Lady Huskies finish 3rd at home event

Seventy-eight girls started the race at Friday’s Aurora  Invite, though for much of the way senior Elena Kuehner was running virtually all by herself.
With two lead runners 15-20 seconds up ahead, Kuehner put distance between herself and the rest of the field which coach Tony Sigler said is a challenge in and of itself. Despite that challenge, he was pleased with his No. 1 runner’s third place finish, as well as the team’s third place showing.
“Elena ran a really good race,” Sigler commented. “The issue was she was in no-man’s land with nobody right in front of her and nobody behind her for quite a distance the whole race, and that’s a really hard place to be mentally as a runner. I felt she ran a good race being all alone, because it gets really hard to push yourself and it can be hard to stay motivated. That’s kind of a tough place to be.”
Kuehner finished the 5K route at Poco Creek Golf Course in 21:17, with York’s Kassidy Stuckey claiming the gold followed by Alayna Vargas of St. Cecilia in 20:23.

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