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...

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...

State Cross Country notes
Boys
Class 6A
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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...

Cross Country Regionals
Class 6A
At Cessna Activities Center, Wichita
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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...

High Schools
Boys Soccer
Kapaun 5, Emporia 3
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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...

High Schools
Girls Tennis
Class 4A State Tournament
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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...