The cross country team practicing this summer.

The cross country team practicing this summer.

It’s a rebuilding year for the Petersburg High School Cross Country team. There are 15 runners on the team and about half of them are new this year.
The team has been practicing for a month and a half now. They recently competed in a meet in Wrangell that drew nearly all the teams in the Southeast region.
This weekend they race in Ketchikan.

KFSK student intern, Rosa Lopez, spoke with Coach Tommy Thompson. He said they had several runners break their personal records at the Wrangell meet: