The Pella Christian boys cross country season came to an end at the State Meet on October 28th, marking the end of another great running season for the Eagles.

Despite being moved up to compete in Class 2A this year, Pella Christian continually improved throughout the fall. The Eagles opened the season outside the Iowa High School Track and Field + Cross Country rankings, but by State, had climbed to #9 in Class 2A. The P.C. boys outperformed that ranking in Fort Dodge by finishing in seventh place at State. While it was fun to see the times get better throughout the season for the varsity scoring runners, Eagles head coach Mike Buchheit said was of his favorite things this fall was seeing every member of the squad improve.

“One of the fun stats that I shared at the (end of the season) banquet was, if you take our seven slowest boys and you take what their average time drop was from our Marshalltown Invite at the beginning of the year to the end (of the year), the average for those seven boys was over a 6 minute time average drop.”

The Pella Christian boys cross country team says goodbye to three seniors in Kaden Van Wyngarden, Ben Gosselink, and Isaac Natelborg.