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"We had a
Mike Neemann
great season.
Cross country coach Mike Neemann
has been coaching for sixteen years. "I The girls had
love it," he said. Cross country is a a tremendous
unique sport in that both the boys and season, and
gi rl s teams are coached at the same the boys did
time. Nee-mann finds this challenging better than we
because it's typical that one team does better than the
other , which is a difficult situation to handle. "One expected."
minute you're excited with one group, the next you're -coach Mike
consoli ng the other, he said. photo by Jolene Williamson Neeman
II
"I think the
season was
really great
because the
freshmen
stepped it up.
I was really
impressed
with the work
ethic. This
was by far the
hardest- Giving the Score
working team
Girls
I've ever been Invites: Boys Invites:
on." Ralston 4th Ralston 2nd
--senior Kyle Millard S. 3rd Millard S. lst
Kimberlin Lin. High 6th Lin. Hi gh 2nd
Class of Metro Class of Metro
Assistant coach 7th 7th
Terry Thielen, gives
senior Kelly Lindsey a Grand Island 6th Grand Island 1st
pep talk. Lindsey was Millard W. 8th Metro 1st
this season's top Metro 5th Districts Lst
runner. Districts 4th State 4th
photo by Jolene
Williamson State none

Cross Country: front-Brian Black, Mike
Wadleigh, Edward Delashmutt, Brian
Turner, Betsy Hoefer, Kelly Lindsey, Katie
O'Doherty, Graham Frank, Kyle Kimberlin ,
Dan Hemmelgarn, Brian McCoy; second
row- Paige Phillips, Katie Gordon , Carrie
Lessley, Shannon Blatny, Meg han O'Dea ,
Shonda Molacek, Elizabeth Hilkemann ,
Kathryn Kulish , Jolene Williamson , Todd
Lessley, Levi Grosskopf, Derek Vanosdall ;
third row-Matt Chadwell, Kim Steventon ,
Megan Adams, Emily Dueker, Jo
Gunderson, Paula Neemann, Laura
Mickey, Andy Pulverenti; back- Andy
Broeckner, coach Leigh Officer Koch , Rus s
Hannon , Aaron McCune, Brian Pille , Todd
Brockett, Matt Smith , Ryan Witte, Aaron
Senior Kyle Kimberlin runs at the MS Invite, finishing twentieth Stubbe , Mike Patterson , coaches Mike
with a time of 17:35. Kimberlin was the team captain. photo by Neemann and Terry Thielen photo by
Jolene Williamson Jack Martin Photography
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Cross Country