By Jakob Salao, Sports Editor
Greatness often goes unrecognized. Kennedy’s cross country runners come to practice every single day, sacrificing their time just to improve, yet no one else at Kennedy know what they go through.
This is the life of a Kennedy Cross Country runner.
Coach Daniel Sanchez has been working hard for the past six years to bring his athletes to this level. Junior Eranda Silva works hard to keep up with the varsity runners.
“On Mondays, we run more miles and go to the weight room after,” Silva said. “The other days are workouts like 800-meter repeats and ones and twos. We run out as fast as we can for one minute and then we have two minutes to make it back with no break.”
Coach Daniel Sanchez has been working hard for the past six years to better his athletes. In order to maintain greatness, Sanchez preaches four core ideas to his athletes.
“I always tell them to eat, sleep, hydrate, and compete,” Sanchez said. “Taking care of yourself should be an athlete’s main priority.”
Over the past season, the Cross Country team won numerous medals from different races and had runners place at the top of the league multiple times. Senior Sally Silengo is not only one of the fastest girls to run cross country this year but has even set a new school record time for a cross country race.
“It feels so strange to hold the school record for the girls because I never thought I would actually break it,” Silengo said. “I hope to be able to lower it again.”
Silengo’s new time of running 17:28 in three miles broke the previous school record by 13 seconds.
“My biggest achievement is definitely the culture we’ve created on the team,” Sanchez said, “We might not be the biggest team on campus, but you can see that everyone here is like a family.”
Sanchez and the cross country team look to compete in many more races for the rest of the season, and will end their season at the league finals on Oct. 29.
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