We have opened our outdoor track and field competition season with a pre-meet, which took place on April 11, 2017 at the Esko Public School Stadium. In the field we had a group of brave jumpers who agreed to show up and learned how to jump. They performed well and got some good starting marks. One stand out was Sam... READ MORE >
The North Shore Storm stormed the Iron Range at the Eveleth Lions Invitation on Thursday, Setptember 15. It was early on in the boys’ race that Jake Paron ran away from the field to win the race with more than a 40-second lead, a time of 17:21. This helped to lead his teammates to a 2nd place finish behind Ely... READ MORE >
The Vikings had five representatives who qualified to compete at the section 7A track and field meet on June 2. The meet took place at the Esko stadium. We had two representatives running the 400-meter dash. Molly Thomas got out quick and hung on. Thomas ran a season-best, earning 13th place with a time of 65.83. Sophie Eliasen, also in... READ MORE >
The Cook County Vikings Track and Field team was finally able to get outside for a meet this past week. We competed both at Two Harbors on Tuesday, May 3 and at Esko on Saturday, May 7. With a team of over 40 kids (most between 7th and 10th grades) it will be a fun group to watch develop over... READ MORE >
On Thursday, October 29, the Vikings raced their hearts out at the Section 7A race in Cloquet. The girls’ race was first and going into it, South Ridge looked like the strongest team but as the race wrapped up, Proctor came in first followed by Ely with South Ridge only able to send one runner as their team finished third.... READ MORE >
Our young cross country team really showed their abilities at Proctor on the 20th of October. We stacked our junior high girls’ team with all of our junior high runners and they came in with an almost perfect score. Isabel Schottenbauer (14:03) came in 1st place followed by Emily Seipke (14:48) in 2nd, with Kate Walsberg (14:56) in 3rd place,... READ MORE >
The Polar League Conference Meet marks the winding down of the cross country season. Many of our runners only have one more meet, which will take place on Tuesday, October 20. Fourteen of our runners will move on to run at the 7A Section Meet on October 29 and a couple may make it to the State Meet at St.... READ MORE >
Blue colored the sky at the Swain Invitational on Saturday October 3, which has been a seemingly rare occasion for the course that has gained a reputation for a challenging hill and miserable weather. We were lucky this year with the weather and as usual the challenging hill didn’t keep the Vikings from performing well against the competition. All of... READ MORE >
Once again the Vikings ventured down to Milaca to take part in the annual Mega Meet on Saturday, September 26 at Stone’s Throw Golf Course in Milaca. Some of the races during the day hosted over 500 runners. The weather was beautiful but a bit on the warm side for running. Despite the heat, the Vikings had many great performances.... READ MORE >
When the Cook County Vikings cross country team rolled up to Eveleth Golf Course on Thursday, September 17, we were instantly sweaty with the heavy humid air. There was a black cloud looming in the west and five minutes into the girls’ varsity and JV race it hit and forced down sheets of rain. As I stood cheering on our... READ MORE >
