2025 North Carolina
Boys State 8A Qualifier (5th Place)
Girls
Girls
State Champs
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Boys
State Champs
2010, 2017, 2022
Early Bird 5K
Saturday August 15th marked the first 5K of the season for a big group of Green Hope runners. This is a very early season invitational that started a few years ago as a very low-key race. It has grown into a fairly big race with a boy’s field of well over 300 runners and around 250 girls. While most runners use it as a chance to see where they are in the early season, some teams hold runners out or have them use the race as a training race. Teams will approach the race in a variety of ways. As the Green Hope runners readied for the race in the early morning, there was a lot of excitement among the team.
The first race of the two was the boy’s 5K starting at 8:00am. It was a great opportunity for the boys to get out and see where their fitness level was in mid-August. Junior Nathan Vo led the team with a 7th place finish and a nice time of 16:21. Senior Rafa Dlott (17:01), freshman Ryan Skibbe (17:34), senior Ethan Beck (17:36), and junior Patrick Dolle (17:39) rounded out the top 5.
The second and final race was the girl’s 5K at 8:30am. Freshman Riley Reeves had a fantastic debut for the Falcons running a 6th-best GHXC 9th-grade time of 18:53. 2nd for Green Hope was junior Juliette Diaz with a career PR of 20:10 with junior Isabel Short (20:33), junior Kali Hansen (20:55), and senior Riley Blake (20:57) all combining to girl’s team to a first place finish in the team standings.
Next Saturday (the 22nd) is the first large invitational of the season as the team travels to Charlotte for the now renamed (formerly Providence) South Meck Invitational.