Tipp Cross Country DOMIN8s at Miami County Championships

Year after year Tippecanoe’s cross country program continues to grow in numbers and improve on their success from the year before. Just ten years before Tipp struggled to even field a varsity team. Now the high school girls’ team has 24 runners and the boys 14 with similar numbers in the junior high. Not only is Tipp now able to field a varsity team, but they are now able to proclaim themselves as Miami County’s top cross country program. Both the high school and junior high boys won their races on Saturday, September 27th; the high school girls placed second, and the junior high girls placed third out of the nine county teams. By adding up their four places Tipp scored only seven points, four fewer than Troy (11) and six fewer than Covington (13). A majority of the runners ran much faster than when they ran the course earlier in the year at the Bob Schul Invitaitonal.
The high school girls’ team ran their best collective team race of the season, finishing 2nd overall with 66 team points, trailing only to West Milton who scored 33 points. Their improvements are a direct result to their great work-ethic in practice which wasn’t as good in the summer. Katie Landwehr finished in 2nd overall, running a personal best of 19:27, a minute and 53 seconds faster than Schul. This performance comes after a difficult week of practice which included running a speed workout with the boys’ team, a trend she plans to continue as the season goes on. Jessica Bruggerman finished 11th overall with a time of 21:02, 1 minute and 59 seconds faster than Schul. Peyton Miller finished 12th with a time of 21:04, 47 seconds faster than Schul. Allison Chin finished in 17th with a time of 21:11, a minute and 27 seconds faster than Schul. Corrie Jones finished in 24th with a time of 21:45, a minute and 10 seconds faster than Schul. Tracy Fujimura finished in 25th with a time of 21:53, 2 minutes and 7 seconds faster than Schul, and Flora Hernandez finished 29th with a time of 22:23, 48 seconds faster than Schul. 67 runners competed in the race. If the team continues to work hard and perform well they have a legitimate shot of qualifying to the state meet.


Tipp’s Cross Country Teams Compete at Alliance Invite

With the varsity boys cross country team taking the weekend off to rest, the attention was focused on Tipp’s other talented cross country teams. The girls varsity, boys junior varsity, boys junior high, and girls junior high teams all ran exceptionally well in the very muddy and humid conditions at the Alliance Invitational on Saturday, September 13th. With the sloppy course conditions, times were probably around 30 seconds slower than usual in the high school races and about 15 seconds slower in the junior high races.

The varsity girls team finished 2nd overall in the DII race, only 10 points behind Brookville, capturing their first hardware of the year. Confidence has been somewhat of an issue during the first few weeks of the season, but the girls team finally found their identity by beating many familiar and local teams. Katie Landwehr finished 3rd overall with a time of 21:03, Jessica Bruggerman finished 8th overall with a time of 21:27, Peyton Miller finished 10th overall with a time of 21:47, Tracy Fujimura finished 18th overall with a time of 22:26, Allison Chinn finished in 26th with a time of 23:10, Alexander Mahan finished 27th with a time of 23:11, and Corrie Jones finished 35th with a time of 23:35. 124 runners competed in the race.