Panther Creek has many teams and clubs, but one you may not hear much about is the Cross Country Team. They practice everyday from July to October and are always changing each year with new students joining and old ones graduating.

This year, the team has a couple new important members, due to the opening of Friendship High School, we lost our coaches from the previous year and gained two new ones. Mr. Scruggs, the new head coach of Cross Country. When Bridgette Sullivan, a senior on the cross country team, was asked about the difference in this years team Sullivan said,  “We are going to the weight room now and we have all been improving a lot more with the new coaches.”

Some students may not know how difficult it really is to be on the team. With workouts every weekday and usually Saturdays, the members are always running. The Cross Country team has meets where the team runs a 5k race. There are both whole team races and invitationals. Invitationals are only attended by the Varsity and Junior Varsity members of the team which changed constantly this year. Clarece Krause described the differences in Varsity and Junior Varsity based off the different coaches,  “[Last year,] it was Varsity and Junior Varsity, you knew who was on Varsity and who was on JV. With Coach Scruggs, you don’t have that certain idea because you don’t know if you will be running on a Saturday meet because anyone could pass you.”