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Crossing Into New Territory Pequea Valley Girls’ Team Debuts at State Championships BY FRANCINE FULTON
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embers of the Pequea Valley (PV) high school girls’ cross-country team recently made school history by competing for the first time as a team at the state championship meet. The team, as well as district individual champion Reagan Gates, took part in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) cross-country championship held on Nov. 1 in Hershey. There were eight girls on the state team, including senior captains Aubrey Ressler and Olivia Zook, who is on crutches and missed competing in the meet; Abby Conover, junior; Mia Nordhoff, sophomore; and Reagan, Rachel Leaman, Annika Wanner and Belle Eby, all freshmen. “The program has been in existence for six years. We have never gone as a team to states,” explained head coach Keith Andrew. “We have some girls go individually, but we never made it as a whole team.” The team from Pequea Valley includes (from left) head coach Keith Andrew, Abby Conover, Annika Wanner,
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“It’s a great opportunity for us to give it back to our local community and teach this group of fifth-graders about what service looks like,” stated Salisbur y E lementar y School teacher Matt Rogers when describing the students’ recent volunteer effort at Blessings of Hope. “Hopefully, it will be a lifelong trend that we can start in their 10- and 11-year-old lives.”
In addition to Ro gers, the students were accompanied to Blessings of Hope in Ephrata on Oct. 28 by teacher Anita Girvin and parent volunteers. This is the third time that Salisbury Elementary School students volunteered at the organization as part of a community service project. “My family and I have been volunteering there for a few years before we started taking our fifth-graders there,” said Girvin. Salisbury Elementary School students sorted potatoes and more while See Service pg 5 volunteering at Blessings of Hope.
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See Pequea Valley pg 2 Rachel Leaman, Reagan Gates, Mia Nordhoff, Belle Eby, Aubrey Ressler and coach Bliss Strauss. Photo by Kirk Neidermyer