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Joseph Christensen runs to a 3rd place at State Cross Country

Every year in October, hundreds of runners from all over the state of Utah assemble at Sugarhouse Park in Salt Lake City for the Utah State Cross Country Championships. This year’s competition gave Springville High School a reason to celebrate as Joseph Christensen placed third in the 4A boy’s championship three mile race with a time of 16:05. Joseph’s finishing place was the highest for Springville since Spencer Gardner in 2006.  His performance led the boy’s team to an eighth place finish out of the seventeen teams that participated.  The top five runners for the Red Devils were:  Joseph Christensen, Andy Shields clocking a 17:05, Riley White coming in right behind in 17:06, Matt Brown running a time of 17:48, and Mark Israelsen finishing in 17:49.

On the girls’ side, the Lady Red Devils were led by Hannah Lutz with her 21st place finish of 19:57. She was followed by Libby Jensen with a time of 22:06, Alyssa Payne with 22:19, Bri Barnes in 22:30, and Hannah Nelson finishing at 24:06.  Team captain Libby Jensen said “I’m so proud of our team! We all worked crazy hard to get to state and do the best that we could do and thanks to our two amazing coaches our season was amazing!” Congratulations Red Devils!