Cross Country
Cross Country Recap (2020-21 school year)
The 2020-21 cross country season at Days Creek was unlike any other. Delayed by months because of Covid-19, athletes had the added challenge of required masks while running. Our entire roster was made up of two-sport athletes, meaning runners showed up for jogs having just complete football practice. Our meets were often the mornings after football games.
Throughout it all, the Wolves produced one of the best boys seasons in school history, nearly qualifying for the state championships as a team and sending senior Malachi Gibson as an individual. Gibson joined the short list of Wolves to make it to state, finishing 30th out of 111 runners in a personal best time of 18:40 over the 5,000-meter course.
Days Creek hosted its first cross country meet since the 1970s and our boys won against North Douglas and Oakland. We blazed a trail on campus to make the meet possible, and we have plans to improve it using an OSAA grant we were awarded this year.
All our runners -- Gibson, Neston Berlingeri, Zane DeGroot, Cauy Jackson and Rhyse and Jackson Williams -- were competitors and embraced challenges even if they didn't look like prototypical distance runners. And all were seniors, so the 2021-22 season will be a completely new chapter for the Wolves. I can't wait.
Rob McCallum
Days Creek Charter School
The 2020-21 cross country season at Days Creek was unlike any other. Delayed by months because of Covid-19, athletes had the added challenge of required masks while running. Our entire roster was made up of two-sport athletes, meaning runners showed up for jogs having just complete football practice. Our meets were often the mornings after football games.
Throughout it all, the Wolves produced one of the best boys seasons in school history, nearly qualifying for the state championships as a team and sending senior Malachi Gibson as an individual. Gibson joined the short list of Wolves to make it to state, finishing 30th out of 111 runners in a personal best time of 18:40 over the 5,000-meter course.
Days Creek hosted its first cross country meet since the 1970s and our boys won against North Douglas and Oakland. We blazed a trail on campus to make the meet possible, and we have plans to improve it using an OSAA grant we were awarded this year.
All our runners -- Gibson, Neston Berlingeri, Zane DeGroot, Cauy Jackson and Rhyse and Jackson Williams -- were competitors and embraced challenges even if they didn't look like prototypical distance runners. And all were seniors, so the 2021-22 season will be a completely new chapter for the Wolves. I can't wait.
Rob McCallum
Days Creek Charter School
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