San Marcos celebrates with their medals following the District 27 Cross Country Meeting. Junior Connor McGlothin became the first Rattler to win 1st place in district since Owen McGlothin.
Photo submitted by Dylan Jones
The Rattlers are heading to their first Regional Meet since 2016.
Photo submitted by Dylan Jones
REGIONAL BOUND
Runnin Rattlers send boys, girls teams to 6A Region IV meet
It was an historic day for the San Marcos Cross Country program as both the Varsity Boys and Varsity Girls teams qualified for the 2023 6A Region IV Meet.
On the varsity boys side, junior Conner McGlothin took home the gold medal becoming the first San Marcos Boys Cross Country runner to take home 1st place since Owen Mc-Glothin back in 2016.
McGlothin's first place run came in at a time of 16:28.35, seven seconds faster than the runner-up.
Not to be out done, freshman Tucker Jones placed fifth overall with a time of 17:08.76.
Freshman Adrian Rangel finished in 12th place with a time of 17:24.60.
Rounding out the top five for the Rattlers was Marcos Morales who finished in 29th place with a time of 18:24.22 and Adrian Castanon who finished in 32nd place with a time of 18:34.36.
Taking the top five times, San Marcos finished the District Meet with 79 points to a third place finish behind New Braunfels and Schertz Clemens. which advanced the Rattlers to the Regional Meet.
This is the first time the Rattlers have advanced to the Regional Meet as a team since 2017 when San Marcos placed in 2nd place.
On the varsity girls side, the Rattlers saw two runners place inside the top five.
Junior Alexandria Juazrez finished in third place with a time of 19:36.23 followed by freshman Eleanor Smith who placed in fourth place with a time of 19:38.20.
Placing in 16th place was sophomore Aaralyn Julian with a time of 21:03.30.
Rounding out the top five finishers for the Rattlers was freshman Nellie Mauritz-Barboza who placed in 30th place with a time of 22:50.59 followed by sophomore Rowena Brown who placed in 31st place with a time of 23:03.89.
In a tight battle with East Central in the team standings to see who would advance to Regionals, the Rattlers edged out the Hornets 84-88 to take third place and send San Marcos to the next round.
This will be the first time the Rattlers will advance to the Regional Meet as a team since 2016 when San Marcos also placed in the third place.
San Marcos will compete at the 6A Region IV Cross Country Meet October 24 on the campus of Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
The Varsity Girls Division will start at 8 a.m. and the Varsity Boys Division will start at 8:30 a.m.
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