Aubrea Gunderson
2006 Aubrea Gunderson Invitational
September 30, 2006
The Milton Cross Country teams traveled to Conyers and the Olympic International Horse Park to compete in this yearly invitational meet formally called the Patriot Invitational, hosted by Heritage High School. Note: the meet named changed this year to commemorate the sad death of Heritage cross country runner Aubrea Gunderson who lost her life in 2005 when she was struck by a car while running, near her school during practice. Milton’s fast completion of their cross country course (finished in just 1 year) was strongly influenced by this tragic event.
Varsity Boys
Freshman Tyler Tomy led Milton to a strong 9th place finish (out of 24 teams) in the championship division. Tyler’s 17th place finish was followed by Mitchell Foley (43rd) and Seth Tomy (60th). There were 219 finishers.
Varsity Girls
In a close team battle, the Lady Eagles placed 8th out of 22 teams in the championship division. Megan Hirschi again led Milton with her outstanding 5th place finish (192 runners finished). Her season best time was followed by Sarah Foreman (19th) and then the “pack” followed: Jamie Chandler (64th), Susannah Hardy (68th) and freshman sensation Steph Butzer (69th). The varsity girl’s time spread between our runners #3 to #9 was an outstanding 36 seconds!!
JV Girls
The Lady Eagles ran some amazing individual times and came away with a 3rd place team finish. No official team results were tabulated, so unofficial:
Harrison-21
Lakeside/Dekalb-86
Milton-96
Grady-128
Blessed Trinity-139
Mill Creek-171
17 full teams finished
Outstanding and personal record races were turned in by many and the Lady Eagles were paced by Carly Randolph (11th), Kristina Brown (13th) and Maggie Shawcross (15th). There were 297 finishers.
JV Boys
Due to the large amount of entries, the JV boys in 2 races (our top-10 JV boys ran in the JV race and the remainder ran the Open race).
Milton scored a big win in both races!! Alex Keeter won the JV boys race and paced the Eagles to a team victory!! Again, no official team scores were tabulated, so unofficial:
Milton-48
Harrison-53
Blessed Trinity-124
Chamblee-140
Mill Creek-140
Lakside/Dekalb-164
22 full teams finished
Following Alex Keeter’s win, strong performances were run by Ryan Thurman (4th) and Morgan Spartz (9th). Also contributing to the team victory were Erik Farnsworth (14th), Will Anderson (20th) and Taylor Early (24th).
In the Open race, the wins kept on coming!! Never headed, Brian Parsons led from the start for a wire-to-wire victory over approx 125 runners!
Strong individual performances were recorded by Jamar Jeter, John Britt Easterling, Jack Welborn and Travis Turner.
The Eagles compete next at the Fulton County Cross Country Championships, Oct 14th at Webb Bridge Park in Alpharetta.
Varsity Boys
Freshman Tyler Tomy led Milton to a strong 9th place finish (out of 24 teams) in the championship division. Tyler’s 17th place finish was followed by Mitchell Foley (43rd) and Seth Tomy (60th). There were 219 finishers.
Varsity Girls
In a close team battle, the Lady Eagles placed 8th out of 22 teams in the championship division. Megan Hirschi again led Milton with her outstanding 5th place finish (192 runners finished). Her season best time was followed by Sarah Foreman (19th) and then the “pack” followed: Jamie Chandler (64th), Susannah Hardy (68th) and freshman sensation Steph Butzer (69th). The varsity girl’s time spread between our runners #3 to #9 was an outstanding 36 seconds!!
JV Girls
The Lady Eagles ran some amazing individual times and came away with a 3rd place team finish. No official team results were tabulated, so unofficial:
Harrison-21
Lakeside/Dekalb-86
Milton-96
Grady-128
Blessed Trinity-139
Mill Creek-171
17 full teams finished
Outstanding and personal record races were turned in by many and the Lady Eagles were paced by Carly Randolph (11th), Kristina Brown (13th) and Maggie Shawcross (15th). There were 297 finishers.
JV Boys
Due to the large amount of entries, the JV boys in 2 races (our top-10 JV boys ran in the JV race and the remainder ran the Open race).
Milton scored a big win in both races!! Alex Keeter won the JV boys race and paced the Eagles to a team victory!! Again, no official team scores were tabulated, so unofficial:
Milton-48
Harrison-53
Blessed Trinity-124
Chamblee-140
Mill Creek-140
Lakside/Dekalb-164
22 full teams finished
Following Alex Keeter’s win, strong performances were run by Ryan Thurman (4th) and Morgan Spartz (9th). Also contributing to the team victory were Erik Farnsworth (14th), Will Anderson (20th) and Taylor Early (24th).
In the Open race, the wins kept on coming!! Never headed, Brian Parsons led from the start for a wire-to-wire victory over approx 125 runners!
Strong individual performances were recorded by Jamar Jeter, John Britt Easterling, Jack Welborn and Travis Turner.
The Eagles compete next at the Fulton County Cross Country Championships, Oct 14th at Webb Bridge Park in Alpharetta.