About a third of the way through the cross country season and the Knoxville squads are seeing progress in their young teams. The girls, while getting off to a rough start, have progressed and made improvement at the Grinnell meet last week, as did the boys including Isaac Rankin, who finished 9th individually at Grinnell. Both coaches, Mikayla and Mickael Splavec tell KNIA/KRLS Sports they are looking forward to more improvement and getting better at running in packs at the front of the field.

Mikayla: “Just continue to keep improving. Our times at the start of the year were a little rough. Last week we did some goal setting and hopefully they will start to work towards those goals.”

Michael: “I’m excited to see the guys pushing a little bit more and running in pack. We’ve been talking about running in a pack for a couple of years now and hopefully we’ll see that in the next few weeks.”

Knoxville will head to Oskaloosa on Tuesday. The Panthers will see many of the same teams there as they saw in Grinnell on Tuesday.