The Viking cross country caravan headed to Hinckley right after school on Friday, on the way down to the Milaca MegaMeet—the largest high school cross country meet in the United States, joining over 150 teams and 3,500 runners. For our varsity runners, the meet offered the opportunity to run against about half of the rated teams and individuals from throughout... READ MORE >
After a week off and lots of tough hill training, the Viking cross-country team headed to the Eveleth Invitational, a big, 15-team meet including most of the Section 7A teams, with the exception of powerhouse Esko. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams have been showing a lot of progress—the girls working to replace the loss of six of nine members... READ MORE >
After only a couple weeks of practice, we were looking forward to the first race of the season at our home course on the Pincushion trails. The Viking Challenge has always been a tough meet, as Class AA Duluth East and Hibbing come each year, along with four Class A schools, Proctor, Carlton, Albrook and Wrenshall. East coach Dave Wicker... READ MORE >
CCHS’s two qualifiers for the 2010 Minnesota High School League Track meet, junior Ailee Larson in the ½ mile, and freshman Kieran Scannell in the 2-mile, had high expectations for the State meet after their qualifying races at the Section 7A finals. Although neither of them had been to the state track meet before (no one from Cook County had... READ MORE >
It’s been about 20 years since the last Cook County athlete qualified for the Minnesota State Track meet although we have had two past state champions— Dick Dorr in the long jump and Ann Siekert in the discus. This year we have two state qualifiers, as junior Ailee Larson and freshman Kieran Scannell both qualified for next week’s state meet... READ MORE >
The track season ended for most of the CCHS track team on Wednesday, May 26 at the Section 7A semifinals at UMD. A glorious spring day—sunny, breezy and warm provided a gorgeous backdrop for the over 300 athletes at this 16-team meet. The section is divided into two subsections, with the top 7 athletes in each individual event, and the... READ MORE >
Some of you probably don’t know much about track and field meets, since we don’t have a track or any field event facilities in Cook County. In the old days of cinder tracks, almost every school had a track around their football field, sand pits to jump into for high, long and triple jumping, and someplace nearby to throw the... READ MORE >
In the middle of the driest, warmest spring in recent memory, the Cook County High School track team had its first outdoor track meet of the season at the 10-team Hermantown Invitational on Friday, April 30. Of course, it was rainy, windy, and foggy with a threat of thunderstorms—we were hoping on the way down they wouldn’t cancel the meet... READ MORE >
TheViking track team opened its 2010 season at the Polar League Indoor meet at UWS on March 27. We hadn’t been able to run the indoor meet the last few years, since it has been scheduled during spring break. Ironically, the beautiful spring weather this year meant we hadn’t run indoors this year, something we did up to the end... READ MORE >
The Viking cross country team headed down to the Minnesota State championship meet at St. Olaf College in Northfield with lots of enthusiasm after a big send-off at school, well wishes from local fans and a couple of neat good luck signs at businesses in Two Harbors. Our expectations were realistic. The girls’ team was second in a section that... READ MORE >
