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 girls performances from the past week around Missouri. The winner will be crowned the Missouri Girls Runner of the Week for Week Five.
Congratulations to Lexington's Addison Smith on her narrow win in the Week 4 poll! Smith continued her season-opening win streak as she powered home in the final kilometer to pick up the Gans Creek Classic Blue Division victory. It was her fifth straight win in her new personal best of 19:18.90. She 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: Brianna Krueger - St. Charles West
Week 1 Winner: Naomi Hunter - Smithville
Week 2 Winner: Savannah Amann - St. Joseph's Academy
Week 3 Winners: Ava Doll - Joplin, Gabrielle Moresi - Parkway Central
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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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Chloe Heckman - North Platte - Heckman picked up the win at the Grain Valley Sock it to Cancer Invitational in the small schools division, running 19:40.40. She is now 5 seconds off the mark which earned her 3rd in Class 2 last November, and 8 seconds off her lifetime best.
Sydney Krus - Nerinx Hall - Krus won a much smaller than usual Paul Enke Invitational on Saturday, conquering the highly difficult course at Sioux Passage Park in 20:55.80. At the Gans Creek Classic, she finished 8th in the Gold division in her personal best of 19:08.40.
Ellsie Estes - Ozark - Estes won the Riann Lubinski Invite on Saturday with an 18:56.55 clocking. It was her second straight sub-19:00 mark as she continues to trend toward her 18:33.00 personal best.
Emily Ritter - West Plains - Ritter was the top Missourian at the Frank Horton Night Classic with a personal best time of 18:55.30. She finished fourth in the race that featured teams from six different states.
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