By Fred Kroner Heritage eighth-grader Kiara Jones placed 13th on Saturday (Oct. 16) in the girls’ 225-runner IESA Class 1A cross-country state meet. She ran the 2-mile course at Normal’s Maxwell Park in 12 minutes, 51.8 seconds. Among eighth-graders in the race, Jones was the No. 6 finisher. Jones ran […]
By Fred Kroner One boy and one girl from Heritage Junior High secured berths in the IESA Class 1A state cross-country meets. Eighth-grader Kiara Jones left no doubt about her advancement by winning the junior high sectional race on Saturday (Oct. 9) at St. Thomas More, in Champaign. Her 2-mile […]
By Fred Kroner Heritage’s Kiara Jones placed fourth on Saturday (Oct 2) in the 143-runner Monticello Invitational at Lodge Park. Her 2-mile time was 12 minutes, 52.8 seconds. On Tuesday (Oct. 4), Jones ran a season-best time of 12:29 and was second in the Paxton-Buckley-Loda Invitational. Heritage will return to […]
By Fred Kroner Heritage’s Kiara Jones was the individual winner in a field of 66 runners on Tuesday (Sept. 21) in the Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High Invitational. Jones traversed the 3,200-meter course in 13 minutes and 16 seconds and had a 30-second margin of victory. The other Heritage competitor in the […]
By Fred Kroner Two boys and two girls from Heritage Junior High School competed individually in the Chrisman Cowchip Chip cross-country invitational on Friday (Sept. 3). There were separate races for each gender for students in eighth-, seventh- and sixth-grade. Heritage eighth-grader Kiara Jones ran third out of 76 competitors […]
By Fred Kroner Heritage secured top-10 placers in both the boys’ and girls’ junior high races on Saturday (Aug. 28) at the Doc Acklin Race, in Paris. Kiara Jones was second in the 30-runner girls’ race. Her 2-mile time was 14 minutes and 17 seconds. In the 48-runner boys’ race, […]
By Fred Kroner Five Heritage runners competed in the Saber Corn Classic cross-country meet on Saturday (Aug. 21) at St. Thomas More. There were 2-mile races for each age group and each gender. Among eighth-grade girls, Kiara Jones was second out of 87 participants with a time of 14 minutes […]
By Fred Kroner Kiara Jones was the runner-up for Homer Heritage on Tuesday (Aug. 17) in the school’s first girls’ cross-country meet of the season. Jones, an eighth-grader, was second in the 2-mile race at the Edgar County Fairgrounds, in Paris, with a time of 15 minutes and 9 seconds. […]
