CLEMMONS — The North Carolina High School Athletic Association state
championships in cross-country for both men and women will be held at
Tanglewood Park in Clemmons on Saturday.
Top runners from across the state qualified from regional competition last
week to the state finals in each classification. The eight cross-country
championships include one in each of the NCHSAA¹s four classifications for
men and women. The first race of the day will be the 1-A men¹s championship
at 10 am, followed by the 2-A men, 1-A women and 2-A women at thirty-minute
intervals. After a break, the program will gear back up at 2 pm with the 3-A
men, followed by 4-A men, 3-A women and 4-A women.
Broughton is the two-time defending men¹s 4-A champion while East Chapel
Hill was the 2008 women’s team titlist, breaking a string of three straight
crowns won by its cross-town rival Chapel Hill, which is now in the 3-A
ranks.
In the 3-A classification, T.C. Roberson has won the last five women¹s state
championships while Mooresville has three in a row among the men, but
realignment has put them in different classifications for this year.
Charles D. Owen has won four of the last five 2-A men¹s titles while
Hayesville is the defending men¹s 1-A team champ, and both won their
respective regionals last week. On the women¹s side, Cardinal Gibbons has
won the last four 2-A crowns in succession but has moved up to 3-A in the
new alignment, while last year Kernersville Bishop McGuinness captured the
1-A, winning a tiebreaker with Hayesville on the finish of the sixth runner
after both finished with 84 points.
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