With five total runners for the Melcher-Dallas Cross Country program, the Saints will not be able to compete for team scores and placements, but they can place individually and set goals for themselves. Coach Amy Stuart tells KNIA Sports she is already seeing the results of the runners setting early season goals and making progress in the first week of organized workouts.

Stuart:
“We work on setting individual goals and improvement from the beginning of the season to the end of the season as well as year to year so I already have runners from last year, and saying they already are in a better place now than last year, so that makes a difference.”

The Saints will have another week and a half to get ready as their season does not start until September first at Albia.