🏆 CHAMPIONS OF THE HEARTLAND ❄️ 🔸1st regional winner from SD 🔸SFL is now one of just four Heartland programs to make NXN 3+ times 🔹Miles and Tyrus once again led the way with their 5th and 8th Place finishes 🔥 NXN team: Miles, Tyrus, Arvid, Reid, Nayati, Frank, Henry 💪

✅ Boys State Champions (3-Peat) 🏆🏆🏆 ✔️ Girls Runner-Up 🥈 ☑️ Combined Team Champions (Back-to-back) 🏆🏆 The Boys won their 10th State Title in the last 14 years, with all 5 scorers in the top 15 for a total of 39 points! 🔥 🔸Miles L. with a SFL course record (15:02)!

🏆 Metro Conference Champions (Varsity and JV Boys) + 🥈 Runner-Up (Varsity and JV Girls)! Highest finishers for each race: JV Girls - Ella Bartz 🥇 JV Boys - Everett Herrboldt 🥇 Varsity Girls - Mia Kadi 🥉 Varsity Boys - Miles L 🥈 State Meet is October 25th!

🏆 ROY GRIAK CHAMPIONS! 🏆 🔹Miles Lechtenberg - 5th 🔹Tyrus Needles - 7th 🔹Arvid Nelsen - 29th 🔹Nayati Ringing Shield - 56th 🔹Riddick Iseminger - 86th TEAM SCORES: 🥇 Sioux Falls Lincoln - 161 🥈 Summit (CO) - 185 🥉 Liberty North (MO) - 230 1st Griak Title in SFL history!

Mack Butler combined team victory + two individual winners 💪 6️⃣ Boys in the Top 10 + 🥇 Miles L (15:29) 7️⃣ Girls in the Top 10 +🥇Mia K (19:25) 22/31 returners ran a faster time at this meet than last year. 34 lifetime 5k PRs as well 🔥 Great way to start the season!

It’s about time to roll! 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 💨

Greeno Elite Running Camp ☑️ Saturday’s Long Run ⬇️ 🔹13 boys 🏃‍♂️ 16 miles 🔹9 girls 🏃‍♀️ 13-15 miles 🔸Lots of hills at 6,000 ft ⛰️ We talked about sleep, mobility/posture, leadership, and team goals for the XC season. It was a fantastic weekend!

Day 1 of SFLXC Camp! No better way to kick off the summer ☀️ 7️⃣ 0️⃣ Campers 🔥

Great Day to be a Patriot!

Wanna talk about a legendary way to end a meet? A coach 4x1 relay! That’s right—these seasoned vets dusted off the running shoes, grabbed the baton (and maybe some Icy Hot), and somehow took first place! Crowd went wild, hamstrings held strong, and pride levels hit an all-time!!

Ali B continues to amaze us! 👏

Sioux Falls XC - 21st in the Nation 👏 We are so proud of these boys for their amazing accomplishments in 2024. Our season ended in an epic mud-fest. There were falls and a lower finish than we were hoping for, but we are grateful to have raced among the best in the USA @ NXN!

🌲PORTLAND, HERE WE COME🌲 😤 Sioux Falls XC is ready to roll in a field of 22 of the Nation’s best teams! 🔹Saturday, December 7 @ 1:35pm (Central) — Free Live Stream on https://t.co/UTOihawqOT 🔥 @runnerspace @DyeStat

SFLXC alumna Ali Bainbridge adds yet another amazing accomplishment to her resume — NCAA D1 NATIONALS! 🤩 So proud of you, Ali! 👏

We’re going to NIKE CROSS NATIONALS! 🔸Joseph Levesque (15:21.3, 19pts) 🔸Miles Lechtenberg (15:24.7, 22pts) 🔸Tyrus Needles (15:29.9, 26pts) 🔸Aemil Nelsen (15:36.3, 35pts) 🔸Nathan Thompson (15:54.8, 61pts) 🔸Arvid Nelsen (16:17.5) 🔸Reid Groher (16:57.4) Regional Runner-Up!

🏆2️⃣0️⃣🏆 BOYS STATE CHAMPIONS for the 20th time in school history! 🔸37 Points (6 runners in the top 17) 🔥 🔸9 State Titles in 13 years 💪 GIRLS 3RD PLACE with 112 Points (5 scorers in the top 34)! 🥇➕🥉 🟰COMBINED TEAM CHAMPS 🏆 GO PATS!

Ready to roll 💨 #StateXC

The Lincoln Patriots are now the first program in Boys AA to repeat as state champions! #SDPreps | 📸 @TravisGallipo

🛶 GRAND FORKS BORDER BATTLE 🛶 The PATS won 2️⃣ // 4️⃣ races and brought home a couple of awesome paddle trophies! 🔸Highlight of the day was watching the Varsity boys win an epic duel with Bismarck 👀 Final score: 39-43 (we had 5 in the top 15) 🔥 @gfborderbattle was so fun!

Brookings Meet ⬇️ 🔹Alex Twa paced the boys team, finishing 14th! Adam Robles, Will Zell, and Victor Nosal had PRs. 🔹Courtney Ulrich was our top girl in 11th place! Logan Grace Sanborn ran a PR. Even without our top 16 JV runners, these boys finished 5th out of 10 teams! 👏