Numerous East Texas Athletes Qualify for State Cross Country Meet

When the summer break began back in early June, it started. Many high school athletes across East Texas started working out and training for the 2022 cross country season.

District meets took place a couple of weeks ago, and regional meets just a few days ago. Now, we are just a few days away from the ultimate goal -- the UIL Cross County State Meet which will take place on November 4-5 at Old Settler's Park in Round Rock, Texas.

Quite a few young men and women representing schools and teams across the Pineywoods excelled at regionals and have qualified for the state championship meet. In fact, Paige Layton of Central Heights and Misael Hernandez are regional champions, and the Tenaha boys teams are the Region III, Class 2A regional champs.

Here's a list of area athletes who will be competing in Round Rock

Broaddus - Daniel Pappas
Brookeland - Addison Murphy
Central Heights - Paige Layton
Colmesneil - Alyssa Mabry
Corrigan-Camden - Andres Landaverde, Tra Thomas
Douglass - Isabella Ball, Georgiana Burns, Anahi Mayes, Tessa Reeves, Abigail Richardson, Leah Roach, Addie Rose Sinz, Tristan Ball, Drake Freeman, Cade Fuchs, Wrangler Johnson, Luke Jones, Noah Jones, Garret Karns
Goodrich - A'mareion Bookmann
Groveton - Isavel Bautista, Jannette Bautista, Josselyn Cruz, Noelia Garcia, Lainey Peterson, Maria Rojo-Gonzales, Skyler Shaw
Hudson - Julian Bledsoe, Kairi Bruck, Jenna Ivey, Cullen Merrell, Addison Ponder, Mary Kaye Richardson, Madison Vasquez, Connor Graves
Lufkin - Paula Bautista
Mount Enterprise - DeDe Davis
Shelbyville - Emily Pharris, Jonavian Mathis
Slocum - Brock Evers, Elijah Grabiel, Caden Lovelady, Nathan Marr, Caleb Neal, Ayden Sarraf, Carter Sbrusch
Spurger - Jose Medina-Jimenez, Searra Clark
Tenaha - Eustorgio Flores, Marco Gonzales, Jario Hernandez, Misael Hernandez, Daniel Loredo, Evan Plata, Adrian Ramirez
Trinity - Cade Mauldin
Warren - Eli Carrell
Woden - Virginia Dean
Zavalla - Tony Niederhofer