STATE MEET

ACADEMIC ALL-STATE - Heeder, Frost, Girls Team, Zingsheim, Hicks, Winter

BOYS - STATE RUNNERS-UP
The boys team capped off the best season in school history by finishing 2nd in the D3State Finals. The boys finished with 192 points only behind Grandville Calvin Christian (107 points). Shepherd was 3rd with 212 points, Frankenmuth 4th and Lumen Christi rounded out the top-five. The boys were led by Jimmy Hicks who earned All-State honors by finishing 27th in 16:27. Zach Zingsheim was 33rd (16:38), Austin Winter was 38th (16:43), Joe Marrah was 39th (16:45), Nick Sampson was 152 running a 35 second PR of 17:45. Spencer Lebel was 172 in 18:00 and Nate Warriner was 198 in 18:15. The previous highest finish by a boys team at LCHS was 4th place.

GIRLS - 11TH PLACE
The girls team finished with the third highest state meet finish in school history by coming in 11th place. Megan Heeder led the way wth a third place finish and again lowered her school record to 18:11. Joining Megan as a all-stater was Emma Frost who finished in 16th place and lowered her own sophomore record to 19:00. Making her performance even better was the fact she fell at the 800 mark and finished scraped and bloodied. Emma was the top sophomore finisher and the sixth non-senior. The Cougars third runner was Lena Minniti (127th) who ran a personal best time of 20:41. Catherine Swiderski was the fourth finisher in 139th with a time of 20:51 and Adrienne Powell was fifth finisher with a time of 21:25, Allie Brown was next at 21:48 and Hunter Puma was 7th runner in 22:46.

On To States AGAIN !

The boys and girls teams both qualified for the State Finals at regionals and continued a legacy that gets more impressive each year. The boys captured the school's second boys Regional Championship ever and the girls finished third to send both teams on to the State Finals.

REGIONAL CHAMPS !
The boys team continued their great season by capturing the second regional championship in school history. They finished in first with 51 points ahead of second-place Perry with 60 and third-place Whitmore Lake with 84. Austin Winter, Zach Zingsheim and Jimmy Hicks led an impressive Cougar attack finishing 3rd, 4th and 5th. Joe Marrah just missed the medal stand finishing in 17th, the freshmen duo of Spencer Lebel and Nick Sampson came home in 23rd and 24th and Mitchell Lebel was 42nd.

STATES 10 out of 12 Years
The eighth ranked girls team finished in third place with 87 points behind Stockbridge (54) and Leslie (71) who both went into the meet ranked in the top-ten in the state. For the second staight year Megan Heeder won the regional championship. Her time of 18:43 was 57 seconds better than the 2nd place runner. Joining Megan on the awards stand was Emma Frost who finished in fourth place. Catherine Swiderski was third runner in 22nd place. Adrienne Powell running her first race in over three weeks finished 29th, Lena Minniti came home in 31st, Allie Brown in 33rd and Hunter Puma 49th. This marked the 5th straight year and 10th time in 12 years that the girls team has qualified for the state finals.

LCHS IS ELITE


*LCHS is one of just three schools in D3 that has had both their boys’ and girls’ teams qualify for five straight years (Benzie and Lumen Christi are the others).
*Only two teams in D3 (Benzie and Lumen Christi) equal our boys’ streak of seven straight State qualifying years.
*LCHS now has the longest active streak in the Lansing area for boys, surpassing Williamston, formerly the area’s dominant team.
*Only six D3 schools equal our girls’ streak of five straight State qualifying years.
*Only three D3 schools match our girls’ record of 10 qualifying years out of the past 12 (Lumen Christi, Benzie, Hillsdale). (In the two years our girls not qualify for States they finished 4th at Regionals).

CAAC White Runners-Up

Both the boys and girls team ended the season in second place in the CAAC White division. The boys team after winning the first jamboree finished second behind Perry in the next two jamborees and ended up in 2nd in the conference for an incredible sixth straight year. The girls team after finishing third behind Williamston and Perry in the first jamboree came in second in the next two league meets to clinch the second spot for the second straight year.

Megan Heeder won all three jamborees and was of course first overall in the league, Emma Frost joined her as an all-conference honoree and Catherine Swiderski was honorable mention. For the boys team Jimmy Hicks, Zach Zingsheim, Austin Winter and Joe Marrah were all named all-conference and Spencer Lebel earned honorable mention.

The girls team showed it's incredible depth by having 10 different girls run in the varsity seven in the three meets