Oak Park had an amazing showing in Raymore Peculiar this last weekend. There were many personal records (PR) and season records (SR) on a fast course for both the men's and women's teams! It seems that the Northmen continue to push forward in their success with a laser focus.  If not now, it won't be long before "Oak Park" is THE team known across the state!

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 WOMEN'S RESULTS

The women's varsity finished a respective 14^th place out of 17 teams, here are the individual highlights:
'25 Alaina Thomas leading the way with a new PR of 22:04.5 and a top 40 finish!
'24 Reece Lesch ran a huge PR as well, almost 40 seconds faster than she ran last week with a time of 23:05!
'23 Alexis Platz ran amazing, running over 70 seconds faster than last week for a PR of 23:36!
'22 DeLaney Jones ran a SR of 24:11.7. Notable for being the team blue blood and did amazing leading these girls into a competitive race!
'24 Kylee Gray also ran a SR of 25:24.9!
On the girls C team '25 Tessa Minter lead them with a PR of 29:53.9!
'22 Hope Klamm finished with a strong ending sprint to run a SR of 32:06.4!
'25 Julianna Verhulst ran strong for her first ever 5K!

Great job to all the girls who raced on Saturday!

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 MEN'S RESULTS

The Men's varsity squeezed into a crowded start line with 34 other teams and 15 in their division, they certainly left everything out on the course finishing 2^nd place as a team, the highest they have placed in the meet's history! The Men's varsity also had a team average of 17:26 edging over 3^rd place by just one point.
'22 Gabriel Pingleton ran a SR of 16:43 for a 6^th place finish, but top 5 runner in school history under '13 Liban Samatar, '08 Will Hansen and, '09 Matt Stull.
'22 Hudson Allen finished 2^nd for the team and earned a medal at 15^th place, with a time of 17:13.2.
'22 Tyler Gray ran a SR of 17:24.3 and earning a medal at 18^th place.
'22 Ahmed Thabit ran a 35 second PR at 17:33.8 breaking the 18 minute barrier for the first time earning his first varsity medal.
'24 Ali Habila had a solid race with a time of 18:20.1.
'22 James Greener was the 6^th guy for the team had a perfect race running a PR of 19:22.9.

The JV guys were impressive, they all packed together close to the front for the first mile unfortunately '24 Caden Willmann dropped out of the race early due to a minor injury.
'22 Caleb Winkler ran a PR of 19:42 and now has a fighting chance for a varsity spot by the end of the season.
'23 Aiden Kendrick ran a SR of 19:46.9 to also add him to the talk of a varsity spot by districts.
'22 Abelrahaman Adam Had an amazing first 5k at 20:23.3. '
23 Tory Lanham gained confidence with his PR of 22:10.2.
 
Overall, everyone had an amazing day almost half the team came away with PR's and the men's team brought home a second-place trophy with 4 varsity medals.

Way to represent Oak Park!

Your Northmen cross country team will be running in Platte city at the Platte County invitational this Thursday September 16^th.