Cross Country

William Heilman finished 12th with a time of 16:52 to lead the Seminoles to a 9th place team finish on Sept. 20 at the Hagerty Invitational Cross Country Meet.

DELAND – William Heilman ran a 17:29 to finish fourth place and lead the Seminoles to a fourth place team finish behind meet winner Hagerty. Savannah Heilman led the Seminole girls with a 25th place finish in a time of 22:35. The Noles finished 14th as a team. The meet was won by Lake Mary. Seminole Results BOYS William Heilman 17:19 4 Roman Bugos 18:46 21 Mathew Pruitt 19:42 42 Alexander Plummer 19:34 44 Brady Clark 19:44 50 Oscar Loredo 20:19 64 Bryce Hammond 20:28 71 Tyler Clarke-Lowery 20:35 75 Kaden James 21:15 93 Jacob Taylor 22:10 128 Asher Holcombe 22:52 160 Alex Nagarsheth 25:48:00 212 Aiden Slappey 26:31:00 288         GIRLS       First Last Finish Place Savannah Heilman 22:35 25 Evelyn Buhring 25:57:00 89 Reilan Gale 29:00:00 131 Geetika Kesavan 32:00:00 166 Yosha Kanaparthy 34:45:00 182  

Seminole runner finish 15th in District Meet. OVIEDO – Behind strong finishes from its top three runners, the Seminole boys finished seventh to qualify for the Regional Cross Country meet on Nov 10 in Jacksonville. “It’s been 15 years since they qualified for regionals so this is so exciting” said coach Mai Tran. Part of the success for the boys came in the strategy in the way the runner grouped during the race.“We had two groups basically,” Tran said. “We had the top three and the next three in another group. They try to stay together and push each other.” Seminole was led by Sophomore Fabian Sosa  (17:21.72) in 21st, followed by junior Matthew Pruitt in 23rd with a 17:25.74 and Roman Bugos in 26th with a 17:32.81. The second group was led by junior Lucas Well in 47th in 18:21.09, Sophomore William Heilman (18:36.73) in 58th and Freshman Oscar Loredo  in 169th with a 19:01.7. On the girls side, Seminole finished 12, led by Evelyn Buhring (22:06.2) in 47th, in 56th Rihanna Taveras in 23:03.4, Elizabeth Prudot ran a 23:17.8 in 60th, Madeleine Coffee (68th) 24:40.1, Ashley Rowe (77th) in 25:57.6, and  Reilan Gale (80) in 26:22.0.

LAKE MINNEOLA – Roman Bugos once again lead Seminole with a 13th place finish to help the boys to a fourth place finish at the Hawks’ Last Chance Open host by Lake Minneola High School. Evelyn Buhring led the Noles girls with a 48th place finish as the team placed ninth. First NameLast NametimesplaceVarsity boys  4th placeRomanBugos17:4313BradyClark19:4554WilliamHeilman18:2627KadenJames (PR)19:4655OscarLoredo19:0341MathewPruitt  (PR)17:2411Lucas Wells18:3530JV Boys   GarrettSearle       (PR)22:3315ZacharyBarnes  (PR)25:1231    Varsity girls  9th placeFirst NameLast Name  EvelynBuhring (PR)22:3448MadeleineCoffee (PR)23:3267SavannahHeilman (PR)20:3612ElizabethPrudot  (PR)23:3769RihannaTaveras2428JV  girls   AshleyRowe27:0822GeetikaKasavan32:3545LunaRodrigues33:1847

On a tough course with oppressive heat and humidity the Seminole girls placed 12th. In the elite Race of Champions race, our boys placed 24th out of 40 teams. Race of Champions   RomanBugos17:4491BradyClark20:03269WilliamHeilman18:43178KadenJames21:13291OscarLoredo19:33250MathewPruitt18:00115FabianSosa17:55104SaxmanUnderwood20:27281LucasWells18:17137Unseeded varsity   GarrettSearle23:04153AidenSlappey24:21180ZacharyBarnes28:46208    Jason Byrnes Invitational   First NameLast Name  EvelynBuhring23:0240MadeleineCoffee25:30115SavannahHeilman21:2311ElizabethPrudot24:4596AshleyRowe28:23171RihannaTaveras24:2785Luna Rodrigues35:39201

Roman Bugos finished sixth and Savannah Heilman finished seventh to lead Seminole in Port Orange.