CROSS COUNTRY NEWS

INA, Ill. – Both Isaac Williams and Cecilia Lane had a little more to prove on Saturday than just competing at the NJCAA Division I Cross Country Championships at Rend Lake College.Williams wanted to show everybody that his Region VI performance could be duplicated. Lane wanted to post a great ...

When six members of the Hutchinson Community College men’s and women’s cross country teams take to the course for Saturday’s NJCAA Division I National Cross Country Championships, there will be a little something different going on.For the first time this season, the Blue Dragons w ...

A few days after the 2012 Region VI Cross Country Championships, Diosha Johnson received a phone call.It turned out to be the call of opportunity and redemption for the Hutchinson Community College women’s cross country sophomore.After having to drop out of the 2011 NJCAA Division I Cross Coun ...

OVERLAND PARK – Both Hutchinson Community College cross country teams placed sixth on Saturday at the Region VI Cross Country Championships at Johnson County Community College.The Lady Dragons, ranked 21st in the final NJCAA Division I Women’s Poll, placed second in the Jayhawk West team ...

Rod Zook was hired in July, just a little more than a month before the Hutchinson Community College cross country teams opened the 2012 season. Granted, he had been the Blue Dragons’ assistant coach for two seasons, so he knew the runners, but as the head coach, he had little time to mold the ...

McPHERSON – Led by top-seven finishes by freshmen Ashlynn Lambert and Cecilia Lane, the 17th-ranked Hutchinson Community College women’s cross country team won its second invitational of the season, winning the McPherson College Lakeside Shootout on Saturday.Running just five athletes, t ...

McPHERSON – Only Division I Wichita State stood in the way of the 21st-ranked Hutchinson Community College men’s cross country team from a second team championship on Saturday as the Blue Dragons finished second at the McPherson College Lakeside Shootout.Wichita State placed four runners ...

If it seems like it’s been a while since the Hutchinson Community College cross country teams have been in action, it has.Because of injury and illness, first-year head coach Rod Zook has adjusted his schedule to get his runners ready for the final stretch of the season. Thus, the 21st-ranked ...

Freshman Oberlin Rojas placed seventh and two Hutchinson Community College men’s runners were in the Top 12 as the 20th-ranked Blue Dragons finished ninth overall in a tough field at the Emporia State University Invitational on Friday at Jones Park.Because of injuries, first-year head coach Ro ...

Coming off its most impressive meet of the 2012 season, the Hutchinson Community College women’s cross country team jumped into the NJCAA Division I national rankings for the first time this season.Off of back-to-back meets where they won the Blue Dragon Invitational and finished third in a st ...

NEWTON – A pair of freshmen broke 20 minutes for the first time in their careers and led the Hutchinson Community College women’s cross country team to a third-place finish on Saturday at the Tabor College Invitational.Freshman Cecilia Lane finished fourth overall and teammate Ashlynn La ...

Saturday was a special day for the Hutchinson Community College cross country teams just for the fact that for the first time, they played host to the Blue Dragon Invitational on a true cross country course – the brand new Westar Energy/Prairie Ridge Park.The day went and got even better, desp ...

When first-year Hutchinson Community College cross country coach Rod Zook looked at his women’s roster and its chances to win the Blue Dragon Invitational on Saturday, he knew his third, fourth and fifth runners were going to make the difference.Minus one sophomore in Taylor Stewart, who was i ...

Way back in 1952, Hutchinson Community College unveiled the Hutchinson Sports Arena as its new home for Blue Dragon basketball. In 2006, the renovated Gowans Stadium opened as the spectacular new home of Blue Dragon football and track and field.Saturday, the Blue Dragons will have another grand open ...

AUGUSTA – New Hutchinson Community College men’s cross country coach Rod Zook thought his freshmen runners had a chance to run well against some of the region’s top NCAA and NAIA runners on Saturday at the Wichita State/J.K. Gold Classic at Raft Golf Course.Freshman runners Oberlin ...

AUGUSTA – Freshman Ashlynn Lambert was the top Lady Dragon placer on Saturday during the Hutchinson Community College women’s cross country team’s season-opening meet, the Wichita State/J.K. Gold Classic at Raft Golf Course.Hutchinson placed ninth with 230 points. The Lady Dragons ...

One of the first things Rod Zook did when he was hired as the new Hutchinson Community College cross country coach was take a look at the schedule.Zook saw nine meets, including Region VI and then the NJCAA National Championships on that schedule. What he saw when the 2011 Blue Dragon men’s an ...

Rod Zook has been hired as the new head coach of the Hutchinson Community College cross country teams, HCC Athletic Director Randy Stange announced on Monday.Zook becomes the fourth head coach in Blue Dragon men’s history and the third women’s head coach in that program’s history. ...

Hutchinson Community College men’s and women’s cross country coach Dave Smith resigned his post this week.Smith was the Blue Dragon head cross country coach for two seasons, taking over for longtime coach Terry Masterson.Both of Smith’s women’s teams and the 2011 men’s ...

HOBBS, N.M. – Freshmen Austin Lettau and Maria Fernandez were their teams’ top individual runners for the Hutchinson Community College men’s and women’s cross country teams on Saturday at the NJCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in Hobbs, N.M.In the team standings, HC ...