We headed down to Proctor for the final meet of the season before the important Section 7A championships Thursday, October 28 at the Cloquet Country Club. Twelve Class A teams showed up for the meet, about half of the total who will be running at Sections. All the Iron Range teams were missing, as they had their conference championships the... READ MORE >
We always enjoy returning home to run cross-country on the Pincushion Trails overlooking Grand Marais and Lake Superior. Although Pincushion is the toughest, hilliest course we race, the home crowd is great and the opportunity to train and race at Pincushion gives us a little home course advantage. This year was even better, as the weather was perfect fall running... READ MORE >
Coming off outstanding performances at the huge Milaca and Swain cross country meets, we went to the Hibbing Invitational with high expectations. Team leaders Kieran Scannell and Ailee Larson were rated 4th and 10th in the region by Duluth News Tribune, the boys were the number 2 Class A team in Section 7, and the girls were improving steadily, one... READ MORE >
The bus headed out before the crack of dawn Saturday to the 60th annual Swain Invitational cross country meet at Duluth’s Enger Park. Our 35 runners would soon be competing with 2,000 runners from throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin, on one of the hilliest courses in the Midwest. If you have been driving around town the last few weeks, you... READ MORE >
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 >
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 >
