the 13th freshman to finish at the toughest Sectional in the State.
Elena Garcia - 21:10 (97th Place)
Annabella Ramirez - 21:25 (105th Place) Annabella ran a lifetime P.R.!
Yuliya Drabchuk - 21:58 (119th Place)
Tian Schulte - 22:06 (122nd Place) Tian ran a lifetime P.R.!
Charlotte Old - 23:14 (134th Place)
October 22nd - IHSA Regional The Hornets were ranked fifth in the Regional with the top six teams moving on to the Sectional meet at Kaneland. The girls ran outstanding to finish fourth with 108 points ahead of Fenwick's 151 points. Abby Petersen finished in fifth with a time of 20:12 to earn All-Regional honors. No one on the team ran a P.R. because of the difficulty of the KLM course and the hot conditions, but a fourth place finished showed the girls are running great at the right time of the season. Varsity Race - Full Results Abby Petersen - 20:12 (5th Place) Abby ran only two seconds off of her KLM P.R. and earned All-Regional honors for the only time in her high school running career.
Anna Wilcox - 22:04 (21st Place) Anna ran her fastest time at KLM.
Elena Garcia - 22:20 (23rd Place)
Tian Schulte - 22:23 (25th Place) Tian ran her fastest time at KLM and finished in the top five on varsity for the first time this season.
Annabella Ramirez - 23:05 (34th Place) Annabella ran her fastest time at KLM.
Charlotte Old - 24:06 (44th Place)
Andy Esposito - 24:54 (51st Place) Andy ran her fastest time at KLM and ran great given she was a last-minute fill-in who wasn't expecting to run.
October 15th - WSC Gold Meet Going into the Conference race at St. James Farm in Warrenville, the Hornets were ranked fifth out of the six teams in the West Suburban Gold Conference. The varsity put together a great team race, though, on a beautiful, fall Saturday afternoon to finish in the top three.
Varsity Race - Full Results Abby Peterson - 19:28 (4th Place) Abby ran a season P.R. and earned All-Conference honors for the fourth year.
Elena Garcia - 20:58 (16th Place) Elena ran a season P.R. and earned All-Conference honors for the second year in a row.
Anna Wilcox - 21:09 (18th Place) Anna ran the fastest time for a freshman in the conference.
Annabella Ramirez - 21:29 (24th Place) Annabella ran a season P.R.
Yuliya Drabchuck - 22:09 (29th Place)
Charlotte Old - 22:17 (32nd Place)
Tian Schulte - 22:22 (34th Place) Tian ran a lifetime P.R.
The team finished with 89 points to place in 3rd in the conference behind Downers Grove South (34 points) and Leyden (83 points).
Freshman Race - Full Results Tree Koepfle - 23:23 (5th Place) Tree ran a lifetime P.R. and earned a conference ribbon.
Anna Frankel - 24:37 (8th Place) Anna ran a lifetime P.R. and earned a conference ribbon.
Bella Ortiz - 31:20 (21st Place) Bella finished her first three-mile race in high school!
Sophomore Race - Full Results Andy Esposito - 23:08 (8th Place) Andy earned a conference ribbon.
Sam Kantz - 24:32 (19th Place) Sam ran a lifetime P.R.
JV Race - Full Results Noelle Waterman - 26:08 (32nd Place) Noelle ran a lifetime P.R.
Elisa Gonzalez - 31:04 (51st Place)
October 1st - Pat Savage Invite Pat Savage is not a course set up for fast times. While it is flat, the course has a lot of turns and the Pat Savage Invite, that Hinsdale South has been attending since at least 1981, has a lot of teams leading to crowded conditions. After working the girls hard, the week leading up to the meet, Coach Johnson and Coach Miller weren't expecting a lot of P.R.'s. The Hornet girls proved us wrong.
Varsity Race - Full Results Abby Peterson - 19:39 (12th Place) Abby ran a season P.R. and her fastest time at Niles West.
Elena Garcia - 21:27 (55th Place) Elena ran a season P.R.
Annabella Ramirez - 21:33 (58th Place) Annabella ran a season P.R. and her fastest time at Niles West.
Yuliya Drabchuck - 21:49 (68th Place) Yuliya ran a season P.R.
Charlotte Old - 22:00 (76th Place) Charlotte ran a season P.R.
Tian Schulte - 22:30 (87th Place) Tian ran a lifetime P.R.
The team finished in 9th place out of 14 full teams (and 22 teams total).
Freshman/Sophomore Race - Full Results Anna Wilcox - 20:35 (1st Place) Anna a lifetime P.R. and won her first high school race.
Andy Esposito - 22:45 (21st Place) Andy a lifetime P.R. and her fastest time at Niles West.
Tree Koepfle - 24:36 (44th Place) Tree ran a lifetime P.R.
