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).