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GMC Boys Cross Country – Back to Back State Champs!

The GMC Boys Varsity Cross Country Team are once again State Champs! The team ran on November 9 in Carrollton at the GHSA State Championship. This group has been focused and on a mission for this title all season, and all their hard work paid off Saturday. Our top 7 runners ran at State and all gave 100%. Competing against 15 other teams consisting of a total of 100 runners, we had 4 in the top 10, and beat the 2nd place team, Jenkins County, by 36 points. Senior Will Archer is the Runner-up State Champ placing 2nd in an exciting race with a time of 17:48. Junior Tom Drew placed 4th with a time of 18:54 closely followed by Sophomore Ethan Spires in 7th with a time of 19:09. Freshman Chase Sheffield closely followed these two the entire race placing 8th with a time of 19:18. Freshman Zach Spiler placed 19th with a time of 20:05, followed by Senior Logan Kelleher in 31st with a time of 20:51. Freshman Andrew Weimer placed 36th with a time of 21:29.