Poly's cross country team goes ... cross country

By Rick Caragher, cross country head coach

Earlier this summer, Poly's cross country team took a road trip to eastern Wyoming (specifically Pass Creek Ranch outside of Parkman, Wyo.). The 2700 miles round trip truly makes us cross country in every sense of the phrase. Eight female athletes and coaches made a nine-day journey. While there, we endured a massive hail storm, worked out with the local high school cross country team (Tongue River High School), ran beautiful trails, swam and played in a pond, hiked (including a trek to Buffalo Cave, where we saw skeletal remains of livestock and an ancient bison), herded cattle into a pen, experienced a stirring trip to Heart Mountain (home of a WWII Japanese internment camp), and grew together as a team. As a result of our travels and distance training, the team's adopted the mantra, "We believe women should be running the country."
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