The streak was supposed to be over.
Bishop Carroll didn’t have a dominant runner expected to win. Bishop Carroll was vulnerable after losing to North at the City League meet. Bishop Carroll was banged up and didn’t have the pieces for its...
Oct 28th 2012, 12:33am
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A scream broke silence.
“Kaelyn!” was the shout. “Balch!”
Eileen Balch, mother of the Bishop Carroll senior, sprinted toward her daughter to clear the confusion: Kaelyn Balch had won, by one-hundredth of a second, over Vall...
Oct 27th 2012, 11:39pm
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The most pressing decision for Kaelyn Balch each morning when she awakens is choosing a color scheme from her closet that could double as a Nike outlet store.
Running is a given.
Balch begins each morning with a run before going to school at Bishop Car...
Oct 26th 2012, 12:27pm
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Gage Garcia has been loyal to the Bishop Carroll cross country program over the years.
He didn’t mind playing sidekick the last three seasons, each culminating in a state championship for Carroll, even though Garcia was one of the state’s...
Oct 21st 2012, 3:18am
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On Tuesday morning when Michael Pope arrived at his classroom at North, he spent time looking at the team pictures for the cross country teams he’s coached since 2006.
He laughed to himself at those first few years when the program was in shambl...
Oct 17th 2012, 11:57pm
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League championships don’t escape Bishop Carroll girls cross country coach Ran Nielsen often.
In his 22 seasons of coaching, Nielsen has stitched 16 years of league titles onto the program’s banner. The Golden Eagles will once again be ov...
Oct 11th 2012, 2:15am
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