Hawk runners claim first District 7 cross country championship

At the beginning of the 2015 season, Cheney High School cross country coach Derek Slaughter wasn’t sure what he had in his Blackhawks boys team.

By the time season’s end came at state competition on the green fairway grass of Pasco’s Sun Willows Golf Course, Cheney’s first-year head coach couldn’t wait to get the 2016 campaign underway.

The emergence of the Blackhawks has landed them in the No. 5 slot of the Cheney Free Press Top 10 stories of 2015. The young and inexperienced Cheney squad made the best of their talents on the running circuit virtually from the start.

The team’s strength was i...

 

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