Tag: Cross Country

Katelyn Tuohy wins third straight New York cross country championship

Katelyn Tuohy notched her third consecutive New York Class A state cross country championship.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — After running three miles in low-20-degree weather and at times through snow and slush and on top of icy patches, Katelyn Tuohy said, “I couldn’t really move my legs too well.”

Tell that to the other 467 girls who competed in Saturday’s State Cross-Country Championships at SUNY-Plattsburgh.

The North Rockland senior, running on feet whose toes had turned white “like a dead person’s,” ran nearly 25 seconds faster than the rest of the girls who traversed the roughly three-mile, largely flat course.

Tuohy, one of many Section 1 stars to excel Saturday, clocked 15:36.5 to win the girls Class A state title for a third time.

But, while Tuohy may have made it look easy, it wasn’t.

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“Everyone had the same conditions. It was more of a tough race than tactical,” she said. “It was about who was mentally tougher. Conditions like this put talent out the window.”

Perhaps.

But then Section 1 has a bunch of really tough runners, including in Tuohy’s division.

Five Section 1 runners finished in the top 20 in the 107-runner Class A race.

And North Rockland’s girls joined Pearl River’s Class B girls and North Rockland’s and Scarsdale’s Class A boys in placing high enough to have their team qualify for this coming Saturday’s State Federation Championships (public and private schools of all sizes) at Bowdoin Park.

In Class A, Carmel’s Katie Turk ran 16:50 for eighth place to qualify as an individual for Feds.

“Today I shocked myself,” Turk said, crediting her workouts with her finish.

North Rockland’s Haleigh Morales helped her team finish third overall in Class A with a 16:52.1, 10th-place finish.

Suffern’s Mary Hennelly crossed in 17:13.1 for 17th and fellow Hudson Valley runner Sarah Trainer from Section 9’s FDR (Hyde Park) was 19th in 17:13.7.

Read the rest of the story at The Journal News.

UT News: November 15, 2019

UT News: November 15, 2019

It is finally Friday, and a slow one at that, as the Tennessee Volunteers football team head into a bye weekend before embarking to Columbia, Mo. to face the Missouri Tigers. In the meantime, the Lady Vols basketball team trounced Tennessee State last night, while the men gear up to take on the No. 20-ranked Washington Huskies on Saturday. But Tennessee athletics is more than just the major sports, and the others are the focus of today’s UT News.

Men’s golf team signs two

Tennessee men’s golf coach Brennan Webb announced the signing of two players to the team on Thursday.

Jackson Skeen, a Jonesboro, Tenn. native, is a top-150 ranked player in the 2020 class according to Junior Golf Scoreboard. He had a successful amateur career so far, including the 2018 TSSAA Class AAA Individual Championship as well as All-State honors in 2016 and 2018.

“Jackson (Skeen) has had a very successful career competing at the highest levels of junior golf and we are thrilled to add another Tennessee junior golfer to our roster,” Coach Webb said.

George Saunders comes from across the pond in Southampton, England, arriving in Knoxville after back-to-back top-20 finishes at the English Men’s Amateur. His addition to the program follows a long lineage of Vol golfers who hail from the UK.

“George will bring a wealth of experience to our roster, which will be important as we will lose eight upperclassmen in the next two years,” Coach Webb said. “He has had a tremendous amount of success in amateur golf around the world, as well as college golf the last two years at Midland.”

The two are promising additions to a storied program and will get their chance to contribute next season.

NEXT: Women’s golf also announces two signings

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