Girls cross country look to continue success at region

By Lance McCaskey Staff Writer The Cross Country girls team will be competing this Saturday in the Region 1 championships to continue to work they’re way to state. After a strong third place finish last Thursday at the District 7-5A Championships, the Coppell Cowgirls Cross Country team is looking a potential state run this postseason. Kaleigh Irvin, Katie Sandfort, Stephanie Bilka, and Alyssa Moino have lead the team this year, and all finished in the top 20 at district. They hope to continue this success, and advance the team to state for the first time since 2007. The Region 1 Championships take place this Saturday, November the 5th, in Lubbock, Texas. The top 10 individuals…

Cross country heads to district, girls advance to Region

By Lance McCaskey Staff Writer The Coppell High School cross country team competed to extend their season this morning at the District 7-5A Championships. With a chance to go to area on the line, the girls team delivered, with 4 runners placing in the top 20. The girls came in second place out of eight, and earned a spot at the Regional Championships in Lubbock, Texas. The boys gave it all they had, with impressive performances from junior Clayton Hemphill, and sophomore Carson Vickroy, placing 17th and 15th respectively. The boys finished in fifth place out of eight, and failed to qualify for Region. Both Teams are young, and are returning many of their top…

Coppell Cross Country to team compete in Race for the Cure

By Jay Carroll Staff Writer You may have watched NFL games this month where the players were wearing pink towels, shoes or gloves with their uniforms in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness month. The Coppell Cross Country team will be participating in the Susan G. Komen “Race for the Cure” this weekend. The cross country team usually participates in other schools’ meets on Saturdays, but not this time. The cross country team is looking forward to the event because it will be more fun and laid back than the more competitive meets that they run during the rest of the season. The annual event will be held at Northpark Center in Dallas. More than…

Coppell cross country plans to race for the cure

By Christina Burke Staff Writer Every year, before the sun comes up on a crisp mid October day, thousands of people in the Dallas area come together to continue an ongoing fight that man is struggling to win: breast cancer. The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is an annual event where survivors and supporters of breast cancer come together to rejoice another year of life and begin another year of fighting for the cure. This year the race will be held at the NorthPark Center in Dallas on October 15th. It has recently been announced that the Coppell Cross Country team will be participating in the event. Although there are two races, a…

Students step into Nike shoe design competition

Ashley Attanucci Web Manager “Boom Boom Pow” playing loudly, students gathered shaking to Dance Central, iMacs and giveaways on stage during lunch— if you noticed the unusual “pep rally” during lunch the week of Monday, Feb. 21, you should know it was the act of none than Nike Inc. As part of an exclusive, mobile tour across the U.S., Nike sent two tour managers, a van and hundreds of pairs of shoes to Coppell High School in recognition of our track team to help raise team spirit for their first meet and held a school-wide shoe-designing contest. iMacs were provided on stage at all three lunches for one week where students were able to design…

Cross Country Varsity Review

By Michael Pankonien Staff Writer Top Boys: The top runners for the boys varsity are all familiar faces. Seniors Jordan Williams and Travis Huffmaster have been at the front of the pack since they both first joined the program in their freshmen years. Junior Weston Sandfort has also been a familiar name on the varsity team for courses. However this year is the first in which Sandfort has been able to devote his full time to Cross Country; for both his freshmen and sophomore years Sandfort participated in the CHS Band. All three runners are captains. And while Williams and Huffmaster may be looking more towards the future and college with their running while Sandfort…

Cross Country makes State

By Mike Pankonien Staff Writer The Coppell Cross country girls varsity team qualified for state last weekend by placing in the top three at the regional championships.  Junior Kim Kirby also qualified for region individually by placing third at the overall regional meet.  The team will travel to Old Settlers Park in Round Rock this Saturday where they will go up against approximately 12 other teams and roughly 80 other kids.  Coppell will be represented by ten girls, seven of them runners and three of them understudies. “We have a good shot at top five,” Cross Country coach Roxanne Farris said.  “Anything above that is just icing on the cake.” The team has done consistently…

A look into the playoffs

By Nathan Reck Assistant Sports Editor Football: At 8-1 the Cowboys clinched a playoff berth with their third district win of the year in a 48 point blowout of Lewisville. Now all that remains for Coppell before the playoffs kick off is their final district game against Flower Mound on Friday night. While the game can’t keep the cowboys out of the playoffs a loss could pit the team against a much tougher first round matchup in Euless Trinity as opposed to playing a team with a worse record such as Keller in the opening round. More on who the football team will face in the first round of the playoffs will come following the…

Girls cross country ready for state

By Mike Pankonien Staff Writer Seven races down, three races to go.  As the season draws closer and closer to the qualifying meets for state, the warm ups get longer and the days get shorter.  However, if there is team in the state that’s going to be ready for district, it is the Coppell girls cross country team. Meeting at the school at 6:30 a.m., the girl’s team runs a course in preparation for the big day.   The course takes individuals different times to complete, but the team always starts together. It is a team which has not change much since last year. “No one really graduated last year, we just added some freshmen to…

Cowgirls seize 1st at meet

Coppell Cross Country seized the day last weekend at the McKinny Boyd Invitational.  Fielding runners in the both varsity and junior varsity events, the girls varsity team took 1st and girls junior varstiy made 2nd.  Meanwhile, the boys teams excelled to take 3rd in bot varsity and junior varsity. The top runners in boys varsity include Colton Reese with 10th place and Jordan Williams with 17th place.  Girls varsity include Kim Kirby with 2nd and Kaleigh Ervin with 5th.  Top junior varsity runners were Drew Armenta with 6th, John De la Chapelle with 8th, Alyssa Shelton with 2nd, and Alex Rapert with 5th.