Aquinas, West Salem boys and girls, Holmen girls headed to state cross county meet

A lot of returning team qualifiers to the WIAA state cross country meet coming this weekend.

For the sixth consecutive season, the Aquinas High School boys are headed to state — having won it from 2018-2020 — while the West Salem boys are headed there for the fourth consecutive time.

2023 State Boys & Girls Cross Country Championships
Saturday at  Ridges Golf Course, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
Boys — D3: Noon; D2: 12:35 p.m.; D1: 1:10 p.m.
Girls — D3: 1:45 p.m.; D2: 2:25 p.m.; D1: 3:05 p.m.

Holmen’s girls also punched their ticket for the second season in a row.

Also qualifying were the Aquinas and West Salem girls teams, as well as the Bangor boys.

Individually, in Division 1, three boys from Onalaska qualified (Manny Putz, 11, Blake Burnstad, 12, Alro White, 11).

In Division 2, Logan freshman Kareena Ramakrishnan on the girls side, and Arcadia senior Nestor Badillo, on the boys side, are headed to state.

And, in Division 3, on the girls side, Bangor junior Anna Fronk and Westby sophomore Elizabeth Curtis also qualified.

Here are those team qualifiers:
GIRLS
Division 1
Holmen
Sabrina Lechnir 10
Sydney Valiska 12
Naomi Wedan 10
Anabella Filips 12
Bailey Sommerville 11
Sheryl Wang 12
Jocelyn Williams 10

Division 2
West Salem
Mia Olson 11
Kennedy Garbers 11
Faith Minard 11
Victoria Lysne 11
Elise Flock 9
Maria Cannon 12
Payton Greer 12

Division 3
Aquinas
Alexa Myre 10
Emily Bagniefski 9
Hope Hawker 9
Bethany Hale 10
Helen Onyeabor 9
Gwyneth Buck 10
Tenny Makepeace 11

BOYS
Division 2
West Salem
Tom Stenberg 11
Carter Quackenbush 11
Brennon Anderson 11
Carson Gronemus 10
Drew Anderson 11
Brennan Garbers 12
Andrew Lorenz 9

Division 3
Aquinas
Jonathan Skemp 12
Declan Gregg 11
Joey Hirschboeck 12
Kaleb Azene 10
Trevor Paulson 11
Oliver Buck 10
Collin Sans Crainte 12

Bangor
Nolan Langrehr 12
Traevon Delaney 11
Cian Buchholz 11
Alex Felch 9
Evan Buchholz 11
Aryn Lochen 12
Isaiah Murphy 12