RSS Senior Girls dominate x-country championships

The RSS cross-country teams performed extraordinarily well at the Valleys Cross Country championships at Larch Hills. Jeff Wilson photo

The RSS Senior Girls Cross-Country team showed what they are capable of when they won the OVSAA Cross Country Championships at the Larch Hills Cross Country Ski Area on Tuesday, October 25.

“What a fantastic day in Salmon Arm!” their excited coach Jeff Wilson said on the team’s blog. “Congratulations to all our Revelstoke runners for their fine performances and for bringing home the first valley pennants to decorate the shiny, new walls here at RSS.”
He said the junior boys placed third in their category, and 7th overall, while on the girls side “if I had to pick one word it would be ‘Domination!'”

“In a field of over 100 girls from around the Okanagan Valley, Britt and Megan Evans placed second and third overall,” Wilson said.  “Delyth Harper was 9th, Leslie Opatril was 13th, and Tayla Koerber was 17th overall.  Not only did these girls qualify for provincials as individuals, their point total as a team made them the Okanagan Valley Champions for 2011/2012.   They brought home a great looking trophy and pennant, and you can see it on display in the cabinets in the front foyer.

“In the junior girls’ category, Emily Unterberger, Jayda Park, and Maxine Opatril added their strong finishes to Megan and Tayla’s scores to win the pennant and become the Junior Girls Valley Champions for this year.”

You can find all of the individual results and scores of photos taken at the competition on the team’s blog. Here are the results:

Senior Girls Overall

1 Revelstoke Secondary 33 2 3 7 9 12 29 33
Total Time: 1:30:28.40
Average: 18:05.68
2 Penticton High School 78 5 14 17 18 24 27 31
Total Time: 1:35:48.60
Average: 19:09.72
3 Immaculata High School 112 15 16 19 25 37 38 39
Total Time: 1:38:55.00
Average: 19:47.00
4 Vernon Secondary 113 8 10 11 30 54 55 56
Total Time: 1:41:56.00
Average: 20:23.20
5 Salmon Arm Secondary 117 1 22 28 32 34 35 36
Total Time: 1:37:50.90
Average: 19:34.18
6 Kelowna Secondary 150 20 21 26 41 42 44 45
Total Time: 1:43:01.60
Average: 20:36.32
7 Shuswap Middle School 157 4 23 40 43 47 52
Total Time: 1:44:31.00
Average: 20:54.20
8 Mount Boucherie Secondary 200 6 46 48 49 51 58
Total Time: 1:54:19.10
Average: 22:51.82
9 Clarence Fulton Secondary 232 13 50 53 57 59 60
Total Time: 2:05:13.70
Average: 25:02.74
Senior Boys Overall
1 Salmon Arm Secondary 34 2 6 7 8 11 12 13
Total Time: 1:53:33.80
Average: 22:42.76
2 Immaculata High School 74 9 10 16 17 22 29 30
Total Time: 1:59:38.90
Average: 23:55.78
3 Penticton High School 86 3 4 5 32 42 43 47
Total Time: 1:58:25.00
Average: 23:41.00
4 Kelowna Secondary 130 21 23 24 27 35 38 41
Total Time: 2:04:49.70
Average: 24:57.94
5 Okanagan Mission Secondar 142 1 18 36 39 48
Total Time: 2:05:36.00
Average: 25:07.20
6 Vernon Secondary 152 14 20 33 40 45 52 55
Total Time: 2:06:44.00
Average: 25:20.80
7 Revelstoke Secondary 169 19 28 31 37 54
Total Time: 2:10:21.90
Average: 26:04.38
8 Rutland Middle 203 15 25 46 58 59
Total Time: 2:19:22.00
Average: 27:52.40
9 Mount Boucherie Secondary 229 26 49 50 51 53 60 61
Total Time: 2:20:45.70
Average: 28:09.14
10 Merritt Secondary 253 34 44 56 57 62
Total Time: 2:36:37.00
Average: 31:19.40
Junior Girls Overall
1 Revelstoke Secondary 55 1 5 11 17 21
2 Penticton High School 62 7 10 12 13 20
3 Shuswap Middle School 69 2 8 18 19 22 25
4 Vernon Secondary 71 3 4 9 27 28
5 Immaculata High School 74 6 14 15 16 23
6 Clarence Fulton Secondary 140 24 26 29 30 31
Junior Boys Overall
1 Salmon Arm Secondary 29 1 2 3 11 12 23
2 Vernon Secondary 71 4 8 16 19 24 27
3 Revelstoke Secondary 78 7 13 15 17 26
4 Immaculata High School 79 6 9 14 18 32
5 Rutland Middle 92 5 10 20 28 29
6 Mount Boucherie Secondary 129 21 22 25 30 31