Sam Kantz - 24:43 (47th Place) Sam ran a lifetime P.R. and her fastest time at Niles West.
Anna Frankel - 25:53 (58th Place)
Adrienne Esparza - 27:29 (78th Place)
The team finished in 5th place out of 11 full teams (and 16 teams total).
Elisa Gonzalez - 18:17 (29th Place) Elisa ran a lifetime two-mile P.R.
Bella Ortiz - 18:40 (34th Place) Bella ran her first high school cross country race!
September 17th - Richard Spring Invite The Richard Spring Invite saw some of the best teams in the state competing on the IHSA State Championship course at Detweiller Park in Peoria. While the team wasn't competitive team-wise against much bigger teams, the girls saw almost everyone run personal records for the season with everyone in the freshman/sophomore and open races running lifetime P.R.s.
Varsity Race - Full Results Abby Peterson - 19:56 (137th Place) Abby ran a season P.R.
Anna Wilcox - 21:29 (245th Place) Anna ran a lifetime P.R.
Ava Berg - 21:49 (270th Place) Ava ran a season P.R. and her fastest time at the Richard Spring Invite.
Annabella Ramirez - 22:12 (301st Place) Annabella ran a season P.R. and her fastest time at Detweiler.
Charlotte Old - 22:34 (322nd Place)
Elena Garcia - 22:41 (328th Place) Elena ran a season P.R.
Yuliya Drabchuck - 23:23 (348th Place)
The team finished in 45th place out of 57 full teams (and 76 teams total). Only five 2A teams finished ahead of the Hornets.
Freshman/Sophomore Race - Full Results Andy Esposito - 23:08 (200th Place) Andy a lifetime P.R. and her fastest time at Detweiler.
Tree Koepfle - 25:27 (268th Place) Tree ran a lifetime P.R.
Sam Kantz - 25:52 (273rd Place) Sam ran a lifetime P.R.
Anna Frankel - 25:54 (274th Place) Anna ran a lifetime P.R.
Open Race - Full Results Tian Schulte - 23:12 (130th Place) Tian ran a lifetime P.R.
Adrienne Esparza - 25:40 (247th Place) Adrienne ran a lifetime P.R.
Noelle Waterman - 26:45 (295th Place) Noelle ran a lifetime P.R.
MJ Hashim - 31:53 (379th Place) MJ ran a lifetime P.R.
Elisa Gonzalez - 32:00 (381st Place) Elisa ran a lifetime P.R.
September 10th, 2022 - Reavis Running Rams Invite For the first time since 2017, the Hornets came away with a team award at a regular-season invitational. The varsity team hadn't won an invitational award since the 2010 season, however, which was the last time the team won any team award at the Reavis Running Rams Invitational. There were also some outstanding individual performances on a very hot Saturday morning in Burbank.
Varsity Race - Full Results Abby Peterson - 20:57 (7th Place) Abby earned a medal and beat her previous best time at Reavis by nearly almost 40 seconds.
Yuliya Drabchuck - 22:33 (27th Place) Yuliya earned a medal and ran a season P.R.
Charlotte Old - 23:01 (33rd Place)
Ava Berg - 23:06 (35th Place) Ava beat her previous best time at Reavis by nearly 2 minutes.
Annabella Ramirez - 23:06 (36th Place) Annabella beat her previous best time at Reavis by nearly 9 minutes.
Elena Garcia - 23:34 (45th Place) Elena ran a season P.R.
Tian Schulte - 24:13 (59th Place) Tian ran a season P.R.
The team finished in third place out of 15 full teams (and 31 teams total) to earn their first varsity invitational plaque since 2010.
Freshman/Sophomore Race - Full Results Anna Wilcox - 22:29 (9th Place) Anna earned a medal and ran a season P.R.
Andy Esposito - 24:19 (29th Place) Andy earned a medal and ran a lifetime P.R.
Adrienne Esparza - 26:46 (65th Place) Adrienne completed her first official 3-mile race!
Tree Koepfle - 26:53 (114th Place) Tree ran a season P.R.
Sam Kantz - 26:54 (68th Place)
The team finished 8th out of 17 full teams and 31 total teams.
Open Race - Full Results Noelle Waterman - 29:00 (71st Place) Noelle completed her first official three-mile race!
Aly Motherway - 32:53 (117th Place)
Zoe Funk - 33:05 (122nd Place)
MJ Hashim - 33:05 (132nd Place)
MJ completed her first official three-mile race!
Elisa Gonzalez - 36:04 (153rd Place) Elisa completed her first official three-mile race!
September 3rd, 2022 - Hornet/Red Devil Invite Team results aren't necessarily our focus at Hornet/Red Devil since we are one of the only 2A teams at the meet, but it was great to see so many great individual performances on Saturday. Below is a recap of the different races.