WISCONSIN STATE MEET

Stevens Point Boys Four-Peat Division 1 Title; Grady Lenn Continues Undefeated Season; Neenah Girls Go Back-To-Back; Lauren McCalla Shatters D1 State Record

By Keenan Gray of DyeStat

Stevens Point added to its streak of state titles won at the Wisconsin Cross Country State Championships, winning a fourth straight Division 1 title on Saturday in Wisconsin Rapids.

Cooper Erickson, Garrett Strong and Fisher Carroll earned top 15 individual finishes, propelling SPASH to 69 points to claim the program's 15th overall state title. 

Homestead finished second with 113 points, beating out the 2024 runner-up, Marquette University, who finished third with 115 points.

De Pere's Grady Lenn took home his first cross country state title in the Division 1 race after finishing second to Manny Putz in last year's race. The future Wisconsin Badger ran 15 minutes, 3.2 seconds, the third-fastest time in state meet history, winning by 21 seconds over DeForest's Lucas Tanner.

Lenn ends his cross country career in Wisconsin with a record of 25-9, losing only two races the last three seasons.

Menomonie's Lauren McCalla continued her breakout year with her first state title in the Division 1 girls race, running a state meet record 17:26.4. Muskego's Ella Anschutz, two-time defending Division 1 champion, finished second in 17:41.4.

Sam Zilm ran 18:08.9 to finish fourth, leading Neenah to a second consecutive team title with 71 points. Neenah had three girls finish in the top 20.

Slinger finished 13 points behind Neenah in second with 84 led by Ava Dziedzic, Piper Schuster and Abby Kurth finishing among top 10 individuals.

The Shorewood boys stood in the way of Kohler repeating as the Division 2 boys champions, winning by a margin of 66-72 to take home the program's 10th title and first since 2021.

Rice Lake's Carter Kucko did just enough to pull away from Berlin's Thomas McCarthy for the individual title in 15:45.6.

Deerfield/Cambridge's Emmerson Drobac won her second consecutive Division 2 girls title with ease by 25 seconds in 18:01.4.

Mount Horeb won its sixth title in program history and first stand-alone title since 1995, scoring 90 points to beat McFarland by 12.

St. Ambrose Academy's Jonathan Simon won the Division 3 boys title in 16:06.9, sparking his team's win over Prentice, 113-137, for the program's first title.

Darlington squeezed past defending Division 3 girls champions Kohler, 92-96, despite Maggie Behler winning the individual title in 18:22.5 for Kohler.

TEAM CHAMPIONS - RESULTS

Division 1 - Stevens Point boys 69 points, Neenah girls 71 points

Division 2 - Shorewood boys 66 points, Mount Horeb girls 90 points

Division 3 - St. Ambrose Academy boys 113 points, Darlington girls 92 points