[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article is another from our youngest-ever Contributor – 11-year old Isabel Herbruger – who has been submitting stories and photos as part of her effort to earn a Girl Scout badge for journalism, as well as qualify for a 4H photography project. We encourage residents of all ages to submit stories and photos for posting – for consideration, please email yours to editor@b-townblog.com!]
Photos and Story by Isabel Herbruger, age 11
The Highline Pirates Cross Country teams competed against other local schools on Thursday, September 10, 2015 at Evergreen High at the Class Meet Jamboree. There are over thirty runners on the Pirate team this year, including nine freshman and fifteen girls.
Coach Post said, “It is a great turnout this year and we are really excited.”
Cross Country is hard to shoot. The teams run fast on a course that goes all over the place. If you watch a race, plan to see the start, maybe part of the middle, and hopefully the end is not too far from the start so you can watch the finish. Then you go back to the start for the next group of runners!
A lot of the team run all over the course to cheer. One runner from Foster got confused on how to finish. Her coach ran over to help her finish the course the right way.
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Pirates have fun cheering for runners coming in to finish.
The start of one of the races.
Pirate and Evergreen runners.
Pirate runner.
A Kennedy runner.
Pirate Captain Jacob.
Lindbergh runner at finish (he won).
Evergreen runner (he won).
Kennedy and Hazen runners going thru the crowds.
One runner got confused on how to finish the course. Her coach helped.
I do not know the team placings, but they should be available on Seamount Athletics soon.
The next meet is Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Evergreen Campus at 4 p.m. Highline will run against Evergreen and Hazen.
There are more photos on my new Cross Country Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Highline-Pirate-Cross-Country-by-Isabel-428150860723043/timeline/
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Isabel Herbruger
Unofficial Pirate Photographer
and Sports Photojournalist