TN Runner/KYA MS-ES State Championships Meet Review
Each year, you can’t help but be amazed at the amount of young new athletes that decide that Track and Cross Country are going to be their sport of choice. Middle School runners are obviously young, that goes without saying. But I’m serious when I say they are athletes! This state championship meet is a qualifying meet, so to get here you really have to take the sport seriously. And these athletes are serious and you can tell by the determination to get to this level at a young age.
The athletes in the Elementary division run the 1 mile cross country course and the Middle School division runs the 2 mile. The distances seem to be a logical progression as they understand the pacing and distances and prepare themselves for running the 5K when they move to the high school level. Taking young athletes and preparing them for the next level is something the Knoxville Youth Athletics program is good at… actually, they are ex...
