The first week of October is behind us and we saw several awesome performance across several different states! Many of our previous nominees were among the best of the weekend, but we will post some more new additions for the Week 5 poll. We are ready to vote on who was the top performer of another big weekend of the regular season.
Below are the top boys performances from the past week around Missouri. The winner will be crowned the Missouri Boys Runner of the Week for Week Five.
Congratulations to Rockhurst's Jack McGovern for winning Week 4! McGovern had a massive day for the Hawklets at the Gans Creek Classic Elite Twilight race, becoming the first freshman to break 16:00 this season when he shattered the barrier with his 15:36.10 personal best. After this race, he was 30 seconds ahead of the next fastest 9th grader in the entire state. He will move on to the finals during the week of the State Championships, where we will determine who had the top performance of the regular season!
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Past Winners:
Week 0 Winner: Thomas Garrett - Park Hill South
Week 1 Winner: Brendan Alfonso - Parkway Central
Week 2 Winner: Chael Lichte - Lexington
Week 3 Winner: Ayden Taylor - Liberty Wentzville
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Polling for this past week starts on Monday, Oct. 7 at 12 p.m. and ends on Friday at 12 p.m.
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Carson King - West Plains - King was the 2nd fastest Missouri finisher at the Frank Horton Night Classic in Memphis, TN, Saturday night, but led a tight squad of West Plains boys to the team title. He ran 16:00.80 for 9th overall.
Hunter Deleeuw - Lee's Summit - Deleeuw was the second Missourian across the line at Saturday's KC XC Classic, behind only MO No. 1 Henry Acorn. He has been a model of consistency all season after running his fifth mark under 15:42 so far this fall.
Aaron Ashley - Nixa - Ashley is having a strong senior season and picked up a victory at his home invitational, running 15:40.97. He has been under 16:00 in all four of his 5K's so far.
Isaac Willoughby - Carl Junction - Willoughby double dipped last week with a victory at the Lamar Tiger's Cross-Country Invitational on Tuesday and fifth place showing at the Riann Lubinski at Nixa on Saturday. Tuesday's time of 16:07.90 is a new personal best.
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