The Lady Scots Cross Country Team competed at the Flower Mound Invitational on Saturday, October 5th at Lake Park in Lewisville. The Varsity placed 5th out of 12 teams with 92 points. Flower Mound won the meet with 59 points. Junior Cameron Fawcett led the team by placing 3rd out of 92 runners with a time of 18:21.90. Sophomore Alli Grace Ott placed 8th with a time of 18:50.11 – a new personal record. Freshmen Grace Hathaway (19:37.81), Charlotte Hudson (19:38.32), and Ella Madden (20:17.77) placed 21st, 22nd, and 41st respectively. Hathaway and Madden both set new personal records. The other team members were junior Izzy Blaylock, senior captain Gracyn Applegate (season best), sophomore Hadley Bornemann (set a new personal record), and juniors Hollis Vaughan and Adelaide Aiken who both had season bests.

In the JV Division, the team placed 5th out of 11 teams with 131 points. Coppell won with 28 points. There were 146 runners in this division. Senior captain Annemarie Whalen was the top runner for the Lady Scots as she placed 16th with a season best of 22:11.38. Sophomore Avery Turner placed 27th and set a new personal record of 22:32.10. Sophomore Sterling Willis placed 28th with a season best of 22:33.28. The other top four team members were freshman Avery Owens, senior Caroline Dugan, sophomore Scarlett Randall, and freshman Chloe Haag. All four of these runners set new personal records.

The Lady Scots set 27 new personal records and 11 season bests. The athletes not listed above who set a new personal record were Windsor Rhodes, Finley Arnold, Meryl Katz, Ava Murphy, Lauren Courtney, Allison Cannon, Ellie Jones, Brennan Jordan, Flora Solymosi, Dharma Kikkeri, Alexandra Jack, Mia O'Neil, Brantley Diehl, Isabella Reynolds, Virginia Turner, Francie Pierce, and Jordan Ott. The athletes not listed above who set a new season best were Elle Muenker, Emily Hea, Hannah Blevins, Olivia Cormier, Caroline Lett, and Jax Whiteman. It was definitely a great day to be a Lady Scot!

This was the last regular season meet of the season. The District 11-5A Meet will be on Thursday, October 17th at Myers Park in McKinney. The Varsity race will begin at 8:30 a.m., followed by the JV at 10:30 a.m.

Go Scots!