2023 Boys Cross Country Season Preview
American Conference
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Head Coach: Matt Latham
Players to watch: Aiden Smith – 12– Adam Morris – 9– Gordon Smith- 9
Season outlook: We have some new rookies added to the team this year that show great potential. We have a team that is working hard and making goals to improve with each and every race.
Head Coach: Eric Driscoll
Players to watch: Dylan Wood, Senior– Finley Lake, Sophomore– Travis Domers, Junior
Season outlook: This season Copley is continuing to build on the foundation that has been laid out for the last several years. There are some very talented and engaged student runners returning this fall. The team is locked in and looking forward to chasing excellence this season.
Head Coach: Stuart Davis
Players to watch: Andrew Wegner (Senior)– Wyatt Ulbricht (Junior)– Max Wilcoxson (Freshman)
Season outlook: After graduating 6 of our top 8 from last year. I am excited to see our younger runners step up and run some great times.
Head Coach: Andrew Lynden
Players to watch: Ty Sgambati, Grade 11– Matt Rini, grade 11– Oren Scranton, Grade 11
Season outlook: The Hornets graduated a strong class last year, and will be looking to new faces to fill our varsity. We will work hard to defend our League Championship from a season ago.
Head Coach: Mark Purdy
Players to watch: Anthony DeRubeis, junior– Will Wells, sophomore– Nolan Luther, junior
Season outlook: We have the potential to be a very good team. Our top 4 runners look very solid. The key will be the emergence of strong supporting runners.
Head Coach: Matt Pazderak
Players to watch: Carter Slack (Junior)– Cor Asp (Junior)– Carter Stevenson (Sophomore)
Season outlook: The Rough Riders are pumped for the 2023 competitive season! We have a core group of Varsity athletes who have been putting in the work this Summer and who are eager to reap the benefits. We are hoping to place higher in our Division this season as well as advance some individuals to the Regional Meet.
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National Conference
Head Coach: Bob Schank
Players to watch: Kyle Brown– Gabe Krenisky– Ryan Kerber
Season outlook: Our top 5 are very solid, but we need to work on our team depth.
Head Coach: Mark McConnell
Players to watch: Tyler Ginther 1, 11th grade– Bradley Schuster, 10th grade– Crew McDaniel, 10th grade
Season outlook: We return our 5 top runners from last year’s regional qualifying team. The team is looking to try and reclaim the league title and return the state meet.
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Head Coach: David Marhefka
Players to watch: Grady Bokoch– Alex Brihn– Harlen Williams
Season outlook: We have a great group of kids who have worked hard over the summer. A solid freshman class has joined the team this year. The future of the team is exciting.
Head Coach: Matt Wieczorek
Players to watch: Brandon Esper, Senior– Jordan Klein, Senior– Vinny Hill, Junior
Season outlook: Turning over the majority of our scorers from the 2022-23 cross country season. We are very much looking forward to our seeing many of our athletes take on new roles this season.
Head Coach: JK LeSeure
Players to watch: Nathan Hartenburg – Junior– Chris Kinsella – Junior– Parker Del Ferraro
Season outlook: Our team is young but this is the year the depth we’ve developed over the last few years will shine through to continue to be a force in the League this season. Nathan Hartenburg had a break out Sophomore track season and has continued to develop through the summer. He’ll lead the way for us this season and be an athlete to contend individually ion the post season.
Head Coach: Sarah Kmet
Players to watch: Koren Goss, senior– Sam Hopp, sophomore
Season outlook: Our boys have put in their best summer of training in years and are eager to compete.
Head Coach: Zachary Humrichouser
Players to watch: Ty Racin– Tristan Pitts– Evan Marano
Season outlook: We graduated a large senior class last year so we are excited to see what this new group of runners will accomplish this season!
