Cross Country

Our Cross Country program provides opportunities for our student-athletes to be part of a competitive and successful program. We compete in AAA in the GIAA and are in region 5 with Pacelli, Brookstone, Strong Rock, Heritage, and Westfield. As with all teams at SMA, we rest on the values of sportsmanship, work ethic, discipline, teamwork, and commitment.

Accomplishments
Team Information

*the boys Varsity teams finished fifth overall at the Atlanta Track Club APS Series Meet in September

*Justice Henry (12), Micah Castile (9), and Travis Nguyen (12) - were the top three runners for most of the season

*Justice Henry finished 28th out of 156 runners at the Atlanta Track Club APS Series Meet in September

*Breanna McBride was the top girls Varsity runner

*the SMA XC team participates in a team service project each season

-this year the team volunteered at Clothes Less Traveled in Peachtree City

*the SMA XC team was featured in the Georgia Bulletin this season - one of the three Catholic high schools to be included in the piece

*a few notes from the GB story - almost the entire boys team set new PR's in the 5k at the AT&T Starr's Mill Panther XC Meet, in Fayetteville, GA.

Most notable PR's were set by Ronan Malally (crushed his time from last season by 3 minutes ), Henry Nguyen (set a new PR by almost 2 minutes), Travis Nguyen and Angel Duran-Medrano (shaved off a little more than a minute), Micah Castile and Brian Ekpenyong ran 30/40 secs faster to set new PR's.

Senior Breanna McBride also a new PR by more than one-minute in the girls 5K

We are blessed to have veteran senior runners that returned from last season - Gianni Del Pilar, Brian Ekpenyong, and Travis Nguyen. We are also thankful for our new runners that joined this season - Pacha Laplanche, Denzel Triyanto, Ai Ha, Athena Bui, Angel Duran-Medrano, and Ty Moses.

Please see our schedule and roster below for details. If you have any questions, please contact Kiesha Porter at kporter@smaschool.org

High School Roster

NAME	GRADE
Athena Bui	9
Emmanual Bui	10
Micah Castile	9
Gianni Del Pilar	12
Angel Duran-Medrano	10
Brian Ekpenyong	12
Angel Franco-Melero	11
Ai Ha	10
Justice Henry	12
Pacha Laplanche	11
Ronan Malally	10
Breanna McBride	12
Ty Moses	10
Caden Nguyen	10
Henry Nguyen	9
Travis Nguyen	12
Ariel Olds	10
Denzel Triyanto	9
Luis Valadez	11
Sofia Mungia	9 (Manager)