{"id":18603,"date":"2025-09-16T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=18603"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:14:04","slug":"effingham-runners-compete-at-parkside-c-c-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/cross-country\/18603-effingham-runners-compete-at-parkside-c-c-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Effingham Runners Compete at Parkside C.C. Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Effingham Junior High School competed in the Parkside Cross Country Invitational Saturday at Maxwell Park in Normal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was hot, tough and full of huge competition but we got it done,&#8221; said EJHS Coach Nancy Ervin. &#8220;For many, it was their first big meet and shaking off those nerves was a win in itself. Congrats to our personal records on this course with this huge crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jared Klingler finished seventh out of 387 runners in the boys two mile run. He finished with a time of 11:06.90. Other Mustangs competing were Avery Arnold 87th in 14:06.07, Trenton Partlow 143rd in 12:52.32, Maddux Wyckoff 172nd in 13:07.12, Caydon Jolly 180th in 13:10.08, Nicolas Young 194th in 13:24.26, Carson Mihlbachler 200th in 13:17.50 and Eli Gordon 210th in 13:19.64.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the meet was St. Joseph&#8217;s Camden Fisher with a time of 10:43.02.<\/p>\n<p>In the two mile varsity girls meet, Kynlie Rohr finished 73rd in 13:43.44 out of 361 runners. Baylee Bierman was 126th in 14:09.83, Arya Smith 175th in 14:41.29, Addisyn Schackmann 191st in 14:53.85, Kennedy Jones 236th in 15:19.22, Izzy Schwerman 299th in 16:18.98 and Juilian Hess 313th in 16:40.76.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys two mile open with 697 runners, Myles Ervin finished 487th in 18:11.79, Cole Althoff 563rd in 19:33.34, Colin Wendling 625th in 20:47.01 and Christopher Repking 655th in 22:57.58.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls two mile open with 572 runners, Lindsey Lovett finished 89th in 15:44.14, Stella Johnson 129th in 16:18.60, Parker Massey 204th in 17:14.23, Hadley Westjohn 213th in 17:20.26, Olivia Wiedman 217th in 17:23.91, Katie Percival 260th in 17:59.95, Aubrey Aaron 263rd in 18:00.77, Isley Schwerman 321st in 18:49.28, Quincy Bloemker 341st in 19:08.32 and Lorelei Correll 401st in 20:10.89.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our personal records on this course and those were by Baylee Bierman, Quincy Bloemker, Lindsey Lovett, Olivia Wiedman, Eli Gordon and Avery Arnold,&#8221; said Coach Ervin. &#8220;Also congrats to our runners of the meet, Arnold, Gordon, Bloemker and Bierman.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effingham Junior High School competed in the Parkside Cross Country Invitational Saturday at Maxwell Park in Normal. &#8220;It was hot, tough and full of huge competition but we got it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cross-country"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Effingham Runners Compete at Parkside C.C. 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