Run, win, repeat.

That’s the new mantra for the varsity girls cross country team. Today, senior Madie Boreman repeated as district champion and the varsity girls defended their district title.

“Started off well with the girls winning,” cross country coach Kelly Thompson said. “I thought we had a pretty good shot coming in, we didn’t run the best race, but we did run good enough to win.”

Boreman won the varsity girls race in 18:05.20, 21 seconds ahead of second place runner, Round Rock’s Ashley Driscoll. This is the fourth year in a row Boreman has won the district title. She won her freshman and sophomore years in the 5A district and junior and senior year in 13-6A.

“I feel good and the team won so that’s pretty exciting and just makes it even better,” Boreman said. “This is the same course as the state course so were definitely fortunate that we get to run here before state and get the feel of it.”

Two other runners finished in the 10, junior Haley Timmons was fourth and freshman Emily Forster finished seventh. Their top 10 finishes automatically qualify them for regionals.

Sarah Warrenburg, Megan Ombres, Ashton Hilsenteger and Makenna Ludwig finished 17^th, 19^th, 21^st and 37^th, respectively.

“The girls did very well we wanted to win and we were nervous about the race but we came through,” Boreman said.

The top five finishes gave the girls 48 points, a five-point lead on second place Round Rock. This is the second year in a row the varsity girls have won the 13-6A title.

“For the past two years, the team started to race and became closer, I’m very proud of my team,” Boreman said.

The varsity boys finished fourth overall.

“I didn’t think the boys did bad at all, but they did get beat by lower scores,” Thompson said.

Junior James Tisdale was the top runner for the boys, taking 10^th and qualifying for regionals.

“I think it’s really great that I made it to regionals, I’ve been working hard for this moment and I’m glad I got here,” Tisdale said. “To prepare for regionals, I need to just get out there, and not mentally defeat myself because other runners are in front of me I have to be able to run out and get in front of them.”

Four other runners finished in the top 20: Danny Madrid 11^th, Mitchell Ballis 13^th, Nico Escobar 16^th and Ben Escobar 17^th. Brandon King was 28^th and Chase Isham was 32^nd.

“I’ll definitely use today’s race as a big encouragement,” Madrid said. “Because I’ll always look back on this race and say I could improve on this and improve on that and just better myself that way.”

Varsity Boys – 4^th Overall
10^th – James Tisdale 16:44.00
11^th – Danny Madrid 16:53.10
16^th – Nico Escobar 17:07.00
17^th – Ben Escobar 17:09.70
28^th – Brandon King 17:41.50
32^nd – Chase Isham 17:49.40

Varsity Girls – 1st Overall
1^st – Madie Boreman 18:05.20
4^th – Haley Timmons 19:08.30
7^th – Emily Forster 19:20.90
17th – Sarah Warrenburg 20:05.10
19th – Megan Ombres 20:20. 10
21st – Ashton Hilsenteger 20:37.00
37th – Makenna Ludwig 21:49.30

Junior Varsity Boys –
23^rd – Ian Hoffman 19:26.10
41^st – Cypher Miller 20:24.00
66^th – Qasim Abbas 21:59.40
80^th – Nic Ayers 23:09.40

Junior Varsity Girls
11^th – Dharma Boreman 13:36.80
19^th – Destiny Luna 14:21.30
25^th – Molly Sanford 14:36.00
26^th – Melanie Vasquez 14:48.10

Freshman Boys 
6^th – Marcus Spurgeon 11:36.70
8^th – Andrew Padilla 11:40.30
37^th – Ian Strey 13:41.80