photo by: Teran Malone/WVSSAC

ONA – Wheeling Park sophomore Brenna Tipton made history for her school Saturday morning at Cabell Midland High School, becoming the first Wheeling Park Patriot to finish first in the state cross country meet with a time of 18:16.89 in the WVSSAC Class AAAA girls race.

Tipton’s time was nearly 25 seconds faster than the next finisher, and her performance was the culmination of a season of hard work, according to coach Rick Moore.

“Brenna, she ran an amazing race,” Moore said. “She’s worked really hard all season and, you know, definitely earned this victory through a lot of hard work, a lot of miles. It’s amazing to see someone be the first ever individual state champion in school history.”

The Wheeling Park girls finished 10th as a team Saturday.

“We have a very young team, but we were excited to get the opportunity to qualify,” Moore said. “We had a couple injury and illness things that hit us before the regionals, so we were really excited to still get the team through. And then they actually performed really well at the meet. Of course, Brenna, you know, being state champion, but we had a few other girls PR, and we actually finished a couple spots up in the rankings compared to where we were supposed to be.”

Complete team standings and All-State first and second team are found below.

CLASS AAAA

GIRLS TEAM SCORES: 1. Cabell Midland 45, 2. Morgantown 52, 3. University 115, 4. Hurricane 154, 5. Preston 167, 6. Parkersburg South 173, 7. Parkersburg 184, 8. Washington 194, 9. George Washington 246, 10. Wheeling Park 249, 11. Musselman 257, 12. Buckhannon-Upshur 279, 13. Woodrow Wilson 327

ALL-STATE – FIRST

1. Brenna Tipton (WP) 18:16, 2. Savannah Pritt (CM) 18:41, 3. Morgan Metz (PHS) 18:46, 4. Sadie Yates (Mman) 19:01, 5. Abigail Rogers (U) 19:03, 6. Sofie Zappitelli (Hurr) 19:37, 7. Adalyn Cantrell (CM) 19:38, 8. Tumaini Yawe (Mtown) 19:42.42, 9. Lindsey Bailey (CM) 19:42.86, 10. Emma Coakley (CM) 19:43

ALL-STATE – SECOND

11. Lauren Hawkins (Mtown) 19:50, 12. Rosalia Biundo (U) 19:54, 13. Leyland Phillips (Mtown) 19:58, 14. Jenna Conaway (Mtown) 20:02, 15. Haley Raper (South) 20:03, 16. Megyn Amsler (Mtown) 20:04, 17. Audrey Adkins (CM) 20:08.36, 18. Caeley Trujillo (Wash) 20:08.52, 19. Raegan Freeman (CM) 20:14, 20. Breanna Trujillo (Wash) 20:18