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.
