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
Adidas Wolfpack Invitational
September 19th was the date for one of the most-competitive races each year in North Carolina. The field of teams is always absolutely stacked and this year was no exception. Several out of state teams made their way to Cary’s Wake Med Soccer Park, including traditional national and regional powers.
The 1st race of the day is always the Boys JV Red Race. Typically the GH boys are right near the top of the field in this race, although this year would test the boys’ depth against some major competition. The boys ran great with 14 of the 20 runners earning career PRs and the team finishing 8th of 25 teams (5th out of the NC schools). The boys were led by sophomore Logan Call who ran a career best 17:57 and finished in 27th. Sophomore Matthew Leary (18:10), junior Hayden Schaeffer (18:34), and senior Brian Ji (18:34) also set new standards.
The 2nd race of the day was the JV Girls Red Race going off at 8:30. This would be another opportunity for the girls team to compete in a huge invitational race and they finished with the 6th-lowest team score (of 17 schools). 7 of the 14 girls ran all-time best 5k times with sophomore Abigail Skibbe dropping a huge new PR of 21:43. Senior Lyla Mehmet (22:30), sophomore Catherine Boughton (PR of 22:44), senior Tanveer Sharma (23:10), and senior Uma Upadhyay (23:14) rounded out the scoring.
The championship boys race was the 3rd race of the day at 9:00am. As the Falcons had not competed in almost one month, there was a bit of an unknown with what to expect and one of their top 5 runners was unavailable. The race went out extremely fast as usual and junior Nathan Vo was in the lead pack of runners as they crested the big hill. Conference rival Panther Creek edged the Falcons by 1 pt as the boys finished 11th of 39 schools. Nathan Vo ran his best time of the year (15:40) as did senior Rafa Dlott (16:48). Junior Justin Herrick (16:49), freshman Ryan Skibbe (16:52), junior Patrick Dolle (16:54), and junior William Dolle (17:15) ran career PRs.
The 4th and final race of the day with Green Hope athletes was the girls championship race at 9:24am. Temperatures had started to slowly increase, but it was still pretty comfortable by the time the gun went off. 9th-grader Riley Reeves continued to build on her impressive start to the season with a new all-time best GH freshman PR of 18:19. Isabel Short (19:50), Kali Hansen (19:57), Juliette Diaz (20:17), and Riley Blake (20:52) helped the girls earn a 9th-place team finish (of 30 teams).
Overall there were many excellent performances on the day. The next invitational race will be next weekend (September 26th) at the Greensboro Invitational at Hagan Stone Park.