By Makala Finley

Sweat pouring down runner’s faces, hearts pounding, tense legs and the finish line in sight. The cross country team has accomplished something great again, for the second year in a row the girl’s cross contry team will be heading to regionals tomorrow; the final stretch to the state championship. Head Coach Kayla Cross has been coaching at Madison for 13 years, and the team has headed to regionals three times. The girl’s team consists of seven girls: one sophomore, four juniors and two seniors. The team has the same expectation for next year’s season; making it to regionals once again.

“We’re hoping to start a tradition of [going to] regionals,” Cross said.

The team has had a strong season. At the Southwest meet they were third, the Northeast meet they were second, they were fourth at the Seguin meet, second in the NISD meet and they ended up third in districts. Also, this year was the first time in 13 years that the girls won the SAISD meet.  The team has high expectations for the regional meet, they’d like to beat all of the teams in district and end up in the top three to head to state. This has been the team’s goal all year.

“I’m excited [about regionals] I don’t want to jinx it, but I know that our cross country girls are capable of kicking some serious tush,” senior runner Octavia Pinckney said. ” We have our eyes on state.”

No matter what the girl’s cross country team follows the motto, “No excuses, no regrets,” and they are keeping an open mind as they head to regionals.

The regional meet is tomorrow, Nov. 6, at the Brooks City Base. The girls are scheduled to run at 11:20.