Women Rank 13th Regionally, Leaders Return

HOUSTON – The Houston Cross Country staff did not have a large number of holes to plug from 2022 however nonetheless reloaded with a robust elegance because the Cougars look forward to Friday’s season opening Early Bird Opener at Lamar.     
 
MEET INFORMATION
Friday, Sept. 1
Women’s 4k – 6:30 p.m.
Men’s 6k – 7 p.m.
Beaumont, Texas
Cris Quinn Soccer Complex
Live Results
 
The girls input the season ranked 13th within the South Central Region within the USTFCCCA Coaches Preseason Poll after completing twelfth total on the Region Championship a season in the past.
 
Houston returns 5 of its seven girls that competed on the 2022 NCAA Regional. Led by way of Claire Meyer in any respect six meets in 2022, the senior seems to be to enhance on her historical marketing campaign that noticed her transform Houston’s first All-Conference honoree within the American Athletic Conference and earn All-Region honors for the primary time since 2019.
 
Seniors Kelly-Ann Beckford, Zosia Bulhak and juniors Eleni Kaiser and Erin Rivera spherical out the 5 returners for the Cougars that helped Houston end twelfth total on the South Central Region Championships, the most productive staff end since 2019.
 
The Cougars welcome one newcomer at the girls’s facet this is ranked 13th within the South Central Region by way of the USTFCCCA Coaches Preseason Poll. Carly Ahrens, a freshman from Kingwood, Texas joins the Cougars after incomes All-State honors in 2019, 2020-21 and completed fifteenth total on the UIL 6A State Cross Country Championships as a senior in 2022.
 
There was once just one departure from the boys’s facet that took 5 Cougars to the South Central Regional led by way of senior Brandon Seagreaves. Seagreaves returns after incomes his first-career All-Region honors in 2022, changing into Houston’s first All-Region honoree at the males’s facet since Brian Barraza in 2017. Junior Carlos Castillo, sophomore Miles Cox and graduate Brycen Pitre go back in conjunction with senior Branch Cox and sophomore Aidan Killian.
 
Six new faces sign up for the boys’s ranks with 5 beginners and a sophomore switch including youthfulness to the roster. Sophomore Benym Fantue, a Stephen F. Austin switch, completed 18th on the McNeese Season Opener in 2022 as a freshman, which might had been Houston’s 5th finisher of the meet that Seagreaves completed runner-up at.
 
Of the freshman, Michael Archie completed 13th total on the 6A State Championship meet in 2022 and is a two-time Garmin RunningLane Cross Country Championships qualifier. Alan Bonner was once the Cy-Fair District Champion at Bridgeland High. Aaron Crittenden brings a couple of state championship podium finishes from the 5A stage at Ellison High. Patrick Flowers additionally completed 13th on the State Championships however on the 4A stage and was once the 2022 USATF 5,000 meters silver medalist at the monitor. Derek Waite was once a two-time NXR South Regional Championships qualifier (2021-22) and completed twenty first on the 6A State Championship in 2021.
 
Along with the host, Lamar, Houston will compete towards fellow Division I combatants McNeese, Northwestern State and Louisiana on Friday.
 
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